Example sentences of "on at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also available from Bisque is the battery-powered , remote-control Bagno-Stat , which allows you to pre-set the towel radiator heater to come on at specific times and maintain required temperatures . |
| 2 | In fact , it is n't in a theatre at all — it 's put on at irregular intervals by a group of lawyers in the sedate and sheltered surroundings of the Temple , and it 's called Seminars for the Expert Witness . |
| 3 | From the fact that a mental process does not appear in introspection one can not infer that it does not go on at non-conscious levels of the mind . |
| 4 | They gradually caught on at other establishments , although not on such a substantial scale . |
| 5 | What 's on at Pallant House |
| 6 | He went on at great length on this subject , banging his pastoral staff on the floor and haranguing the assembly until the pope cried ‘ Enough ’ , and the reading of the decrees was resumed . |
| 7 | In our case this iteration has gone on at great lengths and I and my colleagues have had to struggle to ensure that we have allocated enough time to deciding the direction in which the company should be going , and the changes that have to be carried out in order to get it there . |
| 8 | I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances . |
| 9 | They would go on and on at great speed . |
| 10 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 11 | Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't . |
| 12 | And had the Grandtully folk best come up the glen and join on at Dull ? ’ |
| 13 | I do n't think anyone would argue though , that the true stars of the event came on at mid bill , at 6.30pm . |
| 14 | Yet William Hill , in the betting on the King George VI at Kempton on Boxing Day , only offer 3-1 against Barnbrook Again beating Desert Orchid , who stands at 15-8 on at level weights . |
| 15 | Where this factor-augmenting technical progress is going on at constant exponential rates , the production function may be written ( 8–15 ) where K denotes the rate of capital augmentation and the rate of labour augmentation . |
| 16 | Webb has constantly said he is happy to carry on at Old Trafford and fight for his place . |
| 17 | It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment . |
| 18 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 19 | New works by her are on at American Fine Arts from 6 to 27 March ) while Michael St John , also smitten with folks from ‘ toon town , paints cartoon characters in the act of doing double takes against vast white backgrounds ( at Amy Lipton until the end of the month ) . |
| 20 | There is no reason anyway to reinvent the wheel , and we need to know initially what is already going on at different levels , in different forums , in different geographical areas , before engaging in a pilot project to network available training and encourage initiatives where there are gaps . |
| 21 | Different parts of the lighting system can come on at different times . |
| 22 | ‘ Manchester United offered me a contract that was only just better than the one I was on at Ayresome Park . |
| 23 | Clever parents are , naturally , going to give their children a more encouraging educational environment : to take a single example , they are not going to have the television set on at full volume while the unfortunate kids are attempting to do their school homework . |
| 24 | Such beachcombing activities go on at numerous places around our ‘ sceptred Isle ’ . |
| 25 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |
| 26 | I took an aspirin , thought about having a wank , heard a car go by ( quickly ) and put Simon Bates on at top volume . |
| 27 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 28 | Several authorities increased their maintenance allowances , paid to the children of very poor families to stay on at secondary school , –5 to compensate for the failure to raise the school leaving age to fifteen , scheduled to take place in 1939 , but held back by the war . |
| 29 | A timer can be fitted to an immersion heater so that it comes on at specified times of the day . |