Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they going to be your serviceable everyday sets or only used on special occasions ? |
| 2 | A court can include a requirement for the child to be medically or psychiatrically examined on one occasion or from time to time as directed by the supervisor ( para 4(2) ) . |
| 3 | The NUT , reporting to the Younger Committee on Privacy in 1972 , proposed that reports about a child 's misbehaviour should be kept from parents and that information on the pupil or his home background ‘ which might be gleaned from hearsay or possibly based on malicious gossip ’ should not be kept on a permanent record . |
| 4 | Some of the artwork is nice but if you 've got a tenner or more to spend on nice artwork then you 're probably the subject of a public inquiry at the moment so you 're likely to be more than a little preoccupied . |
| 5 | A complimentary excursion for all guests staying 7 nights or more arriving on 23 May , 12 and 19 Sept . |
| 6 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 7 | Copyright does not give a monopoly in ideas ; what it does is to prevent a person from copying or otherwise capitalizing on tangible expressions of ideas made by others . |
| 8 | The subject tends to intimidate many farmers and yet it was in some ways a natural extension of the record keeping and budgeting that already existed on most farms at present . |
| 9 | These rarely have anything approaching the variety of colour of soil that normally occurs on dry land sites , and excavators have to rely much more on the different textures in the material being excavated . |
| 10 | Almost any small feature in a building or even a field wall may say something of the structures that once stood on such sites . |
| 11 | The responsibility for this type of work is one that clearly falls on central government . |
| 12 | Will the Lord President urge the security services to concentrate their search for the alleged theft of information from hon. Members on the organisations that regularly spy on hon. Members , including the organisation that last week published a ludicrous volume full of slanders and innuendos about hon. Members ? |
| 13 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 14 | Although it has been argued that nectar might contain repellents to ants that otherwise predominate on sugary substrates in the tropics , it is found that ants will take this nectar when it is presented to them , though the floral parts of such flowers may be less palatable . |
| 15 | Whilst the basic facts about drinking are well known and mostly based on common sense , some of the issues surrounding alcohol abuse are a lot more complex . |
| 16 | I went back to my old eating habits and slowly put on more weight . |
| 17 | Studies from the community are few and predominantly based on single practices . |
| 18 | One response is to turn away and say that research is difficult and irrelevant and so rely on practical experience and rules of thumb . |
| 19 | However , it is only open to those who already hold the overpriced asset and so relies on this group of investors trading sufficient assets to move the relative prices of the shares in the index and index futures back into line . |
| 20 | Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) . |
| 21 | There would be every justification for her to stay at home most of the time and only emerge on joint engagements with her husband . |
| 22 | First let's look at the ribber controls that we do n't use during most ribber knitting , which are set to their basic position and only changed on special occasions . |
| 23 | In some instances , Islamic Religious Knowledge under the influence of Egypt becomes more concerned with belief and less centred on mere learning of the Koran ( Uganda and Nigeria ) . |
| 24 | At Goulbourn a large brick structure with stone quoins and cornices and a central tower and dome had been built in the 1870s , and structure with powerful round-headed arches and long arcading on two storeys was more reminiscent of Indian stations than of those of Europe or North America . |
| 25 | Then there were those first matches against other counties , with ‘ Beefy ’ present and apparently firing on all cylinders . |
| 26 | I know as good as the next man what is hip but we decided to forget all that and just concentrate on good songs . |
| 27 | Under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle , provisionally signed on 30 April 1748 , and finally concluded on 18 October , which ended the War of the Austrian Succession ( and of Jenkins 's Ear ) , the French agreed — as they had in relation to the Old Pretender under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 — to recognise the Hanoverian succession and to refuse shelter to those who challenged it . |
| 28 | An abandoned salt mine near Carrickfergus , Northern Ireland , showed signs of activity in September and early October 1990 , and finally collapsed on 19 October , causing a depression 200 metres in diameter and 7 metres deep [ see photograph on page 19 ] . |
| 29 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 30 | We should then move to do things about , for example , Turl Street and erm Cornmarket itself and gradually move on that way towards improving the City centre for pedestrians . |