Example sentences of "[subord] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most activity seems to centre on the exhibition space , the Palais de Festival , where on six floors exhibitors display their goods . |
| 2 | Some fifty yards away was a white-washed building surrounded by a stretch of asphalt ; the village school , I was to discover , where on alternate Sundays the minister from Tobermory came over to hold a service . |
| 3 | It has pretty herbaceous borders and an attractive paved herb garden , where on fine mornings breakfast is served . |
| 4 | The hotel 's restaurant enjoys a good reputation , with a lovely first-floor terrace where on fine days you dine overlooking the lake . |
| 5 | He lay still with his eyes open , staring into the darkness that was only half-darkness because this was London and not Suffolk , where on moonless nights the small hours were black as velvet . |
| 6 | It is also true that the phenomenon of German power is not so recognisable inside Germany itself , where on both sides there is a sense of vulnerability and of continuing risk that militates against any revival of chest-beating nationalism . |
| 7 | It is also true that the phenomenon of German power is not so recognisable inside Germany itself , where on both sides there is a sense of vulnerability and of continuing risk that militates against any revival of chest-beating nationalism . |
| 8 | Burdensome as royal taxation was during the war , the clergy were mercifully free of papal taxation except on two occasions . |
| 9 | The paper spoke in general terms about the lack of prewar co-operation , except on technical matters , and the need for some form of international collaboration to eliminate wasteful competition . |
| 10 | In such cases there is a reluctance to part with the house except on impossible terms : on a short lease or without any land to give it a moderate degree of privacy ; or there may be restrictions on the uses that are allowed — community uses only , perhaps , to be financed from public funds , which are not forthcoming . |
| 11 | Already in the first century AD , under the influence of Judaism , Roman Society had begun to introduce a weekly day of rest — unlike ancient Greece where there were not even any school holidays , except on special occasions such as days in honour of Apollo , Poseidon , etc . |
| 12 | The relic is not on view except on special occasions and the greatest of these is the Kandy perehera in the lunar month of Esala in the Buddhist calendar . |
| 13 | The terms of the Act forbade the wearing of political uniforms except on ceremonial occasions . |
| 14 | Although on friendly terms with Matthew Boulton before going to Birmingham , he would not give him the details of a cannon ‘ that the Americans have constructed on a new principle ’ . |
| 15 | I have always had reasonable live-in accommodation ( having inspected it before accepting a position ) and , although on certain days I have worked non-stop , on others I have been very quiet and still received the same salary . |
| 16 | On sites where they are scarce , each is recorded like a small find , although on many sites the sheer quantity of finds makes this impossible . |
| 17 | Their survey of the remuneration of chief executives in the United States reveals that although on average bonuses represent 50 per cent of salary , such bonuses are awarded in ways that are not highly sensitive to performance . |
| 18 | Cotton weavers hardly existed before the 1770s , during which decade they do not seem to have been able to command wages above the low norm of weavers in general , for although on some types of cloth as much as 12s ( 60p ) could be earned , the average , like that of bleachers and dyers , seems to have been around 7s ( 35p ) . |
| 19 | However , the following month the Dalai Lama met with United States President Bush in Washington , although on previous visits to the USA he had not been granted such a meeting ; China made a strong protest to the USA . |
| 20 | There can be no question of seeking , simply as such , to preserve the status quo , although on particular facts that may well be the court 's objective as being in the best interests of the infant . |
| 21 | The subject of Orpheus entrancing the wild beasts , and the familiar association of Orpheus with wheels and the revolution of nature , seems to explain the choice of arrangement in four of the above instances ( although on numerous occasions elsewhere , e.g. Brading , lOW . |
| 22 | The ‘ misery line ’ as it is called-stations from Kennington to Morden dim and cheerless dungeons , trains cancelled with appalling regularity ( there 's a shortage of drivers on the Northern Line , because it is the last to embrace OPO-one person operation-and so the pay is lower than on other lines ) . |
| 23 | The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the profound failure of British law and practice in this regard , concentrating mainly on telephone-tapping rather than on other forms of interception . |
| 24 | At first , the Ottoman taxation system , although it bore more heavily on the Christian peasantry than on other inhabitants of the raya , was not as oppressive as were the arbitrary and often extortionate levies made by the medieval Christian rulers in western and central Europe . |
| 25 | More detailed analysis suggests the press was more successful at influencing assessments of party performance on unemployment than on other issues . |
| 26 | Partisanship was the main influence on Thatcher 's and Kinnock 's scores but not Steel 's or Owen 's ; and even for Thatcher and Kinnock the partisan influence was weaker than on other aspects of their image . |
| 27 | The emphasis is on the vocabulary rather than on other aspects of language and there is a tendency to focus on the high style . |
| 28 | By 1925 there were three trains each way , the last ones on Wednesdays and Saturdays running later than on other days . |
| 29 | The thermal properties of diamond are seen to make it an attractive substrate material for chips that get excessively hot , enabling silicon circuits to be packed much more tightly than on other substrates . |
| 30 | Over such periods high growth rates , and rapid improvements in living standards , are dependent upon an increase in productive capacity rather than on temporary changes in the level of demand . |