Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Aurangzeb was rarely prepared to rely on military prowess alone . |
| 2 | The search for cheap but reliable mass screening tests and accurate diagnostic algorithms has so far been fruitless , so case-finding based on clinical suspicion will continue to be the most important strategy . |
| 3 | Inequality in health , especially that based on social class or occupational status , is a topic which has been subjected to considerable scrutiny . |
| 4 | Much easier to turn on poor folk like Gladys Brown , who could n't defend themselves . |
| 5 | It 's so hard to work on full glow when you 've only had a couple of hours kip . |
| 6 | And it is less likely to slide on tight bends . |
| 7 | USL is apparently unwilling to budge on standard pricing , knowing full well that SCO is trying to pull together an agreement for SVR4 by the time of its showpiece SCO Forum in Santa Cruz this week . |
| 8 | The two approaches to the study of the mother and child relationship we have discussed so far-that based on physical care and that dealing with attitudes — each originally hoped to reveal the major determinants of children 's personality development ; neither , however , has succeeded in this task . |
| 9 | Ed : In the space available , G. B. Carter was only able to touch on some aspects of CBDE 's work . |
| 10 | A review of the HLCA system is relevant but overall limits on qualifying numbers are not proposed and the setting of stock numbers to meet conservation interests would be extremely difficult to achieve on large upland areas grazed by a number of farmers with hefted flocks . |
| 11 | ‘ Why are you so keen to work on this program ? |
| 12 | The houses gave way to shops and the slope levelled off , then he was in a narrow main street where it was easily possible to hop on one leg from one gift shop to the next … all of them closed until Easter . |
| 13 | The new hearing will be at Manchester Crown Court , where the judge was already due to sit on other cases . |
| 14 | Increasing numbers of goats are being kept worldwide and generally these run on permanent grazing . |
| 15 | a wrecked gearbox or or or what 's more likely to happen on this sort of thing |
| 16 | Juries are becoming more likely to return guilty verdicts in tough-to-prove cases — and judges more likely to slap on longer sentences . |
| 17 | Also , these chambers are a natural haunting-place for Ghosts and suchlike , who may be mad and hostile , or tormented souls seeking peace and possibly able to pass on useful information to the adventurers . |
| 18 | But it is much more difficult to justify on academic terms an expansion of what I will call ‘ educational exposure ’ ; the development , through extensive first-hand experience , of an understanding of what being a teacher involves , of the demands it makes upon those who teach for month after month , of the stresses and strains ( as well as the joys ) of the classroom . |
| 19 | Although you can do the same via the menus ( the corresponding sequence being Chart , Edit Data ) it is much more convenient to click on this icon . |
| 20 | Journalists tend to ‘ explain' things in terms of the actions of ‘ key personalities ’ who do ‘ right ’ or ‘ wrong ’ things , whereas sociologists are more inclined to focus on social processes and structures . |
| 21 | But before discussing dividend policy , we will examine an alternative theory of share evaluation , namely that based on expected earnings . |
| 22 | It is probably easier to add on extra hours than to take on too much and then find you have to reduce your hours because of outside commitments or for other less foreseeable reasons . |
| 23 | This demand for money is also likely to depend on national income : the higher the total value of transactions , the more money will be needed to guard against unexpected transactions . |
| 24 | It 's also illegal to trespass on other people 's land , so stick to the footpaths . |
| 25 | By relieving it of responsibility for details , Parliament was thereby able to concentrate on major issues of policy . |
| 26 | Though it is now unfashionable to dwell on such matters , there is in sport an insistence upon physical supremacy and the partisanship of an elite , strength through enjoyment and the worship of the hero , the bond of uniform and nationalism , lying uneasily parallel to the appeal of those same traits in popular Fascism . |
| 27 | Then Wyllie just kept thumping the ball downfield and soon time ran out on Musselburgh , whose only crumb of comfort is that their coach , Raymond Clark , who had planned to call it a day , is now likely to stay on next season . |
| 28 | It was really rough going on those jobs . |
| 29 | Secondly , it is arguable that most other theories , e.g. those based on semantic components , can be subsumed within it , in so far as they are built on consistent and logical lines . |
| 30 | Supratentorial infiltrating , low grade gliomas are often difficult to identify on computed tomography because they are not associated with significant mass effect and may not enhance with intravenous contrast medium . |