Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [noun pl] [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it has dawned on the financial markets that the enemy might actually win the next election . |
| 2 | On the rare occasions that the drains run very clear you can see that the dredger has left all sorts of lumps and troughs along the bottom and these would never be found normally except by the most meticulous plumbing . |
| 3 | Considerable importance was placed by the government on the favourable effects that the MTFS would have on expectations about prices and employment , and therefore on wage claims . |
| 4 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 5 | The problem is that the researcher has imposed a limit on the possible answers that the respondent may give , and this may cast doubt on the validity of the data collected . |
| 6 | The average width of reefs found by Daly was about 600 m ( 2 000 ft ) , while wide reefs in the Banda Sea between Celebes and New Guinea , which are between three and four times the average in width , could be explained on the reasonable grounds that the area is so near the equator that temperatures never fell sufficiently to kill the coral . |
| 7 | They seem determined to spend their community charge payers ' money on the most irrelevant and frivolous projects rather than concentrating on the real problems that the hon. Gentleman described . |
| 8 | Is he aware that my constituents in the retail industry will take careful note of his response to the hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) on the devastating effects that the minimum wage would have on that industry ? |
| 9 | They have come around to accepting them , but on the dubious grounds that the palaeontological evidence now proves that the earliest hominids arose in Africa about 5–6 million years ago and that Ramapithecus was not a hominid . |
| 10 | First on the theoretical grounds that the complicity between congressional committees and the bureaucracy may produce lower than anticipated budgets , and second , that such a model ignores the institutional and political realities of the executive branch in America — above all , the Presidential office of Management and Budget and the plurality of other actors in the policy-making process |
| 11 | The Comintern policy was applied in Britain on the theoretical grounds that the Labour Party had ceased to be a federation and that " the Labour Party was in the process of being transformed from a federal organisation to a party of the social democratic type " . |
| 12 | It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips . |
| 13 | They said Mr Wicks 's decision was based on the flawed findings that the delay was justifiable and there was no prejudice . |
| 14 | " I shall stand first and foremost for the exercise of a complete and thorough boycott of the Germans as the cruellest slaughterers of innocent lives on the high seas that the world has ever known . |
| 15 | The ANC yesterday made a discreet ‘ no comment ’ on the latest rumours that the couple are on the verge of divorce . |
| 16 | To privilege one of these ways of attaining objectivity , particularly when that way happens to be one 's own , is fraught with difficulty , not least because the assessment is likely to be circular , depending on the very standards that the proponents are trying to verify . |
| 17 | There were so many limousines and lesser limousines and cars in attendance on the lesser limousines that the queue of cars stretched from Volley 's Pizza and Pasta House down to the Polka Children 's Theatre on the frontiers of Wimbledon . |