Example sentences of "[adv] on the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly constrained by muscles mostly in the grip of rigor mortis , the zombies advanced inexorably on the few remaining Marines . |
| 2 | There used to be a place who , place opposite on the same side as the the White Horse that eh , was selling plants , but do n't like that naked fence at all . |
| 3 | The stair-well in this wing indicates an upper storey which presumably would have been much on the same plan . |
| 4 | Powerboating is run much on the same line as cars … the pilots have to qualify in practising … |
| 5 | When you have finished your interviews you should leave yourself time , not necessarily on the same day , to make an unhurried and carefully considered decision . |
| 6 | Its growth was to cause a storm of protest in the next century from archbishops less inclined to travel than Sigeric ; but we need not doubt that it arose because Sigeric and his like were delighted to have an excuse to go on pilgrimage , and the diary he has left of his movements dwells especially on the many churches in Rome worth a pilgrim 's attention . |
| 7 | The share price of the 18% of Vestel quoted on the Istanbul stock exchange is climbing slowly , but is still 40% down on the all time high . |
| 8 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |
| 9 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 10 | In the six months to the end of July the group made a profit of £1.18million — 4.4 per cent down on the same period last year . |
| 11 | The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion . |
| 12 | March sales at 143,115 were 15.2 p.c. down on the same period a year ago , with Rover showing an alarming 45 p.c. slide . |
| 13 | Further down on the same side are the remains of Foxholes Side Lock , which served Foxholes Basin , now filled in. the banks hereabouts are in a poor state of repair and restoration has been in progress between here and the m62 Trans-Pennine Motorway bridge . |
| 14 | The revenues of both companies were well down on the same month in 1991 , showing a large proportion of their sales coming form the cheaper ranges . |
| 15 | The cost accounts will therefore be closed down on the same date . |
| 16 | Sexual offences are down on the same period last year by 31pc . |
| 17 | Perhaps on the same erm pheasant . |
| 18 | The studios in Gallowgate with Ken Currie , Keith Mackintyre , Martin Caine and myself all on the same floor . |
| 19 | The studios in Gallowgate with Ken Currie , Keith Mackintyre , Martin Caine and myself all on the same floor . |
| 20 | Crucial to the conviction was evidence from Pederick , who had , at his own trial , admitted planting the bomb and further claimed at Anderson 's trial that he had done so on the latter 's instructions . |
| 21 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 22 | In challenging the idea of a natural separation of spheres , the nineteenth century feminist movement took up two major positions : first , that women wishing to enter the public sphere should be able to do so on the same terms as men , and second , that women 's domestic talents and virtues should be extended to the wider sphere beyond the home . |
| 23 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 24 | More or less on the same lines having a point of view and putting it across without wavering , do n't erm |
| 25 | but they 've changed now , they 're more or less on the same basis as the U R C |
| 26 | It is easy to become disheartened if the dace fail to respond after an hour or so , but stick at it , keeping the feed going in on the same line . |
| 27 | The new Cabinet , sworn in on the same day , contained no members from Fujimori 's politically inexperienced Change 90 ( Cambio 90 ) movement . |
| 28 | The Portuguese , Greek and Italians are in on the same thing too . |
| 29 | The group 's sound engineer , Mike Stout , deputised and also stood in on the few occasions Solowka chose to attend Leeds United matches instead of gigs . |
| 30 | For example , in the case of the West Midlands RMC , which was originally planned to have consisted of North Staffordshire and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , it is now based only on the former ; and , in contrast , the London RMC , which was originally to have been based on the Polytechnic of Central London , now encompasses five additional institutions . |