Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I flash on the special branch : sleepless interrogations in windowless cells . |
| 2 | Erm but I mean on the other hand if you start trying to develop your criteria , and I 'd go out and look at Botton Village and look at the Richmond Fellowship or something , |
| 3 | I do n't mean just on Road incidentally , I mean on the whole range of traffic calming demands . |
| 4 | I mean on the seaward side ? ’ |
| 5 | I sit on the wooden floor for a moment to gather my strength , also to decide exactly where I should take the relics to dispose of them . |
| 6 | MAX : I sleep on the right-hand side of my particular bed . |
| 7 | A big grey five-year-old , Sunset And Vine jumped well in the Lily Tree Novice Hurdle and stormed home well clear looking a horse with a real future — some of it , I hope on the right channel . |
| 8 | I mean normally er this morning for instance , normally I park on the big car park down near the the river there , |
| 9 | But there were some like me I suppose on the other side . |
| 10 | I turn on the other light on my side of the carriage . |
| 11 | Then you pull another , and off I go on the straight line Joey Bonanza 's drawn for me . |
| 12 | My wife Eva and I live on the northern-most tip of the island of Barbados where we run the Pirates Tavern and the tourist centre of ‘ Animal Flower Cave ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I call on the international community , the UN Security Council , the EC and all governments to use their powers to prevent the aggression against Bosnia and Hercegovina , ’ Mr Izetbegovic said in a TV and radio address . |
| 14 | Whether , of course , I would have taken this view were I to have had someone in my squadron who turned LMF is open to question , When I reflect on the young aircrew that I helped to train in 1940 at Kinloss , some 10 years younger than myself , I marvel that the conversation stage was the last stint before they were to confront a highly lethal opponent . |
| 15 | I know the answer I will always get , but I work on the dripping water principle . |
| 16 | In this notebook , recording my random thoughts day after day as I work on the big glass , I can keep my distance from the big glass . |
| 17 | Either I work on the big glass , he wrote , or my life is not worth living . |
| 18 | B. Farmers in the valleys and on the edges of Dartmoor and Exmoor concentrate more on rearing young cattle , sheep and lambs , which graze on the rough moorland pasture . |
| 19 | These flowers are visited by larger bees such as species of Xylocopa , which land on the hood-like ligule and forage underneath it for pollen . |
| 20 | Having realised that conservation is always likely to fall victim to local poverty , great efforts are being made to set up small-scale sustainable industries which depend on the long-term well-being of the rainforest and other natural ecosystems . |
| 21 | It was not until she came across a book by Sylvia Crowe , who pointed out how often the English countryside is spoilt by gardens blazing in colour which intrude on the natural backdrop , that she realised her mistake . |
| 22 | Thus progression means not so much going from before to after , as from the more immediate to the more remote circumstances which impinge on the central character 's consciousness . |
| 23 | Theoretical studies and laboratory experiments have indicated that lunar dust could be mobilized by electrical forces which on the Moon could arise from electrically charged particles which impinge on the lunar surface . |
| 24 | The fruit of the yew is important in the autumn and winter for mistle thrushes , redwings and fieldfares , which feed on the soft flesh , while greenfinches and bullfinches feed on the hard kernel . |
| 25 | The papers go through a rigorous vetting procedure , most importantly by question paper panels , which comment on the technical content and standard of the draft papers . |
| 26 | The tentacle scales which arise on the lateral arm plate or on the abradial part portion of the pore furthest from the mid-line of the arm are counted , i.e. L4–5 . |
| 27 | Then those which arise on the ventral arm plate on the abradial portion of the pore nearest the mid-line of the arm i.e. V4–5. ( e ) The number , form and arrangement of the arm spines on the lateral arm plate — generally a specific character . |
| 28 | In addition to weighing up the results and achievements of the coach 's pupils , the Institute also judges nominees on their standards of personal and professional behaviour , which reflect on the whole practice of coaching and the sport itself . |
| 29 | Each day each of us sheds 50 million skin cells which rise on the warm air produced by the body and then fall to the ground forming a trail like a microscopic paper chase . |
| 30 | Italian food has a reputation for being a dieter 's foe — but that is largely the fault of all-you-can-eat pasta pig-out places which pile on the Bolognese sauce . |