Example sentences of "on [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ladies and gentlemen I would like to move a very small amendment to do a the second a membership on on item four on where it says up to three represent the area etcetera erm now the which I am currently a member of includes three libraries erm which are and and there are in fact five County Councils involved in the area of those three libraries when in fact Bushey has its own Bushey and there was a but I would like to see |
| 2 | ‘ What better note to end it on than to win in a team situation and when you are playing for your country ? |
| 3 | But already more is going on than first appears . |
| 4 | There 's more going on than just the Cretaceous collapse . |
| 5 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 6 | Believe me , it is far harder at such times to sit and look on than to be in the middle , ’ he told Sunday Express readers . |
| 7 | The second question is easier to speculate on than the first . |
| 8 | But with a trio there 's the space for the dynamics , and you can be much quicker to react to what 's going on than , say , The Beautiful South or somethin' — like where there 's nineteen people and they all look like they 're playing off charts … ’ |
| 9 | And suddenly I realised that there was a whole lot more going on than I 'd even thought of . |
| 10 | He imagined a policeman with nothing more to go on than a tiny , once brightly embroidered , label , a square inch of bloodstained , earth-stained , half-rotted cloth , hawking it round boutiques in Kilburn and West Hendon , narrowing the field , finally coming to an importers ' warehouse … |
| 11 | Because papers and cards do not move about , and also accept adhesives easily , they are much easier to work on than fabric , and so are perfect for beginners , as well as anyone looking for different and unusual effects . |
| 12 | The Parthenon in Athens contained a famous gold and ivory statue of Athene and the Parthenon must have been even hotter when the roof was on than it is today . |
| 13 | And Legal & General shareholders have better times to look back on than most . |
| 14 | But we can see that he had something more to work on than the Roman thirst for gold . |
| 15 | So it 's just not true that we know less about what 's going on than we know about our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 16 | As always there is much more going on than its seems , and some bright new star of the genre is likely to emerge out of nowhere . |
| 17 | As it is , Rebecca 's quite right : if I 'm to prove my innocence in all this , I 'm sure the police will want something more to go on than just my conjecture . ’ |
| 18 | On his first day , Monday , 1 February , Terry arrived at the building — which was recently opened by Sir Ralph Robins , chairman of Rolls-Royce plc — to find there was more going on than a usual day 's work ; they were cleaning up in the aftermath of a fire . |
| 19 | It was always better to know what was going on than to lie in bed with the door shut and wonder what was happening . |
| 20 | ‘ Those beans are further on than mine . |
| 21 | Mrs Clamp has come across with some details on sporadic occasions , too , though they are probably no more to be relied on than what my father 's told me . |
| 22 | Suddenly , and perhaps for the first time , Shirley Brown felt a twinge of affection for the lonely little woman who seemed far more aware of what was going on than any of them . |
| 23 | If we 're no further on than we were half an hour ago . |
| 24 | Nick Skelton and John Whitaker ‘ performed ’ as the male strippers Chippendales — but for once more people wanted them to keep their clothes on than take them off ! ! |
| 25 | The wheelchair has both brakes on once it is in position . |
| 26 | Just got in , well it were n't , it had n't gone right the way through , we just turned it over and chu , chucked the sheets and blankets back on once they 'd stopped smouldering and got back on it ! |
| 27 | A deflection more linearly dependent on the current I than the square law can be achieved by making good use of the fact that the torque also depends on cos θ where θ defines the orientation of the suspended coil as shown in figure 7.2(a) . |
| 28 | gon na say , stick them back on cos they |
| 29 | this year she chose a big one like I got for Arf last year , cos I ai n't got a double of that so I 'm going to have to tape it off , fill it up and then put it back on cos in case she opens mine . |
| 30 | In the show — on until the 13th — you can discover works , rarely seen , by Rebecca James ( Mrs Paul Strand ) , Gwendolyn Knight ( Mrs Jacob Lawrence ) , Katherine Schmidt ( Mrs William Glackens ) , Helen Farr ( Mrs John Sloan ) , Marjorie Organ ( Mrs Robert Henri ) , Esphyr Slobodkina ( Mrs Ilya Bolotowsky ) , Sally Michel ( Mrs Milton Avery ) , Bernarda Bryson ( Mrs Ben Shahn ) and Dorothy Dehner ( Mrs David Smith ) — among ten Others . |