Example sentences of "[adj] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The correct equations to use are those of thermoelasticity , although in most cases the use of the equations of elasticity is justifiable on the grounds of simplicity . |
| 2 | Hygiene was never high on the priorities of Marlowe Street . |
| 3 | Once a medieval convent , this hotel perches high on the cliffs above Amalfi in an absolutely spectacular position . |
| 4 | Nearly any public gathering , and certainly any meeting to resolve a dispute , will begin and end with statements by elders stressing the interdependence of the group , recalling past aid given and received by individuals , emphasizing that each is dependent on the others for survival , asserting that the band is really a group of siblings , and so on ( see Robarchek 1986a for discussion of additional cultural expressions of this complex ) . |
| 5 | Technical resources from Rentokil 's research and Development division include objective scientific assessment of new methods and materials so that the service staff are not solely dependent on the claims of manufacturers . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) Simulations of expected duration The nature of this model and its estimation is such that the elasticities , hazard rates and the expected durations all vary from one individual to another and are dependent on the values of benefits , expected earnings and all extra income receipts in both employment and unemployment . |
| 7 | My view was that most people would prefer a pension that was theirs by right rather than being dependent on the decisions of government . |
| 8 | With the modals , the effect of representing the support in its place in time ( past or non-past ) as receiving the incidence of the potential event is to evoke actualization as dependent on the conditions of possibility , probability , etc. , expressed by the modal . |
| 9 | The peasant caste 's second ranking in the official status hierarchy below the ruling samurai caste , was a formal recognition of the degree to which the economy as a whole was dependent on the products of peasant labour . |
| 10 | However , in a letter to the BMC , Longleat Estate have made it clear that any cleaning work necessary to stabilise climbs will be done on the advice of its own specialists , dependent on the interests of tourists and the estate 's employees and not undertaken from a climbing perspective . |
| 11 | In the Imperial apartments , running water had been installed , but this was the only place where it was to be found and all the other rooms were still dependent on the ministrations of servants . |
| 12 | The fact that many workers in these societies are themselves dependent on the owners of capital for the hire of their labour power is one of the factors that would be included in a more considered analysis of this link [ between dependency and production ] , |
| 13 | An important principle of gene — culture coevolutionary theory is that a tabula rasa mind , open to all choices equally and hence totally dependent on the accidents of history , must still have a biological foundation — and a very finely adjusted one at that . |
| 14 | Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence . |
| 15 | But decision making was also now , to a large extent , outside his control , for his livelihood was no longer dependent on the vagaries of nature but on the vagaries of the market . |
| 16 | That 's why I 'm glad I do my own work : I do n't have to be dependent on the whims of Hollywood . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're totally dependent on the police for information . |
| 18 | Although the case is similar on the facts to Glasgow Corpn v Taylor , the approach on the statute might be different from the old common law approach . |
| 19 | It was dangerous on the roads for bairns as usually the horses with running with the carts . |
| 20 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 21 | The development of the rural environment is critically dependant on the responses of farmers to both market and policy signals . |
| 22 | Now he lived in a neat semi-detached on the outskirts of Bradford with his wife and three lovely kids , earning a comfortable , respectable living doing weddings , portraits , the odd news pic for the local paper . |
| 23 | Evelyn was very voluble on the rights of women , was , she said , a Committed Feminist , yet Jane had never met anyone so utterly dependent . |
| 24 | A large bustard whose backward-pointing crest gives it an outline more like the African Kori Bustard A. kon than the Great Bustard , like which it shows white on the wings in flight . |
| 25 | For example , if you have quarry tiles in the kitchen , they may be rather cold on the feet for dinner guests lingering over coffee , as well as being noisy when chairs scrape across them . |
| 26 | It is often cold on the moors behind Haworth , and the winds blow all winter . |
| 27 | Handy ( 1985 ) explores the concept of organisation culture in detail and is also good on the workings of groups . |
| 28 | Foster 's review is particularly good on the deficiencies of theorizations which fail to provide us with : |
| 29 | His chief rivals Sherwood and Warhurst , are both good on the goals per game stakes . |
| 30 | With 70pc of the UK farmland , effective conservation of the countryside and protection of the environment remains largely reliant on the activities of farmers . |