Example sentences of "on [det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If at some stage budgeting choices have to be made , decisions will be very much easier if you already know : your total outgoings , what you are spending on each individually and those you variously rate as important or marginal . |
| 2 | Your task is a series of missions , each more perilous than the last , and you are briefed on each beforehand . |
| 3 | The Pacta Conventa which the nobility imposed on each newly elected king of Poland performed , on a much more important scale , a similar function . |
| 4 | Everything else was on the same scale — an orchestra of sixty players to dance to , eight large buffets with four tiers on each so laden with food that hardly an inch of rosewood or mahogany showed , a winter garden where gentlemen could smoke their cigars , and a long terrace where perspiring dancers could escape the candle fumes and wander in the warm , starlit twilight . |
| 5 | More on that soon . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll catch up on that soon . ’ |
| 7 | WHILE pundits and pollsters floundered yesterday , householders breathed a great sigh of relief after the election was won and lost on that most emotive of personal finance issues — taxation . |
| 8 | What has been said about Tolkien 's poetry has an immediate bearing on that most attractive but least tractable subject , ‘ Tolkien 's mythology ’ . |
| 9 | In a two page chapter on that most prolific of English-speaking climbers in the Dauphiné , the American W.A.B. Coolidge , the author talks more about Coolidge 's aunt and the dog Tschingel ! |
| 10 | There 's a profile on that most useful item of kitchen equipment — the cake tin , and we also put wholemeal bread through its paces for Tried and Tasted . |
| 11 | When will the Secretary of State make a decision and give us an answer on that most important issue ? |
| 12 | What action is being taken by South Wales Electricity and the other companies on that most important aspect of energy efficiency ? |
| 13 | Mr. George Robert Gray , the ornithological assistant in the Zoological department of the British Museum , has in the most obliging manner undertaken to obviate this difficulty , by furnishing me with information with respect to some parts of the general arrangement , and likewise on that most intricate subject , — the knowledge of what species have already been described , and the use of proper generic terms … |
| 14 | I 'm only glad I got ta date and that was it get on that just the same as the bloke that 's gon na |
| 15 | Well surely wo n't we have to have a meeting on that just like , do do n't they have a meeting for sex education ? |
| 16 | I 'll touch on that just er , in a few moments . |
| 17 | Not gon na have it on that blooming loud . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Employment may care to comment on that later . |
| 19 | If you believe that well we 'll have er more on that later on . |
| 20 | But more on that later . |
| 21 | Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up . |
| 22 | A decision will be made on that later this month . |
| 23 | I 'll get a sort of programme , preliminary discussion , a one to one discussion , with anyone who reports to me , and then schedule a sort of follow up session on that later . |
| 24 | Yes , that 's right , I 'd like to raise a separate point on that later on rather than the accuracy ones for this , do the accuracy ones first . |
| 25 | Well , since barely half the population can read or write , many people still rely entirely on that notoriously unreliable medium , word of mouth . |
| 26 | So it was n't a lot on that anyway , but it it it 's do n't forget that 's a good indication . |
| 27 | Yeah , we can get started on that anyway , sort of thing before we Erm should the house go up in smoke , Theresa across the road run to her |
| 28 | But erm , not reliable enough on that anyway |
| 29 | but I ca n't see the point of doing vinyl on that anyway I really can not . |
| 30 | There are of course classes of preferential and pre-preferential creditors , but I do not propose to expand on that here . |