Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touching down on the main wheels first , the Ercoupe twitched into line ; they even tried it with the rudder pedals locked , flying on elevator and aileron only , but found the feeling ‘ rather disconcerting ’ ! |
| 2 | In the Brazil nut , Bertholleria excelsa , and Eschweilera spp. , the hood is pressed down on the fertile stamens and bears only staminodes with nectar at their bases : only a strong bee can lift the hood — species of Xylocopa and female euglossine bees . |
| 3 | If we concentrate only on the mythological representations and personifications of evil , we too easily relegate the Devil to our private worlds of personal torments and individual temptations . |
| 4 | There was a lump in her throat as she gazed down on the gaunt features . |
| 5 | Mike needs to be filled in on the latest developments . ’ |
| 6 | Soviet leaders had been prepared to consider international arrangements and guarantees only on the external aspects of the Afghan problem . |
| 7 | He ached with the fear that God was moving through the woods , coming nearer and nearer to him , a figure with a face he could not imagine , a shining shape , brushing past the respectful fern and pressing gently on the fallen twigs . |
| 8 | He held another Council in May 1108 on the same model as the last , with a similar representation of lay magnates , but on this occasion he concentrated entirely on the administrative problems arising from his earlier decree against clerical marriage . |
| 9 | From the third floor offices of the NME you could gaze down on the clueless hordes below . |
| 10 | The larger books ( folio ) are often grouped together on the lower shelves of a particular stack or in a separate sequence of shelves . |
| 11 | Now that the EC is cracking down on the ozone-depleting solvents used in dry-cleaning processes , you could face problems . |
| 12 | Spell after spell crashed down on the Dark Elves , the carnage was too awful to contemplate . |
| 13 | Mutigny 's considerably smaller hectarage is located largely on the upper slopes of Avenay , while a few of its vineyards grow on slopes high above Mareuil . |
| 14 | He had but to comment favourably on the kittenish qualities of Babs Osborne for her to curl up as best she could on the plush seat beside him , her thumb in her mouth . |
| 15 | Nearly all the earliest printed illustrations of American Indians concentrated obsessively on the gory details of their supposed cannibalism . |
| 16 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 17 | The Six agreed to hold an intergovernmental committee , to be headed by the tireless Paul-Henri Spaak , which would consider , flesh out and report back on the various proposals . |
| 18 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 19 | Whether doctors should concentrate solely on the clinical aspects of general practice or act in a wider capacity to tackle the underlying causes of ill health is a subject often discussed . |
| 20 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday at the foot of a mountain ridge on the Isle of Skye . |
| 21 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday at the foot of a mountain ridge on the Isle of Skye . |
| 22 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday on Skye . |
| 23 | Finally , erm various terms have been erm thrown around about new settlements being an engine of growth and a sinkhole for future growth , erm the only point I want to make there is that any future growth beyond the present structure plan period of two thousand and six would of course be subject to the planning system , there is no automatic erm growth erm of any new settlement that is proposed or may be proposed beyond two thousand and six , and Mr Davis has indicated that at that time a new study will be carried out on the relative merits of the alternative options that were seen at that time . |
| 24 | A rather different example is newspapers , where typesetting , printing , and publishing are all commonly carried out on the same premises by one company . |
| 25 | A special analysis of the overall extent of the temporary workforce carried out on the British/European Communities ' Labour Force Survey bears on the changing structure of the labour market and its likely repercussions on the outlook for Britain 's underclass . |
| 26 | Cromwell destroyed that liberty : he appointed twenty-seven fit and proper persons — schoolmasters , lawyers , ministers of religion , doctors ( the sort of people found nowadays on the regulatory bodies for broadcasting and video ) to censor public reading . |
| 27 | The task was designed to minimize feelings of risk and thus prevent attention focusing , however , it is possible that actually feeling risk is not necessary for drivers to concentrate exclusively on the risky aspects of the stimuli . |
| 28 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 29 | Mining in those areas occurred initially on the exposed fields in the area between Leeds and Derby , and it gradually shifted eastwards , as improvements in technology allowed deeper pits to be sunk , onto the concealed deposits . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , Scott drew heavily on the Byzantine palaces of Venice , which Ruskin had popularized in The Stones of Venice , for inspiration in the revised Foreign Office design that he was preparing for Palmerston in the autumn of 1859 . |