Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can make , first , an important general distinction , with continuing social and sociological effects , between ( i ) that class of material means which depends wholly or mainly on inherent , constituted physical resources , and ( ii ) that other class which depends wholly or mainly on the use or transformation of non-human material objects and forces . |
| 2 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 3 | Suddenly Jack was playing less and less on the tour and so Greg asked me if I 'd be interested in working for him . |
| 4 | I mean serious winter puddings , steamed , boiled and baked , sticky , rich and sweet , that sit fair and square on the plate and fill you with a glorious glow of warmth and well-being . |
| 5 | If its enemy is still not daunted and picks up the toad in its teeth , the poison acts so swiftly and powerfully on the mucous membranes of the mouth that the attacker drops the toad almost immediately . |
| 6 | Doctor Rawlings from Bradford , having warned me long and loud on the flight about the perils of raw food , cold food and ice , passes beaming , with a mountainous plate from the buffet . |
| 7 | Probably HMI 's greatest influence was Aspects of Secondary Education ( 1978 ) , which first commented so authoritatively and adversely on the short-changing of youngsters through the unfettered and badly guided option system at the end of the third year of secondary education . |
| 8 | This puts the Law literally and metaphorically on the side of the blacks , who are also deemed ‘ out of order ’ for having broken the rules of a fair fight . |
| 9 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 10 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 11 | It is perhaps not surprising that when older pupils come to sit their leaving examinations , they generally view the prospect of the examinations without much apprehension ; this may be because most decisions about their future are taken on the recommendation of their teachers rather than directly on the basis of examination results . |
| 12 | American poets can be so thunderstruck by the sheer oddity of being a poet in America at all that they often deny to the poet , in advance , any claim to represent a people or even a social class ; and classic New York drama in this century , as in the plays of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , has concentrated painfully and insistently on the pre-eminence of family ties and the ineluctable need of everyone in that world to be loved , as they continuously imply , by their closest relatives . |
| 13 | That is based s s very easily and solely on the number of patients they have listed . |
| 14 | It was completely frozen , but for one leg that arced backwards and forwards on the floor of the cave , like the leg of a dying calf . |
| 15 | Other noisy people who were very grey moved rapidly backwards and forwards on the end wall . |
| 16 | She rocked backwards and forwards on the bench . |
| 17 | The accuracy of a digital representation of a line depends not only on the ability of the person using the digitizer to follow the centre of the line on the map exactly but also on the number of points they input to describe the shape of the line ( Aldred 1972 ) . |
| 18 | And it 's more or less on the way to your place at Kew . " |
| 19 | Cos you 're nearly , you know , more or less on the corner there anyway are n't you ? |
| 20 | It 's not what they hope to see , but it 's more or less on the spot of what once was the herb garden for the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey . |
| 21 | The independence of the guardian ad litem is vital and local authorities must not compromise this by imposing restrictions directly or indirectly on the manner in which the guardian carries out his duties . |
| 22 | She needed a backing guitarist and asked Kieran , who she had met once or twice on the road , would he help out . |
| 23 | At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum . |
| 24 | But by the introduction of student loans , and the end of free tuition , it will make entry into higher education dependent more than ever on the size of a parent 's bank balance . |
| 25 | As the life of the city began , haltingly , to achieve some simple routine , Nicholas spent his time more and more on the business of medicine . |
| 26 | You 're listening to B B C Radio Oxford and Talking Sport , twenty six minutes past five it is ; we 're going to change sports now and have a little chat about speedway , because one or two things have happened nationally and locally on the speedway scene . |
| 27 | Every creditor wishing to attend on the hearing must give notice of his intention to the petitioning creditor not later than 4pm on the business day before the hearing . |
| 28 | Berries are brought to the hall between 10am and 2pm on the day of the show . |
| 29 | Individual colleges and institutes vary both according to the proportion of advanced work which they provide and also the types of courses which they offer , depending partly on the nature of the institutions which went to make them up and partly on the way in which they have developed in the past few years . |
| 30 | In the morning he woke to find Amanda already up and well on the way with preparations for her day , to judge by the clattering coming from the kitchen . |