Example sentences of "[subord] on paper " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you 've conceded , Florian 's marriage is no longer a fact except on paper , and Nicky is n't his wife . ’ |
| 2 | She contended that , although on paper two wards might appear very similar , there were considerable differences in the experience offered to students . |
| 3 | Its legislative powers were far more limited , although on paper at least its budgetary powers , with it jointly forming the budgetary authority with the Council of Ministers , appeared rather more substantial . |
| 4 | Thus , ‘ although on paper there is a training effort , the results are far from satisfactory ’ ( Lasserre , 1982 , p.57 ) . |
| 5 | And one which found that its ambitious expansion plans were rather more difficult in practice than on paper . |
| 6 | But the poem progressed farther in the mind than on paper , and all that survives of it are some verse fragments describing the distant wail of swallows and seagulls , water dripping one Sunday from the miller 's wheel ( perhaps at Kilve ) , the snow blown curling from a wood ‘ like pillars of cottage smoke ’ , and a wild Quantock pony racing in the wind . |
| 7 | It is significant that the states defeated in the second world war , on which a higher degree of devolution was imposed — presumably in reaction against fascist centralisation — lack most of the separatist movements of the rest of Western Europe , though on paper Bavaria and Sicily are at least as obvious breeding- grounds for such movements as Scotland and the francophone parts of the Bernese Jura . |
| 8 | Chemical Design , the molecular modelling systems supplier , is to include a two dimensional drawing tool in the latest release of its Chem-X software , which will allow molecules to be drawn on screen in the same way as on paper . |
| 9 | As we have already stated , it may be possible to use completed documents directly as input to a data dictionary system so that the data is held in a readily-accessible computer format as well as on paper forms . |