Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter , any money held by the travel agent is held on Club 18–30 's behalf . |
| 2 | Diseconomies : more staff per head required ; heavy initial outlay on equipment disproportionate per capita ; no economies of scale possible . |
| 3 | A report on Amnesty International 's first investigation into political detentions in Saudi Arabia , published on Jan. 11 , claimed that over 700 political opponents of the regime — principally members of Shia opposition groupings — had been held without trial since 1983 , including some 100 in 1989 alone . |
| 4 | Cannon J. , who delivered his judgment in French , seems to have taken a wider view since he reached the same conclusion without reliance on the maxims of the civil law or the Quebec civil code : ‘ On peut dire que son droit est né en même temps qu'elle . ’ |
| 5 | And first of all before we er we put the reports we , there are a number of er , there 's one alteration and a number of er , additions obviously alteration or I should say a a an amendment is something an important place on page fifteen er , at the tope of the page referring to December nineteen ninety two I 've put , which is agreed by GP committee with the exception of young these representatives , that we ask them to bring thirty pounds towards the cost that should be twenty five . |
| 6 | On page two er bands that should th the heading , nursing home , should come after band C and not before it . |
| 7 | on page four erm , by the , er near the beginning , so it reads that that er comma noting continuing high rates er sorry high erm levels of unemployment in Hertfordshire . |
| 8 | The plan in detail is set out under the title ‘ The Goodman Proposals ’ in Appendix VI on page 760 et seq . |
| 9 | The titty girl on page 3 's midriff was stained and transparent with grease from the fish and chips . |
| 10 | During the second half of the century the Empire 's population rose on average 1.5 per cent a year , the total soaring from 74 million at Emancipation in 1861 to 126 million in 1897 . |
| 11 | Whereas on average 2.4 per cent of households were victimized by burglary , in the high-risk areas it was 6.3 per cent ( Hough and Mayhew , 1985 , Table M ) . |
| 12 | In the last free elections in what is now East Germany , in 1946 , the SED , after its forced alliance with the SPD , won on average 45 per cent of the vote . |
| 13 | Salary increases in the accountancy profession were on average two per cent in the private sector last year , the lowest in 25 years . |
| 14 | Samples from different sites contain on average 38 per cent iron , 6.5 per cent manganese , 0–3 per cent aluminium and smaller amounts of other metals . |
| 15 | The growth of GDP , which had averaged 5.4 per cent annual growth in the first half of the 1970s and 0.8 per cent between 1975 and 1980 , went into reverse , dropping on average 5.7 per cent a year over the period from 1981 to 1988 . |
| 16 | The CEGB 's Magnox series , for instance , was expected to produce on average 75 per cent of its maximum output each year . |
| 17 | For example , a recent German study , which aimed at controlling blood phenylalanine concentrations between 60 and 300 µmol/l , produced IQ results no better than those in British subjects , in whom the aim was more relaxed control ( 180–600 µmol/l ) , though the blood phenylalanine value was on average 100 µmol/l lower in the German subjects . |
| 18 | Yet on average 73 per cent of UK adults now use some form of credit , compared with 22 per cent in 1969 , and 33 per cent have three or more loans , compared with three per cent in 1969 . ’ |
| 19 | Target funding is the estimated budget increase needed to cope with rising demands ( on average 2 per cent in real terms each year ) against which the actual budget can be compared , with shortfalls accumulated from year to year . |
| 20 | Ian Byatt , OFWAT 's Director General , believes we 'll all be paying on average 50 per cent more for our water by the end of the decade . |
| 21 | One survey showed that five European drug companies were charging Indian customers on average 350 per cent the European price of their products . |
| 22 | On each such line , there are on average some c*n possible middle points , where c is a number independent of n . |
| 23 | Some would argue that the compound rates of return required by venture capitalists — on average 20 per cent to 25 per cent p.a. , but sometimes up to 50 per cent for start ups-are too high , but this is difficult to argue against given the nature of the investments involved and the high degree of risk . |
| 24 | In Britain , each of us gets on average 40 per cent of our calories from fat . |
| 25 | The Podmore survey indicated that on average 15 per cent of a practices ' time would be taken up with company and commercial work . |
| 26 | Anyone failing to pay the total amount shown on that account when they received it ( the end of the ‘ free credit ’ period ) would have to pay what he owed plus interest , which in 1990 was on average 2.2 per cent monthly or 29.8 Annual Percentage Rate ( risen from 23.1 per cent in 1988 ) . |
| 27 | Neither does it resolve the problems of people who are on income support in Scotland , since any increase in benefit will be a flat-rate payment across the UK , whereas it costs on average 30 per cent more to heat a house in Scotland . |
| 28 | Yes , erm , on paragraph three erm , the , the last sentence erm , where it says without direct access to its own balances , the authority may therefore have to make revised precept in ninety four , ninety five erm , I understand what 's being said there , but any organization needs to actually work within er , a clearly defined budget . |
| 29 | Erm on paragraph twenty erm the government 's proposals will penalise all the camping which takes place outside recognised sites while at the same time I 've already said , removing any incentive or obligation for local authorities to provide enough sites anyway so i it 's , it 's a a total squeeze that on the one hand the government is restricting the number of pitches and then penalising everybody who has n't got one ! |
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