Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ground-contact time would be shorter than on concrete , they reckoned , yet step length would be increased , and with it , speed . |
| 2 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 3 | Why would you expect the yield on treasury bills normally to be rather lower than on government bonds ? |
| 4 | The yield is lower than on money market instruments ; they are safer . |
| 5 | If they are near to maturity then the yield will reflect short-term interest rates , though again the gross yield will be lower than on money market instruments . |
| 6 | It is a devious route around the coastal fringes , no direct way across the intervening wilderness of mountains being possible except on foot by strong walkers . |
| 7 | The CD databases such as Lotus One Source are more user friendly than on line databases and without the pressure of on line time costs it is easier to give careful consideration to the search strategy . |
| 8 | At least were their dreams after seeing the films more sexually explicit than on control nights ? |
| 9 | Carlos Pizarro León-Gómez , 39 , the leader of the guerrilla April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) and its presidential candidate in the elections scheduled for May 27 , was shot dead by a contract killer on April 26 while on board a commercial flight from the capital Bogotá to the northern Caribbean port of Barranquilla where he was to address an election rally . |
| 10 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
| 11 | The Demon 's a bad mutha , although the time limit 's not as tight as on Intermission 3 . |
| 12 | On March 26 a RARA subgroup named after Juan José Crespo Galende , a Spaniard who had died in detention in Spain in 1981 while on hunger strike [ see p. 31369 ] , claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry . |
| 13 | He died 13 February 1950 whilst on holiday in Adelboden , a ski resort in Switzerland . |
| 14 | if we can keep up with that kind of play — and — get those goals we will do OK. im still worried both with the back-five and the attackers — against better oppositon or away things — might — not look as good as on monday . |
| 15 | Clearly people , particularly children and the elderly , are vulnerable when on foot . |
| 16 | One of the problems of deciding how much of a person 's temperament is inherited is due to the fact that babies are usually brought up in an environment of both parents , or at least more than on individual , and that they take a while to grow and show many personality characteristics . |
| 17 | In defence of the charges , David Moffat , fund manager of Eagle Star European ( 071–929 1111 ) , agrees that unit trusts are more expensive to buy but argues that with investment trusts there are dealing charges on purchase and sale , and that it is better to pay a percentage at the beginning when the fund is worth less than on redemption when , hopefully , it should be worth substantially more ! |
| 18 | Oh no , you 'll probably going up by less than on average less than one child per class , but the trend is going the wrong way . |
| 19 | Food hygiene is just as important when on holiday as at home — if not more so . |
| 20 | On day 1 , CBV remained stable whereas on day 2 it increased . |
| 21 | On pebble surfaces saltation is noticeably higher than on sand surfaces ( Fig . |
| 22 | Her husband died in 1908 and she died 26 August 1923 while on holiday in North Lancing . |
| 23 | Nine laps later , he was thirteenth ; at the halfway mark , eighth ; seventh came when Niki Lauda went off spectacularly ; sixth when he overtook a faltering Mike Hailwood ; fifth when on lap fifty-five he overtook Reutemann after many laps of cat and mouse with the Argentine , never an easy man to get by ; fourth , his finishing position , when his team-mate François Cevert gallantly waved him by . |
| 24 | When writing to a building society , never omit the mortgage reference number , or there may be some delay in receiving a reply , and if you act for your client 's bank , building society , etc , you will of course normally ask them to send the deeds direct to you ; in such a case include in your letter , if there is an existing mortgage to be discharged on completion ( as there will be in the case of a building society and may be in the case of a bank ) , an undertaking to hold the deeds on behalf of the bank or society , to return them on demand , not to part with the same except on completion of the sale , and to discharge the society 's mortgage . |
| 25 | There were of course exceptions such as Mrs Cellier , mid-wife and women 's champion who against all the odds managed to carve a niche for herself as a nurse , to hold her own whilst on trial at the Old Bailey , calmly storing in her pocket stones thrown at her whilst in the stocks and attempted to found a college of therapeutic midwifery . |
| 26 | On Mars the time-of-day language-game is practically the same as on Earth , and , given the language-game , we use an argument from analogy to settle a question of fact that arises within the language-game . |
| 27 | Tack on VAT at the standard rate , and you are looking at a total tax take of £1.33 ( surprisingly , the same as on diesel ) and £1.60 respectively . |
| 28 | Suicide or self-injury , wilful self-exposure to peril ( except in an attempt to save human life ) , the influence of drugs ( except as prescribed by a registered medical practitioner other than for treatment of drug addiction ) or alcohol , or the person insured engaging in , during the period of holiday or journey , wintersports , mountaineering , racing ( other than on foot ) or other hazardous adventure . |
| 29 | Yes benefits will not be paid if you are injured as the result of hazardous activities such as diving , mountaineering , rock or cliff-climbing , pot-holing , cycling , motorcycling , parachuting , sport as a professional , rugby , racing other than on foot , or aviation except Air Travel . |
| 30 | It is rare that an ordinary man like myself encounters women who look like this , other than on celluloid . |