Example sentences of "[adj] and on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strange that this wild young man settled down to an exemplary career as a Marine and on retirement became a probation officer . |
| 2 | The current shareware program is version 4.0 and on registration you receive free updates for life . |
| 3 | The prisoner , who has n't been named , but is in his late 30s and on remand , dragged the librarian into a cell . |
| 4 | The report is now referred to the Personnel Committee on 11 May 1993 and on agreement will be implemented as soon as practically possible thereafter . |
| 5 | In response to the appeal , about 3,000 demonstrators converged on Olympia , where a cordon of 500 police , mounted and on foot , kept the way clear for the ticket-holders . |
| 6 | Valerie Stevens appeared uncomfortable and on edge . |
| 7 | She sat like that for what seemed like ages while I tramped round the room , nervous and on edge and blabbering with the excitement . |
| 8 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that he received representations from both the British Tourist Authority and the English tourist board about the damage that would be done to the industry by the restrictions on part-time working and on working hours which are so beloved of Labour ? |
| 9 | Beside her Kim was struggling to hide his feelings , but Lan could tell from the paleness of his face that he was apprehensive and on edge . |
| 10 | He looked different somehow , more alert and on guard . |
| 11 | The march is reasonably uneventful , insofar as this is possible moving ninety fully-equipped men through a dense , damp forest in the dark , but the Company arrives at its final rendezvous intact and on time . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course ’ he said sitting down again ‘ it would have been so much easier if we had the assassin alive and on trial . |
| 13 | The shapes were 6.3° tall and on average 2.2° wide , and were equally likely to be red or green . |
| 14 | Yet , her first government ( 1979 — 83 ) faced significant back-bench revolts on the proposed closed-shop amendment in the Employment Bill in 1980 and on unemployment benefit cuts in 1981 , was defeated on proposed changes in immigration rules in 1981 , and had to withdraw a proposal to impose a ceiling on local rates in the face of opposition . |
| 15 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |
| 16 | The dawn ride alone with Jacques Devraux through the breathtaking natural beauty of the tropical forest had first heightened the pleasurable feeling of pent-up excitement that had been growing within her in recent days , then eventually left her feeling tense and on edge . |
| 17 | On line five it finds the third colour , white and on line seven the fourth colour , black . |
| 18 | The average age of the clients in this study was 31 and on average these individuals first received institutional care at the age of 10 . |
| 19 | There was a rationalist in the compartment who observed , ‘ The country is poverty stricken and on top of that there are people who throw coins out of carriage windows . ' ’ |
| 20 | Neil Fraser looked tired and on edge , his wife was subdued and made an excuse to leave them early . |
| 21 | It is here that one can trace the foundations of public service broadcasting with its emphasis on public duty , on providing for all and on informing , educating , and not simply entertaining . |
| 22 | ‘ But I can serve good and on grass that is really difficult to play against . ’ |
| 23 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 24 | In addition , personal tutors receive copies of their tutees ' records and timetables , and admissions tutors receive regular and on demand analyses of applications data to support their decision making and to assist the meeting of both individual field and overall Course intake targets . |
| 25 | It consisted of an oak beam ten feet long , behind this was the foot , five inches by three and a half inches and three feet long and on top of this the handles . |
| 26 | In December 1941 , 2/2 Company sailed as part of Sparrow Force , 2,000 men in all mainly from the 2/40 Battalion going to reinforce the Dutch on western Timor , an island seventeen times the area of England and Wales , about 300 miles ( 480+km ) long and on average 40 miles ( 64km ) wide . |
| 27 | But these things ca n't be forced and sweet as singer Elizabeth sounds double-tracked and on helium , she raps as crap as Mr C. And samples . |
| 28 | It would be foolhardy to try and reach Chimneys , alone and on foot , in this weather . |
| 29 | It 's frustrated , urgent and fluent — plus it 's got that feeling of abandon which makes it unpredictable and on edge all the time . |
| 30 | RNP8> Adopted without a vote , Part A of Resolution 44/195 on the UN 's financial crisis urged all members states to pay their assessed contributions in full and on time , and requested those members in arrears to make every effort to pay outstanding contributions . |