Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at all the brightest and best on display in Birmingham , I was reminded of some comments made in the early '80s by the late Gordon Brown , then head of design for GM 's European passenger cars . |
| 2 | I AM surprised to see that the England Colts selectors have included A. Jackson in the squad of 25 and also on training weekends , while at the present he is banned from playing for stamping . |
| 3 | At the Almeida ( 01-359 4404 ) until November 25 and then on tour to Newcastle , Sheffield , Leeds and Manchester . |
| 4 | If you extend £100,000 of credit for a period of one year and during that year the inflation rate averages 10 per cent per annum , you will have effectively lost £1 0,000 even if you are paid in full and right on time . |
| 5 | Without new taxing powers , local authorities would come to depend more and more on help from the National Exchequer and , since he who pays the piper calls the tune , the result must be even stronger central influence over local decisions . |
| 6 | Over the past few years , the industry has tended to lean more and more on contract labour . |
| 7 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 8 | New York , they say , is the great example of the Democratic Welfare State ; a million and more on welfare , hospitals in chaos , 2,000 people murdered each year , the nation 's highest concentration of Aids sufferers , kids shooting kids in the schools , and all in return for the highest levels of tax in the United States . |
| 9 | The town was very quiet and once on land , they broke into a trot . |
| 10 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |