Example sentences of "[adv] on [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | He had performed so brilliantly on other expeditions he became fully fledged climber . |
2 | Well I 've said a few words about the Soviet Union but I would like to add that our programme of assistance to the Soviet Union and to other countries in central and Eastern Europe , while it 's had to grow rapidly in response to the urgent needs of reg region , it does not it has not grown and will not grow in any way er which will undermine our commitment to the developing world and er perhaps on that note I might turn to Africa . |
3 | So they 'd say erm write down the I mean if you 're lucky they 'll give perh perhaps on some questions they 'll give it to you and on others they 'll say write it down . |
4 | But obviously on those parameters you ca n't have hard and fast rules for each vehicle . |
5 | ‘ If I can get drunk enough on this stuff I might be able to get away with it at the next repatriation board . ’ |
6 | On the basis that a lot of the big houses that were doing holiday accommodation and so on , er have have already been converted and this is our experience , so on that basis we have taken a reduced figure for conversions and that is basically the reasoning behind it . |
7 | ‘ So on that basis I am really encouraging as many people as possible to call in to look round . |
8 | So on that ground I feel would be very worried by by promoting the right to buy , erm I 've said everything I want to I did n't really want to elongate this this er this debate and I think it 's but I think , I do n't believe that Councillor mentioned the the the er the . |
9 | So on that understanding I accept . |
10 | So on first consideration it seems odd that in the early days of planning The Possessed Dostoevsky should write to his friend Maikov and describe his new venture as ‘ like Crime and Punishment but even nearer to reality , even more urgent , and directly concerned with the most important contemporary question ’ . |
11 | So on this side we actually believe in positive rights . |
12 | Focus only on those things you fancy trying , at least at first . |
13 | Nevertheless on such occasions he gave the impression to friends and acquaintances that in some ways he had mellowed . |
14 | That 's all for now , but tonight on Central South we begin a series of special reports on community care . |
15 | they 're still on that issue I would of thought |
16 | Yesterday on Central News we met Graham Cooper , the managing director of a major printing company in Wantage , and one of the employees , Vic Marshall . |
17 | Early on 22 September he captured a Scarborough collier and another vessel and , later that morning , with typical effrontery , signalled for a pilot off Spurn Head , at the mouth of the Humber , and then captured the two boats sent out in response . |
18 | Henry 's mother hardly left his side but he improved and at 8pm on 31 March she went to have something to eat , leaving her son playing in the doorway of his room . |
19 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
20 | She is believed to have a £4.2 million fortune based solely on French property she owned before her marriage to the tycoon . |
21 | Now on this slide we have a hexagon , there are six probably important facets in terms of standards which we should follow or adopt in the development of the product . |
22 | Darlington Harriers are arranging a 10km fund raising fun run for August 30 , starting at 11am on High Row you must be 17 or over to take part . |
23 | Well on that note we 'll have to draw this one to a close , but I think the debate will run quite a bit . |
24 | Well on that note I propose to conclude |
25 | Well on one Monday I went home , I ca n't remember what I said , I just came out with this really I and I said it really |
26 | No , it would n't , alright on that monitor it would . |
27 | Even on dry days they are kept moist , ready to dissolve and transmit the perception of interesting molecules . |
28 | What is noticeable , however , is that Anthony Coburn never wrote for the series again after ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ , and even on that story he did none of the rewriting which followed the less-than-successful screening of the pilot episode to BBC Department heads . |
29 | The steaks fitted both descriptions : terrible because despite their pampered lives , they were as tasteless as any meat which had not been properly hung ; typically English because even on small plates they looked mean and thin and had been further abused by overcooking . |
30 | However , we do have some occasional vacancies , maternity leave , building maintenance work , long term sick , where we have to make sure our labour force is protected , where we do involve temporary labour and even on those occasions we attempt to employ people direct as some regions know . |