Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 2 | The disk is round , covered with plates which on the dorsal side of the disk are surrounded by a single row of rounded granules . |
| 3 | It had dawned on me that not only was I leaving the comfortingly familiar surroundings of primary school but that I no longer had any influence whatsoever on the other pupils at the school which I had had before but I was to be demoted to ‘ the annoying first year ’ . |
| 4 | The flies which on the previous day had been a nuisance to them were now a torment . |
| 5 | They have no bearing whatsoever on the serious consideration of the merits of the Nauruan case . |
| 6 | thirty one pounds whatever on the twelve . |
| 7 | He said the country had been ‘ stunned ’ last week by the prospect of a government which on the one hand said Parliament would make the decision on ratification , but on the other that the Government would use the Royal Prerogative ‘ to avoid any voice , any vote , and decision by Parliament ’ . |
| 8 | Now this agreement witnesseth that in consideration of the said John Weston Foakes paying to the said Julia Beer on the signing of this agreement the sum of £500 , the receipt whereof she doth hereby acknowledge in part satisfaction of the said judgment debt of £2,090 19s. , and on condition of his paying her or her executors , administrators , assigns or nominee the sum of £150 on the 1st day of July and the 1st day of January or within one calendar month after each of the said days respectively in every year until the whole of the said sum of £2,090 19s. shall have been fully paid and satisfied , the first of such payments to be made on the 1st day of July next , then she the said Julia Beer hereby undertakes and agrees that she , her executors , administrators or assigns , will not take any proceedings whatever on the said judgment . |
| 9 | As usual it was full , her handbag plonked on top of bags of fruit which on the outward journey were reserved ‘ for my grandmother in the country ’ , but which , her assignment completed without incident , they would eat on the way home . |
| 10 | Switzerland , which at present imposes no restrictions whatsoever on the free circulation of works of art , may soon lose its status as one of the world 's most liberal countries in the field of art trade . |
| 11 | Behind the showroom was the Farrs ' house which on the first floor extended to the street . |
| 12 | In this respect the cautionary words of Staughton LJ quoted above were never more apposite ; practices which on the old authorities would not have been regarded as part of a solicitor 's normal work may well , not least in the wake of the Financial Services Act 1986 , become commonplace . |