Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much depends on the prior plausibility ascribed to core religious beliefs . |
| 2 | So just keeping on the same sort of subject , of sex , drugs and , |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He seemed to relax more after he had spoken , to be less fixedly focused on the empty road . |
| 6 | The discussion has so far focused on the corporate purpose and thereby role of authorities in the new NHS . |
| 7 | This is only well developed on the seaward side of the windward reef of atolls . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That 's what makes me think that the man may have been a foreigner perhaps even killed on the other side of the channel . " |
| 10 | Never before had events within Scotland been so firmly set on the international stage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 79/80 class lists are included with these notes where they were not personally collected on the 21st June . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sixteen million viewers thanked him for it , very soon dangerously hooked on the bronzed domestic shenanigans of Ramsay Street 's self-pollinating families . |
| 19 | But the wedding ring was not always worn on the third finger of the left hand . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They are not often seen on the open sea except on passage . |
| 23 | Obviously we can not simply rely on the raw figures if we wish to consider whether local authority expenditure had grown since the £9,230 million spent in 1974 — the year of reorganisation . |
| 24 | This case shows neither that employers should refuse jobs to those who have a murky past nor that they should not entrust secrets to subordinate employees — that is impracticable — but that they should not simply rely on the implied duty of confidence ; it can lead to misunderstandings and difficulties as to what is really secret . |
| 25 | We reject the compulsory route that is favoured by the Labour party , which will never understand that the way forward is to motivate and to encourage and to give people the incentives that they need to make the most of the opportunities that are available to them , not simply to rely on the dead hand of compulsion . |
| 26 | Poland 's next general election is not due until 1993 , but there are local ones on May 27th — and meanwhile the government is already well set on the capitalist road . |
| 27 | Following the great betrayal of 1882 , when Gladstone presided over the annexation of Egypt , they could not even rely on the Liberal party to resist the imperialist tide . |
| 28 | One loch looks very much like any other and some are not even marked on the 1:50,000 map , so always be properly clad and prepared to cope with fickle weather conditions , before setting out . |
| 29 | By an almost unbelievable contrast , the summit was not even mentioned on the main 8 pm television news in France ( Antenne 2 ) , although it did get a ten second slot as the tenth item on the midnight news bulletin . |
| 30 | He does not narrowly concentrate on the last week of Jesus ' life ; the entire life of Jesus was an example of sacrificial love . |