Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [det] [noun] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet we saw in Chapter 1 that plants are the source of almost all life on Earth ; they alone can create the organic molecules which the animals consume . |
| 2 | The varied forms in which status is available have been recognised by social controllers , and have made them wary of too much reliance on stigmatisation : conventional stigma can provide deviant status . |
| 3 | Computer science , though one of the younger disciplines , relies like so many others on mathematics , and this happy relationship works both ways . |
| 4 | The tradition of the theory of ideology has attempted this , though with perhaps little effect on practice . |
| 5 | Would you say that with so much emphasis on film and the camera , theatre training is becoming less important ? |
| 6 | With so much emphasis on cooking and eating , it 's amazing that both Sheila and Chris manage to say so slim . |
| 7 | Surely in this day and age with so much emphasis on safety it is madness to surface roads like this . |
| 8 | Teaching needs to be discussed in a much more rounded and comprehensive way , with far less emphasis on surface aspects like display and resources ; far more emphasis should be placed on the character of the minute-to-minute encounters which children have with teachers and each other , on the precise nature and purposes of the tasks they are given and The activities they undertake , and on the relationship of these and other aspects of the practice of teaching to learning . |
| 9 | Daro says there is a tendency to misuse computers , with too much emphasis on drill and practice . |
| 10 | There should be no need to run more than one main process , since LIFESPAN is designed to handle enormous projects with very little impact on speed of response , and you can apply whatever security controls you need within one process . |
| 11 | Taking the case of social class as an example of a more general difficulty associated with speaker variables , I shall comment in the following sections in rather less detail on sex and ethnicity . |
| 12 | Barefoot men jogged past , close-packed about their leaders on their colourfully bedecked , trippling mules ; groups of horsemen , mostly Galla , cantered past or were engulfed among yet more men on foot . |
| 13 | I think the fight is worth more , at least another £50,000 on top of that . |
| 14 | It is too much work : or , more precisely , too much time spent by too many people on work of a kind which contributes insufficiently to their fulfilment and which may tend to diminish their capacity for fulfilling themselves , too much soul-destroying toil or boredom . |