Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] on [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of these two men can control with any certainty , however , the factor that will perhaps exert the most influence on the SPD 's election chances . |
| 2 | If the employer failed to comply with an order to reinstate , the maximum special award is the greater of £20,100 or 156 weeks ' pay without there being any limit on a week 's pay . |
| 3 | The paper was prompted by the Law Society 's concern over the increasing cost of defaults — it estimates that claims against its compensation fund will reach £20m annually , mainly attributed to defaults of sole practitioners ( defaults within partnerships usually fall on the solicitors ' indemnity fund ) . |
| 4 | However , Mr Sillars 's description of his former parliamentary colleagues ' action as a ‘ tragedy ’ and a ‘ costly mistake ’ will undoubtedly put further strain on the party 's fragile unity . |
| 5 | For example : Chat and squabble are both spoken and informal ; lecture and menu both inform ; prescription and warrant both depend on the sender 's office . |
| 6 | The secret policemen made themselves so hated by ordinary Iraqis that they now depend on the president 's protection almost as much as he depends on theirs . |
| 7 | However , what we surely have on the objector 's view is precisely that the smell of the candles was something that can not possibly be explained . |
| 8 | I bear fully in mind Mr. Philipson 's salutary warning , based on statements by Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. in E.M.I . Records Ltd. v. Spillane , at p. 973 , that where the court is considering powers of a draconian nature , which gravely impinge on the citizen 's ordinary rights , the court should look jealously at the legislation , and if there is any ambiguity , resolve it in favour of existing legal rights . |
| 9 | The explicit theoretical approach which we adopted in 5 should certainly not be necessary ( unless our students are students of linguistics ! ) , but we will need forgive examples of alternative ways of ordering information in an English clause ( as we did with the John ate fish and chips sentence in 5.4 ) and then rely on the students ' ability to acquire a sense of which is contextually most suitable . |
| 10 | Similarly , the no longer representational , modernist painting would correspond to the formal principles of rationality of the secondary process , while the postmodernist painting of , say , Francis Bacon , would break with such principles of formal rationality and show again desire on the canvas 's surface ( Deleuze 1981 ) . |