Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals go to bed later or earlier than average on certain occasions , as can be seen by close inspection of Fig. 2.2 . |
| 2 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 3 | They may be less than satisfactory on both counts . |
| 4 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 5 | Although uncompetitive on European events , the Galant is at home on the endless tracks of Africa . |
| 6 | The substitution of citizenship for domicile in cases like that mentioned , after the manner of the law of some foreign countries , even if desirable on general grounds , would not solve the questions which arise when the laws of different parts of the same national territory , e.g. of England and Scotland , or of two states of the United States of America , come into competition . |
| 7 | I was struck with terror , since my Russian vocabulary , while exemplary on maritime matters , extended little further than ‘ cow ’ , ‘ milk ’ , and ‘ bull ’ which I did n't feel was quite adequate for the occasion . |
| 8 | As usual on such occasions , Molyneaux looked a little embarrassed and out of place , as if he did not particularly relish the ‘ glad-handing ’ of strangers . |
| 9 | He tried to broaden the base of support for the government , relying as far as possible on legal processes in restraining the press and arresting suspects , sacking the hated Minister of Education , Tolstoy , and planning steps to alleviate the burden of redemption payments on the hardest-pressed peasants . |
| 10 | On Sunday West Germany had complained about the police presence around its embassy , and the slackening of restrictions is thought to have reflected an apparent Czechoslovak desire to remain as far as possible on good terms with both Germanies . |
| 11 | The kind of standards of performance which you need to search for and devise are ones that rely as far as possible on observable facts rather than mere opinion . |
| 12 | You have to make sure every time that the patient takes his weight as evenly as possible on both legs , with his trunk and arms in the right position . |
| 13 | winner Honda Airbag Initiative Honda is showing the way with driver 's side airbags fitted as standard on 13 models of its line-up |
| 14 | At one extreme were the countries characterized as majoritarian on both dimensions : in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand , for example , power is concentrated into the majority party ; n a two-party ( or virtually so ) system , where rule occurs without a written constitution and with no dispersal of power to subsidiary governments . |
| 15 | Nevertheless the idyllic side of undergraduate life was there to be enjoyed — though short on male companions as the pre-war ratio of male and female undergraduates was about reversed . |
| 16 | At present , beaches are being designated as clean on bacteriological levels , with the virus levels being ignored . |
| 17 | But it was not until 1974 that the establishment of the so-called public service obligation grant marked acceptance of the notion that the railways , though necessary on social grounds , could not hope to pay their way . |