Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb base] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To serve , pour the custard , having added the brandy if used , into a serving dish and carefully float on the islands . |
| 2 | Females choose to give birth to their one or two young in dens dug into the snow-drifts on mountainsides of places such as the Svalbard Islands , and often stay on the islands during the Arctic summer until the cubs are old enough to fend for themselves . |
| 3 | On behalf of their inarticulate owners , these clothes say ‘ I 'm not playing ! ’ and then sit on the sidelines ( so you can see how upset you 've made them ) , and wait for the world to be nice . |
| 4 | Right , so , let's go over isomers and then start on the hydro-carbons in some detail and pi the first mechanism , we 're talking about mechanisms general as well . |
| 5 | Let the movement be the initial inspiration and then work on the modulations at home , for these are what will help to increase the musicality of the piece . |
| 6 | The explicit theoretical approach which we adopted in 5 should certainly not be necessary ( unless our students are students of linguistics ! ) , but we will need forgive examples of alternative ways of ordering information in an English clause ( as we did with the John ate fish and chips sentence in 5.4 ) and then rely on the students ' ability to acquire a sense of which is contextually most suitable . |
| 7 | They oversimplify the richness of reality and are , therefore , ignored by managers who must have a holistic view of situations and who , unlike some economists , can not wish reality away by ignoring the facts and instead expound on the theories … . |