Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( pl. 39 ) Design usually based on the formal gardens of ancient Persia , with their abundance of flora separated by pathways and ornamental ponds . |
| 2 | ESs often run on the same computers that run programs written in FORTRAN or BASIC . |
| 3 | Can we be told please exactly what the er , balancing hand of carry forwards shown on the right estimates , the twenty three thousand consists of ? |
| 4 | Their governments have long depended on the fat income their oil reserves reliably gave them . |
| 5 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 6 | At its most obvious this refers to the placement of the school in the natural or man-made environment and I have already commented on the vast variations which exist , from town to country ; seashore to savannah , forest or mountain . |
| 7 | I have already remarked on the different situation thirty years ago , when criticism still occupied a traditional place as part of public discourse , and the first books of a distinguished generation of British critics — Bayley , Davie , Hoggart , Kermode , Wain , Williams — were reviewed in the daily and weekly press . |
| 8 | He is describing the sudden new apprehension of divine truth bestowed upon people who have just embarked on the spiritual life when they are rediscovering the truths of their faith during their periods of study . |
| 9 | If the explosive used was Semtex it would almost certainly be the biggest IRA bomb ever planted on the British mainland . |
| 10 | But if Conservatives have always been agreed on the main danger they face , and have always agreed on the basic means to combat it , they have not , Eccleshall argues , always been agreed on the precise manner of exercising authority and maintaining social discipline . |
| 11 | my Lord all that follows now is that question costs in this my Lord there is no doubt that er this is the painful experience for both the plaintiffs and of course for doctor who is unrepresented and therefore must inevitably feel rather isolated in this matter erm , however in my there is no reason to er depart from the usual principal of the costs which should follow the event and of course we know as it the loss on the subsidiary appeal and so I do n't press the point on that cos the reality as you 've already probably anticipated is all the work has been done erm on this appeal the subsidiary appeal I ask , I do n't ask for costs on that , in my submission it should be both sides bear their own costs on that , the reason I say that is that there was no , there was no cross appearing in respect on it in effect , cos after all , all you were doing was er trying to get the same as the other side if we lost , so no worm of can of beans can be done by doctor I had one parallel in my whole skeleton on that , er , but we have substantially succeeded on the main issue and so I , I would ask that costs in favour of the plaintiffs on , on that and here and indeed below . |
| 12 | In New York , as in other cities such as Boston , Chicago , and Los Angeles , the poor have historically relied on the public hospitals , largely financed and administered by city or county government , for their health care . |
| 13 | The member states have recently agreed on the mutual recognition of listings on different stock exchanges , if the related applications are made to different stock exchanges roughly contemporaneously , and this has been incorporated into UK law . |