Example sentences of "on [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raleigh International 's current expedition in Namibia has young volunteers , aged between and 25 , working on eight projects all round the country . |
| 2 | Well I thought he was on eight days then . |
| 3 | This group contained the smallest number of cases , ( 19 ) and the excess was based on eight patients only . |
| 4 | Second level courses , such as the nine-hour courses for subject and language specialists , are able to work more intensively on specific topics e.g. analysing classroom language , choosing and developing materials . |
| 5 | To the question , ‘ Do you use headhunters regularly or on specific occasions only ? ’ , respondents admitting regular usage accounted for only 15% of the companies surveyed . |
| 6 | Do you use headhunters regularly or on specific occasions only ? |
| 7 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
| 8 | Goes on lower levels there . |
| 9 | But they could probably learn something from the occupational pluralism practised by crofters as an adaption to living on agricultural holdings too small to be economically viable . |
| 10 | Another charge of a similar kind is that Barth was excessively concerned with ontology , with the rationale of the being of God ; that he misused biblical terms and concepts on the one hand by treating them semi-literally as ‘ ontic ’ , as descriptive of the way things actually are when they are often pictorial or metaphorical , and on the other hand by turning the whole of Scripture into a vast allegory of Jesus Christ ; and that this reflected a Platonist streak in his thinking which encouraged an unbalanced concentration on eternal realities rather than the actual world of concrete life and experience . |
| 11 | To voters who had lost their party moorings , who focused on political matters only spasmodically and relied on fleeting impressions derived from television , Ronald Reagan proved to have exceptional appeal . |
| 12 | Whilst the press must not overstep the bounds set , inter alia , for the ‘ protection of the reputation of others ’ , it is nevertheless incumbent on it to impart information and ideas on political issues just as on those in other areas of public interest . |
| 13 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
| 14 | Otherwise , the figures on present-day variations strongly suggest that since then it is nasal environments that have subsequently led the change , closely followed by fricative and voiced stop environments . |
| 15 | In general [ we ] consider that it would be a disservice to the law and to litigants to encourage forensic attacks on valuations by experts where those attacks are based on textual criticisms more appropriate to the measured analysis of fiscal legislation . |
| 16 | If you can offer any information or guidance on career-changing workshops etc. , I would be very grateful . |
| 17 | Increases were higher for those on higher incomes , but those on low incomes also received more income . |
| 18 | One outcome of this is that those on low incomes either reduce the amount they eat , or eat food of lower nutritional value , which particularly affects growing children . |
| 19 | These policies have , in many cases , been taken out by individuals on low incomes merely to provide for the cost of funeral expenses . |
| 20 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 21 | Concentrate on indoor delights rather than outdoor fights and you 'll be much better appreciated . |
| 22 | Gorbachev also endorsed the comments of the Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin , who stated on Sept. 5 that Soviet-Cuban relations had to be " de-ideologized " and , from now on , had to be based on free-trade terms rather than on previous military or political dogmas . |
| 23 | It 's important to get good instruction on dry slopes so that you do n't get into bad habits before you start on the real stuff . |
| 24 | The current volume of vehicles could triple , or even quadruple , over the next 30 years and the bulk of the increase will fall on rural roads rather than urban streets or motorways . |
| 25 | THE United States , moving a step closer to a transatlantic trade war , plans to announce punitive taxes on European imports as early as today . |
| 26 | THE United States , moving a step closer to a transatlantic trade war , plans to announce punitive taxes on European imports as early as today . |
| 27 | In the past two or three years investing in Europe has grown significantly , and there are moves to make dealing on European exchanges easier . |
| 28 | Perhaps Spinoza could have strengthened it in various ways , by saying that people can not on odd occasions deliberately act out of the character they try to give their lives , without destroying that character , and that for the rational person the character of a life which includes good relations with other people at large is essential for personal fulfilment . |
| 29 | Or the authority may direct that the final decision must be based on economic considerations only , thus replacing all but the economic factors . |
| 30 | In particular , an Australian , Hugh Stretton , has put together popular revulsion against high-rise living with feminist ideas about the productivity of housework , and come to the conclusion that , if housework had a place in national accounting systems , then governments would be easily persuaded on economic grounds alone to invest more in housing with generous space standards and of a suburban style ( Stretton , 1974 ) . |