Example sentences of "[subord] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 2 | On the night of 30 January they were not to reach this sought-after retreat without problems , for they had first to call at the Palace of Saint Cloud itself where on arrival they found the entire Imperial Household drawn up to receive them and , equally clearly , determined to stay to dinner . |
| 3 | Occasionally however more personal comments creep in such as in his 1814 publication , A Description of Sixty Small Prints where on page 17 he wrote ‘ Skiddaw has been called a generous Lord , and the Fells of Borrowdale frowning and haughty Tyrants . |
| 4 | But where on earth |
| 5 | All right , you 'd feel too guilty enjoying your third cup of coffee as your running fanatic slogs around the course , but where on earth do you stand ? |
| 6 | " But where on earth did he get that idea ? " |
| 7 | But where on earth could Dane be ? |
| 8 | ‘ But where on earth have you been ? |
| 9 | ‘ But where on earth did you get it ? ’ |
| 10 | second , where on registration of a charge the Registrar ( as he can be required to do ) issues a certificate of registration stating the date on which particulars of a charge were delivered to him , this is made conclusive evidence that the particulars were delivered no later than the date stated on the certificate and a presumption that they were delivered no earlier . |
| 11 | Mm , except on bonfire night . |
| 12 | Hall offered her a job , and there she stayed for two years working sixty to seventy hours a week and still commuting back to Blackheath , except on press night , which would go on all night , once a fortnight . |
| 13 | They are not often seen on the open sea except on passage . |
| 14 | Except on passage large flocks occur only in Chichester Harbour ; even in Pagham Harbour counts of more than 50 birds are very unusual , although it is nearly always present there . |
| 15 | At home he called for " a new beginning " , involving tax cuts and a lowering of Federal spending , except on defence ; less Federal interference in people 's lives , less expenditure on the social services . |
| 16 | Despite the growing magnitude of the budget deficit , the Bush administration ( which had hitherto opposed tax cuts except on capital gains tax ) declared on Oct. 23 that stimulative middle-income tax-cuts were " under consideration " . |
| 17 | The Local Government Board , which had historically borne most of the responsibility for the treatment of poverty , had played very little part in the new measures of the Liberal government , except on occasion to disrupt them . |
| 18 | Except on North America voyages , and despite falling unemployment and rising real wages in the country as a whole , seamen 's wages rose little for some years . |
| 19 | Not even the most dedicated Outsider hack works after midnight , except on deadline days . |
| 20 | Overall the samples showed a slight deterioration between first and second assessments ( except on identification of coins ) . |
| 21 | It is a devious route around the coastal fringes , no direct way across the intervening wilderness of mountains being possible except on foot by strong walkers . |
| 22 | Poor men in towns travelled for necessity but rarely for pleasure , except on foot — the autobiographies of self-improving Victorian artisans are full of titanic country walks — and for short periods . |
| 23 | With no traffic connections it 's hard to reach any spot in the town except on foot , which is very dangerous . |
| 24 | In cases of this kind ( which rarely come before the Court of Appeal except on appeal against sentence ) , the last act of the provoker , even though minor in itself , may be placed in the context of the previous provocation , and may itself be treated as sufficient to show that the loss of self-control was ‘ sudden and temporary ’ . |
| 25 | When writing to a building society , never omit the mortgage reference number , or there may be some delay in receiving a reply , and if you act for your client 's bank , building society , etc , you will of course normally ask them to send the deeds direct to you ; in such a case include in your letter , if there is an existing mortgage to be discharged on completion ( as there will be in the case of a building society and may be in the case of a bank ) , an undertaking to hold the deeds on behalf of the bank or society , to return them on demand , not to part with the same except on completion of the sale , and to discharge the society 's mortgage . |
| 26 | As you 've conceded , Florian 's marriage is no longer a fact except on paper , and Nicky is n't his wife . ’ |
| 27 | She was suddenly in alien territory again , being accused of being somebody she could never be , except on stage with a script in her hand . |
| 28 | For instance , they would n't give you loans except on condition you left the independent union . |
| 29 | Thus the image of a Billy Butlin , Fred Pontin or Harry Warner ( or Joe Maplin even ! ) coaxing their ‘ campers ’ into early morning collective exercises is long gone and unlikely to return , except on television . |
| 30 | Wind pollination in Peninsular Malaysia is rare and the introduced wind-pollinated Pinus caribaea does not set seed there , except on mountain ridges or on the coast . |