Example sentences of "[adj] on [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public profile of the CBI 's director general mainly derives from his willingness to pronounce in public on issues of political interest , his fluency and persuasiveness in doing so and the fact that he can claim to speak for British industry . |
| 2 | It was not unusual in more buoyant times to see dishes like this on menus at £5-plus . |
| 3 | I learnt this on holidays with my father . |
| 4 | The deaths had also recently occurred of Mrs. R.B. Heathcote , a Governor from 1949 to 1974 , who left a legacy of £500 to the School , with instructions to spend the annual income from this on books for the Library , and of Professor Sir Frederick Williams , Old Stopfordian . |
| 5 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 6 | Joint authorship in an author 's first paper may be justifiable on grounds of inexperience , but the Science Citation Index ( SCI ) policy of indexing under the first author only will fail to identify the output of Ph D research if the researcher is not named first . |
| 7 | It is thoroughly bone-chilling on nights of the full moon when there are cloudless skies . |
| 8 | Perched on bonnets of cars , smoking and chattering non-stop , they were getting high on tins of diet Coke . |
| 9 | Most , most criminals do n't want to get caught but there are the odd exceptions who are a bit idiotic er but we erm they 're very rare and usually high on drugs on something like that , but we 're just your ordinary sort of down and out type criminal who wants to break in some way . |
| 10 | That needs prophets who are usually stoned , which unless you choose to think that means they are high on drugs in an ecstatic vision , means , they suffer before the words become reality . |
| 11 | Currie ( 1988 , in litt. ) has also remarked on the presence of wind-blown sand high on hills at Cnoc an Fhithich ( NF6504 ) and Ben Eoligarry ( NF7007 ) , both Barra ; on Beinn Sleibhe , Berneray ( NF9283 ) ; and on slopes above Traigh an Taoibh Thuath , Northton , Harris . |
| 12 | Leconte , with tears of joy streaming down his face , and Noah , were all taken shoulder high on laps of honour and Noah then led them , conga style , around the court while singing his hit record , ‘ Saga Africa ’ . |
| 13 | The first cases heard by the special courts had been on Sept. 6 , involving charges of financial irregularities against three former ministers , Jehangir Badar ( whose case was dismissed on Sept. 12 on grounds of insufficient evidence ) , Khwaja Ahmed Tariq Rahim , and Ahmed Khan Maneka . |
| 14 | The club will meet weekly on Mondays from 7.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Bordon 's community arts centre until the new village hall off the A325 is built , probably in the autumn . |
| 15 | Departures : Weekly on Mondays from Bangkok . |
| 16 | Departures : Weekly on Thursdays from Bangkok . |
| 17 | With England leading 4–3 on penalties after James Pollock , Darren Caskey , Alan Thompson and Chris Bart-Williams had scored Watson denied Mexico with a stunning save from their captain Juan Salis . |
| 18 | Hundreds of amendments , some on matters of substance but the vast majority on points of detail , were tabled . |
| 19 | Even the two hurdle races were light on entries with 21 for the maiden and 24 for the handicap . |
| 20 | For more detailed discussion see e.g. Mühlhäusler 1986 , Romaine 1988 , Todd 1990 ; also Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 on Creoles in particular . |
| 21 | Even this information , in the absence of other data , will not provide any indication of when any gene flow Staiger ( 1957 , in English ) described a numerical polymorphism in chromosome number between enclaves of N. lapillus on shores near Roscoff in Brittany . |
| 22 | This might be relevant for National Curriculum history Attainment Target 2 on interpretations of history , for instance . |
| 23 | The government could also be tougher on benefits for invalidity and long-term sickness , whose claimants have multiplied even though national health has improved , and on payments to lone parents , who have too little incentive to look for work once their children reach school age . |
| 24 | The Home Secretary sought to justify placing the burden of disproof on defendants by remarking that it is ‘ in common with other statutory defences of this kind ’ ( H.C . |
| 25 | The items were n't greatly different on scores between they had a little graph . |
| 26 | During prenatal existence , a safe environment is provided by the mother 's uterus but , from the moment of birth , a baby becomes instantly exposed to all the hazards in the external environment and is totally dependent on adults for the provision of a safe environment in which to thrive and survive . |
| 27 | Young children are also to a very great extent dependent on adults for their safety . |
| 28 | In the same way , we resist the idea that we are always dependent on others to a greater or lesser degree ; we find it hard to accept total dependence , and we do not ( often ) choose it for ourselves or for others . |
| 29 | AN IDEOLOGUE dependent on others for ideas and a power broker with no real authority of his own , Chen Boda became one of China 's most feared and then reviled political hatchet men thanks to one all-important trait — his unflinching loyalty to Mao Tse-tung . |
| 30 | Without question , babies are totally dependent on others for the maintenance of a safe environment and require to be protected from accidents , fire , infection and pollution . |