Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the moment it is enough to recognize that even unanimity can have its problematic aspects ; and , since unanimity is so rarely achieved on a large scale , we need to consider next the next best thing , the principle with which democracy is very often crudely identified : majority decision-taking or majority rule . |
| 2 | So much depends on the prior plausibility ascribed to core religious beliefs . |
| 3 | So just keeping on the same sort of subject , of sex , drugs and , |
| 4 | A creature only ever seen on the magical Isle of Man , Jimmy Squarefoot has a formidable appearance , with the head and tusks of a large boar , the body of a man , and large square feet swathed in calico bands . |
| 5 | Comparable trends are not found among the second category , which includes those sites where the defences are apparently arbitrarily imposed on a straggling ribbon development or urban scatter so as to provide a small defended strongpoint astride the road . |
| 6 | The company notes that the relocation exercise was carried out without the help of an independent specialist relocation company which may have been able to ease staffs ' fears about moving to a new area and so possibly improve on the 50 per cent retention rate . |
| 7 | He seemed to relax more after he had spoken , to be less fixedly focused on the empty road . |
| 8 | The discussion has so far focused on the corporate purpose and thereby role of authorities in the new NHS . |
| 9 | We agreed , after it was over — after the stitches ( a large number ) had been removed — that he had shown he was good enough now to go on a big trip . |
| 10 | This is only well developed on the seaward side of the windward reef of atolls . |
| 11 | For instance , US domination over South Korea is now less exclusively based on the military protection it offers against invasion from the North : it is increasingly based on the threat of closure of the US domestic market to Korean exports . |
| 12 | That 's what makes me think that the man may have been a foreigner perhaps even killed on the other side of the channel . " |
| 13 | Never before had events within Scotland been so firmly set on the international stage . |
| 14 | To crown this important exhibition of French sculpture , Bellanger has come up with something quite exceptional : Clodion 's ‘ Sacrifice à l'amour ’ , originally shown at the 1773 Salon , which only recently surfaced on the international market and has been brought back to France for this occasion . |
| 15 | Similarly , children may seize on different suffixes or constructions as marking a contrast , but not necessarily hit on the conventional contrast used by adult speakers . |
| 16 | Calls to the single market hotline are not necessarily recorded on a geographical basis . |
| 17 | Since railways were built anywhere , they could not necessarily rely on a local labour-force , but developed a corps of nomadic labourers ( known in Britain as the ‘ navvies ’ ) , such as still characterises the great construction projects all over the world . |
| 18 | 79/80 class lists are included with these notes where they were not personally collected on the 21st June . |
| 19 | ‘ The French , on the other hand , not only insist on a wide variety of fresh produce but demand that their chestnuts come from the Auvergne , their snails from Clermont , their frogs from Aurillac , capons from the Bresse , mutton from the Berry , asparagus from Lavris … . ’ |
| 20 | The goldfish can not only spy on the fair-red secrets of our world , but its vision extends through the spectrum to shorter wavelength ultraviolet radiation , making it receptive to a wider band of light than almost any other animal . |
| 21 | First , the notion of ‘ usability ’ leads us not only to focus on the eventual users of the information for whom , presumably , companies are investing significant amounts of money on more or less elaborate information-processing systems and structures . |
| 22 | Thus Senghor was able to build a political regime which was not only founded on a democratic tradition two generations old , but also had to accommodate a major countervailing influence to that of the state in the form of the Brotherhood . |
| 23 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 24 | Erm , I , I think sometimes if he 's prepared to talk about such things as this , he should be prepared to consider the advantages to villages of , of small schools , and not just work on the financial item . |
| 25 | Sixteen million viewers thanked him for it , very soon dangerously hooked on the bronzed domestic shenanigans of Ramsay Street 's self-pollinating families . |
| 26 | But the wedding ring was not always worn on the third finger of the left hand . |
| 27 | In practice , an employer will not always rely on the implied duty of fidelity : there will often be an express clause in the employment contract which directs the employee to devote his time exclusively to the promotion of the employer 's business . |
| 28 | We have already observed that it is more difficult to speechread unless there is enough space between you and the speaker — eyes can not possibly focus on the whole face if it is only six inches away . |
| 29 | They are not often seen on the open sea except on passage . |
| 30 | The best are those that do not simply rely on a historical setting , but encourage historical skills , evaluation and understanding . |