Example sentences of "[adj] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this section , I have argued that the inductivist is wrong on two counts . |
| 2 | ‘ Wrong on three counts , ’ said a gruff voice from the door . |
| 3 | I made it clear on 27 November that we intend to bring forward proposals for Sunday trading once the legal position is clear . |
| 4 | He made clear on 27 November what he felt was the best action for him to take in his capacity as a Law Officer . |
| 5 | The pattern is clear on one side but worn on the other . |
| 6 | Is the Leader of the House aware that the Prime Minister also made the position categorically clear on 6 April , when he said : ’ No honest Government could give a categorical assurance that they would not increase VAT . |
| 7 | That Castro had come to regard the Centre-Left as an obstacle to the course he wanted the revolution to pursue was made clear on 19 October , when he warned , ‘ It would be better if those who prefer to remain on the borderline in these hours … become enemies ; that is , they would do more damage as companions than enemies ’ ( Hoy ( newspaper of the PSP ) , 21 October 1959 , p. 3 , in González : 1968 , p. 51 ) . |
| 8 | The Commonwealth Institute , London , is the venue for a conference on Risk assessment of hazardous substances — chemical and microbiological on 19–20 May 1992 . |
| 9 | They had an hour to get back to the rendezvous with their submarine when the storm strengthened , tossing them high on one wave before they slithered off its back to meet the next great sea , all the time in danger of broaching-to across the waves that could then roll them over . |
| 10 | Most of the women who are high on one measure are high on the other , and those who are low tend to show the same symmetry . |
| 11 | There are also the exciting poses that come at the end of some of Ashton 's pas de deux as the two characters declare their love , for example , when Oberon cradles Titania in his arms at the end of The Dream and , even more excitingly , when Colas lifts Lise high on one arm it the end of their dance in Act II of La Fille Mai Gardée as if to crown her queen of the harvest |
| 12 | delirious On five pernod and |
| 13 | If so , they never found it ; William died intestate on 4 March and Letters of Administration were granted to Ernie , the eldest son ; the gross value of the estate was just over £564 , with the net value of the personal estate standing at £43 12s. 4d . |
| 14 | Other items needed are : some plastic sandwich bags ( with wire-ties ) ; a roll of brown or black paper , smooth and glossy on one side at least ; a desk-lamp with a 25 watt bulb ; sticky tape ( Sellotape ) ; a small jar ; materials for making the support for the funnel ( see over ) ; some paper tissues ; a trowel ; a medium-sized water-colour paint-brush ; a hand-lens . |
| 15 | I wrote to a prospective customer of the OALDCE 3/e Electronic on 19 May and faxed to you his letter in which he asked for a copy of the tape suitable for running on an AT&T machine . |
| 16 | In the latest housing investment programme returns , the 10 councils reporting the highest percentage of their council house stock empty on 1 April 1991 were Liverpool |
| 17 | VAT will not be due if the vessel is a pleasure craft over eight years old on 1 January 1993 , or when the VAT due is negligible ( for UK purposes it will not be due where the vessel is worth less than £4,000 ) . |
| 18 | The old rascal is still very much alive and kicking — he is 330 years old on 9 May this year — and looks forward to several more centuries of roguery yet ! |
| 19 | Both sets of rules for the domestic knockout competitions include the same addendum , which is anomalous on two counts . |
| 20 | He denied reports that he had laid down conditions for the withdrawal of his resignation , and said that the inquiry was " not dependent on one person " and would go on . |
| 21 | The prophylactic programmes outlined above are relatively costly in terms of drugs and labour but are currently the only methods available on farms where the enterprise is heavily dependent on one animal species . |
| 22 | ‘ The story is not dependent on one character . |
| 23 | With wild cats it ensures that the animals do not become totally dependent on one kind of prey . |
| 24 | With promises of continuous association , transaction costs can be reduced especially when subcontractors are heavily dependent on one source of orders . |
| 25 | The idea behind this strategy was ‘ to spread the investment risk ’ so the company would not be ‘ dependent on one technology , one market ’ . |
| 26 | The value then of a political product ( produced of course by the professionals in the political field ) is dependent on two factors : ( 1 ) the symbolic capital of the political agent and his/her party ( political-symbolic capital includes the holding of party posts and the holding of local and less major national offices ; its maximization entails hyperconformity to social norms ) and ( 2 ) the extent to which these political symbols ( Bourdieu likens them to ‘ signifiers ’ ) corresponds to the interests and central meanings ( ‘ signifieds ’ ) of stratified consumers in the social . |
| 27 | This is fallacious on two grounds . |
| 28 | In the summer of 1918 he began to devote more time to the club in between duties at the arms factory in Barnbow , but , perhaps sensing that trouble was brewing , he suddenly resigned as secretary-manager on 16 December to go into full-time industrial management with Joseph Watson & Sons at the Olympia oil and cake works in Selby . |
| 29 | Nana remained seated on her stool in the dark front room , below the curling photograph of Queen Elizabeth that was pinned to the shelf that carried packets of Albion sugar , brown on one side , white on the other . |
| 30 | winner Honda Airbag Initiative Honda is showing the way with driver 's side airbags fitted as standard on 13 models of its line-up |