Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible for employees on housing visits to begin the process of buying property here and also arrange for service flats to be ready for their arrival in Britain . |
| 2 | This is not possible for patients on rate-slowing drugs such as beta blockers , ACE inhibitors and calcium blockers . |
| 3 | For example , if the price of a June ST3 contract is 90.50 , this means that an interest rate of 9.5 per cent ( 100.00 — 90.50 ) can be locked-in for three-months on a June sterling time deposit . |
| 4 | She passed Seb Smith 's house one evening in the spring , taking a new route when exercising Midnight , and stopped to look over the hedge ( too high for nosers on foot ) into the Smith grounds . |
| 5 | But the book should be useful and popular for courses on microbial biochemistry/genetics and the molecular biology of prokaryotes . |
| 6 | Her strong legs were capable of taking her clear of pursers on the level or going uphill . |
| 7 | Notably free of movies on white heterosexual themes , the programme includes Danny Thompson 's Public Enemy/Private Friends , a good-natured if thin Brixton-set comedy about three ranting rap-type youths desperately trying to find their lost ticket to a Public Enemy concert ; Cheryl Farthing 's Rosebud , an effective but slightly posey awakening-of-lesbian-desires item with an appealing cast and silly fantasy touches , and Mark Nash 's Between Two Worlds , about a gay florist in psychoanalysis . |
| 8 | Twenty-nine months after acquiring HIV-1 infection , he remains free of symptoms on zidovudine and has 494/L ( 34.2% ) CD4 lymphocytes . |
| 9 | Of these there were 57 volumes under the heading Religious & Moral including works by Doddridge , Bunyan , Calvin , Knox , Dick , Beecher , Butler and D'Aubigne ; 19 volumes Scientific with books on Natural Philosophy , Geology , Astronomy , Agricultural Chemistry , Phrenology , The Art of Cooking and an Ornithological Guide to Shetland . |
| 10 | This passage illustrates in a vivid way the fact that the arrangements the judges have made with the Inns are merely the machinery through which the judges perform what remains a judicial duty , and also how decisions on rights of audience are different from decisions on call to the Bar . |
| 11 | The South Tees nurses will be particularly interested in findings on the use of narcotics in very young babies . |
| 12 | She simply was not interested in problems on a global scale , but saw events in relation to her own family or , specifically , her own daughter . |
| 13 | A gardening magazine might be interested in advertorials on growing certain types of plant on different soils or on dealing with pests . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The fees would be paid direct to institutions on students ' behalf by local education authorities . |
| 16 | They buy from manufacturers , store and subsequently distribute direct to customers on a nation-wide basis . |
| 17 | These are driven direct by gears on the radio-controlled servo output spindles . |
| 18 | I know it 's him , this man — what was his name ? — Luke Denner , that 's got you so worked up ; you 've not been the same since those few days in the country and that plan of his has been sitting on your desk untouched for days on end . |
| 19 | The male penguin might just have calculated that if you 're stuck in the Antarctic for years on end then the cleverest thing to do is stay at home minding the egg while you send the female off to catch fish in the freezing waters . |
| 20 | As Barker ( 1981 ) has shown , this combination is typical of thinkers on the new Conservative right . |
| 21 | The Guérignys were simple people , as fearful of strangers on their land as they were of foxes . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the I R A have admitted a serious of attacks on so-called soft targets in Britain , including yesterday 's shooting of an army sergeant outside a careers office in north London . |
| 23 | Chilling the petiole of the wounded cotyledon to 3°C has little effect on the electrical signal recorded on the petiole of leaf 1 ( Fig. 1 c ) , a result that is consistent with observations on action potential conduction at low temperature in cold-blooded animals and plants . |
| 24 | City Diary : High-flier with feet on the ground |
| 25 | Computing had the third highest percentage in work , but was average in terms on those still looking at the end of their courses . |
| 26 | Eva and Esther were prominent in campaigns on behalf of pit brow workers , flower-sellers , and barmaids , but their greatest success was in attracting large numbers of women from the working class to the suffrage movement . |
| 27 | The North Viking Graben is ‘ nothing new for BP ’ in terms of its geological characteristics , which are similar to play-types on the UKCS . |
| 28 | Concepts of ‘ superior ’ and ‘ inferior ’ are central to discourses on ‘ beauty ’ . |
| 29 | Money from the fund was payable to depositors on the insolvency of a recognised bank or licensed institution . |
| 30 | In February 1991 , they were released , but are still subject to restrictions on freedom of movement and association . |