Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creatures were not necessarily placed on the earth in the form in which they appeared now . |
| 2 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 3 | Change can come about in educational institutions without the change necessarily centring on the curriculum in the first instance , although the curriculum may subsequently be affected . |
| 4 | The number of days in a month will obviously depend on the month in question ; thus if a contract requires goods to be paid for within one month of delivery , and goods are delivered on 19 February , they must be paid for by 19 March ( see Dodds v Walker [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1061 ) . |
| 5 | United Kingdom bilateral aid is naturally focused on the Commonwealth in Africa , but Zaire is a major recipient of the African Development bank finance and fund resources . |
| 6 | But then the argument would apply to other words in that context which had less bearing on the purpose in reading . |
| 7 | Additionally , the defendants had of their own accord not relied on the clause in other customer disputes , which showed that they themselves tended to regard its limitation as unreasonable . |
| 8 | Besides revealing that many of the collection 's frames were damaged when National Gallery conservators removed paintings for examination , the students say that a plan to store works not included on the tour in either the National Gallery or the Philadelphia Museum of Art would bring the foundation 's art classes to an end . |
| 9 | The AOC 's personal assistant was an airman like myself and he warned me not to stand on the mat in front of his desk . |
| 10 | ‘ I just concentrated on the job in hand and felt better than I have done for months . |
| 11 | An election was fought and massively won on the issue in 1904 . |
| 12 | We would not normally insist on the wording in square brackets where the client 's legal advisers consider that the words are not required . |
| 13 | I have not woken them at dawn with my racket , I have not drawn on the wall in felt-tip , I have not hugged Wally the cat round the neck , I have not spat out my liver and spinach , put worms in the watering can , cacked my pants , made brown finger paintings on the wall … |
| 14 | The EC could absorb the 16.5 million East Germans , if it came to that , more easily than it could the two countries whose applications already lie on the table in Brussels — Austria with her backward deck-cargo of neutrality , and Turkey , with her GDP well below that of Portugal . |
| 15 | They are generally based on the belief in health as the result of a harmonious whole . |
| 16 | Moreover , this limit does not depend on the way in which one tries to measure the position or velocity of the particle , or on the type of particle : Heisenberg 's uncertainty principle is a fundamental , inescapable property of the world . |
| 17 | 7.2 Landlord to insure The Landlord covenants with the Tenant to insure the Premises and the Retained Parts [ subject to the Tenant paying the Insurance Rent ] unless such insurance shall be vitiated by any act of the Tenant or by anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority [ and under the Tenant 's control ] While it would be preferable for the insurance to be in the joint names of the landlord and the tenant in order to give the tenant more control over the insurance and to avoid the problem of subrogation referred to below , landlords tend to resist this , presumably on the basis that they wish to retain absolute control and not rely on the tenant in any way as regards the insurance cover . |
| 18 | ‘ Thinking back , I must have blocked out all other stimuli , and just concentrated on the ball in the bowler 's hand . |
| 19 | With me the choirs never use music , which has the double effect : their eyes are not fixed on the page in front of them and they can communicate directly with me . |
| 20 | They argued that most of girls ' lives were not conducted on the street in any case , and that it was necessary to study them in their homes instead . |
| 21 | He always sits on the floor in front of me . |
| 22 | At a cool £695,000 , the house is Crawfordsburn is thought to be the most expensive ever to go on the market in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | The highest number of trams ever operated on the system in one day was 224 cars on September 14th 1935 : this included 25 cars on hire from Lytham St. Annes . |
| 24 | Groping for the light switch , whose position he had not yet memorised perfectly , he saw the evening 's post still lying on the table in the hall where he had put it before he came out . |
| 25 | However , the curators of the show have deliberately concentrated on the period in Howard Carter 's life before he was thrust into the limelight . |
| 26 | It 's got to be one of the most unusual properties ever put on the market in Cheltenham . |
| 27 | He hoped fervently that they would go back to Florence and had dropped several hints in the hope of getting this information out of them , but the Captain was always concentrating on the job in hand as if nothing else mattered and the magistrate only smiled and nodded distractedly , his mind apparently elsewhere . |
| 28 | He has devised a new C4 show , The Dice Game , loosely based on the idea in the book by Luke Rhinehart . |
| 29 | A duty is also placed on the provider in that ‘ when a hospital receives an extra-contractual referral , it will need to discuss with the patient 's DHA the financial arrangements and other terms … ’ |
| 30 | However , he also concentrated on the job in hand , sending Dodgy Dancer ahead well inside the final furlong . |