Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps the last three Sonatas verge more on the side of a string quintet , after all they were roughly contemporaneous with the great C major String Quintet ?
2 It is clear that the vast majority of full-time students entering higher education in the UK do so on the basis of Highers or A-levels ( 91% in the universities , 71% in the polytechnics , Smithers and Robinson , 1989 ) .
3 Motes float freely on the air . ’
4 Motes float freely on the air . ’
5 Systematic names-particularly in IUPAC nomenclature-rely heavily on the use of numerical prefixes to indicate the number of atoms or number of groups in a substance ( see table 4.4 ) .
6 Megan and Peter crunch together on the settee , both wearing jeans and gulping glasses of wine and saying nothing .
7 Some , like Ford and Vauxhall , have been able to respond quickly but Rover , which has a US airbag only on the top of the range 800 series , is having to undertake a major engineering programme to make them available throughout the range during the next year .
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