Example sentences of "and on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Edrich and Close soon went , and on two occasions Roberts found himself on a hat-trick ; the second time , Selvey edged to Greenidge at slip — and he dropped morning was fine and only one more run was added . |
| 32 | I never felt happy with it , and on two occasions found that it had worked its way down my arm and was loose around my wrist . |
| 33 | Sometimes there 's bluster , other times overstatement creeps in , and on two occasions ham-fistedness drops its calling card ( concept instrumentals like ‘ Necropolis ’ , for instance ) . |
| 34 | In primary school the qualifying exam had been talked of for at least two years before the time came , yet I have no memory of when it did , only that our last term was punctuated with little exams and on two occasions we had something quite new to do : intelligence tests . |
| 35 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 36 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp has filed a patent infringement suit against Conner Peripherals Inc over a patent relating to intelligent disk drives — last year Conner and Alps Electric USA Ltd bought the patents of the bankrupt PrairieTek Corp and Western Digital said it expected Conner to sue it based on two of these PrairieTek patents and on two patents developed by Conner , and its own suit is a pre-emptive strike . |
| 37 | We are also on hand to give advice on how to get the best from the instrument and on new developments . |
| 38 | He said there had to be a curb on the ‘ smut ’ straw burning left on people 's homes , their clothing and on other farmers ' crops . |
| 39 | At the outset it established a Select Committee on the European Communities with very wide terms of reference ‘ to consider Community proposals , whether in draft or otherwise , to obtain all necessary information about them , and to make reports on those which , in the opinion of the Committee , raise important questions of policy or principle , and on other questions to which the Committee consider that the special attention of the House should be drawn ’ . |
| 40 | With stories from Millbank , ICI Paints and Kodak Limited , we are also responding to readers ' requests for more information on other parts of ICI and on other companies . |
| 41 | But the definitive change came on I August 1917 , when the Ministry of Shipping , which had been established by Lloyd George when he became Prime Minister in December 1916 , invited both the union and the Federation to confer with government representatives on the supply of seamen , wage difficulties and on other problems which were causing waste and delay to shipping . |
| 42 | To obtain prior approval the parties involved must contact the OFT and provide details of the transaction and its expected effects , if any , on competition and on other matters of public interest . |
| 43 | Even the same person reacts differently on different occasions , depending on how fit they are and on other circumstances at that time . |
| 44 | Understandably , people want to borrow more today in order to spend on houses ( thus boosting prices ) and on other goods . |
| 45 | Winnings on the football pools and on other forms of betting . |
| 46 | Rats were given extensive pre-exposure to a tone which was followed on some randomly chosen trials by a mild electric shock and on other trials by no event at all ( i.e. they received a partial reinforcement schedule ) . |
| 47 | This workload increased the strain and pressure on nursing staff , on the hospital 's budgets and resources , and on other patients who can not get into hospital because beds are full because of abuse of alcohol , Dr Little said |
| 48 | Their willingness to grant ex-parte and interlocutory injunctions has meant that liberties are sometimes extinguished without proper adjudication , and on other occasions that their vindication has been crucially delayed ( see the Zircon affair and the Spycatcher litigation in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 49 | On an afternoon in late February they climbed to the great Iron Age hill-fort at Dowsborough , from where they looked down on ‘ a magnificent scene , curiously spread out for even minute inspection ’ ; and on other occasions they watched from the hills as the effects of the weather unfolded over the landscape below . |
| 50 | For this reason , masks may be worn by personnel in operating theatres and on other occasions e.g wound dressing , when the patient is likely to be at risk of succumbing to infection . |
| 51 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
| 52 | What professionals discuss informally at conferences and on other occasions , within and across agency lines , is as important as contributions to journals in setting and sustaining this mood . |
| 53 | On occasion the sub-licence was signed by both parties in the foreign country , and on other occasions the whole negotiations were concluded by telex with no representative of the taxpayer visiting the foreign customer . |
| 54 | In these matters we were often able to avoid costly mistakes being made , and on other occasions improve the operational efficiency of our craft with advice on training and equipment , although I must admit that our requirements seldom matched the amount of money available . |
| 55 | ‘ It is here of course that Dickens himself stayed , in a house now put of this hotel , while finishing the writing of the immortal Nicholas Nickleby , and on other occasions and later in the hotel itself . ’ |
| 56 | The hon. Lady has also raised the issue of the European dimension , both here and on other occasions . |
| 57 | Sometimes , the mortgage advance will be sent by cheque and on other occasions it may be sent by telegraphic transfer . |
| 58 | Although in English we do on occasions say yes or no and on other occasions yes or no , no speaker of English would say that the meaning of the words ‘ yes ’ and ‘ no ’ was different with the different tones . |
| 59 | So he has me do that and on other songs he has me play bass . |
| 60 | During his visit Falin briefed Chinese leaders , including Jiang Zemin , on the US-Soviet Malta summit in early December [ see pp. 37110-11 ] and on other aspects of the international situation , including events in Eastern Europe . |