Example sentences of "[adv] on [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think mostly erm , I think that the audits have gone erm , very well actually erm , people are following the procedures and they are at times , they are a little bit slipping up erm , enquiries seem to be an area and filling in the enquiry form properly and making sure that it is copied to the divisional enquiry file erm , a few people fell down on that erm , but in most cases the procedures were followed virtually to a letter . |
| 2 | Having posted shining results for years , Compaq recently warned that its second-quarter sales will be 15% down on 1990 's figure , and that profits will tumble by close to 80% . |
| 3 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 4 | Oh he goes trotting along on that er little mechanical thing |
| 5 | What is a safe exercise in moving together on firm névé snow one week can require strenuous and laborious pitching on brick-hard ice the next . |
| 6 | But there we are thus on such er tiny threads do entire lives hang . |
| 7 | We now have close on fifty per cent . |
| 8 | And it was always on that er tramcar , whichever er suburban district they were leaving , was always a packed car . |
| 9 | Under the authorship of one of the Institute 's latest recruits , public transport travel consultant Barry S. Doe MCIT , ‘ Tickets , Trains and Timetables : The Impact of Privatisation on the Rail Network ’ warns that the country is in danger of ending up with an airline style ticketing system in which passengers wishing to travel outwards on one franchisee 's train but return home on another 's may have to pay a supplement up to the value of the full ‘ standard ’ fare . |
| 10 | Last year , Britain 's clothing exports were worth £2 billion ( 20 per cent up on 1989 's figures ) . |
| 11 | And er yes i also , I would think , it 's a little unfortunate this chap happened to have his hand up on that er post there , yo you know , it 's a little bit er ungainly , it 's not sort of a very elegant sort of po I 'm not su suggesting he should pose for you , but I think , maybe had you waited until perhaps he moved his hand out of the way , it might have been a better erm composition . |
| 12 | Erm but picking up on that erm for instance I mean er first first impressions are the most important . |
| 13 | Er sometimes I get some muddled up on that erm V A T sometimes . |
| 14 | Am I right in saying Women 's Institute , do n't they go round and checking up on sorry erm footpaths ? |
| 15 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 16 | Fire broke out on X 's land . |
| 17 | Immunohistochemical detection of the bromodeoxyuridine incorporation was carried out on 4 µm sections . |
| 18 | I 'll buy you out on that Ga . |
| 19 | Now we had quite a problem trying to obtain erm a bottle size the two litre size at a reasonable price when we set out on this er thing . |
| 20 | It 's easy to look at these young hooligans on the street , as they are perceived by so many , without understanding why they are like it , and I think it would help everyone to understand , and maybe we could have some action to work towards supplying the need for these youngsters , because I belief if something could be done for them when they 're sixteen and just starting out on this erm sort of sub-culture life that they get into so quickly , if people could give them maximum help at this stage then they could grow into being responsible erm satisfied adults . |
| 21 | Cos I 'm certainly not holding back on bloody er jobs now , got ta get charged . |
| 22 | Erm voting patterns , not much to say really on this erm if you want to read up on this there 's a little sect rather interesting section in Burn on this in his chapter on local government elections . |
| 23 | The Baronne leaned forward , her eyes fixed piercingly on Sabine 's face . |
| 24 | Can I also say that the erm the fear expressed about Woolwich , I believe to be fairly well founded Woolwich building , a Woolwich er , Building Society had been on erm , entered into a long time ago on this erm and the letter that was read out at Potter Street area committee from Woolwich indicated that they had n't yet decided whether they would proceed and er I think is I 've talked to the publican since they have promised us an answer this week er we are intending , we have spoken , Dermot 's also spoken to our managing director we are confident we will have an answer from this week and I have to tell you that I think the answer will either no , or it will be so hazy that we 'll need to take some action and make a decision . |
| 25 | Mm I think er what this stuff that I 'm er knocking together here into a pack for each of you is a step in the right direction , I think Mary 's done a , a good job here on this er |
| 26 | You can not harvest a durian , but the first person to reach a fallen fruit , even on another 's land , may claim it . |
| 27 | er the audience contact when you were actually stood up in the front and you 're there on your own just getting a little bit of feedback from the audience itself er does help and then the playback which erm I think it helped a lot to see how you faired particularly on that fir first attempt what areas you had to concentrate on to rectify your problems . |
| 28 | Sorry , just one other point on W O P there , I may have got it wrong , did you say earlier on that er , that if you get H I V , so the W O P benefit is n't payable , what about the al , did we say the allocation of W O P will still continue ? |
| 29 | A Sunday Telegraph poll of polls , calculated from six surveys published today , shows Labour ahead on 39.6 per cent , the Tories on 37.5 per cent and Liberal Democrats on 19.3 per cent . |
| 30 | Mori for the Times put Labour one point ahead on 39 per cent , with 38 for the Tories and 20 for the Liberal Democrats . |