Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John learned to drive a tractor recently and can already ride a motor bike and drive a car on private la ? d . |
| 2 | Gallup in yesterday 's Sunday Telegraph put Labour and the Conservatives neck and neck on 37.5 per cent and the Liberal Democrats on 22 . |
| 3 | Other polls ranged from ICM in the Guardian , which put Tories and Labour neck and neck on 38 per cent , to NOP for Newsnight and the Sunday Times , giving Labour a three-point lead . |
| 4 | I fucking watched the programme on that Who Who 's the Greatest ? |
| 5 | That was the assessment that we that we did , it did n't show any effect on that er on the A sixty one critical part through the urban area . |
| 6 | Earlier Robson 's dramatic arrival — five months after his last competitive encounter — had an immediate effect on United 's performance . |
| 7 | in order to allow us to do that examination , I make a recommendation on such erm checking . |
| 8 | Just not quite such lowish light on that er , foreground , but certainly interesting detail there . |
| 9 | It was cast in heavy metal and er it had er sort of a a sole on one e part of it , and a heel on the other part , and then there was a small children 's sole . |
| 10 | Although he traded in Australian citizenship for an American passport for business reasons , he still has a stranglehold on 60 per cent of Australia 's main newspapers . |
| 11 | An i an immediate going out to work on this re remedying the brickwork problem , which is getting , the cracking is significant and , and potentially dangerous at the moment , the full refurbishment of the block , which the grant applications are in for , and the opening er and asking the Recreation Ground Committee to r reexamine the opening of the toilets . |
| 12 | HVX is currently in alpha test on uni-processor RS/6000s , but it will only be delivered for multi-processors , Fowler says , because GCOS 6 applications need the power multi-processors can offer . |
| 13 | Yes I would n't like to say too much about this you know I 'm I 'm only a farmer I 'm no expert on these thi you know just from things I feel really erm . |
| 14 | This process , begun in 1946 with the acclaim for Great Expectations , reached its peak with the 1974 publication of Masterworks of the British Cinema , a book that included the script of Brief Encounter but zealously forbade its readers to praise the man who wrote it : ‘ Brief Encounter , indeed , constitutes almost a declaration of independence on Lean 's part from his fruitful but by 1945 no doubt increasingly constricting association with Coward 's writing . ’ |
| 15 | The 1982 budget has already fallen short of spending targets — thanks to a prime ministerial freeze on 25 per cent of capital spending . |
| 16 | We we think we see eye to eye with the county council on this er provided it is clearly in the the acceptable needs of the district will be met by taking areas of countryside . |
| 17 | During discussions on the type of fabric suitable for ‘ Laura Ashley ’ sheets she stuck to her insistence on 100 per cent cotton . |
| 18 | in the transportation planning committee yesterday , and the , one of the question of opposing them , it was what was going to block , that they , wh wha were they members , gon na get for their pockets and their own patches , and er , I I think , so I mean , I asked a a a councillor , well I asked a question on five per cent for me yesterday , and my response was , yes , precisely . |
| 19 | It puts support for them at 13 per cent ( up five points on last month ) , with Labour in the lead on 41 per cent ( down three ) , SNP on 24 per cent ( down two ) and Conservatives on 21 per cent ( down one ) . |
| 20 | The Chinese are expert at land use : they feed a quarter of the world 's population on seven per cent of its arable land in a country littered with vast deserts and mountain tracts . |
| 21 | DNase I footprinting experiments performed in presence of saturating concentrations of CytR , show that the retarded complex consists of CytR bound to the sequence that has previously been identified as the CytR binding site on larger deoP2 fragments ( 6 ; data not shown ) . |
| 22 | We direct our , directed our input in our meeting on two erm , strands . |
| 23 | A tax on 85 per cent of Social Security benefits paid to upper-income elderly , instead of the current 50 per cent . |
| 24 | ‘ The active marketing that a firm like ours carries out requires a lot of staff and it would be impossible to run a business on 1 per cent fees . |
| 25 | In my view , a although there 's a current debate about this there has not been the fullest public consultation and I would er myself be minded to invoke the er E C directive on this er in order to try and er to make sure that the the public feel they are fully aware of what the proposals are . |
| 26 | She goes , did I put meat on that erm list ? |
| 27 | There 's one at the back on that erm |
| 28 | In their eyes , a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dress , with its known emphasis on 100 per cent natural fibres , together with its cheap price and universality combined a soundness both ecological and ideological . |
| 29 | Yes I like this business of putting your what 's a name on this d with this you know , the glue on . |
| 30 | Aethelred 's parents had been married in 762 , so he will only have been about 11 when he became king on Alhred 's expulsion and those around him must have exercised real power . |