Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid I 'm a bit weak on the forensic side . ’ |
| 2 | I think the one thing I have noticed , he is a bit one-dimensional on the draw . |
| 3 | ‘ Sorry — I 'm a bit touchy on the topic of the club right now . ’ |
| 4 | He usually travels well , but he did get a bit upset on the way back from the World Cup final in Gothenburg when we had a very rough crossing . |
| 5 | To the foral provinces their attachment to Spain was a contract dependent on the maintenance of their liberties and economic advantages : enlightened despotism and liberalism , refusing to accept the contractual status of the foral provinces , were by definition anti-Basque . |
| 6 | You pass through orchards , over farms where the people wave greetings , catch glimpses of castles that were there centuries before the railway was built and of huddled villages , then go higher through woodlands where the trees brush the carriages , and on to views of snow clad peaks shimmering on the horizon . |
| 7 | But she always used to say , ‘ Well I 'm a bit doubtful on the question . |
| 8 | ‘ … into the last furlong , and the Guppy looks beaten , Breakdancer takes up the running with Prince Charming on the stand side — it looks to be between these two — but now Shine On 's absolutely flying on the outside , a terrific challenge , the three locked together , Breakdancer and Shine On stride for stride , at the line it 's very close but I think it 's shine On who gets it on the nod . |
| 9 | April 15 was the centenary of the first ascent of Eagle 's Nest Ridge Direct on the Napes crags of Great Gable . |
| 10 | For a start , the wound 's a bit high on the head for a straight fall onto the occiput . |
| 11 | You 're a bit light on the chicken are n't you ? |
| 12 | The success of the system is of course dependent on the commitment of the advice workers and clients . |
| 13 | That meant that the ministry was stuck with the introduction of a complicated two-stage payment dependent on the animal 's age . |
| 14 | The parish well-head , taking up practically all of the small village green of this remote settlement high on the chalk downs , drew water from one of the deepest wells in the country . |
| 15 | Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence . |
| 16 | First of all , there seem to be several quite different types of trial dependent on the experience of the teacher in various respects . |
| 17 | A secret report issued by the Luftwaffe in March 1944 on British Pathfinder Operations * ( see Appendix I ) declared that " the success of a large-scale night raid by the RAF is in increasing measure dependent on the conscientious flying of the Pathfinder crews ' . |
| 18 | The man was up like a cat , crouching , legs apart , the pale lights of the motor yacht shimmering on the knife in his hand , spittle foaming at the corners of his mouth , mad eyes . |
| 19 | They are all " Act and Scene " operas — their librettos organised along familiar lines , those analogous to the partitioning of dramatic action usual on the non-musical stage , where soliloquy , dialogue , ensemble , and purely mimed material add up to a whole dramatic structure . |
| 20 | She finds manufacturers evasive on the matter of setting standards : ‘ Everyone says , ‘ We 've got the standard ’ … they 're hoping to impose their design on the world . |
| 21 | Over the cream pebble-dash and olive grey windows of the great house , some turrets may yet be seen beneath what I take to be the original small roof-slates ; and a plaque high on the wall — ; ‘ 1635 RE ’ with what looks like ‘ ID ’ ; and a couple of lions guarding the door . |
| 22 | Thus the computer selects a course of action dependent on the data values it encounters . |
| 23 | Through the village , the road into Barbondale rises sharply before contouring for a level mile along the side of Barbon Low Fell , new plantings of conifers permitting only glimpses of Barbon Manor high on the left . |
| 24 | The families that lived rent free on the Moss had a price to pay — infill of the boggy terrain for the Duke of Argyll who owned the whole island . |
| 25 | Its future depends on a different kind of alliance with the class that created it who wo n't for much longer be reduced to the status of clients dependent on the whim of their political godfathers . |
| 26 | In a detailed critique , Taylor and Cameron ( 1987 : 117 ) point out that the CA approach makes the identification of conversational units dependent on the specification of the conversational rules to which speakers " orient " in constructing sequences of such units . |
| 27 | Several different DNA transfection methods are currently used that have varying efficiencies dependent on the type of cell and its growth status . |
| 28 | Leaving the harbour high on the Pultney side of the river I passed an old folks ' home looking out over that cold North Sea ; only the dawn in winter can show any warmth . |
| 29 | Issues such as obscenity , blasphemy , racial prejudice and sheer misrepresentation figure high on the list of proscriptions . |
| 30 | There was a special , elaborately canopied seat high on the stern , which we may suppose was intended for the ship 's captain , and a row of twenty oarsmen on each side of the ship . |