Example sentences of "on the [noun] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expectation that the new borrowings will be available , if required , must have existed at the balance sheet date and this expectation should be reviewed in the light of any post balance sheet events to ensure it remains reasonable on the date the financial statements are approved by the directors . |
| 2 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 3 | He went on the course a few weeks later , two days in a hotel conference room which smelt of stale cigar smoke and small successes . |
| 4 | Liartes brought his mount in to land on the turf a few yards away and dismounted casually . |
| 5 | On the chests the brown bottles of Uncle Camillo 's wine , many minus their corks , were wreathed and veiled . |
| 6 | Penry 's been on the phone every few minutes to see if you 've arrived . |
| 7 | ‘ We spoke on the phone a few days ago . ’ |
| 8 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 9 | Suspicions bubble furiously , contacts drop like ninepins , Redford is bashed on the head a few times , the dreaded box is nicked back and forth between the Good and the Bad like a gunpoint game of Pass The Parcel and Redford 's erstwhile girlfriend Liz ( Mary McDonnell ) ends up offering refuge to the jittery team and their mountains of equipment . |
| 10 | Reporting on the talks the Financial Times of March 10 stated that the UK had failed to persuade China to " speed the work " of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group ( JLG ) , which dealt with problems arising from the 1997 transfer . |
| 11 | Rushing Wild 's jockey , Richard Dunwoody , gave Dwyer a pat on the back a few yards after the winning post . |
| 12 | On the whole the raised beaches are characterised by a platform with overlying beach deposits , while the marine terraces are usually devoid of such deposits . |
| 13 | On the whole the cheaper ones are lighter , because there the junior ones . |
| 14 | On the whole the professional diplomatists ran this machinery themselves . |
| 15 | On the whole the poorest communities have had most difficulties , where parents are illiterate or semi-literate and have little money or time to spare . |
| 16 | On the whole the poorest citizens are covered by Medicaid ; the group just above them , numbering some 35 million Americans , are not covered by Medicaid but have no effective alternative in terms of private health insurance . |
| 17 | There is a mixture of indicators , but on the whole the adverse indicators seem heavier and more serious than the favourable ones , many of which are things such as confidence surveys , which do not tell one very much about what will happen . |
| 18 | On the whole the Merovingian comites have been seen as similar to the late Roman comites civitatis , and there is certainly a case for thinking that both could carry out the same duties , which included the hearing of law-suits and the enforcement of justice , and could involve military leadership as well . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , no record seems to have survived of the names of all those who signed the document : in an interview with the Despatch on 1 September , one of their leaders said they were mostly from printing offices which had not agreed to the men 's memorial , that is on the whole the smaller offices . |
| 20 | The public are seen to need educating into the necessity of a biosociety , but on the whole the social relations of the biosociety are taken as unproblematic and FAST scenarios rarely go beyond techno-economic details . |
| 21 | The balanced and reasonable manner in which the Report was written and presented , produced on the whole the same characteristics in the media coverage of the proposals it contained . |
| 22 | On the whole the royal courts of Europe were more concerned to administer than to define the law : as in canon law , there was no clear distinction between legislative and judicial functions , and so the former was normally hidden in the latter . |
| 23 | She asked him to test her on fielding positions , and he marked out on the sand the two sets of stumps and the ten fielding positions around them . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're looking less peaky , ’ he said as she came to a halt on the slope a few yards below . |
| 25 | Her Suzy Lamplugh Trust personal rape alarm was lying on the ground a few feet away . |
| 26 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 27 | Running on , I saw a dim shape kneeling on the ground a few yards ahead of me . |
| 28 | ‘ I heard him being interviewed on the news a few minutes ago , ’ Bridget added . |
| 29 | In his English Botany ( 1806 ) James Sowerby mentions them as in their millions on the coast a few kilometres off Liverpool . |
| 30 | On the coast the maritime museums of Buckie and Lossiemouth record the history of the Moray fishing industry . |