Example sentences of "and [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top left : Pattern drawing of ranking worn on the transverse shoulder straps attached to the 1895 ‘ sack coat ’ , and 1898 four-pocket blouse , and latterly on the blue shirt . |
| 2 | The Wenlock/Niagaran limestones spread gently and widely on the shallow shelves . |
| 3 | He spoke frequently and effectively on the Conservative front bench until the progress of Parkinson 's disease made it impossible . |
| 4 | Paul McCartan pulled one back for Distillery three minutes from time and right on the final whistle Gregg was shown the red card . |
| 5 | A chancre is also sometimes found on the cervix and rarely on the vaginal wall . |
| 6 | But for all the changes , the prime emphasis in the retail market , so far as movies are concerned , still seems to be on the past , and predominantly on the mainstream Hollywood past . |
| 7 | The language teacher needs knowledge of the ways in which this discussion has bearing on foreign language teaching and perhaps on the general teaching of those who are already bilingual . |
| 8 | Within a mile of the sea the bracken-covered hills of Exmoor , deeply intersected by wooded combes , reach heights of over 1,000 feet , and only on the lower slopes do farmers derive a living from the inhospitable soil . |
| 9 | It 's now available for only seven shows out of twenty seven in the next programme and only on the first night of each show and only at a cost of two pounds and these are the audience of tomorrow as I wrote to you Mr you neglect these people at your peril why 've you changed the scheme ? |
| 10 | It could , for instance , spend more money on lowly flat races and less on the grander occasions , like the Derby , where the winner is anyway rewarded by high bloodstock values . |
| 11 | A graph ( Figure ) of the corresponding readings shows that the sensitivity is greatest in the middle of the view field , and less on the lefthand side than the right . |
| 12 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |
| 13 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 14 | Christian Aid has now decided to produce more materials relevant to the National Curriculum , and less on the Christian Aid Week , Harvest and Christian Aid Corporate themes . |
| 15 | There was a light on in the hall , and apparently on the second floor , though that might be a landing . |
| 16 | The custard-skin type of surface is not as common as the rubbly type , but it is often particularly well-developed on oceanic volcanoes , and especially on the Hawaiian islands . |
| 17 | There had been a phenomenally heavy snowstorm in Baldersdale , and especially on the loftier peaks . |
| 18 | Very often there were problems getting everything done to time , and especially on the first season , availability of scripts for Monday morning was the cause of many a delay . |
| 19 | However , the attention lavished on the Conservative party , and especially on the Conservative Party 's ideas , in the past few years has only served to emphasize the relative neglect of Conservative history and Conservative thought before Mrs Thatcher . |
| 20 | Harvey Pitcher , doing research on nineteenth century Arran writers and painters and especially on the wealthy Muir family who rented houses for many years on Arran , has given me this delightful little gem . |
| 21 | Will my right hon. Friend arrange an early debate on education , and especially on the local authorities ' responsibilities and their relationship with Government in terms of school organisation , so that I may highlight the need for an early decision on proposals to reorganise schools in Ealing , where parents , teachers and children will be greatly affected by those decisions ? |
| 22 | Jung seemed to have lost the emphasis on the body , and especially on the sexual instincts , which Freud retained in all his work . |
| 23 | Neil Kinnock also bridged that divide , but John Smith is definably and obviously on the middle-class side of it . |
| 24 | I think I must make the ordinary orders to costs , well what I will do is erm doctor must I think pay the costs of the appeal against the order of master erm both here and below on the other hand the defendant seems to be able to bear the costs of the appeal against the September order , that 's the order , that 's the order of , is that Mr ? , er sorry when I say the doc doctor bears the costs must er in fact he must , right , it is the August , that 's the August decision both , both before erm the taxing officer and on this appeal and er the , I dismiss the defendants appeal against the September board with costs |
| 25 | There was a small horse-box parked in one corner of the yard and just on the other side of the gate a large Mercedes . |
| 26 | John protests : ‘ I do n't think I 'm a misery but I do tell the kids to go and watch Neighbours and Home and Away on the other TV . |
| 27 | Er , my Lord you will see that there are cash flow forecasts which relate to the business er back statements for the plaintiffs er and then there are documents and papers which are referred to in Mr report and finally on the final page of the index there are the principal sources of information for Mr report . |
| 28 | The topsoil overburden can be dealt with as a disposal problem of its own , and vegetation can be established quickly and cheaply on the remaining waste material , provided the pioneer plants are chosen carefully and establish an effective and stable nutrient cycle . |
| 29 | This left West Indies to make 93 , and early on the fifth morning they duly got there , having lost three wickets to Emburey and Edmonds , both of whom bowled well throughout . |
| 30 | They had listening devices in the building , and early on the nineteenth allegedly heard Koresh ordering paraffin to splashed around . |