Example sentences of "[adj] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | made with all milk you see , and I put this on the other day , it was Monday , and I put it on for a cup of coffee , well Jim was out the front with Tom cos Tom fixed the front door |
| 2 | If you have any choice in the matter , try to do this on the south-facing side , and as the bud will grow out to the south , rows should lie east-west , so that the shoots grow out into the row space , and not into each other . |
| 3 | In Elizabethan England , it is recorded that the vicar of Brenchley in Kent who kept losing his voice during services blamed this on the malicious witchcraft of one of his parishioners . |
| 4 | She had with her some French brandy , purchased from a Cawsand smuggler 's wife ; she rubbed this on the inert face of the girl , then forced a little into her mouth . |
| 5 | Now there 's a picture of the station , and you can see that we 've got the post , the cobbled entrance , on this on the left hand side was the station master 's house , the garden . |
| 6 | They have not shrunk from setting aside gifts made to persons in a position to exercise undue influence over the donors , although there has been no proof of the actual exercise of such influence ; and the courts have done this on the avowed ground of the necessity of going this length in order to protect persons from the exercise of such influence under circumstances which render proof of it impossible . |
| 7 | We 've done this on the proposed East Oxford Education centre . |
| 8 | You will have planned for this on the initial approach . |
| 9 | This on the fucking floor did n't she ? |
| 10 | Place this on the very top of the roof so that it bends over on each side . |
| 11 | Fianna Fail leader Mr Reynolds claimed a drop of 5,600 on the previous month indicated that the government 's jobs policy was starting to produce results . |
| 12 | The drifts surely could not be more than chest-deep on the massive shire , she thought , and with a bit of luck she would get through . |
| 13 | When the sun moved round she too had moved to the doorstep , her sleeves rolled up and concentrating half on the book and half on the remembered scene until her mother had arrived , walking up the street where they had both walked so many times before . |
| 14 | Her husband Karl , 63 , found her in half on the toolshed floor . |
| 15 | A magpie , seeing some light-coloured object conspicuous on the empty slope , flew closer to look . |
| 16 | When anything goes wrong on the surgical side the fault is automatically mine . ’ |
| 17 | This question only arises if I am wrong on the main point of principle , but I think it proper to consider it nonetheless . |
| 18 | The Government have made their public expenditure plans absolutely clear , and they are clear on the normal basis . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the limitations of writing a script to accompany images on the screen become clear on the printed page . |
| 20 | Furthermore , we must be clear on the differing nature of these types of advantage . |
| 21 | Carpets and cushions would be ordered and we would sit in the hot stillness , our voices quiet , the half-English , half-Arabic clear on the heavy air . |
| 22 | For much of this century things have seemed pretty clear on the constitutional front . |
| 23 | All life is interdependent on the natural environment , from the smallest bacteria to the largest animal or plant — even man . |
| 24 | But many small producers fear ‘ the rectification of unfair subcontracting arrangements is not high on the official list of priorities ’ ( Anthony 1983 p.71 ) . |
| 25 | An issue high on the Japanese public 's agenda is the conservation of wildlife , including porpoises trapped in fishing nets , and the plight of whales . |
| 26 | This would lead to a decline in the volume of less essential traffic in urban and rural areas and bring an overall reduction in all its adverse effects , including its contribution , through carbon dioxide , to global warming — certain to be very high on the political agenda in the next few years . |
| 27 | Industry certainly needs to be high on the political agenda but like Northern Ireland policy , the main parties must agree a mutual policy . |
| 28 | High on the political agenda . |
| 29 | The recent case of Hillsborough victim Tony Bland , whose parents appealed successfully in court for him to be allowed to die , has put the subject high on the political agenda . |
| 30 | Sloshing up the tracks in the dank woods that separate Chedworth 's Roman villa from its village , high on the eastern edge of the Cotswolds , three sights await you . |