Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] on the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 facilities available in each division will obviously depend on the particular system , but a fairly common division would be as follows . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ‘ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | And we can no longer rely on the extended family being dose at hand . |
| 10 | ‘ It is feared that Hungary and Romania will no longer sit on the same side of the negotiation table in Vienna , ’ he said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some want softer balls or smaller frames to ensure rallies can still exist on the quickest surface of them all . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | You will quickly discover on the first launch , if otherwise . |
| 19 | Swapo thought they could still depend on the Damara vote . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate . |
| 23 | You can always rely on the Modern Review to ask the really Big Questions , such as Who Killed British Fiction ? |
| 24 | In practice , an employer will not always rely on the implied duty of fidelity : there will often be an express clause in the employment contract which directs the employee to devote his time exclusively to the promotion of the employer 's business . |
| 25 | Be that as it may , the buyer can still rely on the general merchantability provision in s14(2) . |
| 26 | Nouns require a different rule : if the second syllable contains a short vowel the stress will usually come on the first syllable . |
| 27 | But always it seemed impossible that you would ever sit on the polished seat of a flushing lavatory again . |
| 28 | Since , as has been argued here , international forces are a factor in all the structural changes in the UK economy , we shall also focus on the international side of the economy in the years leading up to the 1970s/1980s crossroads . |
| 29 | We 'll also focus on the military aspect of the training … where troops learn how to free fall with oxygen at night . |
| 30 | The graphics subsystem is built around custom chips and plugs into the TurboChannel of the host processor : it 's intended for the Alpha-based Titan 2.0 — a multi-processor graphics workstation — but it will also run on the MIPS-based Titan 1.0 . |