Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By instinct rather than design he found himself at Saint Winifred 's altar , and kneeled to approach her , his creaky knees settling gingerly on the lowest step of her elevated place . |
| 2 | The constancy of the aggregate parameters rests either on the assumption that individual wealth shares are constant or on the assumption that all investors perceive the same expected returns and variance covariance matrix of returns and exhibit the same degree of absolute risk aversion . |
| 3 | Like a pack of buzzing , whining , huge-tyred hornets , the racing cars zapped past on the track below . |
| 4 | French investigators rely heavily on the analysis of correspondences . |
| 5 | The economist 's definition of public goods relies solely on the fact that everyone consumes the same quantity . |
| 6 | For the daily chores fell mainly on the shoulders of the women : shopping , running around to find particular things . |
| 7 | Five pied wagtails landed silently on the white-hot sand on the far side of the square . |
| 8 | They hung drying on short loops of black thread suspended from lengths of string stretched across the walls from corner to corner , and dim shadows turned slowly on the walls behind them . |
| 9 | Since a van service , operating at fixed times , transports call-slips to the Annexe in batches , and brings the items requested back to the Main Building in batches , the time taken for straightforward deliveries of outhoused publications depends entirely on the time at which the request is submitted . |
| 10 | Three teenage girls sit upright on the bed . |
| 11 | In her view the provision of resources for the public services depends largely on the efforts of the ‘ doers ’ and wealth-creators . |
| 12 | He shuffled out of the courtyard , his over-sized shoes flapping noisily on the stone floor . |
| 13 | The other classical joint degrees concentrate primarily on the areas indicated in their titles . |
| 14 | Mere mortals forgive better on a full stomach , so how about dinner on Saturday ? |
| 15 | They look like jittery , hysterical little birds crowded together on a power line . |
| 16 | Their grasp of LEA and national policies bearing directly on the task of headship was at best tenuous . |
| 17 | Think of rock concerts where they have those banks of giant speakers grouped together on the stage . |
| 18 | According to Hanan ( 1969 ) , a venture team is characterized by being relatively small , by being composed of members from various functional areas working full-time on the project , by being willing to take risks , by having a broad objective that is not well defined at the start , by having sufficient resources , by being segregated from the permanent organization , and by having great freedom with a minimum of corporate rules and regulations . |
| 19 | Catholic nationalists who support or condone the killing of protestant loyalists do so on the grounds that members of the Northern police force and part-time army are either agents of British imperialism or maintaining alien protestant — loyalist power in a part of Ireland . |
| 20 | Two angled rings clamped together on the lathe ( below ) . |
| 21 | 1992 was a strong contender for best year yet , with eminent experts talking knowledgeably on the myriad of inter-modal transport topics of interest to members . |
| 22 | That , too , had been expressing its displeasure with rhythmic twitching of its powerful tail , its burning eyes fixed balefully on the visitors walking in front of its enclosure . |
| 23 | The preferred solutions draw heavily on the lessons of the " excellence " literature . |
| 24 | Burial in a churchyard was becoming a thing of the past in central London from the 1840s onwards ; space was too precious , and the task of burying the dead was taken over by non-denominational cemeteries run largely on a commercial basis . |
| 25 | Virgin snow lay heaped on royal-blue tarpaulins which covered glistening black gondolas riding gently on the dark , silky water . |
| 26 | In the middle of this , Boy switched to a documentary made by a group of prostitutes which showed married men sitting nervously on the edges of beds in hotel rooms , sitting on neatly flowered bedspreads and having difficulty ( they were embarrassed by the female camera crew ) saying exactly what it was that they wanted to do for their thirty pounds . |
| 27 | The Glasgow University Media Group 's series of studies of press and TV coverage of major events relies heavily on the technique . |
| 28 | This family is characterised by the disk being ill-defined or constricted with the arms appearing to continue to the centre of the disk in some genera ; the disk may be covered with skin or a dense coating of granules ; the long and narrow radial shields ; the reduced papillae on the jaw with only the apical papillae well developed and the oral papillae small , like enlarged granules ; the genital slits situated vertically on the sides of the disk ; the arms long and covered with skin or granules . |
| 29 | A. inornatum can be distinguished by the small ill-defined disk , the dense covering of granules , the genital slits positioned vertically on the sides of the disk , the arrangement of the jaw and the arrangement of the arm spines . |
| 30 | A line of black crows gather ominously on the body of a giant baby . |