Example sentences of "at [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And this year , I found myself in Exmouth , with members of my local RSPB group , boarding the Devon Princess 11 at 1pm on the last Saturday in February . |
2 | Inside , a lamp hanging from the apex of the roof was still lit , and because he had n't closed his mosquito curtain , her eyes fell at once on the slender golden body of Ngo Van Loc 's wife spread-eagled beneath him on his cot . |
3 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
4 | It comes under the hammer at 2.15pm on the 20th , at the Barnstaple Motel . |
5 | If that sounds too energetic there 's a 2km run starting at 10am on the same day . |
6 | Meetings of the circle are held at 8.15pm , preceded by Mass at 7.30pm on the first Wednesday of the month , at Loreto Convent Grammar School , Dunham Road , Altrincham . |
7 | Meetings , held at 7.30pm on the first Monday of the month , now take place in a private room at the New Inn , Winsick , Nr . |
8 | The older children 's bodies were found after their mother Maeve went to wake them at 8.30am on the overnight Swansea-Cork ferry Celtic Pride . |
9 | Cedric Thornberry , his civilian representative in ex-Yugoslavia , had some good news , at least on the first score . |
10 | However , it is probably preferable to send a copy of the terms with the document which refers to them , at least on the first occasion that the parties do business . |
11 | The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self-consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one-liners . |
12 | But ideas so uncompromising as this could hardly be voiced , at least on the eastern shores of the Atlantic , until after the French Revolution had broken out . |
13 | There are plenty of areas of sea floor with Recent sedimentary cover of sorts , but — at least on the inner shelves — this nearly always seems to be moving to and Fro and not building up . |
14 | I have already cast some doubt on point ( b ) , or at least on the political effects which Marx assumed would be consequent on the concentration of labour ( Chapter 1 ) , while in the discussion of planning I argued that although point ( a ) may be broadly accepted it is by no means unproblematic , particularly given the fact that large-scale enterprises increasingly straddle national boundaries . |
15 | Since this was under the cannon of the town , at least on the Scots side of the river , it was unlikely to be guarded . |
16 | I tend to agree with on at least on the latter point . |
17 | There may appear to be an element of paradox in the notion of semantic relations between lexical units whose meanings , at least on the strong version of the contextual view , are partially constituted by those very relations . |
18 | With DNAaseI ( Fig. 2 ) , one observes a better protection of the hinge region between the two proteins ( phosphodiester bonds at -46.5 on the upper strand and at -49.5 on the template strand are almost insensitive to DNAaseI attack ) , and a more extended footprint in the upstream part of the CRP site at least on the upper strand , with the protection of phosphates at -81.5 , -82.5 and the appearance of two hypersensitive bands at -84.5 and -85.5 ( Fig. 2a , lane 2 ) . |
19 | The cooperative binding of CRP and the wild-type enzyme at the lac UV5 promoter is accompanied by significant changes in the footprint with respect to the two binary complexes : 1 ) the DNAaseI footprints of RNA polymerase and CRP overlap ( Fig. 2 ; and [ 18 ] ) , moreover , at least on the upper strand , an extension of the footprint of the CRP site is observed up to position -84.5 ; 2 ) a more intense protection of the -40 , -70 and -80 regions to hydroxyl-radical cleavage is observed ( Fig. 3 ) ; 3 ) CRP and RNA polymerase induce a conformational change of the -50 region , which can be detected by the copper-phenanthroline reagent ( Fig. 5 ) or after UV irradiation ( Fig. 4 ; and [ 32 ] ) . |
20 | Even so , the new relationship between government and the unions was unlikely to last , at least on the present basis . |
21 | The first ventral arm plate is small and round , the subsequent plates roughly pentagonal with a convex distal edge which may be produced in the midline ; they are contiguous at least on the proximal arm segments . |
22 | Fourth , opportunities for further in-service training should be more generous for further education teachers than for those in schools and , in any event , they should be at least on the same scale . |
23 | Again , in the case of Vietnam , this was accompanied by bitter political acrimony , at least on the operational level , between the Americans on the one side , the British and French on the other , about whether or not the French fighting in Vietnam were to be regarded as allies and whether or not the French had any entitlement to resume their pre-war position in Indochina . |
24 | On the Severn , at least on the particular stretch we fished , the average size was around twice that weight , and my friend was looking forward to catching a 4-pounder , which was double the weight of his previous best . |
25 | Moreover , white holes , by acting as conduits to bring new material and spacetime into new regions of the Universe , would act in rather the same way as ‘ Little Bangs ’ , at least on the local level ( the ‘ locality ’ , of course , being extremely large ) . |
26 | Also avoided are comparisons in sound produced between modern piano wire ( which is never mentioned ) , the various carbon steels available for early instruments ( which are listed ) and the carbon-free phosphorus steel originally used , at least on the earlier instruments ( which are never referred to , but the relevant book by Goodway and Odell is in the bibliography ) . |
27 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
28 | The old Committee look forward to seeing you by the Robinsons pump at 12.00 or the Theakston 's Old Peculier pump at 3.00pm on the 17th August at Docklands Arena . |
29 | The last few days passed horrendously quickly — except for the bus ride down to Delhi at 3am on the last day of March . |