Example sentences of "[verb] and on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 2 | I entirely agree with this decision and with the passage cited but it is important to note that when Nolan J. spoke of the alternatives which ‘ must both be made available to the subject ’ he was , as I think , clearly referring to the alternative on the one hand of allowing the breath specimen to stand and on the other hand of exercising the right to have it replaced by a specimen of blood or urine in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 3 | On the first day of the blizzard 30 of my sheep got buried and on the first night my kennel runs were covered with six feet of snow , making it difficult , if not impossible , to get the dogs out . |
| 4 | Yes , and the girls had three months ' notice to leave and on the last day at three months I heard that a young lady had left the Post Office . |
| 5 | Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold . |
| 6 | The degree structure maintained at Edinburgh allows a student to leave decisions on the subjects to be followed and on the final degree to quite a late stage . |
| 7 | The advance bookings diary or chart is checked for the guest 's arrival date , a note is made in the diary that mail is awaiting and on the appropriate date it is placed in the letter rack . |
| 8 | On 11 December 1272 he transferred to the new archbishop of Canterbury , Robert Kilwardby [ q.v. ] , the spiritualities of the see and on the following day was the only bishop recorded as present in London at an important declaration concerning royal rights in respect of this papal provision of Kilwardby . |