Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I doubt whether she 's been properly taught on the subject quite frankly . |
| 2 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 3 | It is almost impossible to get brilliant and dark grains properly exposed on the same frame . |
| 4 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 5 | Copernicus had shown that the apparent movements of the planets as observed from the earth can not be satisfactorily or coherently explained on the assumption that the earth itself lies immobile at the centre of the universe . |
| 6 | Christmas dinner rather depended on the weather . |
| 7 | Critics have since commented on the paradox offered by a Secretary of State sharply defining two categories of higher education — the one more theoretical and academic than the other — in the same year as he was energetically destroying similar categories in secondary education . |
| 8 | Appraisal drilling was successfully undertaken on the MacCulloch field and three wells in operated block 16/12a progressed the appraisal of the South Birch and Pine fields . |
| 9 | The public were advised that the ward would be ready to receive on Saturday August 13th , and that ‘ medical gentlemen would be ready to give their advice to all such out-patients as shall come properly recommended on the same day ’ . |
| 10 | The incidents at Coed Glas have been widely blamed on the lack of secure accommodation in Wales . |
| 11 | The failure of the meeting was widely blamed on the reported refusal of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates , two of the main over-producers , to offer production cuts . |
| 12 | As club manager , however , he was widely travelled and widely respected on the Continent , spreading the name and prestige of Arsenal in his imperialist fashion . |
| 13 | Only three republics ( Belorussia , Turkmenistan and Tajikistan ) eventually voted on the single question that had been proposed by the central authorities . |
| 14 | Today , it is being slowly eroded on the south face by the sea . |
| 15 | David Blunkett MP showed himself most committed on the issue , protesting at the sheer chutzpah of the Tories in purloining for themselves a concept of essentially socialist origin . |
| 16 | Thus gestures in the direction of participation are very rarely premissed on the basis of any considered political theory , much less on the adoption of any fundamental moral position . |
| 17 | Tommy Pickernell duly won on the horse with ease . |
| 18 | Creatures were not necessarily placed on the earth in the form in which they appeared now . |
| 19 | Other notable examples include the Church at Znojmo and S. Maurice at Olomouc , though the latter has been much altered on the exterior ; it has a hall church interior . |
| 20 | Their governments have long depended on the fat income their oil reserves reliably gave them . |
| 21 | Lloyd 's has hitherto relied on the promises of rich men and women to meet exceptional insurance losses from their personal resources ; in recompense for this personal risk , they were often handsomely rewarded . |
| 22 | I join the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare ( Mr. Wiggin ) in pointing out that the Inland Waterways Association believes that it was not sufficiently consulted on the Bill . |
| 23 | Naturally , much depended on the quality of the education these men received . |
| 24 | But in Timor , much depended on the containment , if not defeat , of the guerrillas . |
| 25 | We have seen this rapidity on other occasions also in his earliest letters of friendship , but never before in circumstances where so much depended on the quality of those around him . |
| 26 | Whether much good would came out of closer formal links between social workers and general practices very much depended on the general practitioners ' attitude . |
| 27 | But so much depended on the interpretation : if only Yorick had contented himself with unvarnished English prose . |
| 28 | Then came the inevitable qualifications — much depended on the state of international trade and on the efficient running of industry . |
| 29 | However , it does not extend to the Regimental Headquarters , where the Adjutant appears to be becoming somewhat heated on the telephone as a local unit announce that a helicopter will be arriving at 1130 hours to collect maps from the adjoining map depot . |
| 30 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |