Example sentences of "[adj] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the holder of a valid certificate in a form supplied by the Secretary of State , containing the information required by it , and signed by a medical practitioner to the effect that it is inadvisable on medical grounds for him to wear a seatbelt ; |
| 2 | Bradley , while still cool towards the British on certain issues , agreed that in the event of war some Anglo-American " equivalent " of the Combined Chiefs of Staff of the Second World War would be necessary . |
| 3 | They are among the most primitive on bony fish , though their skeleton consists largely of cartilage . |
| 4 | Manzoku and Cool for Cats share a common start before diverging into separate lines ( to describe them as grooves would be a touch too expressive on either side of the crag 's blunt nose . |
| 5 | Professor Colin Clark , a distinguished modern economist , is equally unequivocal on this point . |
| 6 | Gordon Howell is unequivocal on this point : ‘ Above all other industries , information technology can not be self-serving . |
| 7 | The New Testament is hardly unequivocal on this matter . |
| 8 | In the morning , for example , one person gave evidence for the plaintiff , and a second was cross-examined on that evidence . |
| 9 | A third person gave evidence for the defendant , and a fourth person was cross-examined on that evidence . |
| 10 | ‘ I shall be demanding that we have a full explanation from Department of Trade and Industry officials when they appear before the public accounts committee to be cross-examined on this report on December 4 . ’ |
| 11 | erm erm Brian calls us experts at the beginning of the programme erm everyone listening knows we ca n't all be experts of course on all these things , we 're just sort of amateurishly trying to be sensible on these questions . |
| 12 | This caution about tackling long-term problems , though very unpopular with the politicians and an impatient press , was obviously justifiable on practical grounds , so long as the war went on . |
| 13 | Ken Rutherford 's return for Greatbatch , the most discussed of the changes , was clearly justifiable on recent form , and was welcomed everywhere except in the Crowe camp . |
| 14 | If , as will be considered next , companies serve the public interest by seeking to maximise their profits , then the shareholders ' rights may be justifiable on functional grounds , that is , by virtue of their role in securing the efficient operation of the business . |
| 15 | The yellow brain fungus Tremella mesenterica is conspicuous on dead twigs and branches at this time . |
| 16 | This feature becomes more conspicuous on distal arm segments . |
| 17 | Railways were also built on Antigua , Barbados , Haiti , and Trinidad , but stations were always rudimentary on these islands . |
| 18 | There is therefore no elaboration in the forum proceedings on hierarchical directives to their faithful on constitutional matters . |
| 19 | At first it seemed as if it had happened to someone else , and entertaining on that merit alone . |
| 20 | It 's entertaining on both levels |
| 21 | You may believe what you choose but I ask you to accept that you are wrong on that point . |
| 22 | They are wrong on all counts . |
| 23 | In this section , I have argued that the inductivist is wrong on two counts . |
| 24 | Hull supporters , who have never seen their side successful at Wembley , have a list of what went wrong on each occasion . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman has it precisely wrong on European policy . |
| 26 | Our instincts are wrong on this occasion ! |
| 27 | They are just as wrong on this occasion as they were on the previous one . |
| 28 | He would have been fighting blindly if he started proceedings without seeing the maintenance and servicing records of the fork-lift truck to see whether it had gone wrong before and what went wrong on this occasion . |
| 29 | The earlier cases of Mills v Dunham [ 1891 ] 1 Ch 576 and Haynes v Doman [ 1899 ] 2 Ch 13 are now wrong on this point . |
| 30 | There 's also got wrong on this side . |