Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Break-up of a marriage can have a bitterly ill-effect on the children . |
| 2 | Not only are the most disadvantaged on the receiving end of most crime , argues Harrison , they also have to put up with the heaviest police presence . |
| 3 | Marron hair pulled back and clipped over her ears , falling freely behind ; lack of make-up bestowing a pallor which dramatised her generous brown eyes ; petite mouth and jaunty nose , set rather low on the tapered oval of her face , thus emphasising the curved hauteur of her forehead . |
| 4 | Once again , Botham won the toss and chose to field as the pitch looked as though it would be most lively on the first morning , and for the second time his decision could not really be criticized . |
| 5 | Perhaps the banks will be the most insistent on the provision of certain defined management accounting information on a regular basis . |
| 6 | They were most marked on the heavy clays that overlie most of the Midlands , which produced good pastures . |
| 7 | The area of education most dependent on the number of births is compulsory schooling . |
| 8 | And it argues convincingly that only by giving economic and political power back to the poor — the people most dependent on the natural environment for their day-to-day livelihoods — can the world defend its future . |
| 9 | Pin making was the manufacture most dependent on the labour of children . |
| 10 | This attractive model of urban development has proved remarkably elusive on the ground . |
| 11 | The Annabelle Hotel is arguably the most luxurious on the island with a heated outdoor pool , health club and 24-hour room service . |
| 12 | The producer is wholly dependent on the immediate market , but within its terms his work remains under his own direction , at all stages , and he can see himself , in this sense , as independent . |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is based on the Labour party 's ideological dislike of people who are not wholly dependent on the state ? |
| 14 | What an indictment it is that people wholly dependent on the state pension , with no other source of income , are now almost automatically eligible for income support . |
| 15 | The dependency of the attribute ‘ unit-points ’ is transitive ( via ‘ status ’ ) and not wholly dependent on the key attribute ‘ module ’ . |
| 16 | Most of its 380,000 population is economically dependent on the Black Sea Fleet , but it is clear that many have run out of patience with the arguments . |
| 17 | The mass of politically independent States were economically dependent on the world economy , for parliaments could not tame capital : |
| 18 | A refusal by an undertaking in a dominant position to supply another undertaking which may be economically dependent on the first undertaking . |
| 19 | In the agrarian south and east of the continent , the character of society was dominated by two classes of very different size : a body of wealthy landowners , still often enjoying the prestige and privilege and sometimes the legal and noble status of its feudal forebears , and a huge mass of subordinate peasants , some of whom might be freeholders , but by and large economically dependent on the landowners . |
| 20 | Here is a character economically dependent on the opposite sex , and who has instant and sole recourse to her vagina as her bargaining counter in negotiations with these two men . |
| 21 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 22 | Now the thing that seems to be the most interesting on the er face value of it , is er how it 's going to affect fuel consumption and transport , and he is saying that they 're considering whether further changes should be made in the taxation of er fuel and vehicles . |
| 23 | But a report by William Ault , Cleveland County Council 's Director of Environment , Development and Transportation , says the planned development is highly unsuitable on the proposed site . |
| 24 | Although they own over five hundred goats the price of fleeces fell so low on the market they could n't afford to sell them . |
| 25 | And one suspects it might be back in the days of the nineteen fifties , nineteen sixties when the labour party opposed anything at local level , of course , but at local level that might tend towards helping people to be upwardly mobile on the grounds that upwardly mobile people stop voting labour . |
| 26 | A strange relationship , it was built on love and hate , uniquely tender on one side , and unspeakably cruel on the other . |
| 27 | My Lord Mayor , I must confess to being quite surprised by the incredible naivety and complete lack of understanding that 's obviously rampant on the benches opposite with most of the items we 've dealt with today . |
| 28 | Clarissa opened her door and said she was sorry for being so hopeless on the telephone . |
| 29 | The rain certainly did come down during the night , it was so loud on the window the noise made it difficult to sleep . |
| 30 | Clearly , the dust must have been far less mobile on the lunar farside . |