Example sentences of "[adv] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared to the movements I have discussed , feminist criticism has little theoretical coherence , though it draws eclectically on poststructuralism , Marxism , and psychoanalysis . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) The announcement must specify in what circumstances any irrevocable undertakings will cease to be binding ( eg on receipt of a higher offer ) . |
| 3 | Differences in provision between one authority and the next can be wide ( eg on capitation allowances , the funding of teachers ' centres , off-site visits by school groups ) . |
| 4 | Many situations predispose to spatial disorientation — The main ones are : a ) Any situation involving a reduction or change in the way essential cues are available to you , eg on transition from visual to instrument flight or attempting to fly visually when what you can see is inadequate as in poor light , haze or high altitude . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | For Jo Stephens , apart from the statistical and descriptive returns required by Circular 7/88 ( DES , 1988b ) which will be made on standard forms , and similar information ( eg on staffing and use of resources ) required by the LEA , the records and reports of institutions should be ‘ generated within them ’ and ‘ belong to them ’ rather than the LEA or DES . |
| 7 | If the interim payment was specifically assigned to one head of damage ( eg on account of nursing services or the cost of a specially modified bungalow for a quadraplegic ) there is no difficulty , and the note at para 29/11/2 of the 1993 White Book encourages the court to assign the payment to special damages to simplify the calculation of interest at trial . |
| 8 | He said bookings for summer holidays this year were well ahead , with operators competing fiercely on price to capture their share of the market . |
| 9 | I decided I must face the truth about this the other night when I swerved fiercely on country road to avoid a scuba diver riding a moped . |
| 10 | While both initiatives are seen as bringing about a closer link between assessment and teaching and learning , and place a greater emphasis than hitherto on teacher assessment , Broadfoot points to various tensions and contradictions between these systems of assessment . |
| 11 | She still felt somewhat on probation within the group : Sam had n't looked too keen when Evelyn had brought her in . |
| 12 | Somewhat on impulse I decided to try this route . |
| 13 | Under natural conditions it grows most abundantly on limestone soils . |
| 14 | Below , the prisoners sat at the far side of a rank of yellow-decked tables , with their little visitors — women , kids , the old — ranged opposite on kitchen chairs . |
| 15 | This does not mean that you should fry everything in these ‘ good ’ oils and spread polyunsaturated margarine thickly on bread . |
| 16 | If your elderly parent is , by nature , affectionate and demonstrative , always kiss her warmly on arrival , and when you leave ; for many old people are greatly deprived of essential physical contact . |
| 17 | At these , information was communicated , sometimes on a confidential basis , which enabled all of us to brief our committees , our local groups , and through these areas our membership , far better on Institute policy and matters . |
| 18 | If the client 's product is to be shown , special labels to show up better on film may need to be ordered . |
| 19 | However , I had nothing better on board and could not ignore his summons . |
| 20 | Definitely better on art than the other areas , the production is messy too many tables and boxes . |
| 21 | People who drank six cups of coffee a day had reaction times 6 per cent faster than non-coffee drinkers and they did 4-5 per cent better on memory and reasoning tests . |
| 22 | Patients who put in their own drops scored better on technique than those who did not ( median score 5/9 versus 3/9 ) , but this difference was not significant . |
| 23 | However women apparently fared better on horseback : |
| 24 | The B set did particularly badly on number of words correctly accessed according to definition ( i ) i.e. intended words ( 1% ) , but did better on definition ( ii ) i.e. valid words ( 20% ) . |
| 25 | For instance , it is commonly supposed that trees and shrubs colour better on acid soils than they do on alkaline . |
| 26 | Does it work better on stage or screen ? |
| 27 | Obviously , having two amps means you 'll hear yourself better on stage , but I would have thought that a performer would prefer actual monitoring or foldback to come from a PA source ( ie. what the audience is hearing ) rather than a backline source . |
| 28 | ‘ Everyone 's got fed up with that lame club PA vibe , they want to hear it done better on stage than on record again . |
| 29 | Most stain removers performed better on polycotton than on cotton or wool — polyester does n't absorb dyes on stains . |
| 30 | The view that women are on average better on language tasks and men on spatial tasks continues to receive serious attention . |