Example sentences of "[adv] on [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paper concludes that NCR may yet be a winner from its loss of the Sumitomo Bank account since it can now focus entirely on its Open Systems strategy in Japan . |
| 2 | The pound has recently traded at DM2.40 to 2.45 , 12% to 15% down on its former ERM floor and 15% to 18% down on the old DM2.95 central rate . |
| 3 | The Thai government has responded to conservationist pressure by announcing its intention to crack down on its illegal wildlife trade [ see ED no. 45 ] . |
| 4 | It is now on the market again at £995,000 , some Pounds 500,000 down on its previous asking price . |
| 5 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 6 | By Monza , Jackie was still well down on his former team-mate Graham Hill , now driving in a Lotus , and Jackie retired with engine problems while Hill had a wheel fall off . |
| 7 | He worked on the buses when he arrived , showed me a canopy in front of a hotel that he 'd brought down on his first solo drive . |
| 8 | Fooled , he let her in , and she ran straight to his jazz records and whipping off her court shoe brought the heel down on his favourite Blossom Dearie . |
| 9 | Bob wanted chicken tikka massala and then he said give me the list and wrote down on it two chicken tikka massalas so I look on that and I ca n't see anything two chicken kormas , one and two chicken tikka massalas . |
| 10 | Since it acquired Tace Plc and Goring Kerr Plc in 1991 , it has focussed less and less on its former core defence activities due to the near collapse of the defence industry . |
| 11 | I 'll look in on her round dinner time . ’ |
| 12 | It is clearly essential to ensure that property is properly valued , not only on its existing use value for bus operations , but on other bases such as its full development value . |
| 13 | They were carried along on their gently-moving conveyor belt at a speed of about one and a half kilometres an hour , while they made determinations of the viscosity of the lava beneath the rubbly crust , and eventually hopped off again , none the worse for wear . |
| 14 | Jean was so utterly trusting , she never even wondered what Brian got up to while she and a woman neighbour were away on their annual fortnight holidays abroad . |
| 15 | As the months passed he spent more and more time away on his growing shipping business . |
| 16 | There are really three lochs rather than one , almost separate , but joined by narrows , and after a wild winter , when the snows begin to melt , these narrows become rivers in their own right , with ice-cold waters pounding through on their three-and-a-half mile journey to the sea . |
| 17 | These securities yield a given interest or dividend which is payable on the original face value of the security , not on its current market price . |
| 18 | Well if you walk up that hill keeping Marks and Spencers on your left hand side , the top part of the hill is called Middle Pavement and still on your left hand side you 'll see a green sign , Trading Standards Advice Centre . |
| 19 | Even before Tasker and Boardman had set off on their last attempt Bonington and Adrian Gordon — the base camp manager — decided that they would go up the mountain to help with the descent from the North Col , concerned that if Tasker and Boardman reached the summit by the long ridge above the pinnacles , they would be close to collapse on their descent . |
| 20 | Just because out-to-lunch Morrissey is dropping in references to ‘ Ride A White Swan ’ and because Pulp 's singer wears David Essex-type attire and lampoons a ‘ camp stance ’ and just because the current guitar rock scene is useless ( except Sugar ) , do not fob this glitter-rock crap off on our gullible pop nation . |
| 21 | ‘ On Saturday the 14th , I was carried off on my reserve team debut at Arsenal with ruptured anterior cruciate knee ligaments . |
| 22 | Refreshed by a drink , he donned the tracksuit top and set off once more on his interrupted journey south . |
| 23 | The road overbridge at the start of the climb was built in 1990 to replace a narrow underbridge at Crawyetts a short distance further on which restricted lorry access to the town . |
| 24 | The world oil glut has had an adverse effect on South Africa 's grandiose ambitions as a coal exporter and also on its synthetic fuels business . |
| 25 | The type of drills and the order in which you construct them will depend on the structure of the new language and also on your own language background which to a certain extent determines in what area you will find difficulties . |
| 26 | Sequent may also put the stuff up on its forthcoming Microsoft Corp Windows NT-based boxes . |
| 27 | Then , then of course there were n't no traffic signs in the middle of the road , it was a sort of er certain people from went and started that up and er they were all wor all worked in Caldmore it was almost as though the tailoring Caldmore was full of tailors in a way then there were people starting up on their own making clothes , but er there was quite a lot of tailors around er I know there was he 'd got a shop on Caldmore , he was a tailor and er shall we go through all the shops ? |
| 28 | And then Doreen entered the dining-room , walking carefully on her high spike heels . |
| 29 | In so far as it comments extensively on his main life work , usually but not always positively , it seems more appropriate that his contribution , while fully acknowledged , should be classified as ‘ informal ’ . |
| 30 | Chinese students sent to university in Russia demonstrated noisily on their cross-country train journeys and , on one occasion that shocked Khrushchev deeply , defecated all over a Mongolian station platform . |