Example sentences of "[noun sg] bordering on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter is the department bordering on the metropolitan area of San Salvador and the FMLN forces dominate an area of approximately 350 square km around the Guazapa Volcano , only some 30 km from the capital . |
| 2 | As a result you can end up with a file bordering on the megabytes instead of a few tens of kilobytes . |
| 3 | The first omission was regarded by some of his ministerial colleagues as an eccentricity bordering on the provocative , especially after the injunctions from Michael Heseltine and Sir Geoffrey Howe to take more seriously the balance of payments figures and what they said about the manufacturing base of the economy . |
| 4 | Erwin Schulhoff 's neo-Ravel/Poulencian Third Sonata is also an absolute charmer in five movements , but it is Nicolai Kapustin 's jazz-inflected Second Sonata which left the most lasting impression , its perpetueum mobile Finale bordering on the insane in its executant demands , and I am sure that Petrov 's blinding performance is destined to become a classic of recorded piano music . |
| 5 | It carried a quality bordering on the magical . |
| 6 | IT was a big mistake bordering on the huge ( and which movie is that from ? ) to suggest that there was only one North-East recipient at the annual awards of the British Association of Film and Television Arts . |
| 7 | Tchaikovsky is without doubt one of these , and Francesca and Marche Slave ( both composed incidentally in 1876 ) require an approach bordering on the hysterical if they are to be heard to their best advantage . |
| 8 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 9 | Cynewulf 's annexation of land bordering on the Thames in Berkshire in the early years of Offa 's reign certainly appears to have been followed up by further action in the original Gewissian territory around Dorchester . |