Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] [noun] 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 | I say all this because no people on the face of the planet could be more attached to their island than the oft far travelled Shetlanders . |
| 5 | No , nothing at all about the lock and two years after closed and it was because of this because the men on the phone told me so and er anyway brought about the bridge and er I er accepted it , you know what I mean , it was that was it , I 'd done it myself . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He paused for a moment , ‘ Not as exciting as the landing on the morning of 6th June ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For Christ 's sake , M' lud , the matter 's as clear as the loincloth on the Crucifixion . |
| 10 | I do n't mean art should be as clear as the instructions on a packet of seeds ; I 'm saying that you trust the mystifier more if you know he 's deliberately choosing not to be lucid . |
| 11 | Yes , you have to keep up with the times , but it 's about as hop and happening as Liverpool 's away kit — and as clear as the sprites on Shadow Warriors ! |
| 12 | That he was high as a kite on Ecstasy and had thought they were larking about ! |
| 13 | Whatever it was on the bottom of the loch it was no more strange than the atmosphere on that boat . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In addition the Budget made the tax on diesel supplied by firms for employees ' private motoring lower than the tax on petrol . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 18 | For instance , the women speakers in extract ( 2 ) are less cooperative than the men on a number of quite plausible measures . |
| 19 | If that is the case why is it that the order relating to insurance and building society er building societies , specifically makes the point that the auditor must be working erm in his capacity as such whereas the orders on banking and financial services er it may be implicit the er the auditor is working er in his or her capacity as such er but it is not explicitly stated because the phraseology is different . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For there grow no Trees , no not so much as a Shrub on St. Kilda ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Highbrow papers like the Guardian or the Telegraph were able to influence their readers at least as much as the tabloids on issues ( like unilateralism or the economy ) but not on voting choice . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As much as the mite on the bee 's mouth parts knew about the rest of her body , or about the throbbing hive . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I will bring you a cloak , it is not much , but warmer and more comfortable than a night on the cliff tops ! ’ |