Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West coast route , however , could not be profitable , with 1960s-vintage equipment which cost more to maintain , and it was less reliable than on the East-coast line . |
| 2 | The ventral arm plates are axe shaped to irregularly hexagonal and broadly contiguous except on the tips of the arms . |
| 3 | When seen in hospital she was far less depressed than on the first occasion and did not feel she needed further help . |
| 4 | On the other hand , existence is more placid than on the common law side . |
| 5 | He wore his usual air of meticulously contrived casualness , and the shadow of beard round his by no means negligible jaw was a shade more perceptible than on the previous day . |
| 6 | The treaty imposed more onerous obligations on the Scots than on the French , but in the spring of 1334 Philip VI invited David II to seek refuge in France , and Philip now began to step up the diplomatic pressure on Edward 11I . |
| 7 | Ready stiffened and spongeable fabrics especially made for roller blinds can be bought by the metre , and have the additional advantage of being available in widths up to 175cm ( 69in ) , making joins unnecessary except on the widest of windows . |
| 8 | Revisionist work in this area is less advanced than on the events of 1917 itself , but it has begun to unravel the process which led to the rapid breakdown of the broad popular alliance of October , the metamorphosis of the Bolshevik party , and the transformation in the nature of its power . |
| 9 | In practice , Rameau 's part-writing works perfectly well on period instruments , especially when we recall that at the Paris Opéra there were many more players on the outer than on the inner parts . |
| 10 | SSP is not payable if on the first day of the PIW your employee : |
| 11 | And it 's not always that easy because on the whole , news interviewers are a much tougher breed than the nice gentle Brians of this world who are the disc jockey sitting in a studio with two hours to fill , pile of records , let's get A , B and C in and do a nice ten minute slot with them . |
| 12 | Very large crowds attended on the Friday , although not as vast as on the first day . |
| 13 | Amnesty International 's report that this unholy alliance is responsible for at least 2,500 political killings in the past two years demonstrates that the Colombian authorities are more interested in waging a war on the left than on the drug cartels . |
| 14 | He seemed more brusque and hostile than on the previous day , a man whose nerves were beginning to fray , a man on whom the pressure was mounting and who had decided to exert some pressure of his own . |
| 15 | Although Nizan was in Moscow at the very outset of the Stalinist purges , his gaze was focused less on the national than on the international scene . |
| 16 | The maple veneer ceilings were divided into four panels with designs in the corners ( less elaborate than on the Brush cars ) . |
| 17 | It is also possible that life developed , and if the rate of evolution was about twice as rapid as on the Earth then intelligent beings may have been among the organisms roasted to death as the Sun 's luminosity rose , the small oceans evaporated , and the CO 2 emerged from the rocks . |
| 18 | So the ideal carp bait would be hard when on the hook and melt in the carp 's gut ! |
| 19 | They perhaps entered by the route of Kamchatka and Alaska , where the climate , even now so much milder and more equitable than on the north-east coast of America , might have been warm enough in late Pliocene times to have allowed the migration of these animals . |
| 20 | By contrast , later the next evening , we will find that our fatigue increases very markedly and we will feel much more tired than on the previous evening . |
| 21 | It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold . |
| 22 | Yet no one , it seems , can discover what lies behind Graham 's complaint — a condition which is all the more curious because on the surface his skin , while rather pale , seems quite normal . |
| 23 | The Bax and Bantock have been reissued more than once on LP , but neither has ever sounded so well as on the present reissue . |
| 24 | She reported a general response as good as on the Arsenicum , went on holiday and had to come home from it because her period was again heavy and all she could do was lie down ! |
| 25 | I do not think that British Rail should be given carte blanche to abolish rights of way on every railway track , but where train speeds and frequencies are as great as on the line to which I have referred , we must recognise that the combination of pedestrians and such high-speed trains is deadly . |
| 26 | It brought to his notice the heap of auburn hair and , taking his time , he let his eyes stroll down a pinched but puckish face , breasts which looked firm though on the small side and the rest , as he would guess , in regular working order . |
| 27 | We are impressed when on the way he stands in confrontation with ‘ the greslie terrour ’ of death , ‘ unterrifi 'd ’ ( II . |
| 28 | File handling with BBCBASIC(Z80) is more flexible than on the BBC Micro and different in approach to most other versions of BASIC . |
| 29 | This was no more evident than on the Isle of Wight at the end of 1989 , which seemed to be going backwards despite getting new stock . |
| 30 | If there are ‘ accidents ’ in the garden it is not so important as on the lounge carpet . |