Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copernicus had shown that the apparent movements of the planets as observed from the earth can not be satisfactorily or coherently explained on the assumption that the earth itself lies immobile at the centre of the universe . |
| 2 | Er right walking on the beach and he a genie came out when he rubbed it and he goes oh no way man . |
| 3 | I carried on knocking on the door and begging to be let in . |
| 4 | Cayley attracted his friend Sylvester into studying invariants ( the term " invariant " is due to Sylvester ) and these two did so much research on the subject that they were named the Invariant Twins . |
| 5 | They also pointed out that there was no room service and Maggie sank back down to sit on the bed and nurse her aching face . |
| 6 | Just altogether less demanding on the child as well as on the mother . |
| 7 | It is important to bear in mind the fundamental rule of agency law , that the acts of an agent are only binding on the principal if the agent had actual or apparent authority to perform those acts . |
| 8 | Then there was a loud knocking on the door and more shouts from the crowd . |
| 9 | One of his favourite instances is the scene in On the Waterfront when Brando , thinking he was between takes , idly tried on the glove that Eva Marie Saint had dropped . |
| 10 | Erm it 's only decorated on the front cos it when it folds it folds flat along the back edge . |
| 11 | Participants may swim faster or indeed may sink , much depends on the willingness and abilities of firms to adjust to the increase in competition . |
| 12 | Well obviously this very much depends on the expertise and service required . |
| 13 | Again , much depends on the sensitivity and commitment of the organizations and professionals involved . |
| 14 | So much depends on the camera and quality of materials , the processes used , the conditions in which negatives and prints have been or may be preserved , and so on . |
| 15 | For example , we have withdrawal groups for music , not that their ordinary subjects are disrupted in this way , but it can be so organized on the timetable that they are withdrawn at a different period each week , and getting together , for example , to play in the school orchestra erm is of terrific value . |
| 16 | I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm only going on the fact that I I tend to do everything on the cheap so I tend to get if I can find somebody who does photocopying I can do it then we 'll do it . |
| 17 | Also and who not only helped on the day but also promoted the sale outside the NCT ensuring that we had plenty to sell . |
| 18 | Jimmy Marks had become the Commander of No 35 Squadron and so arrived on the day that the Pathfinders were formed with his hind-picked aircrews from No 1 Group . |
| 19 | But super-cool Mansell had needed all his skill when the Williams car 's hydraulic system totally failed , suddenly jamming on the brakes and locking it in gear at 150mph . |
| 20 | I have been here over a week now , and I miss you very much , and I miss the fresh air and the fresh faces of all those people I so hated on the Tube and the fresh things that happened every hour of every day if only I could have seen them — their freshness , I mean . |
| 21 | Hand crossbow , rolling purchase arbalest and Moorish three-pointed dagger ; all used on the crusades and during Barbarossa 's Italian campaigns . |
| 22 | As soon as the patient becomes familiar with the feelings he experiences during his physiotherapy treatment , he can practise pelvic movements at home , perhaps lying on the floor if he does not have his own plinth or a firm surface on his bed . |
| 23 | Our troops could only move on the roads and had to be supplied with food . |
| 24 | The salary will naturally depend on the size and range of work of the practice in which the trainee solicitor is articled , but The Law Society sets down recommended minimum salaries and can refuse to register articles where the salary is less than this figure . |
| 25 | However , as part of a " fast-track " agreement made with the Bush administration in July 1991 , Congress could only vote on the agreement and not amend it . |
| 26 | It is , nevertheless , interesting to note that the Council Decision 88/840 on the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on the protection of the ozone layer , agreements which were obviously negotiated on the footing that they fell partly within Community competence and partly within the competence of the Member States , contained provisions which actually instructed the Member States as a matter of Community law to deposit their national instruments of ratification , acceptance , approval or accession , by 1 January 1989 . |
| 27 | We are basically settled on the areas that we want to service . |
| 28 | These all originate on the stipes and include the levator and depressor of the palp , the flexor of the galea and the stipital flexor of the lacinia. to . |
| 29 | But rigging and sails did , and once I was on deck , coiling and sorting the ropes and making notes of what I would need , I barely noticed anything else , time slipping by and my mind so concentrated on the job that I barely felt the wind force rising , small frozen particles of snow driving almost horizontally . |
| 30 | But there would be time enough to intervene on the Continent if and when the Russian advance began . |