Example sentences of "on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is by no means unheard of for a band to be offered a deal on nothing more than a ‘ concept ’ . |
| 2 | Thus during the period of restrictions the contras grew , and occasionally even thrived , apparently on air : or on nothing more than the scattered largesse of rich Americans . |
| 3 | Yet it is misleading to suggest that this means that legal authority depends on nothing more than the testator 's intention , whatever it may be . |
| 4 | Rose Shepherd goes on to argue that a first affair , usually based on attraction , leads to further affairs based on nothing more than boredom , loneliness , resentment , or the need for further boosting of confidence once the first extramarital partner has bowed out . |
| 5 | At a desk in the centre , surrounded by files tied with pink ribbons , sat the Registrar , on whom all hope depended . |
| 6 | To suggest that there is an interested and informed big brother , on whom one side could lean , to give it some advantage over the other , is only to prolong the agony . |
| 7 | This chapter considers the financial consequences of community care policies for those women on whom such policies increasingly depend — the mothers , daughters , wives , sisters , neighbours and friends who are providing a substantial amount of help and support to a disabled or elderly person . |
| 8 | One could ask , therefore , what role is ascribed in Formalist theory to the author , on whom biographical criticism had been based ; what had become of the reality which mimetic and historically orientated theories had placed at the centre of their concerns ; and finally what function it gives to thought , which had been the focus of philosophically biased criticisms . |
| 9 | Ghofar has a good deal in common with Last Suspect , the 50–1 shot on whom this sagacious Welshman won the 1985 Grand National . |
| 10 | Erm but I think the important thing is that Jung on whom this er particular theory it 's based on his |
| 11 | Freud , as suggested in Chapter 2 , argued that the state and politics are transferred father figures : organisations and people on whom those with little power and authority can depend for safeguards while at the same time suffering imposed personal restrictions . |
| 12 | In the stables , the horses on whom thousands of pounds would be won and lost that afternoon stirred as their lads unlocked their boxes , brought them their feed . |
| 13 | The traditional attitude to the poor had been to regard them , in the absence of unambiguous evidence to the contrary , as undeserving individuals on whom public money should be spent most sparingly . |
| 14 | It could be argued that if a connection with florid madness is to be revealed in biographical data this is most likely to be found in a conjunction among extreme cases : the very creative on whom most of the detailed accounts have concentrated . |
| 15 | The social worker provides care , assistance and , one hopes , understanding for those on whom most people turn their backs . |
| 16 | take me twelve months to get back on me blooming feet . |
| 17 | I 've got it on me blooming mind , you know when you keep singing it ? |
| 18 | What would happen if I loved him more than he loved me , and if he were to cheat on me one day ? |
| 19 | I knew that some of his friends were into drugs , but I did n't know Ryan was until he collapsed on me one day . |
| 20 | Gradually it began to dawn on me that while in the celluloid world all things were possible , in the other world it was quite a different story . |
| 21 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 22 | It 's the hold he 's got on me that 's the trouble . |
| 23 | A policeman came to call on me that Thursday evening , after Angy 's body had been found , asking what time the class ended and where I went afterwards … that sort of thing . |
| 24 | Fortune smiled on me that night , and what could have been a disaster was averted . |
| 25 | ‘ No doubt why you honed in on me that night . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He 's not putting any pressure on me that would cramp my style at all . ’ |
| 27 | He said I was left stood there with this other mate on me other side going what 's he had to drink ? |
| 28 | Getting on me nervous |
| 29 | I mean , Mark used to pick on me rotten , and he was only four years older than me . |
| 30 | ‘ I pay cash on delivery for fish , which the fishermen like , so they always call on me first and we get super turbot , mussels , scallops , sole and plaice here . ’ |