Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not disputed by the Legal Aid Board , and indeed it is obvious , that the existing practice is highly convenient and may avoid unnecessary costs being incurred which would eventually fall on the legal aid fund if it were necessary in every case to set in motion a procedure for filing of evidence . |
| 2 | By the time she decided that this really was a stupid idea the taxi driver had disappeared into the network of streets , and she had no choice but to gloomily knock on the front door and pray that it did n't mysteriously open of its own accord . |
| 3 | The two companies would keep separate identities and would only cooperate on the one service . |
| 4 | The label ‘ DCE compliant ’ wo n't necessarily appear on the early releases although the technology will form the core of the offering . |
| 5 | The facilities available in each division will obviously depend on the particular system , but a fairly common division would be as follows . |
| 6 | Their estates and assets were seized for the imperial treasury , and one can only speculate on the possible consequences . |
| 7 | In the absence of systematic research on these questions one can only speculate on the likely consequences of changes in employment practices . |
| 8 | We can only speculate on the functional consequences of these changes at present because differences in the transcriptional properties of CREB homodimers , ATF1 homodimers and CREB/ATF1 heterodimers are far from clear . |
| 9 | As their mother lies dozing , one of them will suddenly pounce on the black tassel at the end of her twitching tail , using the same kind of actions it will need to pounce on a small prey animal in years to come . |
| 10 | The goldfish can not only spy on the fair-red secrets of our world , but its vision extends through the spectrum to shorter wavelength ultraviolet radiation , making it receptive to a wider band of light than almost any other animal . |
| 11 | We 've gone to a lot of trouble here to promote good relations with the local community and I 'm not going to have all that good work vitiated by a totally unnecessary legal action , particularly not now when work will soon begin on the new reactor . ‘ |
| 12 | Intermediate Members may normally enrol on the Professional Diploma Course but may be required to undertake , in the early part of the course , a schedule of bridging studies designed to fill any gaps in their profile of achievement . |
| 13 | And , come to that , can we any longer rely on the received doctrine that it 's for the Chief Constable to decide on the allocation of resources ? ’ |
| 14 | With the soaring call for its services — when the UN takes over the Somali operation on May 4th the number of peacekeepers in the field will increase from around 60,000 to nearly 90,000 — the organisation can no longer rely on the old faithfuls : countries that , either from idealism ( Canada and Scandinavia , for instance ) or from poverty ( Fiji , Nepal and many others ) , were glad to provide troops . |
| 15 | And we can no longer rely on the extended family being dose at hand . |
| 16 | ‘ It is feared that Hungary and Romania will no longer sit on the same side of the negotiation table in Vienna , ’ he said . |
| 17 | If you 're one of those people who 'd rather err on the safe side , the best advice is to avoid meat products which use scraps from cattle bones , such as pate and some cheap sausages . |
| 18 | As such , the escalating conflict in Northern Ireland offers a useful paradigm for predicting whether a similar process of escalation might feasibly occur on the British mainland . |
| 19 | Some want softer balls or smaller frames to ensure rallies can still exist on the quickest surface of them all . |
| 20 | We have already observed that it is more difficult to speechread unless there is enough space between you and the speaker — eyes can not possibly focus on the whole face if it is only six inches away . |
| 21 | On the evidence in the present case I am satisfied that one reason why the plaintiff did so much for the deceased was her belief that , although she was not a blood relative of his , he would leave his estate to her on his death ; but , on the authority of Greasley v Cooke [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1306 , if the evidence was not sufficient to establish this positively , the plaintiff would still succeed on the fourth element in the absence of proof that she did not rely on the deceased 's statements . |
| 22 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |
| 23 | Music hall had shown Eliot that the chorus of the Greek drama in whose primitive origins he had exhibited such interest , could still work on the modern stage . |
| 24 | In another letter he suggested constructing the ‘ Little End Room ’ in a spare bedroom at Headington , ‘ a place where we can always meet on the common ground of the past and ipso facto a museum of the Leeborough which we want to preserve ’ . |
| 25 | You will quickly discover on the first launch , if otherwise . |
| 26 | Swapo thought they could still depend on the Damara vote . |
| 27 | The results of these measures will for some time be inconclusive , if only because parties to an experiment must still depend on the larger part of the economy which continues to operate according to traditional principles . |
| 28 | The expert 's liability in tort can never be more extensive than liability under any related contract , and whether the expert will be liable at all will always depend on the particular context and purpose of the particular statement . |
| 29 | One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate . |
| 30 | The new system is to be sustained by a single super-power which , even if officially bankrupt , can still call on the financial resources of its wealthy clients and allies to support its global security activities . |