Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | If the lurcher catches a rabbit on the feeding grounds it will almost invariably scream — and this is the best thing to happen . |
2 | It also calls on the government to act on the relevant commitments it made at the UNCED summit [ see ED 59/60 ] , and on the major supermarket chains to provide information on the biodiversity of the foods they stock . |
3 | From then on they met separately in wine bars , reporting back intermittently on the drunken evenings they had had . |
4 | Our conversation moved cautiously round the subject of corruption in public life , and I quoted Burke , whose Thoughts on the Present Discontents I had been studying , to the effect that wisdom consisted in part in deciding how much evil to tolerate . |
5 | Mum 's anger and frustration was based , not entirely on the fact of the girl being a Gentile , but on the great expectations she had anticipated for the boy . |
6 | The botanical gardens are bare and there are few signs of the famous flower festival exhibitions in the cold grey wet transition between winter and spring : on the four days I was there it rained every day , finally removing the last traces of soot-encrusted snow from the pavements but leaving everything streaked with a post-winter dampness . |
7 | They kept the money at their council house in Chard , but took it with them on the rare occasions they went out . |
8 | So on the rare occasions they did report themselves in a State of Readiness they knew an Agile Blade was likely . |
9 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
10 | Hemel 's Darin Schubring , who caused a two-hour delay in last week 's first leg when he demolished the backboard , looked less dangerous on the rare occasions he had the ball . |
11 | She discovered that Ella had a sister at Staines , and on the rare occasions she visited her she went on the railway . |
12 | At least when you 're knitting on the bigger gauges you have fewer rows to knit than on a fine or standard gauge . |
13 | But on the bigger issues it failed . |
14 | On the following pages we offer a selection of rather special recipes created for just such occasions . |
15 | On the following flights you position the final turn and approach relative to where you made the last one , i.e. if you kept too close and landed rather far into the field on the first landing , you will move back more on the next , remembering the positioning of the previous flight . |
16 | On the official ones it was resolved totalling four one two five and sixty pence for October and six hundred and seventy one twenty five for the T I C. |
17 | Feeling himself very much at a crossroads , he delivered himself of some reflections on the modern times they were living through . |
18 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
19 | between £500 and £1,000 Thus official incomes at the top of the ladder exceeded those of the average peer ; and on the middle rungs they equalled those of the upper gentry . |
20 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
21 | Quite sharp enough to know all about dodging income tax on the odd jobs he does in his spare time . |
22 | On the odd occasions I met him , I felt that he 'd adopted all these trappings to keep off a world with which he could not cope . |
23 | Some auctioneers will exchange items if they prove to be the wrong colour , design or size , but this is entirely at their discretion , and much will depend on the specific instructions they have received from the vendor . |
24 | In his usual way , as soon as the film started , George begin to give me a run down on the technical assets I might otherwise be missing . |
25 | see better , you was looking up it on the front rows you see . |
26 | If you put it on the right feet it 's clearly one of the best available . |
27 | Nor , indeed am I claiming that all black sportsmen , at some stage in their development , come face to face with their blackness and are made to reflect on the probable disadvantages it carries with it . |
28 | So they are they 're being harsher on landlords but on the rich peasants they 're just taking back the land instead of |
29 | But nobody can argue that boxers should not be given the fullest possible information on the long-term risks they run . |
30 | That is , in acting on the best reasons I will also inevitably transcend reason and take a deliberate decision ( e.g. to buy a sliced loaf ) concerning some aspects of which reason is undetermined . |