Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So you brought in Gerald on the open side . |
| 2 | For the second year running the Artemis Group recorded lower profits , down 35% on the previous year . |
| 3 | He has shown the best form of his career and won over boo-boys on the Ayresome Park terraces . |
| 4 | She found herself next to Petion , who was trying to pick off men on the nearest freighter . |
| 5 | MORE evidence of an upturn in the housing market came yesterday with home builders reporting more than 16,400 new starts in April up 17pc on the same month last year . |
| 6 | He told the Centre for Economic Policy Research that what was needed was an in-depth comparison of the costs of cleaning up emissions on the one hand with the economic benefits on the other . |
| 7 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |
| 8 | They set up camp on the uninhabited island ; and started a barbecue . |
| 9 | With reference to our meeting on March 7th : on the assumption that the Unit 's terms of reference will be agreed in some form broadly consonant with the one you indicated , I have drawn up proposals on the attached annexes under the following headings : |
| 10 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc , reporting second quarter net profits of $3.0m against a loss last time of $19.8m , on sales up 44.1% at $72.2m , says that in the UK , sales were up 90% on the year-ago period , and rose 89% in the quarter , 87% in the half , across Europe as a whole . |
| 11 | No I do n't think there were , there might have been one or two , yes I do know one that used to make some form of er something for the saddlery trade and you know those houses opposite the alms houses in Road , there are some alms houses on the one side , then there 's some houses that lie up steps on the other side of the road if they 're still there . |
| 12 | The number of students enrolling for one or more modules in 1987/88 was just over 154,000 — up 46% on the previous year . |
| 13 | Bob cried as he wandered into the make up room on the first day . |
| 14 | And , according to Mrs Aitken , Jake had no objections , so arrangements were made for Carol 's parents to pick up Kirsty on the appointed day . |
| 15 | He will take up residence on the cleared site of the Fun House , whose place has been taken by a vintage carousel originally imported from Coney Island by Alderman W G Bean , the founder of the Blackpool funfair . |
| 16 | The dragons were released whereon the red dragon killed the white and eventually took up residence on the Welsh flag . |
| 17 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 18 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 19 | Iraqi troops begin taking up positions on the Saudi border . |
| 20 | Brett and Masala flanked the back door and the other three bodyguards took up positions on the other side of the car , facing the photographers . |
| 21 | For example , if there were a sudden selling of sterling ( due , say , to bad trade figures and a resulting fear that the pound would depreciate ) , the Bank of England could help to prevent the pound from falling by using reserves to buy up pounds on the foreign exchange market . |
| 22 | In the nine months to March 31st , it made a net profit of $188m ( up 38% on the same period of the previous year ) on sales of $1.7 billion ( up 40% ) . |
| 23 | ULSTER Television has reported increased pre-tax profits of £1.96m for the first six months of 1993 , up 10pc on the same period last year . |
| 24 | The carrying of hand coils is only appropriate on snow arêtes ( as explained above ) , or on rock ridges of uneven difficulty , where party speed is increased by members picking up coils on the easy sections . |
| 25 | Over the last year an extra 29,000 inpatients and 8,500 day case patients were treated up 6pc on the previous year 's total of 588,000 . |
| 26 | Disregarding China 's quaint practice of counting disbursed government borrowings as revenue , the true deficit reached 48 billion yuan last year , up 35% on the previous year . |
| 27 | Overall if you look at the balance sheet , it still appears quite healthy , erm , nevertheless , I must point out that the balance sheet is composed largely of funds with specific purposes , and these specific purposes do not include simply propping up deficits on the mainstream activities . |
| 28 | The provisional clean cattle price for the Monday-Thursday period was calculated at 143.16p per kg lw , up 0.45p on the previous week . |
| 29 | In Uzbekistan , President Islam Karimov stepped up pressure on the democratic and Islamic opposition and tightened border controls with Tajikistan . |
| 30 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |