Example sentences of "[verb] on very " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've caught on very quickly to some of the interesting things Brownies do , but do n't forget the first thing Brownies learn to do is to give . ’ |
| 2 | However , the singularity theorems that Roger Penrose and I proved show that space-time will become highly curved on very small scales . |
| 3 | The public telephones are built on very thick stone slabs , causing difficulty in getting into the box . |
| 4 | It is clear that such a justification not only depends on very special circumstances but is essentially parasitic . |
| 5 | Some music has a rich variety of movement , other music depends on very little change ( as in the Musorgsky example shown above ) . |
| 6 | This means that animals , which live by consuming other organisms , need ways of making do on very little . |
| 7 | That is , if we exclude such payments , the manual sector — in particular the male manual worker — suffers a major reduction in average weekly earnings while the non-manual workers do not , since their gross wages depend on very little overtime . |
| 8 | In practice , however , these conditions are met on very rare occasions so that one might conclude that spatial differences in economic potential are unlikely ever to be equalised . |
| 9 | Differentiated curricula and the social structure are matched on very firm foundations : by building on these foundations comprehensive reorganization has had to accept the antecedent structures which contradict its stated ideal . [ … ] |
| 10 | Embryologists are sensitive about issues relating to animal experimentation and the vast majority of experiments are done on very early embryos which are rarely allowed to develop to maturity . |
| 11 | Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law was similar to , though less antagonistic than , Mrs Kitchener 's daughter , in that she said she found looking after her mother-in-law a strain , that it was time-consuming , and putting a strain on her marriage ; she and her mother-in-law had never got on very well , and she ‘ would like to get her into a Home , ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's nearly a year younger than I am , but we always got on very well . |
| 13 | The top shelf was reserved for one of Mum 's wedding presents , a floral decorated bone china tea service , only used on very special occasions , which we all treated with great respect . |
| 14 | Indeed , where there were longer " events " , these were normally staffed with seasonal workers employed on very different terms and conditions . |
| 15 | The leaves are dark green on the upper surface and light purple on the under surface , heart-shaped to circular , and borne on very long slender leaf-stalks . |
| 16 | here , the pressure of population growth within the confines of a small island of only 29 square miles led to the development of an innovatory , intensive system based on very effective soil conservation techniques — including the integration of fodder and arable crops and livestock . |
| 17 | However , only treatment of hypertension in diabetics with nephropathy has been shown to improve prognosis , although this statement is based on very few patients . |
| 18 | The market research survey to find out what brand of toothpaste housewives prefer is not likely to be based on very much sociological theory . |
| 19 | I believe that this trend will spread and that it is based on very sound educational grounds . |
| 20 | Tolkien was trying , then , to make Shakespeare more positive — a bold venture , but based on a clear insight itself based on very minute reading . |
| 21 | Findings based on very limited evidence can not be regarded as being firmly established and need to be verified by means of additional observations and cases . |
| 22 | The $10m trial of the wireless communications system based on very low-power , digital radio communications will involve personal handsets and microcellular technology to enable users to be immediately and constantly accessible — 1,000 trial participants will use the pocket phones to make and receive calls within the coverage area , on both home base stations and 500 or so public base stations in the downtown and other densely-populated or widely visited parts of Boise . |
| 23 | The rates for Seascale were based on very small numbers . |
| 24 | This system of industrial relations ‘ is consistent with and is based on very fundamental and very longstanding patterns in Japanese society = = the company is the recipient of the kind of identification and loyalty that is the basis of family organisation ’ ( Abegglen 1973 p.28 ) . |
| 25 | However , few of the statistical methods have achieved more than a 70 per cent explanation rate , and furthermore , the regressions have often been based on very small samples of professional people , and the mechanistic techniques have cloaked what is essentially unquantifiable with an indefensible professional mysticism . |
| 26 | The last part of the essay , however , is based on very recent work on which there is , as yet , no general consensus . |
| 27 | The models are based on very slick-looking matt shells with controls that are neatly incorporated into the overall design , rather than tacked on . |
| 28 | This does not mean that all formal principles have been abandoned — the form may be based on very logical mathematical principles , or on structures which are retrogrades or inversions of what has gone before ( which makes the musical ideas themselves somewhat elusive ) — but if there is no repetition of well-sculptured subject matter , the music is almost certain to escape the memory , even after several hearings . |
| 29 | ‘ Lady Lavinia , ’ Theda said firmly , ‘ even were I to give you my advice , which must necessarily be based on very little knowledge , I can not for a moment imagine that you would take it . ’ |
| 30 | The basic models or ‘ paradigms ’ of scientific theories seemed firm , though great scientists like James Clerk Maxwell ( 1831–79 ) formulated their versions with the instinctive caution which made them compatible with later theories based on very different models . |