Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now was that priest simply playing cleverly on the emotions of the crowd ? |
| 2 | The research then focuses specifically on the role of politics in changing the position of blacks . |
| 3 | This chapter therefore focuses more on the work I have done , with Marie — Louise Newell , on the question of comparing the pay of men and women . |
| 4 | Best of all , the warring factions of the committee somehow came together on the night . |
| 5 | One of the key arguments put forward by CERN is that the LHC can be built in the same 27-kilometre tunnel as the LEP thus saving massively on the cost . |
| 6 | The educational background of the party thus suggests a single integrated elite still drawing heavily on the most exclusive sources . |
| 7 | The chances of being treated preferentially or even of being treated on a left-alone basis also depend critically on the level and pace of change of the technology involved and on the degree of concentration and competition in the sector ( Mytelka , 1979 ; Milner , 1988 ; Grosse , 1989 ) . |
| 8 | Wedgwood sales director Paul Hutchinson said : ‘ Our focus also remained firmly on the UK because the home market is our largest single market . |
| 9 | Let us begin by looking at the word ‘ around ’ , where the stress always falls clearly on the last syllable and the first syllable is weak . |
| 10 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
| 11 | The ( second ) Dounreay-Thurso excess therefore followed closely on a striking example of population mixing . |
| 12 | This means that the cost of keeping a young mother and baby usually falls squarely on the family . |
| 13 | Suppose the manager instead goes ahead on the second . |
| 14 | Bassetja generally runs well on the Downpatrick track and won there over hurdles at the May meeting . |
| 15 | The burden inevitably fell mainly on the mothers and it seemed that their loneliness could at least be lessened if they had a regular opportunity to share their experiences . |
| 16 | The young prisoner just sat nervously on a stool watching Athelstan . |
| 17 | The father Sam , a builder still worships here on a Saturday , the Adventist sabbath . |
| 18 | It is true that his criticisms further antagonized the American administration , but de Gaulle willingly took the gamble , believing that his survival now depended more on the French people than on Roosevelt . |
| 19 | In the case of the latter , Derrida 's interest also focuses particularly on the way in which Lévi-Strauss produces his knowledge of a non-European civilization according to a doubled but non-contradictory logic which evades identity-thinking . |
| 20 | The track now heads southwards on a forest road and then heathery paths . |
| 21 | These occasions bore no fruit , however , and the effectiveness of his power really depended more on the skilled team he had behind him — with Sir Henry Self coordinating their relations with Whitehall from his own intimate knowledge as an ex-mandarin — and on the strength of the pressure of argument which they maintained . |
| 22 | Individuals rated on these scales as ‘ socially skilful ’ in one context often score highly on the same scale under different circumstances , perhaps years later . |