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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I think this is policing on the cheap , and it is something profoundly to be regretted . |
| 9 | This is displayed on the electro-cardiograph screen , along with heart rate . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is based on the grazing history and clinical signs of loss of condition and anaemia . |
| 12 | This is based on the original AFHQ text in Kirk Archives , Washington . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | This is based on the radioactive decay of & sup147sm to & sup143nd ( samarium-147 to neodymium-143 ) and is an adaptation of recognised methodologies . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All this is happening on the main bed , of course . |
| 18 | This is paralleled on the technical plane by a sabotage of the verisimilitude on which realism is predicated . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was always trenchant opposition to Japanese annexation of Korea and this was revealed on the left and the right of the political spectrum . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Déjà vu was one thing , she thought irritably , but this was bordering on the ridiculous ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | One such is based on the following idea . |
| 26 | Birmingham City Council has now set its community charge , the basic amount payable is shown on the enclosed demand note . |
| 27 | The excess moisture vapour in the air condenses into droplets of water , and these are deposited on the cold surface , first as a fine film that mists up the glass , and then as more moisture is deposited , the droplets combine to form rivulets that run down the surface to form those tell-tale pools of water on window sills and the like , sometimes ruining decoration , and causing window sills and frames to rot and rust . |
| 28 | These are based on the occupational standards as defined by the industry Lead Body ( the Administration Lead Body , incorporating the Administration , Business and Commerce Training Group and the National Working Party for Secretarial Standards ) . |
| 29 | These are superimposed on the main curve , and only last a few decades , but can have deviations on the radiocarbon axis of a century or so ( fig. 7.5 ) . |
| 30 | The large crowd bore witness to its popularity although the course record of 68 set by Des Ballintine in 1984 was broken on the tough Prehen course . |