Example sentences of "[adj] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Unfortunately , the Alkali Inspectorate was wrong on both counts . |
| 32 | This proves them wrong on both counts . |
| 33 | Because I can assure you that you are entirely wrong on both counts . ’ |
| 34 | But , just for the record , you 're wrong on both counts . ’ |
| 35 | They are wrong on both counts . ’ |
| 36 | He was wrong on both points then and he is wrong now . |
| 37 | His voice was cast on the side of moderation-he ‘ was clear on all grounds that Labour should be given office ’ . |
| 38 | We have made that clear on many occasions . |
| 39 | The Scottish National party has made its view perfectly clear on many occasions and I reiterate that view this evening : radioactive material , whether it be spent nuclear fuel or waste , should be stored above ground , on site , where it can be subject to close inspection . |
| 40 | The courts have made clear on several occasions that section 76 lays down a ‘ general principle ’ of parental choice which is only one of a number of factors to which an LEA could or should have regard when exercising their functions . |
| 41 | Dad 's first name was George , and he had already made it clear on several occasions that when Granpa retired he had no intention of taking over from him as he did n't want to leave his mates on the docks . |
| 42 | The Government 's repugnance for that organisation and everything it stands for has been made absolutely clear on repeated occasions . |
| 43 | Please could you ensure that this is made clear on any notices that are put up and that the contractors doing the work are also aware that pedestrians , cyclists and people requiring access to property are to be allowed through . |
| 44 | Though entirely English on both sides of his family , he was born in Buenos Aires in 1907 , where his father had gone out to establish a branch of Unilever . |
| 45 | Randall Jarrell is painfully funny on Bad Poets , and Joseph Addison on a trip with Sir Roger de Coverley to Vauxhall is pure delight . |
| 46 | The pilots sit high on adjustable seats for the best panorama , and their doors have vertically-sliding Perspex windows and integral arm-rests . |
| 47 | The pilots sit high on adjustable seats . |
| 48 | Election ‘ 92 : High on technical tricks , low on common sense |
| 49 | Q6 The added value can not be high on such items . |
| 50 | In another he found old shoes piled high on rusty tables and there was one room he thought very odd but it made him smile . |
| 51 | What the ads do n't say is that the food is as low on nutrition as it is high on unhealthy fats and additives . |
| 52 | And the lights — you guessed it — sit high on anorexic columns where they ca n't be stoned . |
| 53 | Casualties were high on both sides . |
| 54 | Defect rates are still too high on large wafers to mass produce products at reason able prices . |
| 55 | Indonesian troops opened fire on Nov. 12 on pro-independence demonstrators at a cemetery in Dili , capital of the de facto Indonesian territory of East Timor , killing between 60 and 180 people . |
| 56 | We tested the Turbo 30 on three lawns . |
| 57 | ‘ It would be consistent with the data ’ , he writes , ‘ and defensible on logical grounds to argue that the growth and decline in the designated areas merely reflects , after an appropriate time lapse , the gains or losses to the total stock of G.P.s in the country . ’ |
| 58 | In 1981–2 , there were 133,000 full-time and sandwich students in the thirty polytechnics , together with 65,000 part-time students and some 85,000 on short courses . |
| 59 | The essential unity of the stratigraphy and tectonics of the Palaeozoic on opposite sides of the North Atlantic was pointed out by Bailey ( 1929 ) , and developed in two important papers by Waterschoot van der Gracht in 1938 ( a and b ) which anticipated many of the conclusions of plate tectonics , and charted the course of the Variscan Front under southern Britain and Ireland . |
| 60 | for the Falkirk Boroughs is reported as " just now receiving a very fair share of abuse from a number of Scottish newspapers , some on personal grounds , others political . " |