Example sentences of "on [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Tariffs on raw materials and exports which did not compete with locally produced goods would be removed on March 31 , 1993 ; those on agricultural and most industrial goods would be removed between 1995 and 1997 ; and those on certain sensitive goods like cars , textiles and steel by 2001 .
2 The paper was to be open and frank on political as well as personal issues ; it was to be investigative and campaigning , internationalist , but also accessible , and radical but clearly independent of any political current or party . ’
3 She demonstrated that some women could make their voices heard on political as well as spiritual matters during the Interregnum .
4 Use it on permed or naturally curly hair — i costs £2.39/200ml .
5 Brilliant on permed or naturally curly hair , damp or dry hair and great for scrunch drying , ShockWaves Curl Shaper can also be used in-between washes to re-energise tired curls — perfect for keeping in the office for an end-of-the-day style boost !
6 However , although many policy prescriptions are based on models estimated using such data , for example in taxation and labour supply , the properties of estimators for these models rely heavily on strong and usually untested stochastic assumptions .
7 It is quite at home on dry as well as wet soils .
8 Although the contact was more social than professional , the two inevitably talked shop when they met , and as Coleman zeroed in on al-Kassar as possibly the key player in the Middle East 's narco-terrorist game , he decided to visit Mayer in his office at the German Embassy one day to see if his friend could be persuaded to take a more generous view of international cooperation than Hurley 's .
9 The article in your February issue ( No.15 , p.4 ) concerning the UNIDROIT meeting to discuss the Draft Preliminary Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects was much appreciated in alerting the world of curators , collectors , and dealers to an important further step in the process of harmonising disparate laws on the international traffic in cultural objects .
10 [ Preliminary draft Unidroit Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects ]
11 It also provides a counselling service and a range of literature with advice on emotional as well as practical problems .
12 Crime they say does n't pay , well you may have your own views on that but certainly across the breadth of variety of criminal activity we might agree that crime almost always hurt someone , more or less , we have a system designed to cope with the effects of crime and to deter future criminals , but it does n't seem to be making crime a thing of the past , so how good are we at dealing with crime , tonight 's hundred women have a broad range of experience as victims , law women , perpetrators , police and others , we 'll be hearing their views on the system and how it might be changed and asking why are we all so fascinated by fictional crime from Cell Block H to Agatha Christie .
13 I see thank you , yes that 's very helpful that clarifies the position on that and finally I 'll ask Michael Colgan to take us into the question of the management systems for the contract .
14 I know that we 're meeting with the company next week , but whether or not anything 's come forward on that and also erm in reference to the pensions section , erm , just correct your deliberate mistake and part timers ca n't enter the Securicor Pension Scheme .
15 my Lord all that follows now is that question costs in this my Lord there is no doubt that er this is the painful experience for both the plaintiffs and of course for doctor who is unrepresented and therefore must inevitably feel rather isolated in this matter erm , however in my there is no reason to er depart from the usual principal of the costs which should follow the event and of course we know as it the loss on the subsidiary appeal and so I do n't press the point on that cos the reality as you 've already probably anticipated is all the work has been done erm on this appeal the subsidiary appeal I ask , I do n't ask for costs on that , in my submission it should be both sides bear their own costs on that , the reason I say that is that there was no , there was no cross appearing in respect on it in effect , cos after all , all you were doing was er trying to get the same as the other side if we lost , so no worm of can of beans can be done by doctor I had one parallel in my whole skeleton on that , er , but we have substantially succeeded on the main issue and so I , I would ask that costs in favour of the plaintiffs on , on that and here and indeed below .
16 For example birth control , you see you could use the same argument , you could say oh the Catholics say birth control is unnatural and we know they have a whole position on that and yet the data on infertility shows that in fact most women generate antibodies to some sperm , so the , those datas suggest that actively discriminating against sperm on the part of the women is actually natural and all that is happening in modern birth control technology is that women are developing or building on a natural er foundation that is already there namely to be choosy about when they become pregnant and by whom .
17 He 'd work on that and probably end up getting a Queen 's Award for Industry .
18 There was nothing more to say on that and so that the Shah started talking quietly about Iran .
19 Finally , behind schedule , he explains , so simply that I can understand , that he is going to take the Peter Brooke nomination , allow a little debate on the topic , then take an amendment to substitute ‘ Boothroyd ’ for ‘ Brooke ’ , take a vote on that and then see where we are .
20 ‘ I think we should be given lessons on that and then we could make up our minds about whether we are being used by a boy seeing how far he can go , or whether the boy is really interested in us .
21 If we , if we decide what it is we want to look at and there is a consensus on that and then you look at it over a period of time and see , and see what 's revealed by it .
22 I can also , if I erm come across the same problem a few times I could hopefully work on that and then probably eradicate altogether .
23 Base the idea and structure building on that and then increase the incidentals as you go along .
24 The reason it 's come out in this way is that you had the debate on the er original proposals for this extra money which did n't go as was recommended er and you made a decision on that and then later in the agenda , and I ca n't find the , the exact point now but you had a discussion and a suggestion was made and agreed that if there was any money left over investigations should be made and that the surveyor should give erm consideration Madam Chairman to using any of that , perhaps for a camera , and that was agreed , and it is noted somewhere , and that 's what Mr has done .
25 Well I would say , I mean you you would be working on that and then be working on something else .
26 Well Notts went wide of the target on eight minutes , it was er all really set up by Gary with a little header down to Paul , inside right channel , lobbed it on to , the defence was wide open and who had n't scored this season got the very goal that he 's been wanting to score to add to his match winning performance on Saturday , when he was made the patrons ' player of the match and er he thumped the ball in the net , it was quite a blistering effort and Notts should 've settled down on that and certainly should 've settled down on twenty one .
27 We 'll take calls on that and indeed any other subject in the news after the seven o'clock news .
28 At the moment , sad to say that physical vertical is the most effective means of slowing people down and and narrowings and visual erm signs and that kind of thing , road markings , do not have the same effect er but we are working on that and hopefully in our next batch of schemes we will start to experiment with things like speed cushions and what have you which , which have a lesser effect on , on erm on both minibuses and buses .
29 We sat companionably enough , each ruminating on the nature of existence so early in the morning and contemplating the day 's activity , although Bernard obviously had opinions on that as well , judging by his expression .
30 And if you take half of that away you know they know how to manage on that as well , somehow .
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