Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now we have already made the point that the weakness of a premonitory or sympathetic reaction compared with experience which is present and mine is no objection to acting on the former rather than the latter . |
| 2 | The reactions of Lev Tolstoy , who sympathized with Tocqueville 's admiration of paternalism in the French countryside , and Chicherin , who admired the French centralization which Tocqueville found distasteful , said much about the two men 's very different attitudes towards the quandary in which Russia found herself , but turned on the second rather than the third part of Tocqueville 's study . |
| 3 | The drawers slide smoothly in and out without a sound ; one of the perks of picking on the well-off rather than the chipboard classes . |
| 4 | Like George VI and the then Queen Elizabeth eating spam from a gold plate during the Second World War , this was pageantry on the cheap rather than an unrestrained recapitulation of the glories of the first Elizabethan Age . |
| 5 | To those like me whose education concentrated on the physical rather than the biological sciences , the Nilsson film was a revelation . |
| 6 | In the light of the judgment in that case we would uphold the applicant 's objection to the proposed interview on the third rather than the first of the grounds put before us . |
| 7 | In addition there are genuine conceptual and technical difficulties in assessing " performance " in services like the NHS or education and this may lead to concentration on the measurable rather than the important ( as the early history of performance indicators demonstrates ) . |
| 8 | Indeed , there is now a tendency for select committees to show some greater independence of spirit , particularly since 1979 when they were first appointed on a systematic rather than an ad hoc basis . |
| 9 | It is generally better to provide services on a small rather than a large scale . |
| 10 | It is a policy profoundly opposed by the national Football Supporters Association ( FSA ) which recruits its members on a regional rather than a club basis and which aims to unite its fans in their love for the game rather than in their narrower club devotions . |
| 11 | What is more , because the earnings they thereby achieve can be higher than those of regular employees , some people choose to work on a temporary rather than a permanent basis . |
| 12 | If preferred , calories can be averaged out on a weekly rather than a daily basis . |
| 13 | Until this point , the issue system was a modified Browne charging " system based on a weekly rather than a daily record . |
| 14 | Transfer of all Anglo-Scottish sleeping car services from the East to the West Coast main line from May 1988 was a similar decision based on a corporate rather than a regional viewpoint . |
| 15 | ‘ I look forward to seeing you again soon , though I hope on a social rather than a professional basis . ’ |
| 16 | Lewis and the Western Isles in general have suffered greatly through the folly of successive governments in negotiating for a fisheries policy within the EEC on a national instead or a regional basis . |
| 17 | However , Denmark , Germany , the Netherlands and the UK , all of which derived substantial excise revenues from tobacco sales , objected to the ban and the Council of ( Health ) Ministers agreed in Luxembourg on June 6 to press for changes which would restrict publicity on a voluntary rather than a statutory basis . |