Example sentences of "[noun sg] on the [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be no more revealing insight into the Government 's priorities than their obsessive concentration on the 8.7 per cent . |
| 2 | Écueil 's vineyards are largely east-facing , growing at an altitude of between 180 and 220 metres , and overlooked by the Pâtis d'Écueil on the Petite Montagne . |
| 3 | An invention which is properly exploited by a small business may have a dramatic impact on the employer 's turnover ; a larger business , on the other hand , may be able to generate a far larger sales income with the same invention but ultimately produce an insignificant effect on the latter 's overall liquidity . |
| 4 | Now this will affect a vast area of atmosphere , because the air moving over that sea surface tends to take up the characteristics and if the temperature 's higher on the sea surface than normal , the air becomes warmer than normal , and this sets up all sorts of reactions , it will probably produce a lot more clouds , for instance , and erm this in turn will cut off the sun 's rays from that area of atmosphere , and this will have an effect on the whole erm heat engine of the atmosphere as we know it so erm we 're now studying how far afield this is affecting the weather . |
| 5 | Smiling at the round of applause from his audience , he took his seat on the front chaise longue and the show began . |
| 6 | Knighton is ready to offer the Manchester United boss a new deal on the 50.6 per cent shareholding which he sought to buy from Edwards for £10m , and which is now the subject of a damaging legal wrangle in the High Court . |
| 7 | Work on a multi-million pound relief road for Fordham , the only village on the busy A142 Newmarket to Ely road which is not bypassed , could start within three years . |
| 8 | He was being paid in 1275–8 for work on the prior 's house next to St Mary-le-bow in London , and travelled between Canterbury and London several times , working in Canterbury in 1279–80 . |
| 9 | Horses at work on the 5th c.1915 . |
| 10 | AS FRENCH outrage at the dismissal of charges against M Paul Touvier for alleged crimes committed during the Nazi occupation grew yesterday , the National Assembly suspended its afternoon session so that deputies could attend a demonstration at the Memorial of Deportation on the Ile de la Cite . |
| 11 | So we proceeded on a cost plus basis , also the cost plus environment actually brings the partners together because if there are three of us working on a cost plus contract and I have a problem , my two partners rush to help me because clearly there 's some more profit for them , erm if the only difficulty with cost plus contract of course is that unless you have a a real ceiling on the total er costs that you 're going to pay , it may keep on rising far higher than you 'd ever imagined . |
| 12 | May I ask a question on the this er , the speaker said er erm that it will be down so that they on er er or no particular help on his accordance but o on these here , o on the ones this is n't the case . |
| 13 | Officials said they would lead to danger on the busy A689 which runs through the middle of the community . |
| 14 | Erm on the seventeenth of June I was told that there was gon na be a meeting on the eighteenth erm to which I would have to appear concerning my drink driving . |
| 15 | The mood of the Parisians , when they heard the news for which they had been waiting so long , was recorded by a young Welshman living in a rented room on the Ile de la Cité . |
| 16 | So er listening to the gentleman on the left er echoes of nineteen ninety High Court case . |
| 17 | At the time of writing the Conservatives are taking these developments much further ; they plan for a centrally determined basic curriculum , with obviously a strong emphasis on the three Rs , a system of testing at various stages in the educational process , and the development of centrally funded schools removed from local authority control . |
| 18 | She told the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities conference at Dunblane that this week 's speech by Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , on the need for more emphasis on the three Rs and other traditional teaching methods was yet a further move which would demoralise teachers . |
| 19 | FOOTNOTE : If it 's any comfort to Mel , his medic told us the toes of windscreen pirates get crushed at the rate of ONE A WEEK on the busy A4 London to Bath road . |
| 20 | The Escort was split into three pieces by the impact on the busy A174 near Redcar , Cleveland . |
| 21 | So they have n't actually got ta formed a corporate strategy on the actual prod product development . |
| 22 | However , it may be possible to direct southbound traffic only on to Woolmer Road , while maintaining northbound traffic on the existing A325 . |
| 23 | The close proximity of this junction to that between A71 and the link to Hermiston Village and Gogar Station Road created a ‘ staggered T ’ effect and due to the relatively high speed of traffic on the re-aligned A71 compared with the original flows through Hermiston Village , a section of this new A71 was widened locally and a central reserve created to form a short stretch of dual carriageway thus providing for safer turning movements within the junctions . |
| 24 | Skelly 's famous song , ‘ There 's an old mill by the stream , Nelly Dean , ’ but the waters hardly murmur soft and low nowadays , for their sound is drowned by the roar of traffic on the nearby A1(M) . |
| 25 | Jamsrangiyn Yondon as Minister of Defence on the latter 's retirement . |
| 26 | One of those options would be a further increment on the existing erm new settlement . |
| 27 | We expect to have an important debate tomorrow afternoon on the 20 per cent . |
| 28 | Two Alton Cycling Club riders recently competed in the Southampton Wheelers 25-mile time trial on the undulating P132 course in the New Forest . |
| 29 | Mr McInally said that forensic tests had revealed liquid petrol on the accused 's shirt and jeans . |
| 30 | There is a default on the 8 per cent Czechoslovak Republic dollar bonds of 1922 , and also on the Cities of Greater Prague and Carlsbad bonds issued in 1924 . |