Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just altogether less demanding on the child as well as on the mother . |
| 2 | It 's so just enquiring on the catalogue interest , we 've only got that one |
| 3 | Where forecasts are not legally binding on the buyer , another commonly used alternative is for the buyer to agree to compensate the seller ( up to some agreed limits ) for excess inventory of the products covered by the agreement which are still in the seller 's hands on termination of the agreement , but which he can not reasonably dispose of elsewhere . |
| 4 | So you 're not really concentrating on the television , because you do n't have to . |
| 5 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 6 | These effects may express themselves differentially locally depending on the size of the city , but they are essentially national in character and reduce the influence attributable to local factors ( Newton 1976a:17 ) . |
| 7 | Far from being a science , we 're still only dabbling on the periphery of the subject . ’ |
| 8 | When Ludo returned , he found her still dreamily lying on the bed . |
| 9 | But the rose he had given her was still miraculously blooming on the breast of her gown . |
| 10 | Well he was probably actually hammering on the door now to er come and see where he 's going to put his ladders , he wanted er a bit of wall to put the brackets up to put his ladders but Paul said that he Paul thought you could suspend ropes from my garage roof , you remember what a lot of criss-cross bracing there is |
| 11 | ‘ That 's nice , ’ Cowley agreed , glancing back at his own car , which was now slowly descending on the ramp . |
| 12 | I think that the idea of offsetting imbalances on on one project er with transfer the work in other is certainly very interesting but of course as far as the erm tornado programme is concerned I think it it is now really far too late because production is over apart from the the second Saudi Arabian order and we are really only working on the manufacture of spares and given that the existing suppliers are all tooled up for those and indeed her are way down the learning curve having produced vast quantities of them , it really would n't be economic to transfer any of that work now I do n't think . |
| 13 | The worst day we were out here working on the garden and it made me think this must be what it was like in the trenches |
| 14 | The nature and length of sale and purchase agreements vary enormously , most particularly depending on the nature and length of the warranties and any indemnities to be given by the seller . |
| 15 | They spend months on end continuously on the wing , feeding by catching insects in mid-air , mating by coupling high in the sky and tumbling downwards interlocked for hundreds of feet , and presumably even sleeping on the wing . |
| 16 | Ah but I was n't just meaning on the concrete bit . |
| 17 | The situation became even more threatening on the death of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1190 and the succession of his son , the Emperor Henry VI , now asserting his claims to Sicily through his wife . |
| 18 | Indeed throughout Harwood has some excellent jokes at the expense of the affectation and ludicrous self-absorption of actors , though he is even more unsparing on the playwright , who is gradually exposed in Stephen Moore 's performance as a devious , self-regarding little swine . |
| 19 | ‘ But Sabine Jourdain — and Fitzgerald , for that matter — were n't ever sleeping on the beach . |
| 20 | Look at singer Linda Hopper , quite literally hopping on the spot and grinning like a hyena in an amyl nitrate factory . |
| 21 | But , in tandem with his captain , the bubblingly enthusiastic Nigel Briers , he has already created a strong team spirit , quite possibly thriving on the absence of such departed stars as Chris Lewis . |
| 22 | Using BM though is mainly a question of understanding the basic principles and then carefully experimenting on the job , learning through doing . |
| 23 | But his motion adds : ‘ This House therefore questions why an officer chose to ignore that instruction by meeting the City editor of the Observer at least twice including on the eve of publication of the special edition ’ . |
| 24 | That was easy ; no longer slipping on the glass , she glided out through the empty doorway , into the burning ruins . |
| 25 | ‘ The premises are freehold , ’ he continued , not responding to my comment , but at least no longer leaning on the counter . |
| 26 | Are they pieces of parent body that broke up and sent a special type of debris into a path crossing the orbit of the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago but which is no longer falling on the Earth ? |