Example sentences of "[subord] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One view central to the lawyer/economist is that , in a world where , on the one hand , resources ( all of which have alternative uses ) are limited through scarcity and where on the other hand , there exists the insatiable human desire to consume those resources , then inevitably , trade-offs and choices must somehow be made . |
| 2 | But I do n't think most people , er , would necessarily consider it than now on the European side , they might consider . |
| 3 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 4 | In the central region , the sugar-phosphate backbones superimpose well , except on the right-hand side near the centre . |
| 5 | The settlers ' attempts at agriculture were frustrated , except on the southern steppe frontier , by frozen subsoil and the sub-arctic climate , and as they were carried out by the primitive ‘ slash-and-burn ’ method , were highly destructive of the forest environment . |
| 6 | We have already seen that it leaves unexplained one prominent feature of judicial practice — the attitude judges take toward statutes and precedents in hard cases — except on the awkward hypothesis that this practice is designed to deceive the public , in which case the public has not consented to it . |
| 7 | I used 8mm dowels for all joints except on the thinner rails where I used 6mm . |
| 8 | Except on the odd occasion when the paper tray is empty , the problem only seems to be the inability of the printer to handle data as quickly as the PC can send it . |
| 9 | Whatever the desirable size of a library 's stock , the practical starting point for this kind of decision must be the size of the library building itself , and other factors are subordinated to it except on the rare occasions that new libraries are planned . |
| 10 | Baldwin lanced this boil fairly quickly and quietly by an announcement to a party meeting on 11 February : ‘ I do not feel justified in advising the party again to submit the proposal for a general tariff to the country except on the clear evidence that on this matter public opinion is disposed to reconsider its judgment of two months ago . ’ |
| 11 | Open 9.30am-7.30 pm , except on the last day , when the show closes at 5pm . |
| 12 | In some ways it is easy to share the enthusiasm of the Secretary of State for his new schools , financially independent ( except on the direct grant for students from the DES , paid on a per capita basis ) , yet with a rigidly controlled curriculum . |
| 13 | growing everywhere except on the large tracts of virgin concrete . |
| 14 | Except on the vital matter of Europe , where the outcome is not yet clear , but where , at least , he is better than his opponents , I am quite confident that he will not do anything damaging to Britain . |
| 15 | I feel that although on the modern piano we may lose a few colours , we ultimately gain more : a wider expressive range , increased dynamics , the possibility to suggest a full orchestra , and much greater ability to permit cantabile in the higher region of the instrument . |
| 16 | Another complicating factor is the large number of organisations that are inevitably involved in all the different aspects of rural development , although on the small scale of Lewis and Harris they would appear already to be somewhat better integrated than in many other places . |
| 17 | The All Blacks would treat such an outmoded approach with the scorn it deserves , although on the other hand they might have been impressed with Bridgend 's contrasting mobility and aggression . |
| 18 | There is n't one , although on the first day the main route is essentially at low level . |
| 19 | The opera was a great success , although on the first evening several very distressing incidents took place . |
| 20 | No wonder the Accademia has been rearranged in anticipation of a siege ; although on the bleak day I went there was no need to queue . |
| 21 | Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits . |
| 22 | The team was on the mountain — although on the opposite side — at the same time as Ulric and Cathy Jessop , the latter of whom died from pulmonary oedema during a retreat , unbeknown to the south face team . |
| 23 | Although on the whole wages in the iron industry were good , real earnings would not have been high enough to produce a tangible effect on the structure of taxable wealth . |
| 24 | Labov 's ( 1966 ) definition , like ours , is based on agreement on norms of variation within the community rather than on the absolute values of the linguistic forms themselves . |
| 25 | The causal direction hypothesis predicts that performance will be better on the causal task than on the temporal task . |
| 26 | These results support the causal direction hypothesis , since performance is significantly better on the causal task than on the temporal task for each age group . |
| 27 | The West coast route , however , could not be profitable , with 1960s-vintage equipment which cost more to maintain , and it was less reliable than on the East-coast line . |
| 28 | In the Esso case Lord Reid said " as the whole doctrine of restraint of trade is based on public policy its application ought to depend less on legal niceties or theoretical possibilities than on the practical effect of a restraint in hampering that freedom which it is the policy of the law to protect " . |
| 29 | Almost all the maritime alga-lichen-moss communities are richer in species and more luxuriant in growth than their continental counterparts , more so on the outlying island groups than on Antarctic Peninsula , and more on the northern than on the southern peninsula . |
| 30 | The user , therefore , can concentrate on the structure and behaviour of the system under consideration , rather than on the technical aspects of the modelling process . |