Example sentences of "[adj] on this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Colin Clark , a distinguished modern economist , is equally unequivocal on this point . |
| 2 | Gordon Howell is unequivocal on this point : ‘ Above all other industries , information technology can not be self-serving . |
| 3 | The New Testament is hardly unequivocal on this matter . |
| 4 | ‘ I shall be demanding that we have a full explanation from Department of Trade and Industry officials when they appear before the public accounts committee to be cross-examined on this report on December 4 . ’ |
| 5 | Our instincts are wrong on this occasion ! |
| 6 | They are just as wrong on this occasion as they were on the previous one . |
| 7 | He would have been fighting blindly if he started proceedings without seeing the maintenance and servicing records of the fork-lift truck to see whether it had gone wrong before and what went wrong on this occasion . |
| 8 | The earlier cases of Mills v Dunham [ 1891 ] 1 Ch 576 and Haynes v Doman [ 1899 ] 2 Ch 13 are now wrong on this point . |
| 9 | There 's also got wrong on this side . |
| 10 | Just little things that keep going wrong on this car , do you know what I mean ? |
| 11 | Certainly Karlsson is clear on this point and , in commenting , also helps to unravel some of the mystery surrounding their apparently unlikely conjunction : |
| 12 | The naval manual ( US , Department of the Navy , 1955 , 6–4 ) is clear on this point , but also draws attention in a footnote to the relevance of the principles of the laws of war . |
| 13 | Circular 1/83 was clear on this point : |
| 14 | Second , it seemed that at the end of three years the debtor 's debts would be written off , although the Act 's drafting was not clear on this point . |
| 15 | However , there have always been leases without rent ( for example , mortgages ) and the statutory definition of a term of years absolute is clear on this point : |
| 16 | When in 1859 nine of the most upright miners from Seaton Delaval — ‘ every man a teetotaller , six of them Primitive Methodists , and two of the six local preachers ’ — were sent to jail for two months after a strike which they had opposed , the mine manager was quite clear on this point . |
| 17 | Darwin himself was very clear on this point . |
| 18 | But we need to get our moral thinking clear on this matter all the more because in the first stages of unbridled conflict both sides seem to be suggesting that there really was no moral problem at all because the principle that they were obsessed with was the only one that mattered . |
| 19 | I do n't think it 's condoning , I just think it 's given the safe , giving out the safest options for people who maybe taking drugs and , and and maybe in , in maybe er sometimes thinking about injecting drugs , and er I think we actually have to be very clear on this epidemic , that , that there is no , no way for , for lack of clarity , we have to go down the line . |
| 20 | You would think that the law is clear on this area . |
| 21 | High on this agenda was economic planning . |
| 22 | High on this ridge top , only 10 to 15 feet ( 2–3m ) wide , the weary soldiers felt an earth tremor as the mountain shook . |
| 23 | Thus it might be established that the progressive — ing has a high accuracy rating and the past tense morpheme — ed a low one , that the plural morpheme — s rates high on this accuracy measure as compared with the singular third person morpheme — s , and so on . |
| 24 | High on this list is the kind of writing found in this book : the relation , through tortuous analogy , of almost everything discussed in the past to events not merely in the present , but in the author 's own life . |
| 25 | Naturally , questions of funding are high on this list . |
| 26 | Sir Geoffrey Howe was surprisingly candid on this point in an interview with the Daily Mail in February 1984 . |
| 27 | That 's one of the very important advantages of this election result , and personally I think the Social Democrats in Germany made a great mistake by being equivocal on this issue . |
| 28 | Both county councils and the Secretary of State are somewhat equivocal on this point , the answer really depending on whether they ‘ like ’ the proposed development . |
| 29 | That 's what you must do , if you get , if you write a lot about a couple of things they 'll say erm this chap 's knowledge is pretty specialized on this area , you know what , what these er short answer questions are picking up right is your , is your general knowledge . |
| 30 | Maybe Scottish law was different on this point , although , of course , the law as such had not been brought in . |