Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Soviet leaders had been prepared to consider international arrangements and guarantees only on the external aspects of the Afghan problem . |
2 | PASSION AT THE POOLSIDE : Fergie and Johnny enjoy getting down to some serious canoodling as the sun beats mercilessly on the naked pate of the whizzkid from Texas |
3 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
4 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
5 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
6 | Romantically but not altogether inaccurately , James Emerson Tennant , Colonial Secretary to Ceylon , wrote of the island in 1859 in his book Ceylon : ‘ a pendant that nestles gently on the swelling bosom of the Indian Ocean . |
7 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
8 | It is often not appreciated how much of the stresses and assaults that impinge upon us are suppressed into the unconscious — an area which probably lies more on the spiritual plane than the mental one . |
9 | area team exercises usually on a single issue , sometimes followed by an internal report ; |
10 | To a backdrop of deserted stands , Andrew Hudson becomes the first South African to score a hundred on his Test debut : ( below ) Curtly Ambrose mops up on the final day , bowling Meyrick Pringle . |
11 | Lord Ross now lives near on the Central Wales Line , and is a frequent user . |
12 | This one now , er again hits him Mahammama on the pad , trickles out on the off side and Goch picks it up from extra cover . |
13 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
14 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
15 | Whereas Palmer focusses exclusively on the non-actual character of the infinitive 's event , we wish to draw attention here to what his observations imply about the nature of the modal auxiliaries and the relation between the latter and the bare infinitive . |
16 | It follows that is not an objective number generated by considerations of overall balance in the labour market : its value turns critically on the political preferences of governments which are supposed to be in a position to define for themselves what unemployment rate will correspond to full employment and to be capable of action to achieve their newly defined objective . |
17 | Ms Garner said : ‘ Whether or not a murder charge stands or is reduced to manslaughter depends entirely on the individual case . |
18 | Whether nurses would come under the arrangements identified in the White Paper depends entirely on the contractual arrangements that they make with their employers . |
19 | It still scores highly on the academic community 's own measures — the number of publications and their citations — and the British Technology Group has generated more licensing income from UK academic discoveries than all the US institutions earn together from licensing . |
20 | Its viability depends less on the final validity of its basic assumptions than upon its own internal logical coherence and appropriateness in the lives of those who acquiesce in or profess it . |
21 | They all confirm that a black hole ought to emit particles and radiation as if it were a hot body with a temperature that depends only on the black hole 's mass : the higher the mass , the lower the temperature . |
22 | Although the rated pole winding current depends only on the acceptable temperature rise , the corresponding rated phase current also depends 01 , the inter-connection , as shown in Table 1.1 : The rated phase voltage is the voltage which must be applied at the phase terminals to circulate the rated current in the windings . |
23 | Here , G is the gravitational constant , c the speed of light , and M is the mass of the star , so the crucial radius , called the Schwadschild radius , depends only on the collapsing star 's mass ; for a star of the Sun 's mass the Schwarzschild radius equals about 3 kilometres . |
24 | The advantage the pure watercolour has over all other media is that it depends greatly on the light passing through the colour being reflected back from the white paper . |
25 | ( vi ) Style is relatively transparent or opaque : transparency implies paraphrasability ; opacity implies that a text can not be adequately paraphrased , and that interpretation of the text depends greatly on the creative imagination of the reader . |
26 | At one point , at some point , very late , the old man breaks away from his partner , and spins easily on a shiny patch of yellow floor , his long arms folded to his sides , not dancing at all now but simply spinning , spinning , for quite a while . |
27 | In such situations — where the best X per cent of students are to get the As , the next best nX per cent the Bs , and so on — the grade awarded to a student depends not on the absolute level of performance he or she attains but on how he or she performs relative to other students . |
28 | What was overlooked in our discussion of stylistic competence is that our intuitive " placing " of a text depends not on an undifferentiated capacity to compare a text with the norm of the language , but rather on a responsiveness to a set of norms : a norm for spoken conversation , a norm for news reporting , a norm for writing diaries , a norm for historical novels , etc . |
29 | In fact the son 's military train , despite the fact that it has priority ( a hangover from the days of the armoured trains ) , only passes through on the following day , when his mother has left . |
30 | Although the glass-rubber transition itself does not depend on polymer structure , the temperature at which T g is observed depends largely on the chemical nature of the polymer chain and for most common synthetic polymers lies between 170 and 500 K. It is quite obvious that T g is an important characteristic property of any polymer as it has an important bearing on the potential application of a polymer . |