Example sentences of "and on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are massive domes six feet high , some are low mounds , and on sandy soils they are almost completely underground . |
| 2 | These include tightening coast guard regulations for mobile offshore drilling rigs ; revising operating manuals ; improving protective equipment on board and on standby vessels ; and installing permanent pumps to drain chain lockers on all new and existing rigs . |
| 3 | ‘ It was said in respect of her that there are people who seek flowers in the tree of life where others would never think to look — under dark leaves and on dry branches . |
| 4 | Rosa Jacobsen confirmed in Elisabeth her determined quest , not directly , but indirectly , for Rosa was like Marie Grubbe , of whom it had been written that she was someone who ‘ sought flowers in the tree of life where others would never think to look — under dark leaves and on dry branches ’ . |
| 5 | An advance party comprising more than 40 CPSU central committee officials and led by Medvedev arrived in Lithuania on Jan. 8 to sound out public opinion at meetings in factories and on collective farms . |
| 6 | Senior tutors offer information and advice to applicants both on an individual basis and on collective occasions such as visit and interview days . |
| 7 | Different cord clamping practices at vaginal delivery and at caesarean section still need to be evaluated in terms of effect on blood and red cell volumes and on physiological adaptations to extrauterine life in preterm infants . |
| 8 | Other cash crops , such as tobacco , cinnamon , arecanuts and citronella , were grown in gardens and on small plantations . |
| 9 | The concentration of effort within one small field , and on small quadrats within it , gives the studies high precision and high relevance but with an absolute sacrifice of generality . |
| 10 | Many of the outlets in the UK are franchised and on short-term leases where rents have increased sharply . |
| 11 | In normal circumstances the American political culture is a restraint on leaders in general and on chief executives in particular . |
| 12 | We can go on to observe that since the middle of the twentieth century there has been a big revival of informal street music , produced in non-literate , often amateur performance and through the public dissemination of recordings ( see Prato 1984 ) ; this has , of course , gone along with a wave of amateur music-making , centred on the guitar and on non-literate modes of production , whit h in the rock 'n' roll , ski Me and ‘ beat group ’ periods ( the late 1950s and the 1960s ) swept across the whole of Europe and North America . |
| 13 | There was now a discount for orders on a rising scale , and on certain commodities where discounts were not forthcoming Carrie immediately took action by switching her custom elsewhere . |
| 14 | Similarly , she would turn to the quotations from the Bible , which appeared on church notice boards , and on certain hoardings in the town centre , and which would declare . |
| 15 | For the first time you can have electronic anti-lock brakes across the whole range , and on certain models you can specify refinements such as power steering , air conditioning and a CD player . |
| 16 | If trees are felled in the hope of gaining extra land , a river is likely to move out to take that land , and on certain types of river a great deal more besides . |
| 17 | The dependence of the individual on the group and on certain individuals within it has become a major theme in any analysis of Japanese society . |
| 18 | A stream of legislation over the spring and summer meanwhile established some of the guiding principles of the new association : there were laws on the demarcation of the powers of the USSR and of its constituent republics , on the treatment of Soviet citizens outside their own republic , and on economic relations between the USSR , the union and autonomous republics . |
| 19 | The July peace agreement designed to end the fighting between Moldova and the self-proclaimed Dnestr republic appeared to be holding on Aug. 7 as Russian and Moldovan leaders began talks in Moscow on the implementation of the accord , and on economic ties . |
| 20 | Between 1957 and 1979 he found that on such economic inputs as minimum lending rate , public-sector borrowing requirement , and public spending as a proportion of GDP and on economic outcomes such as inflation , unemployment , and growth , the record showed long-term secular trends , regardless of changes of government . |
| 21 | Given their prime location in the centre of towns and on major thoroughfares , Georgian coaching inns are frequently prime targets for refurbishment . |
| 22 | This project draws particularly on the discipline of philosophy and on major findings in the field of neuropsychology in an attempt to clarify ‘ designerly ’ ways of knowing . |
| 23 | The tribunal 's main job is to give judgements ( virtually always non-binding ) on the interpretation of existing agreements , and on major items of negotiation not settled at the RSNC . |
| 24 | In addition to these guides , SCOTVEC publishes handy leaflets on the National Certificate and on Advanced Courses . |
| 25 | On the 28th alone , three were burning between Cluther Rocks and Red Brook on Kinder , and on two areas of Bleaklow , around Alport and Torside Clough . |
| 26 | Test drilling was also planned in Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire , Somerset and on two sites in the Cheviot Hills , nearly always ( to try to avoid objection ) using publicly owned land . |
| 27 | Ernest Saunders , the former chairman of the brewing and distilling company Guinness plc , had been convicted on Aug. 27 on two charges of conspiring to contravene the 1958 Prevention of Fraud ( Investments ) Act , on eight charges of false accounting and on two charges of theft , and was sentenced on Aug. 28 to two concurrent terms of five years and 3@1\2 years respectively . |
| 28 | Lozanov attacks the problem of " anti-suggestive " barriers , which may interfere with learning in two directions and on two planes . |
| 29 | ‘ And on two evenings I have tickets for La Scala , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Behind , and on two sides , she was protected from cold and poison gas by the leaves of a high screen decorated with scraps by a hand long since dead . |