Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an Irish League poster announcing a talk by Mr Richmond MP in Newry , illustrations of assassinations of crowned heads in what seemed every capital of Europe , and most unexpectedly on the mantel above the tiny coal fireplace , a framed photograph of Noreen . |
| 2 | The nail is hit fairly and most squarely on the head . |
| 3 | Apparently never close to the Chinese ( he never learned the language and travelled with a large retinue of porters in some style ) , he wrote little about the people and rather drily on the landscape and plants . |
| 4 | The emphasis here is rather less upon the calculation of personal advantage , and rather more on the kin group as a co-operative unit , taking collective decisions which are to the advantage of all . |
| 5 | So now you can relate positions one to three to how much they cost and so on on the way down . |
| 6 | Perhaps not last Sunday , and perhaps not on the way to Liam Shakespeare 's front door , but it had happened . |
| 7 | It 's very likely they will want to focus very hard on the economics of generating electricity from nuclear and perhaps also on the financing of nuclear power stations . |
| 8 | And down here on the side in front of me now you got Super , Super Nesh yo , and that 's a , the , that 's the one what comes from America . |
| 9 | Collectively , the population of Britain perform millions of acts every day during their waking hours , yet the net result of all this is not chaos and confusion , but a reasonable approximation of order : motorists drive on the left-hand side of the road , not on the right ; shoppers offer coins and banknotes , cheques and cheque cards in exchange for goods and services , not goats and chickens or nothing at all ; love-making takes place indoors in bedrooms , and not outside on the pavement . |
| 10 | A pioneer in this department is Ed Kienholz , who some years ago became Ed and Nancy Kienholz and not just on the marriage certificate . |
| 11 | This is why , before you embark on any kind of anti-drug crusade with your children , you have to be clear where you stand — and not just on the subject of heroin . |
| 12 | My right hon. Friend is to be congratulated on showing that that can happen , and that a further step can be taken towards ’ ever closer union ’ on an intergovernmental basis , and not just on the basis of the treaty of Rome . |
| 13 | They 're cashing in , but at least they 're cashing in on the locals and not just on the Leeds . |
| 14 | This in turn made its impact on the choice of precious substances and not least on the skill and inventiveness with which these were mounted and displayed . |
| 15 | That some compositors , and not only on the committee , took a more sympathetic view of the problem is suggested by one writer to the STC , as far back as 1886 , whose attitude seems with hindsight to be the most constructive approach voiced by an Edinburgh man : that the women be treated seriously as colleagues and an attempt made to integrate them into the cultural world of the compositor from which they were decidedly excluded : A trade female society should be organised , having in connection a sick etc. fund ; a reading-room provided with illustrated and comic papers and magazines ; a library of high-class light literature chiefly and encyclopedias , dictionaries etc. : and an efficient committee to arrange for a grand picnic every summer and social gatherings in winter evenings . |
| 16 | The plaintiff 's solicitors must make regular checks ( and it is a good idea for the defendant 's insurers and solicitors to do the same ) on the wage rates at regular intervals , and not only on the rates for the job that the plaintiff would have been doing but the rate for any job into which he might have been promoted but for the accident . |
| 17 | There is too much emphasis on the tasks ( agendas ) of managing and not enough on the processes ( networks ) . |
| 18 | And not merely on the scale of a palace . |
| 19 | Rather like his brand new sponsored Mercedes , in fact ; but one of a strange series of incidents reported in the press , and not always on the cricket pages , was the fact that Beefy 's car was broken into and the radio stolen the night before he scored a century . |
| 20 | And just finally on the Mr are you able to put an approximate number , er figure to the number of such operations you 've been involved in ? |
| 21 | I would suggest that if you are sure of your pieces , do n't read them over and over again on the way to the audition — once will be quite enough . |
| 22 | On the A four two two Alcester bypass there 's a single lane working only for roadworks , and finally again on the A four one near Gaydom proving ground , there 's temporary traffic lights during the daytime only . |
| 23 | Watching Smotty 's four-minute debut — missing an open goal whilst tying his bootlace , refusing to take a second-minute penalty until he had washed his shin pads in the puddle on the centre circle , then when he did take it hitting the corner flag — I could feel the supporters forcing my head further and further down on the block . |
| 24 | The decision concluded a debate within the party and more generally on the country 's political future which had been launched by President Joao Bernardo Vieira in May 1990 [ see p. 37802 ] in response to demands for change . |
| 25 | It turns on the general relation between the justification for a binding directive and its status as a reason for action , and more generally on the relation between rules as reasons for action and their justification . |
| 26 | Councils run by all groupings and more importantly on the whole er by none at all er through independent councillors at parish level and they have responded with that united voice , declaring their support for a separate Cornish constituency and it might er bear remarking as I think members on all sides of this house are aware , getting that kind of agreement between councils at different tiers and in different areas of the county is pretty remarkable in itself . |
| 27 | Erm , and more so on the telephone than we ought and more on the telephone than some , sometimes we do er erm face to face . |
| 28 | Sentencing — here attention is both on the level of the sentence , whether it is considered lenient or harsh , and also sometimes on the judge 's comments on the case . |
| 29 | To achieve this the Troll field must be developed but Troll gas will of course be in competition with Soviet gas , so , much will depend on price and also perhaps on the influence of strategic considerations . |
| 30 | There are enemies in the Rorim , and probably more on the way . ’ |