Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us . |
| 2 | Even though my bike and rucksack were miles away on the platform of Fort William station , I can not remember being so profoundly moved on public transport , unless you count the time I thought I saw Sean Connery on the Piccadilly Line . |
| 3 | Funky guitars copulate with abrasive melodies on songs like ‘ Lucky Me ’ , but it 's not all based on jumped-up jollification . |
| 4 | Although development of scheduled air services from Eindhoven has reduced the need for Philair to transport relatively large numbers of employees on short sectors , it is still able to achieve its objectives by saving time , giving a quality service , providing a flexibility of movement , and offering its customers a personal service not easily achieved on public transport . |
| 5 | Although not normally distributed on initial testing , the data were rendered normal by logarithmic transformation . |
| 6 | Commercial battles are not always won on technical merit , and at present X Windows is probably winning . |
| 7 | It 's worth mentioning that you 're not automatically insured on dry ski slopes so it 's worth arranging some personal cover — accidents are n't especially common but you never know . |
| 8 | He had thus unwittingly stumbled on salicylic acid , the active ingredient in aspirin . |
| 9 | We need only accept the fact that individuals have social contacts with other individuals , because social network is about individuals and the relationships that can be contracted between them , and not primarily based on pre-defined group structures . |
| 10 | The experiments are of the ‘ what if ’ variety , i.e. they ask ‘ what would happen if we did this ? ’ , and are not therefore based on hypothetico-deductive logic . |
| 11 | The cover is usually only granted on portable/mobile plant and the wording makes clear that General Exception 2 relating to fire , theft , etc. does not apply to this cover . |
| 12 | Pisticci is a small town in Southern Italy still largely based on agricultural employment . |
| 13 | The lesion is not always easily detected on endoscopic examination , especially when it is not actively bleeding . |
| 14 | He demonstrates , for example , that the British Labour Party was most likely to find support not simply from the working class but from that sector of the working class which still strongly relied on collective provision . |
| 15 | The next type of cable pattern is probably most often seen on classic cricket sweaters and if you have sportsmen in your family they will be delighted to receive garments with cables in their club colours . |
| 16 | War , disasters , and diplomatic activities are all covered in this sixty-minute compilation specially linked by John Suchet , one of Britain 's leading newsreaders , and presented as originally broadcast on Independent Television News . |
| 17 | Voice transmissions are frequently relayed on the VOR frequencies ; you should not rely on these transmissions to identify a VOR station , because they are often simultaneously relayed on other VOR 's . |
| 18 | At first he had n't even settled on first-person narration ; the voice from inside the frame is sometimes ‘ the chronicler 's ’ or ‘ the author 's ’ , sometimes ‘ mine ’ . |
| 19 | The problem is the enmity between Protestants and Catholics and the prospect for the Catholic minority of permanent subordination to the Protestant majority since the political parties are almost entirely based on religious affiliation . |
| 20 | Mr Major then angrily turned on Labour leader John Smith : ‘ There was a time when the leader of the Opposition once said that he had always believed that Britain 's future lay in Europe , and we must take a confident and leading role in the Community . |
| 21 | Follow Station Road beyond tunnel , down main pedestrian street in Milngavie , turning right just after crossing river ( signpost ) down ramp , right on road then immediately left on signposted tarmac path . |
| 22 | The figures also demonstrate how well matched are the action and control samples : that in both places they were well matched on age , proportion with an involved relative/ friend , proportion in owner-occupied housing , and on OBS score ; they were less well matched on gender and on proportion without an inside lavatory ( though the difference was not great ) , and least well matched on marital status and on proportion living alone , with the Ipswich control sample and the Newham action sample being more likely to be married and ( therefore ) not living alone . |
| 23 | The emphasis was no longer placed on male domination , but rather on women 's equal but different attributes . |
| 24 | His writings prior to departure make it abundantly clear that the image of the USSR firmly implanted in his mind was that of a country in full post-revolutionary expansion engaged in the construction of a new society , a new culture and a new man , a country in which social relations were no longer based on human exploitation , and in which the deathly oppression of an exploiting class had been eradicated . |
| 25 | The Bill will produce the finance necessary to allow the mines to operate efficiently and effectively , and will give the people who work in them the opportunity to feel that they are part of an industry no longer hooked on public subsidy . |
| 26 | We should add that animals and farm produce are no longer allowed on public transport . |
| 27 | Unless used on ‘ Byelaw 30 ’ cisterns and fitted with a downturn in the operating lever ( so the float can easily be adjusted ) , piston-type ballvalves are no longer allowed on cold water cisterns unless they are fitted with a double-check valve . |
| 28 | Michael Palin played goody goody headmaster Jim , Robert Lindsay the deeply insecure bad guy allegedly not based on militant councillor Del Hatton — both lent the vastly ambitious saga the power and sympathy crucial to flesh out Bleasdale 's artful comic polemics . |
| 29 | Unification grammars are very strongly based on lexical lookup and employ a lexicon containing very detailed information about the possible uses for the words . |
| 30 | In some cases , groups that are too closely targetted on short-term management objectives lose touch with the scientific community and longer-term thinking . |