Example sentences of "[adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A lover of nature , he was no lover of solitude , and like many whose occupations condemn them to long silences he seized eagerly on all opportunities of conversation . ’ |
| 2 | ’ Sophie had seized eagerly on this possible lead and was determined to follow it , nose to the ground . |
| 3 | At 9.30pm on 11 December 1876 , PC Isaacs of Hungerford Police Station chatted with Inspector Joseph Drewitt outside the Red Lion , a well known hostelry . |
| 4 | In the extreme , of course , local people may object strongly to a project ( eg on environmental grounds ) , and force a design change or even the abandonment of the project , so that public attitudes may become an important issue . |
| 5 | to teach children how to make use of books , magazines and simple source material ( eg on floppy disc and computer tape ) and to develop referencing skills ( in atlas , dictionary , information books ) |
| 6 | These include physical adsorption ( eg on controlled pore glass or alumina ) , chemical attachment to a surface ( eg on carbon , Pt or , glass electrodes ) physical entrapment in hydrophilic gels ( eg polyacrylamide , polyvinyl alcohol or gelatin ) , chemical crosslinking ( eg to albumin ) and retention in protective microvesicles ( eg liposomes or red cell membranes ) . |
| 7 | They developed detailed training proposals ( eg on mental frailty among elderly people , on dementia , on services available , on health and safety at work , on confidentiality , on employment and administrative matters , on incontinence , and on diet ) . |
| 8 | ( 8 ) If there are allotted but unissued shares in the target outstanding ( eg on provisional allotment letters following a rights issue ) the Panel must be consulted . |
| 9 | Familiarity with the Law Society 's Civil Litigation Committee 's Guide to Good Practice and other guidance ( eg on medical reports and structured settlements ) as published . |
| 10 | Open country , nesting colonially on inland cliffs and ruined buildings . |
| 11 | The leaves are narrow , long up to 4ins ( 10cms ) , long , ribbon-shaped , bright green , growing opposite on long , branching stems . |
| 12 | COOK 'S NOTE : To make caraque , melt about 175g/6oz plain chocolate , then spread it thickly on some baking parchment and leave to set . |
| 13 | They were speeding along the A40 trunk road now , the landscape growing ever more undulating as the Cotswolds drew near , the pale winter sunlight falling warmly on honey-stoned farmhouses and curving boundary walls . |
| 14 | He kissed her warmly on both cheeks and caught again that elusive scent that was special to her . |
| 15 | Clay masks which dry on the skin are grease-absorbing and act better on oily skins . |
| 16 | ‘ I think I might do that better on firm ground . ’ |
| 17 | Standardised tests had shown that ‘ whereas his two older brothers had scored better on verbal ability than on visual motor ability , Balbinder had performed equally poorly on both ’ . |
| 18 | In general , the results confirmed her predictions ; independent of sex , late maturers scored better on spatial tasks and early maturers scored better on verbal tasks . |
| 19 | In the main , Shuard focuses on differences in achievement in specific areas of the curriculum — boys doing better in questions involving understanding of place value , spatial visualisation and problem solving , for example , while girls , as ever , do better on straight computational questions . |
| 20 | She states that early maturers have better verbal aptitude than spatial ability , whereas later maturers perform better on spatial tasks than verbal ones . |
| 21 | In general , the results confirmed her predictions ; independent of sex , late maturers scored better on spatial tasks and early maturers scored better on verbal tasks . |
| 22 | they mentioned he had an excellent game — and from the goals showed the scot goalkeeper could have done much better on two of the italian goals … specially the first one — a flat shot from far out and at an angle too . |
| 23 | Okay you covered all that okay yeah erm I think the objection bit you could 've been a bit better on that one erm cos that was quite a sort of bad one , well you 're not too sure about sort of giving his name or his telephone number out |
| 24 | Well they go a lot better on that bike of mine . |
| 25 | It 's go it 's you can hear the words better on that one . |
| 26 | Though other books may be just as good or even better on one particular feature . |
| 27 | It is less ambiguous than the previous version but still suggests that if your car will run on standard unleaded petrol , it will run even better on Super Plus unleaded . |
| 28 | Baroness Seear , a leader of the Liberal peers for several years , remarks that ‘ I can honestly say that I have never been in a place that treats you better on male-female equality . |
| 29 | Farm machinery is used better on larger farms and needs fewer workers . |
| 30 | If a mutant batch of tadpoles with cannibalistic tendencies suddenly arose in a spadefoot population , they would tend to survive much better on those occasions when the pond was quickly drying out . |