Example sentences of "[adv] on [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sessions would run from 10am to around 4.30pm Tuesday to Thursday and 10am to around 2pm on Fridays throughout the hearing . |
| 2 | For those who might be interested in such peculiarities it can be recorded that this book was written entirely on aeroplanes in the course of a trip to North America : London to New York ( British Airways flight 177 ) ; New York to Los Angeles ( American Airlines flight 3 ) ; Los Angeles to Toronto ( Air Canada flight 792 ) ; Toronto to Edmonton ( Air Canada flight 613 ) ; Edmonton to London via Toronto ( Air Canada flights 126 and 856 ) . |
| 3 | Volkenstein ( 1959 ) criticized the theory , mainly on the grounds that it concentrates entirely on barriers to rotation , neglecting intermolecular cohesion , and that it is not applicable to low-molecular-weight polymers , which also form glasses . |
| 4 | The islanders inhabit the coastal strip only , and subsist almost entirely on royalties from the mining . |
| 5 | When Lord Addison was made Minister of Health he concentrated entirely on methods of financing council housing , and under the ill-conceived Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919 he guaranteed local authorities all losses over that covered by a penny rate . |
| 6 | To maintain this focus , the book does not dwell much on forms of expert determination where the decision is not made by a third party or the decision is interim . |
| 7 | The plan drew wide support from schools , universities and industry , but was turned down flat by the Department of Education , apparently on instructions from Downing Street . |
| 8 | However , it is common ( especially on computers with short word-lengths ) for a pair of consecutive store locations to be allocated to each floating-point value , to allow increased Precision . |
| 9 | Paramount , for example , as well as providing Korda with the money he needed for his first English films , made a deal with Wilcox 's British and Dominions company to supply them with 12 pictures annually on budgets of £30,000 apiece . |
| 10 | For Mozambique , he suggests that donors redirect ten-fifteen percent of the 200–300 million dollars they spend annually on salaries for their own personnel to pay Mozambican public service salaries . |
| 11 | This would enable each exchange to trade its own local products , with international or pan-European contracts being traded perhaps on screens within the EC . |
| 12 | It is difficult to program naturally with such a restricted set of conditional jumps , so it is usual to provide the ability to jump on any of four accumulator conditions zero , non-zero , positive ( including zero ) , and negative — and perhaps on combinations of these conditions . |
| 13 | The first of these men was Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre , founder of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana ( APRA ) , who initially established contact with the Comintern and whose model was in fact not dissimilar to that proposed by the Soviet theorists , although he differed greatly on questions of strategy and tactics . |
| 14 | ’ Discretionary ’ means what it says : it is not our policy to intervene or even to lean gently on authorities in this matter . |
| 15 | They buy the records and the video , so on days like this I must come out and see them and say ‘ Thank you ’ because I am in their debt . |
| 16 | But he had locked them in last night and he had done so on orders from the Gruagach so they did not dare rely on him . |
| 17 | Indeed , it was the ‘ anti-social ’ focus of the obscenity test which had proved to be its singular virtue , since when juries drew the line , they did so on grounds of morals , not manners . |
| 18 | Many more women sought separations after the passing of the 1886 Act , which allowed them to do so on grounds of the husband 's unwillingness or inability to maintain , although in practice the legislation provided them with little material assistance . |
| 19 | Kenney and Florida ( 1988 : 132 ) note that ‘ downtime ’ is considerably less on machines in Japan than in the United States ( the figures cited are 15 per cent compared to 50 per cent downtime ) . |
| 20 | It shows almost half the people are spending less on clothes for themselves , three out of 10 spend less on food , about a quarter find it hard to pay regular bills on time , and 43 per cent plan to spend less this Christmas . |
| 21 | This sentiment was based less on perceptions of military inferiority than on an awareness of economic vulnerability , and a sense that , because of history and geographical isolation , Japan 's interests differed from those of other industrial nations . |
| 22 | One thing is certain , that the last Lord Derwentwater , not long before his death , was frequently at Keswick , but according to Green it is not equally certain , that he then ( as is affirmed by some ) inhabited the house upon the island ; on the contrary , it rather seems that his being at Keswick , was only on visits from his family place at Dilston . |
| 23 | Her father was as fierce as she had described — but only on matters of religion , when his face and his whole bearing would change . |
| 24 | It is through the study of quartered coats , as displayed in cathedrals , county archives and other reference sources that the local historian may glean much information not only on families of note ( should textual information not exist or be imprecise ) , but how tenure and ownership of estates changed hands in days long or recently past . |
| 25 | Give up smoking : You can smoke only on flights of more than two hours , and soon smoking will be banned on all domestic flights . |
| 26 | There was also the effect that the existence of this $75 m. fund , to be spent at the discretion of the President , would have not only on departments of the US administration but on foreign governments as well . |
| 27 | This depended not only on variations in rate poundage but also on rateable values , which varied from one part of the country to another . |
| 28 | More sophisticated and complex computer models of the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ can be constructed to produce precise estimates for the future , but given the many untestable assumptions of ‘ epidemic ’ models ( particularly those based only on figures for known users during a relatively short time period , as in the present case ) , we did not attempt such an exercise . |
| 29 | In the Forest of Dean the warden levied cheminage , not only on loads of wood , but also on sea coal and iron ore carried ‘ through the forest towards Gloucester ’ . |
| 30 | Comparison of age adjusted and fully adjusted rate ratios , however , were based only on subjects with no missing data . |