Example sentences of "[adj] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remained entirely controllable on the helm and felt rock steady even in the gusts on a reach . |
| 2 | But narrative on the scale which it demands is impossible in a book like this . |
| 3 | The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it . |
| 4 | You get to it by being a Prestel subscriber , so you also have access to everything else that is public on the system ( and it can be a particularly cheap way of buying air fares , for example ) . |
| 5 | Mothers shaved the heads of their daughters and then made them undress to take cold baths in public on the Hill of Calvary . |
| 6 | It is peculiar on the one hand because a moment 's reflection reveals design as a human activity taking place within , and not without , human societies . |
| 7 | They had had had a tremendous send-off on the Sunday from the Esplanade at Edinburgh Castle , including 40 cars from the MG club . |
| 8 | He was almost growling , his hands white-knuckled on the crook of his umbrella . |
| 9 | Rachel 's hands were white-knuckled on the window-sill as she pictured it , vivid images burning into her mind . |
| 10 | Fifteen-a-sides , rightly in my view , will always be more important but the fact that sevens could be used to improve handling skills — which , pity on us , lie dormant for most of the domestic league programme — is unequivocal on the evidence of here and Canberra last week . |
| 11 | Those federalists who make the comparison with the United States ignore the growing body of opinion which supports constitutional reform there ( including the idea that Secretaries of State should be cross-examined on the floor of the House , as in Westminster ) , the chronically low level of participation in elections , and the widespread dissatisfaction with the federal system . |
| 12 | Sarah Evans , a manager in Price Waterhouse 's litigation and special services department , was cross-examined on the same evidence . |
| 13 | To which I would answer , first , that the witness is not before the court and has not been cross-examined on the matter , and secondly that just because something 's a ‘ well-known fact ’ this does n't make it a well-known fact about me . |
| 14 | Beethoven 's Seventh Symphony , for example , was exciting on the surface but lacked depth . |
| 15 | Then she was running towards the village , ignoring the small scutterings on the bank beside the road , her old sandals almost soundless on the tarmac . |
| 16 | But it does not follow from that that their evidence is necessarily reliable on the question whether the testator was in fact capable of comprehending either the extent of his property or the claims of those who might have a claim upon his bounty and whom he was excluding . |
| 17 | Put another way , in so far as companies have power , is not that power justifiable on the basis that those who exercise it can claim a moral right to do so ? |
| 18 | The correct equations to use are those of thermoelasticity , although in most cases the use of the equations of elasticity is justifiable on the grounds of simplicity . |
| 19 | He came briefly back from the dead a few minutes later , pulling into a Backdoor tube and getting fried on the reef . |
| 20 | Hence most of the eggs from one season 's grazing must remain unhatched on the ground during the winter and only one generation is possible each year for the bulk of this species . |
| 21 | The drifts surely could not be more than chest-deep on the massive shire , she thought , and with a bit of luck she would get through . |
| 22 | No well what we said is we 're gon gon na scrap Saturdays unless we s consider it to be critical and unavoidable on the basis that , if they , they can work Saturdays if they 'd rather work Saturdays than in the week , but that 's their choice not ours |
| 23 | Now this is where you come in erm and this is where we 've we 've done something which er we think is quite clever , this here is the back facade of Barley Hall and when we got it it was not medieval at all , there was no timber framing left , it was just this this er brick here , so we did n't want to fake it up to look medieval on the outside . |
| 24 | This seems a splendid book — excellent text , and as usual faultless on the production side . |
| 25 | There had been shore-foam on the beach yesterday . |
| 26 | Skye has no other scenic attractions to compare with the Black Cuillin but deserving of special mention is the capital , Portree , a bonny little town , and further north along the coast the Storr and its Old Man , conspicuous on the skyline . |
| 27 | A magpie , seeing some light-coloured object conspicuous on the empty slope , flew closer to look . |
| 28 | It was calm on the river . |
| 29 | That comes from the se , the seabed churning it up but the sea is never still , it 's tossing and in , as the movement there underneath , although it may appear calm on the surface , but there are times when it 's not calm on the surface , it 's as rough on top as it is underneath . |
| 30 | Not completely successful but entertaining on the whole , like a good TV movie , I 'd give it three out of five . ’ |