Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the process we may fall back on an idealized view of our own society , or take our cue from generalized impressions of ‘ Western ’ experience . |
| 2 | Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system . |
| 3 | Whether doctors should concentrate solely on the clinical aspects of general practice or act in a wider capacity to tackle the underlying causes of ill health is a subject often discussed . |
| 4 | Curiously enough , it appears that there is no question at all which fits the adjective of a sentence like ( 59 ) closely , so that one must fall back on a metalinguistic one such as ( 60 ) : ( 59 ) the sharks remain dangerous ( 60 ) what did you say about the sharks ? 5.7 Since the property of the postverbal is one which the speaker deliberately chooses to clothe in the guise of an adjective rather than an adverb , it must , as we have already remarked , be one which is capable of being ascribed to the referential locus of the subject phrase . |
| 5 | It is for these reasons that Woolwich is not enabled or required to seek its remedy through the statutory framework , but must fall back on the common law . |
| 6 | Training for speed must work repeatedly on the fast twitch fibres on a stop — go basis . |
| 7 | Ideally , the hotel name should feature prominently on a large sign , either over the gateway opening or mounted above the wall each side of the entrance and angled to face incoming traffic . |
| 8 | Their main argument is that the World Cup should move around on a rotational basis , but having staged the first three tournaments , other countries have some catching up to do before it returns to these shores . |
| 9 | When r 1 and r 2 both increase , then ΔS M becomes smaller ; consequently attempts to mix two high molar mass polymer samples will receive little assistance from this function and must depend increasingly on a favourable ( negative ) heat of mixing embodied in the χ parameter . |
| 10 | ‘ Must cut down on the bloody fags , ’ he told himself . |
| 11 | You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology . |
| 12 | The tragedy must rest solely on the simple problem of the relation between his intense loyalty to his followers and to his lord , and his own pride as the supreme warrior . |
| 13 | We must get off on the right foot . ’ |
| 14 | And , needless now perhaps to say , such situations should mount up on a progressive scale so that they make an ongoing story . |
| 15 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
| 16 | Dan 's questions were annoying Kate and if he was n't careful he just might end up on the receiving end of her tongue . |
| 17 | The sort of obstacles you might come across on a typical walk include crops or overgrown natural vegetation , missing styles or gates and badly drained land . |
| 18 | And they 'll get back on a winning streak by putting the ‘ Ell back in Elland Road — just like it was in the glory days of super manager Don Revie and hard-man skipper Billy Bremner . |
| 19 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 20 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 21 | I say , I 'll pop in on the old . |
| 22 | Last month I expressed the hope that , as the autocratic system of government in South Africa is replaced by a more democratic one , this might rub off on the new rugby bureaucracy . |
| 23 | This reading of the effect of the " fabliau entelechy " on religious imagery can also be applied to what appears as a singularly stark , socially satirical statement in this tale , the concluding lines to the portrait of Alison : These could focus critically on the selfish pleasure-taking of lords with town " wenches " , whom yeomen of lower status have to wed . |
| 24 | At worst , one could fall back on the immediate family of brothers and cousins to protect the individual , if only by helping to pay up to meet the demands of the tax collector . |
| 25 | With him timing the lines , the star could concentrate just on the emotional truth of his acting , and the result was very powerful . |
| 26 | From the third floor offices of the NME you could gaze down on the clueless hordes below . |
| 27 | I 'd ease up on the hard stuff if I were you . |
| 28 | You could splash out on a kingsize Strata waterbed costing around £2,800 . |
| 29 | We then went a stage further and to share the technology established joint teams for each of these major areas , so that er the specification while it was under Dasa 's leadership , it was actually done by a joint team which involved expertise from British Aerospace and the other three and er therefore at that time the whole Eurofighter consortium was confident that they were making the best use of the available expertise across the four partner companies , each bringing to the table , their own so that they could go forward on a confident basis . |
| 30 | The church used to talk about the ‘ natural law ’ and if that was in full force you 'd get up on every good-looking woman within sight . |