Example sentences of "is [adj] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Alan Lyddiard 's adaptation is strong on physical impact — the sheer effort involved in ploughing , the hunger and pain of the animals ' lives . |
| 2 | The accountant now becomes aware that the 1993 accounts will be subject to the pay and file provisions and the first tax payment is due on 1 October — just nine weeks away . |
| 3 | The company 's corporation tax liability is due on 1 October 1995 and its returns and accounts by 31 December 1995 . |
| 4 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 5 | His own club 's show — the next is due on 29 August in Dalkeith — is third largest in Scotland with over 900 birds on display . |
| 6 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 7 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 8 | The snatching is usual on full lock as the universal joint in each front drive shaft speeds up and slows down as it is not a constant velocity joint ( unlike the V8 109 and Range Rover ) . |
| 9 | The pearl-faced headstock is standard , but the large abalone position markers are a more lavish trimming than is usual on this model . |
| 10 | A mechanical analogy is the Euler strut , where a beam is stable on either side of a centre line but unstable on it , passing from one side to the other discontinuously . |
| 11 | If even one person is hesitant on tricky sections it will , at the very least , slow the whole group down . |
| 12 | Yet as Shaw ( 1980 ) has argued the assumption that mixed schooling is preferable on academic grounds is not well supported by educational research . |
| 13 | The course , one of 26 activities in Middlesbrough Council 's programme , centres on ‘ New Image Rugby ’ which is low on physical contact and high on handling skills , passing and running . |
| 14 | annotation is possible on all objects , e.g. on pictures as well as text . |
| 15 | Sometimes it is impossible to determine the purpose and no intervention is possible on this ground as , for example , in British Oxygen Co . |
| 16 | Local residents can make representations against the grant of a licence on the basis that the proposed operating centre is unsuitable on environmental grounds . |
| 17 | Indeed the European parliamentary resolution is specific on that point and I believe the boundary commission has failed to take the opportunity to exercise that requirement . |
| 18 | She is popular on both sides of the Commons , and has some support from Conservative MPs who would like to see a woman Speaker . |
| 19 | So it is not only the composition of species that is different on urban commons , but also the life-styles of those species . |
| 20 | The yellow brain fungus Tremella mesenterica is conspicuous on dead twigs and branches at this time . |
| 21 | the holder of a valid certificate in a form supplied by the Secretary of State , containing the information required by it , and signed by a medical practitioner to the effect that it is inadvisable on medical grounds for him to wear a seatbelt ; |
| 22 | Both sets of rules for the domestic knockout competitions include the same addendum , which is anomalous on two counts . |
| 23 | This is fallacious on two grounds . |
| 24 | The pattern is clear on one side but worn on the other . |
| 25 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is clear on that matter . |
| 26 | You would think that the law is clear on this area . |
| 27 | Certainly Karlsson is clear on this point and , in commenting , also helps to unravel some of the mystery surrounding their apparently unlikely conjunction : |
| 28 | The naval manual ( US , Department of the Navy , 1955 , 6–4 ) is clear on this point , but also draws attention in a footnote to the relevance of the principles of the laws of war . |
| 29 | However , there have always been leases without rent ( for example , mortgages ) and the statutory definition of a term of years absolute is clear on this point : |
| 30 | What the ads do n't say is that the food is as low on nutrition as it is high on unhealthy fats and additives . |