Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each individual may play many other roles — parent , child , niece , brother , chess player , gardener , diarist , but these roles are not relevant in this context , so not mentioned on this occasion . |
| 2 | In a 3- or 4-year programme of studies , and with the broadening elements occupying a minority of time and probably concentrated towards the latter half , graduates will have only just begun on this voyage of critical reflection . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Each a master from one of the schools , they had obviously totally disagreed on some decision . |
| 5 | Romantic dreams and sexual callisthenics , chivalry and rape , roses and semen , chocolate boxes and contraceptives … but most of all , never entirely out of his embattled mind , slowly dragged the shapes of the thousands of words he had so far composed on that day and the thousands he had yet to compose by candle light through the remainder of the bitterly cold night . |
| 6 | In both works the centrepiece is a soprano solo reverently rendered on this occasion by Linda Howie . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If the Secretary of State believes that he can get rid of tariffs , why does he support the Common Market , now known as the European Community — that big business club which is essentially a conspiracy against the working class and is certainly not wholeheartedly supported on this side of the House ? |
| 9 | Funky guitars copulate with abrasive melodies on songs like ‘ Lucky Me ’ , but it 's not all based on jumped-up jollification . |
| 10 | At the time of writing , the dust has still not finally settled on this matter as the Catholic Education Council has not abandoned the struggle to save De La Salle College of Higher Education , one of those scheduled for closure . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Although not normally distributed on initial testing , the data were rendered normal by logarithmic transformation . |
| 13 | Interest is not usually paid on such deposit balances and in many cases a service charge is made on each withdrawal . |
| 14 | Commercial battles are not always won on technical merit , and at present X Windows is probably winning . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had thus unwittingly stumbled on salicylic acid , the active ingredient in aspirin . |
| 17 | I understand the Gulf Trust 's anxiety , but I think they have not really focused on this case or heard the reasonableness of advanced payments . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That is worth considering , but I am not completely sold on that idea . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The old lady was not mentally impaired on first impression . |
| 22 | Hence newspapers and the judiciary are more intimately interconnected on this topic than on many others which are the subject of journalistic interest . |
| 23 | While still loosely based on this approach , modern dating systems try to provide a continuous sequence . |
| 24 | While still loosely based on this approach , modern dating systems try to provide a continuous sequence . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Pisticci is a small town in Southern Italy still largely based on agricultural employment . |
| 27 | The lesion is not always easily detected on endoscopic examination , especially when it is not actively bleeding . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Jonathan Wren survey is more modestly based on 453 City placements over the past six months ; but these , too , show much bigger increases achieved by mobile fund managers ( over 26 per cent , with an average salary of over £50,000 ) than messengers ( less than 10 ½ per cent , with an average salary of under £7,000 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |