Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 2 | Childhood memory is however typically family-centred , touching only haphazardly on the unattached . |
| 3 | There 's that drinks thing where you sit all round on the high stalls you know |
| 4 | What has happened because this problem has been recognised is that the police are having to go down there on a regular basis and actually stop people doing this stupid manoeuvre . |
| 5 | He drove so smoothly and the tyres hummed so pleasantly on the tarred road that she knew she could easily have slept . |
| 6 | At first , the Ottoman taxation system , although it bore more heavily on the Christian peasantry than on other inhabitants of the raya , was not as oppressive as were the arbitrary and often extortionate levies made by the medieval Christian rulers in western and central Europe . |
| 7 | We can now focus more directly on the philosophical potential of the fabliaux . |
| 8 | By the light of the fires he could see Paul already sitting cross-legged on a buffalo skin by the pholy , and he sank gratefully down on the other side of him . |
| 9 | Sidney lives out here on the eastern side of the town where the fish cellars used to be . |
| 10 | Alternatively , are they likely to concentrate even more on the top end of the market , because their fees will rise pro rata with salaries and thus increase their fee income ? |
| 11 | For this we have to thank director Euzhan Palcy , since Andre Brink 's original novel focusses almost entirely on the Afrikaner teacher , Benjamin du Toit . |
| 12 | ‘ We will focus very strongly on the important and valuable conservation work which is carried out here . |
| 13 | The film , which starred Huw Garmon in the title role , does not concentrate too heavily on the Black Chair episode , but rather on the character of the man who became a legend throughout Wales in the months after his death . |
| 14 | There 'd be a two-bedroomed bungalow — tucked away there on a modern estate , thought Pascoe . |
| 15 | ‘ Mighty magic , ’ commented the barbarian , pushing down heavily on the complaining blade with a hand the size of a ham . |
| 16 | The rights incorporated into the private key , then , depend not only on the lawful acquisition of the private key but also upon the text of the carrier 's valid receipt message . |
| 17 | Industrial location depends not only on a good water supply or plentiful , cheap , raw materials , but also on capital , surplus wealth , and , perhaps above all , someone to start the activity — entrepreneurial spirit . |
| 18 | Transmission depends not only on the external relations of the railway administrations with the government , but also on their internal structure . |
| 19 | Texts are always ambiguous since their meaning depends not only on the lexical and syntactical structure , in which ambiguity , according to Olson and others , can be reduced to a minimum , but also on paralinguistic , contextual structures , of which interpretation can never be exhaustive . |
| 20 | Maintenance of an adequate circulation to provide the means of transport for oxygen and carbon dioxide depends not only on the correct functioning of the heart and vessels but also on the presence of an adequate amount of fluid to circulate . |
| 21 | One has also to contend with the contribution of the Criminal Law Revision Committee , about which much could be said not least on the remarkable sortie into the defences of intoxication and mistake in its 14th Report . |
| 22 | Newman and Nichols , in a study of a 60–80-year-old group in North Carolina , confirmed this and noted , as had Kinsey , that the extent of sexual activity in later years depends far more on the intrinsic sexual drive of the individual than on relative age considerations . |
| 23 | France now came out openly on the American side and began actively to prepare a new invasion to take advantage of England 's difficulties overseas . |
| 24 | And they do n't mean when we can afford a bigger house or when we 've had the big-deal holiday , but when I 've risen high enough on the corporate ladder to be able to take six months off without everyone forgetting who the hell I am . |
| 25 | In discussing the school I will draw on the work of the last two writers , who focus particularly clearly on the theoretical issue with which we are concerned . |
| 26 | The software utilised for the interview analysis ( ie JAZZ ) operated quite successfully on the semi-portable ( luggable ? ) |
| 27 | Bore-hole water , particularly from deep supplies , is usually very uniform , but the composition depends almost entirely on the geological source . |
| 28 | My enthusiasm for economic and political union is therefore built quite simply on the financial interests of our nation . |
| 29 | The experimental methods involved depend very much on the particular experiment , so they will not be discussed further in this chapter . |
| 30 | Tossing his case over the top of it , he scrambled up and dropped lightly down on the other side . |