Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course . |
| 2 | Flower-fringed lakeside boulevards , places to stroll in the lake air , or sit quietly on a sunlit Bodensee afternoon , plentiful water sports , all proclaim modern resorts ; half-timbered houses proclaim the past . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't think or work properly on an empty stomach . ’ |
| 4 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 5 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 6 | By the end of the project , evaluation of each new step was beginning to become second nature and exchange was deeper than pleasantries or focusing only on a specific child . |
| 7 | Before settling an agreement or starting out on a particular course of conduct , a number of fundamental factors have to be taken into consideration . |
| 8 | Bulkier things like sofas can be delivered or whisked away on a rented roof-rack . |
| 9 | Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer . |
| 10 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 11 | Training should be as specific as possible and so for karateka I recommend either shadow boxing against a mirror , or working out on a light punch bag . |
| 12 | As for cutting it away , it was obvious that to wander about on the other side of the rampart was to invite certain death . |
| 13 | Rather than fall back on an increased emphasis upon managerialism based upon hierarchy and control , the Education Reform Acts should be regarded as an opportunity to review , not just in a coping way but in a maximising way , the management structures and processes of our schools . |
| 14 | Romantically but not altogether inaccurately , James Emerson Tennant , Colonial Secretary to Ceylon , wrote of the island in 1859 in his book Ceylon : ‘ a pendant that nestles gently on the swelling bosom of the Indian Ocean . |
| 15 | The industry partnership is now exploring ways in which it can serve the pyramid schools as a whole rather than focus simply on the secondary stage . |
| 16 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 17 | They all confirm that a black hole ought to emit particles and radiation as if it were a hot body with a temperature that depends only on the black hole 's mass : the higher the mass , the lower the temperature . |
| 18 | But it was n't that late , and he was n't particularly tired , and he knew that he 'd do little more than lie there on the hard mattress tormenting himself with thoughts of that waitress . |
| 19 | I want nothing more than to walk along on the darkened plain , the moon as strong as winter sunlight in London , speaking Maa with this man . |
| 20 | I think one of the things the American companies often do is that , rather than set up on a green field site , they often buy into an existing company , erm , and therefore it 's , it 's , it 's a , it 's a somewhat different form of investment to the |
| 21 | The baby has gone past the sell-by date given by the hospital , but there is not a lot I can do except dig in on the front-line . |
| 22 | Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers . |
| 23 | But quite clearly this is a more expensive use of beds in residential establishments , when people simply come in for a matter of days or week or two weeks , rather than coming in on a permanent basis . |
| 24 | Ventilator holes in that hood doubled as the hollow pupils of slanting crimson eyes that focused faithfully on the chosen target , since a single discharge of super-heated plasma would completely exhaust the capacitor . |
| 25 | Now Lucy Netzer and Jacob Sagiv , from the Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot in Israel have developed a simpler and quicker technique for preparing monolayer films that relies simply on the chemical properties of the starting materials . |
| 26 | With a natural , sculptural quality , it can outshine any number or works of art or ornaments and , what 's more , at a fraction of the price if you buy and nurture a smaller plant rather than shelling out on a large , expensive specimen a nursery has grown on for you . |
| 27 | This list includes eight marginal species — mountain and forest mammals that occur only on the arctic fringe — and over a dozen others that seldom penetrate far and are never found in the northern zones . |
| 28 | Earthquakes , especially the big ones , are caused when two tectonic plates — segments of the earth 's crust that float freely on the molten magma beneath — come into contact with one another and one plate bangs into another or rubs alongside it or dives under it . |
| 29 | Recent studies of language acquisition reveal that children are very attentive , and actively process evidence in ways perhaps not fully appreciated at the time when Chomsky was championing a theory of innate linguistic universals that depended heavily on an alleged gap between the scanty data available to the child and the rich system that he eventually masters in response thereto . |
| 30 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |