Example sentences of "[adv] on [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the 14th round of the US-Soviet talks on Dec. 15 , the US ambassador to the UNCD , Max Friedersdorf , commented that the two countries ' positions were " fairly close together on most issues ' and that there was a good chance that a chemical weapons treaty would be signed within two years . |
| 2 | SOUTHAMPTON defender Jon Gittens , who joined Middlesbrough yesterday on three months ' loan , has denied he reneged on Newcastle United last month . |
| 3 | I ended up on three years ' probation . |
| 4 | You ca n't think clearly on four hours ' sleep . |
| 5 | If he had been pensioned off then , he would have missed out on all Rovers ' glory days of promotion , Wembley and Europe . |
| 6 | Patients ‘ missing out on better drugs ' |
| 7 | If by any chance you DID manage to miss out on last months ' issue , fear not ! |
| 8 | The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year . |
| 9 | The protests flew thick and fast that McMillan should have been allowed to keep his crown because he was , mystifyingly , three rounds ahead on two judges ' scorecards and , more realistically , one in front on another . |
| 10 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |