Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 In ten days he aims to teach the six to walk properly on a lead , sit when told , lie down and stay and return to their owners from any distraction .
2 The first process depends on the carbon dioxide concentration and the path length from the external air to the chloroplasts , the second depends only on the amount of radiation absorbed , and not on the CO 2 concentration or the temperature .
3 The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified .
4 In one corner of the rectangular office a television set had not been switched off and the title sequence of a forgotten film from the seventies flickered silently on the screen .
5 Physical disability makes shopping difficult , and sometimes forces the elderly to rely entirely on the good but fairly limited range of foods that can be delivered to their door by the milkman .
6 The former is extremely sensitive to orbital parameters , whereas the latter depends greatly on the nature of monsoons .
7 Although Balcon was not the first to make films in Germany , he was the first to do so on a regular basis .
8 and like the thing is obviously like the first realise there on a and they try to stop it , why are you stopping for , remember you are in the British army , if you disobey orders you 'll get a court marshall really started laying onto them , and like they 've started again and like the first bloke obviously got to the fucking water , cos he 's stopped again , one man one sides shouting out and round the other side shouting out and they have they 've all gone in , they must of thought fuck it and they 've all just fucking marched into the sea , and we marched them in , tent was only about that much above water , and we 've lasted thought , this is the thing that got me , he , he shouted at him , cos we , we , we managed to get them and that , he said right , right , go in , go in and tell them to come out , what , I said what , can you just pop in and tell them to come out , I said over here sarge , he said you disobey an order
9 The two struggled together on the grass .
10 Mr Malik put his arm round Robert , as the two sat together on the bench .
11 Tony had seen the four standing dejectedly on the street corner and he put his foot on the brake pedal , bringing the vehicle to a shuddering halt .
12 The ARPA project of the mid-seventies relied heavily on the use of domain-specific syntactic and semantic knowledge to constrain the search space .
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