Example sentences of "[is] [adj] on [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rupert 's surviving on 5 hours ' sleep a night . |
| 2 | Both sets of rules for the domestic knockout competitions include the same addendum , which is anomalous on two counts . |
| 3 | This is fallacious on two grounds . |
| 4 | In this section , I have argued that the inductivist is wrong on two counts . |
| 5 | The value then of a political product ( produced of course by the professionals in the political field ) is dependent on two factors : ( 1 ) the symbolic capital of the political agent and his/her party ( political-symbolic capital includes the holding of party posts and the holding of local and less major national offices ; its maximization entails hyperconformity to social norms ) and ( 2 ) the extent to which these political symbols ( Bourdieu likens them to ‘ signifiers ’ ) corresponds to the interests and central meanings ( ‘ signifieds ’ ) of stratified consumers in the social . |
| 6 | Compensation is payable on two grounds : first , for any expenditure or liabilities incurred after the permission has been granted ( for example , expenditure on the preparation of plans ) ; and second ( following the 1954 Act ) , for the loss in the development value of the land . |
| 7 | Mr. Holden is lucky on two counts . |
| 8 | This explanation is inadequate on two counts . |
| 9 | Bevelling the edges of T- and set-squares is helpful on two accounts . |
| 10 | As an object , discourse is available on two levels . |
| 11 | Analysis of the exceptions in Taskopruzade/Mecdi is difficult on two grounds , first that one can not , in the period covered by them , be absolutely sure of the status of either the medreses or the kadiliks involved , and second , that neither author is inclined to give the sort of detail that Ata'i gives in , for example , the biography of Molla Bostan , alluded to just above , from which it is at least arguable that Molla Bostan 's re-entering the medrese stream was exceptional . |
| 12 | And he 's close on six months now . ’ |
| 13 | Such a view is misleading on two counts . |
| 14 | This is true on four counts : |