Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 2 | you know just because of this cos the French on the right left of centre you know . |
| 3 | ‘ The case of the customer who simply removes goods from the shelves is of course different because the basis on which a supermarket is run is that customers certainly have the consent of the owner to take goods from the shelves and take them to the checkout point there to pay the proper price for them . |
| 4 | No , I was just thinking , we we 're , we 're debating the in the Commons at the moment , changing the parole board from having part-time members , to having salaried full-time ones , which are on limited contracts and that clearly puts those parole board members in a different position to the Home Secretary and one it 's ju you just do it because it 's a part-time activity , you may get some expenses that you think is important , and I just wanted to get clear whether the Chairman on a limited contract a large part of their work appointed by the employer . |
| 5 | He paused for a moment , ‘ Not as exciting as the landing on the morning of 6th June ? ’ |
| 6 | After morning service , when the last of the footsteps , and voices exchanging greetings , had died away , she heard the vicar ride off , the clip-clop of the horse 's hooves as clear as a bell on the cold air . |
| 7 | For Christ 's sake , M' lud , the matter 's as clear as the loincloth on the Crucifixion . |
| 8 | That he was high as a kite on Ecstasy and had thought they were larking about ! |
| 9 | Whatever it was on the bottom of the loch it was no more strange than the atmosphere on that boat . |
| 10 | In the example quoted , where higher rates of interest were available in sterling , compared with the US$ , then the forward rate would be lower than the spot on the day the contracts were entered into . |
| 11 | In addition the Budget made the tax on diesel supplied by firms for employees ' private motoring lower than the tax on petrol . |
| 12 | Names on the map tell us a great deal about the ancient undrained landscape , and none is more telling than the presence on the Ordnance Survey Map of the lowlands of the word ‘ moor ’ : Morton or Moortown ; Sedgemoor ; Otmoor ; Moorgate , the gate in London 's city wall which opened on to Moorfields , the marsh which William Dugdale , in his seventeenth-century classic on drainage , describes as a favourite resort of Londoners for skating . |
| 13 | All next day she called and she hunted , but no trace of her baby could she discover , not so much as a footprint on the sand . |
| 14 | For there grow no Trees , no not so much as a Shrub on St. Kilda ’ . |
| 15 | They had n't been hurt , not so much as a graze on them , yet when the all-clear sounded , they came out of their buildings and stood on their street with blank eyes that seemed to stare inwards . |
| 16 | There is no attempt to weight the votes — a vote on whether the marigold should be the national flower counts as much as a vote on an arms limitation treaty . |
| 17 | But when she quickly added a white lace fichu and a long , lacy shawl , the effect reminded her of nothing so much as the icing on her daughter 's wedding cake . |
| 18 | As much as the mite on the bee 's mouth parts knew about the rest of her body , or about the throbbing hive . |
| 19 | An indication that the issue is not quite as straightforward as the focus on reduction makes it seem can be gleaned from the high moral tone which pervades the discussion . |
| 20 | It was still as gloomy as the day on which she had first seen it and she longed to transform it into a place of splendid elegance . |
| 21 | I should be sorry if the debate on the Bill were to be unnecessarily prolonged and so prevented the House from debating the Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill that hon. Members are waiting to discuss . |
| 22 | I will bring you a cloak , it is not much , but warmer and more comfortable than a night on the cliff tops ! ’ |
| 23 | He knows sod all about football and , talk about stingy , I wish the defence were as tight as the clasp on his wallet . |
| 24 | The big wooden table had been scrubbed as white as a bone on the seashore . |
| 25 | Tess 's face went as white as the snow on the ground . |
| 26 | The answer is as obvious as the sign on a streetcar — it is a business man . |
| 27 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 28 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 29 | My rather innocent trust crumbled when I realized that as far as the police were concerned , I was little better than a criminal on whom they must keep tabs . |
| 30 | This was better than the label on the bottle of Camp coffee . |