Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [adj] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prize list was based on last year 's results and optimism and the café stock on last year 's shopping list and guesswork . |
| 2 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 3 | A determined armchair athlete on the east coast could have spent 11 consecutive hours watching college football on new year 's day , and millions no doubt did . |
| 4 | Admittedly , they are sufficiently erratic to give point to the Treasury 's plea not to place too much weight on each month 's figures . |
| 5 | It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company . |
| 6 | In contrast , ethanol ( 150 mM ) and acetaldehyde ( 5 mM ) had no effect on lysosomal stability in vitro . |
| 7 | Reactions vary , and an air cleaner that has a dramatic effect on one person 's health may make no difference to another . |
| 8 | The computer model at Britain 's Meteorological Office predicts that the fires ' effect on this year 's monsoon will probably not stand out against the monsoon 's annual variations . |
| 9 | C Itoh Electronics , the trading house subsidiary which is one of the players in the Japanese X-terminal market has shed some light on last month 's story that Sun was considering building its own X-terminal ( UX No 399 ) . |
| 10 | She would n't know how to use a real weapon ( fnar fnar ) , so they sent me a to sharpen my axe on this month 's adventure offerings . |
| 11 | It follows that , whatever sympathy one may have over Chris Patten 's defeat at Bath , it nevertheless set the seal on Central Office 's performance . |
| 12 | I have noticed the growing practice on Prime Minister 's questions and on questions to other Ministers of Members on both sides of the House , but primarily Opposition Members , asking personal questions which do not relate to the Minister 's responsibility . |
| 13 | AROW between health minister , Mrs Virginia Bottomley and Surrey ambulance workers has led to crews voting to step up their action on New Year 's Eve , one of the busiest nights of the year . |
| 14 | A knee operation has exacerbated the problems he experienced with his action on last year 's England ‘ A ’ tour of Sri Lanka , yet complaints , characteristically , are few . |
| 15 | This aircraft , the world 's only surviving operational Wellington , crash-landed into Loch Ness after a sortie on New Year 's Eve 1940 . |
| 16 | By this time , however , Wagner and Nietzsche had explored areas of mutual interest in many conversations and had begun to exercise a reciprocal influence on each other 's thinking . |
| 17 | This is a fall on last year 's figure of 436,973 , but a smaller drop than The Independent 's ( down to 371,411 from 410,713 ) or The Times ' ( down to 390,401 from 416,882 ) . |
| 18 | We had lunch on New Year 's day with another university colleague — a nice doctor who is a psychiatric consultant at a big hospital called the POLICLINICO . |
| 19 | We have n't set up a company , we 're just going to work on each other 's customer base and then take the value proposition to the market . |
| 20 | Over the road , Sylvia Brackley and daughter , Karen are hard at work on this year 's crop . |
| 21 | The next several minutes had been spent , as Joanna put it , enjoying a good weep on each other 's shoulders . |
| 22 | A compilation album which was either , a valuable gathering of high spots , or a piece of mild exploitation on Rough Trade 's behalf , depending on your point of view . |
| 23 | Despite detecting a measure of complacency on this summer 's return to the international arena , Winterbottom says never underestimate the Springboks ' ability to adapt . |
| 24 | GREAT BRITAIN hit the jackpot on this summer 's Rugby League trip to Papua-New Guinea , Australia and New Zealand . |
| 25 | Despite the absence of Wagner 's name , it must have been sufficiently evident that the real parallel offered was not with opera as much , but with Wagner alone ; an insistence on traditional opera 's inherent inferiority and a brief allusion at the end of the lecture to its new rival " music drama " were enough . |
| 26 | Thank you very much erm I have one last question on this item er that I 've now lost oh yes it was a erm Mr Perry , you mentioned under the logistics savings that were possible er the potential cut back in R A F bases . |
| 27 | Finally my thanks to Ian Lucas who has worked with the staff of PFK on a freelance basis on this month 's magazine . |
| 28 | The frown was still there , out of place on that blackbird 's face . |
| 29 | Now Affleck , who turned pro as a teenager , has won a place on next year 's European Tour following his outstanding season as he finished top of the European Challenge Tour , winning £39,769 official prize money . |
| 30 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |