Example sentences of "[det] [subord] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having denied that we may ever legitimately interfere with the liberty of another except on the grounds of self-protection , Mill ( 1910 ) asserts : |
| 2 | For though conflict arises often from the aggressive attitudes of others , it feeds not so much on this as on the learned and unlearned responses of our inner world . |
| 3 | The Scottish Parliament was split on this as on so many other matters . |
| 4 | I suspect that the Opposition are in the same muddle on this as on every other issue — including taxation , over the past three weeks . |
| 5 | On this as on all the other resolutions relating to " security issues " , amendments proposed by the right of the party were defeated . |
| 6 | And on twenty five minutes , Nigel Mott got that opening goal as an excellent through ball from Paul Biddle found him in space and he placed the ball wide of the Fairmile goalkeeper Mark Carrigan ; Fairmile were not to be perturbed by this as on their half an hour Wayne Glossop went close for the home side . |
| 7 | Trust it to be like this though on my half-day ! ’ |
| 8 | and he starts going yes well I think we 'd better try and get a few As on there had n't we and |
| 9 | Coherence is thus associated with complexity ; the meaning of the text is the product of the interaction of its parts , but this interaction depends as much on their difference from one another as on their similarity . |
| 10 | They were lovers now , and he preferred today to dwell on that than on the knottier problems . |
| 11 | Rather , he means the workings of a live intelligence which draws on experience and intuition as much as on a more narrowly conceived logic . |
| 12 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 13 | Neneh , back in the charts at No 23 with Money Love after an absence of two years , adds : ‘ I have never cried so much as on that night . ’ |
| 14 | Parish and Peacock ( 1954 ) calculated that twice as much was spent per capita by the five major social services on pensioners as on children , and three-and-a-half times as much as on the active population . |
| 15 | Ironically , this burden is falling upon Japan 's efficient export industries as much as on inefficient , over-regulated ones . |
| 16 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
| 17 | But not , but not as much as on the electrical systems . |
| 18 | It is evident that the figures and groups were set up and down the field , surely very much as on the Underworld vase ; only on this wall there were scores of figures and also certainly more indications of setting . |
| 19 | It was the deliberate disregard of the more sensuous and immediately appealing aspects of painting , and the temporary dismissal of all human and associational values , combined with the fact that they were working in a conceptual way , relying on memory as much as on visual models , that allowed the Cubists to distort and dislocate figures and objects to a degree hitherto unknown . |
| 20 | Some committee , board and panel chairmen acquired a reputation for being especially rigorous , and in some cases angry responses from institutions focussed on the alleged biases or eccentricities of panel members as much as on the nature of the judgments made about the courses . |
| 21 | Fear of the Communist " Trojan horse " was still present in the minds of the Executive , though it was now coupled with a desire to assert the Party 's independence from allies on the Right as much as on the Left . |
| 22 | Village clusters are fewer than on the mainland . |
| 23 | At the western end of the Vale of the White Horse in Berkshire dairy farming afforded greater opportunities to smallholders , and poor labouring folk were far fewer than on the Downs . |
| 24 | our rugby action this week comes from the divisional championships … the South West are on course to win these because on Saturday at Gloucester they made it two wins out of two … this time out they beat the North by 29 points to 16 |
| 25 | Yeah I 've still got swollen fingers which I am er er I 've needed as much physio on these as on , on the finger that was done . |
| 26 | Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch . |
| 27 | ‘ No , nothing at all , not a mention of Elsie at all except on her birthday . |
| 28 | It would n't surprise me at all if on my next visit to Sweden all the pedestrians were wearing miners ' lamps . |
| 29 | On the fourth morning , seven wickets ( as many as on all of Saturday ) fell in 42 minutes of play . |
| 30 | Cocoa for delivery that month traded at a premium of £36 a tonne to March , the next contract month , about £10 a tonne more than on Friday . |