Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predictably , where such policies have merely involved adding on a vocational junior secondary top to a general primary base u in Ghana and Nigeria , there has been little overt reaction to the proposals . |
| 2 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 3 | The expansion of settlement soon became based on a hollow frontier as settlement moved west leaving a trail of erosion and siltation behind until by 1939 , Charles Kellogg felt that 75 million acres ( 28 million hectares ) of this [ ( 450–500 million acres/180–200 million hectares of eroded land ) ] were too worn out to return a living wage under any system of farm practices . |
| 4 | I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word . |
| 5 | Our investigations of casual working in the catering industry confirmed the impressions given by the data from the LFS that most casual workers did not want to work on a regular , continuous basis . |
| 6 | The other problem is that tasks honoured with a separate colour on-screen may not appear emphasized on a black and white printout . |
| 7 | It seemed clear that the Franks were a power in Europe that the Eastern Empire did not dare to challenge on a large scale . |
| 8 | Instead , individualism is motivated by a desire to defend the idea that individuals are autonomous agents , and thus tends to focus on a particular set of individual properties , including desires , choices , decisions and intentions . |
| 9 | Europeans are not used to change on a major scale . |
| 10 | The deaths of only eighty-one men of Hampshire at the battle of Æthelingadene in 1001 does not suggest fighting on a large scale , and it is noticeable that the same raiders shortly afterwards attacked Exeter and were repulsed . |
| 11 | Also , when considering development , it must be stressed that we do not have to depend on an infinite regress . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , today we 'll just have to rely on a good old-fashioned lock , ’ he said , beginning to take off his clothes . |
| 13 | Secondly , democratic parliaments around the world generally try to operate on a two-party basis . |
| 14 | Rex Reed , a writer for the New York Times saw Nicholson when he had just finished making On A Clear Day and thought that Jack was starting to make establishment noises , cleaning up his image , shaving his stubble and ditching the sandals and hippie clothes . |
| 15 | Similarly , in Bowes v Sedgefield DC [ 1981 ] ICR 234 the defendants were not allowed to rely on a statutory defence at trial which they had not pleaded . |
| 16 | Once , my partner and I were not allowed to play on a vacant court , just because my friend had a brown sweatshirt on , and there was a veterans doubles match on the next court — we might put them off by playing on the vacant court ! |
| 17 | Well this frocks never arrived and she just had to put on an ordinary er white blouse you see and a skirt and the frocks arrived the next day and she put them back . |
| 18 | who they just need to know on a daily basis what deals you 've got . |
| 19 | If I can just join in the Scum-bashing here , am I the only person that thinks Sharpe is the most over-rated piece of crap ever to have pulled on a red shirt ( and they 've had quite a few ) ? |
| 20 | One prominent cinema organist would completely lose control of his feet when attempting to record ; the violinist Bronislaw Huberman needed perfect quiet , and could even hear a typist operating six storeys away , but Jan Kubelik , though always needing to stand on a rubber mat , had possessed perfect studio concentration . |
| 21 | Other derivatives markets , such as the financial swaps market with its standard documentation , or the forex market , with its common computer equipment , may also appear to operate on a multilateral basis . |
| 22 | The President of United Motors — who was in London at that moment — had also declined to comment on a local issue which , he had said was a matter for local management . |
| 23 | And finally , police in Edinburgh are urgently following leads on a major force operation … |
| 24 | Something of the sort had been attempted by the late Victorian youth organizations , but these had been unable to reach the mass teen-age population ; and had also failed to agree on a coherent programme attractive to the different reforming interests . |
| 25 | The company is also now expected to embark on a new round of lay-offs in addition to those already planned for , with the need for further provisions against its fourth quarter figures — despite still having $694m of the $1,100m reserves already taken that is not yet allocated . |
| 26 | It was when power reached the cotton , woollen , and iron industries that the face of the country really began to change on a large scale , and that was not until the 1770s . |
| 27 | But he ca n't resist going on a teensy-weensy shopping spree with Marlon , which involves going into a jewellers , pretending to be gay and , to divert inquiries , sneezing copiously over an assistant who is terrified they are transmitting Aids . |
| 28 | If you intend to take it seriously , you will eventually feel the need to attend a weekend workshop or you may even wish to embark on an extended study course . |
| 29 | Quite apart from whatever Blenkinsop comes up with , I 'm going to get my chaps tomorrow to get going on a major investigation into the backgrounds of all these people . |
| 30 | Fiction : You ca n't get burned on a cloudy day . |