Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only native Hawaiian plants and animals that are n't extinct are found on the high mountainsides ( yes , a lot of people live their whole lives in Hawaii without ever coming across a native species ) , and the biggest problem up there is that type of pig that descended from European wild boars and Polynesian pigs . |
| 2 | Some are based on the total number of dies observed in the sample . |
| 3 | Each of the remaining public rooms have individual designs to suit their grand style , some being repeated on the second floor where another series of function rooms overlook Edinburgh Castle and Princes Street . |
| 4 | As a result they show subtle differences , some being positioned on the upper fin , some on the rear of the main trunk and some on the tail-stem . |
| 5 | An estimated 4,000 crowd , with some being accommodated on the top deck of four double deck buses , saw Dunvant give everything in a spirited display . |
| 6 | The data used by Sear was provided by the Universities Statistical Record and covered the 1979 graduates from universities in Britain , broken down by degree class , age , and A-level points score ( this being measured on the conventional UCCA scale ) . |
| 7 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 8 | Some were based on the pre-war zaibatsu family-run conglomerates , others are centred on a big manufacturer such as Toyota , Nippon Steel or Matsushita . |
| 9 | I think this is policing on the cheap , and it is something profoundly to be regretted . |
| 10 | This is displayed on the electro-cardiograph screen , along with heart rate . |
| 11 | Interestingly he 's talking about — this is written on the third of May , talking about the present splendid weather , which is , plus the recent report that too many British industrialists are making themselves ill because they do n't take their holidays has prompted me to write to you about our holidays . |
| 12 | This is based on the combined heat-and-power cycle process , in which natural gas is burned to drive an electricity turbine and the waste heat drives a steam turbine . |
| 13 | This is based on the grazing history and clinical signs of loss of condition and anaemia . |
| 14 | This is based on the original AFHQ text in Kirk Archives , Washington . |
| 15 | Price/earnings ( P/E ) ratio ; this is based on the latest annual earnings and is calculated by dividing the market share price by the last declared figure for earnings per share . |
| 16 | In addition , we assume an optimistic outcidence rate of 20 per cent , that is , that one in five opioid users in 1984–5 will not be opioid users during 1985–6 ( this is based on the reported ‘ coming off ’ rate among clients of the Detoxification Unit during this period ) . |
| 17 | This is based on the radioactive decay of & sup147sm to & sup143nd ( samarium-147 to neodymium-143 ) and is an adaptation of recognised methodologies . |
| 18 | This is found on the new coin struck by Henry , the sovereign , and , more strikingly , on the much more widely circulated groats , where the coin type with the open crown had long remained unaltered . |
| 19 | This is verging on the tragic , because even if there is only a remote chance of these clumps being survivors from prehistoric times , it must be our duty to ensure their continuity . |
| 20 | All this is happening on the main bed , of course . |
| 21 | This is paralleled on the technical plane by a sabotage of the verisimilitude on which realism is predicated . |
| 22 | I think some of this was lost on the non-Aryan members of our section , such as the Polynesians who could in no way pretend that their ancestry stretched back to the Vikings . |
| 23 | There was always trenchant opposition to Japanese annexation of Korea and this was revealed on the left and the right of the political spectrum . |
| 24 | Unionists had a slight majority of the English borough seats , but this was based on the small towns of the West and South rather than the heavy industrial centres of the North . |
| 25 | At first , researchers attempted to place this style in the area from which it was assumed to originate — perhaps Persia , China or Central Asia — but through historical research it became clear that this was based on the false premise that the cloth was made in the original style of a certain group of people . |
| 26 | This was based on the 1975 white paper which proposed a significant increase in home food production to reduce dependence on imports which had risen sharply in cost . |
| 27 | Déjà vu was one thing , she thought irritably , but this was bordering on the ridiculous ! |
| 28 | Under its extant rules , support from 55 per cent of those voting was required for a strike to be called , and this was achieved on the first two occasions only : in December 1971 , 59 per cent voted in favour , whereas in February 1974 support was an overwhelming 81 per cent . |
| 29 | This was protected on the landward side by the Portsea Lines but the garrison would be harassed by small boats taking them in the rear via the channel between Portsea and Hayling Island . |
| 30 | This was performed on the 10 patients with pain after gastric surgery who also carried out the sodium probe study . |