Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now supposing then , this committee that John Major 's set up do something like that , and they get that down on paper . |
| 2 | Get together for discussion and they get that down on paper . |
| 3 | The note which had been sent into him at the factory had said that he was to meet them at eight o'clock on Boxing Night . |
| 4 | They were : offences triable only on indictment ; offences triable only summarily ; and offences triable either way . |
| 5 | This is the most serious of the offences in the Act , and is triable only on indictment and attracts a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment . |
| 6 | None of them were the graphical , scientific and engineering markets beloved amongst Unix workstation vendors , and the Oki machine was perhaps not strong enough on I/O to handle document imaging , for instance . |
| 7 | Iced only on top , so looks a bit bare without its gold band . |
| 8 | The FT-SE 100-Share Index was down 20 points after half an hour , then rebounded to show a 20-point gain shortly after midday , before slipping back in line with Wall Street to close 8.7 better on balance at 2,843.0 in heavy trading . |
| 9 | Assuming a primary sex ratio ( males/females ) of unity and that mortality is random and dependent only on mobility pattern , operational sex ratio is where b is the ratio : time per adult male seeking sexual encounter/time per female . |
| 10 | Perry and me have been without it for five days before this only on methadone . |
| 11 | Leeds midfielder David Batty is winning his fight to shrug off an ankle injury and be fit for the second leg , which his side start 2-1 down on aggregate . |
| 12 | I can listen to the top forty tonight on radio ten |
| 13 | This development is dependent largely on state intervention , sometimes relying on direct compulsion on state-owned enterprises ; efforts to oblige large Italian-based multi nationals like Fiat and Olivetti to follow suit have been much less successful . |
| 14 | Caroline modelled not for Valentino but for Fabbiano and designers like him , whose careers would last only fractionally longer than the lives of fruit flies , whose successes were dependent not on talent but on flash and dash . |
| 15 | The orchestra were able to laugh at this exactly on cue . |
| 16 | 3 The Publisher will pay the Proprietor £5,000 ( five thousand pounds sterling ) as an advance on the royalties specified in Clause 2 above on publication of the Classroom Version in English . |
| 17 | Someone started singing ‘ God Save the King ’ and soon everybody was joining in , thousands of strong hearts and lungs , shipyard workers , foundry men , train drivers , some still on strike , were swept away by the tide of emotion . |
| 18 | The RYA says that over the next 10 years demand for new berths will reach 85,000 nationally on top of the present 190,000 . |
| 19 | It is not , however , conclusive evidence for , as we have seen , membership is dependent both on agreement to become a member and entry in the register and if the entry does not truly reflect the agreement or there was no valid agreement the register ought to be rectified . |
| 20 | October came and with it the hake , caught with the pilchard nets but some also on hook and line . |
| 21 | they 've got a clear out on clearance sale on . |
| 22 | Acheson would agree to " close and continued consultation on all the parallel interests " of the two powers , but he was not willing to spell this out on paper . |
| 23 | The south west would be an industrial desert dependent solely on tourism . |
| 24 | My five feet four and a half even on tiptoe could nowhere approximate his angle of vision . |
| 25 | Work will take place over the first two weekends in June ( 1st-2nd , 8th-9th ) , starting 9.30 am on site . |
| 26 | StP/IM is scheduled for release March 1993 initially on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations with support for IBM Corp 's RS/6000s , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000s and Digital Equipment Corp Ultrix to follow ; no price has been set . |
| 27 | Feelings about these different tasks do not seem to be dependent primarily on temperament or on personal background ; rather they emerge as related to the kind of conditions under which the tasks are performed . |
| 28 | So I waited four days , watching the weather , praying that it would n't change and when the night arrived to fish again , and the conditions were identical to that wonderful night four moons ago , I felt like I was eight years old again on Christmas eve . |
| 29 | It looks like that not on grid . |
| 30 | Similarly , if debts due to the company are subject to a floating charge , the interest of the floating charge holder will be subject to any lien or set off that the company creates with respect to the charged assets prior to crystallisation , for a floating charge is not regarded for this purpose as an immediate assignment of the chose in action , it becomes such only on crystallisation . |