Example sentences of "[adv] [det] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Norman would have er hopefully explained most that on the phone . |
| 2 | It was unmistakably the same girl as in the photographs ; especially that on the cabinet of curiosa . |
| 3 | He was standing on the edge of the group that included Flavia Sherman , Jacques and Paul Devraux and half-a-dozen Moi trackers , but his mind was only half on the hunt to come . |
| 4 | But if a system has a single definite history , the uncertainty principle leads to all sorts of paradoxes , like the particles being in two places at once or astronauts being only half on the moon . |
| 5 | Isabel nodded , although her mind was only half on the conversation . |
| 6 | As you become interested in film acting it is likely that you will also become interested in film making , for the actor 's work depends so much on the technical decisions of the director and editor . |
| 7 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 8 | But if you accept that carbon dioxide is a much More insidious threat and nuclear power is the one major supplier of energy that does not produce it , the issue begins to turn not so much on the dangerous unacceptibility of reactors but on how you regulate and make them safe and ensure that their fuel is not diverted for military purposes . |
| 9 | But the distinctions drawn by English law were , till the passing of the Property Acts , which came into force on 1 January 1926 , founded , not so much on the nature of the subject matter , as upon the historical accidents in the development of the English law of property . |
| 10 | However , it is disappointing that it concentrates quite so much on the more traditional aspects of coloration , especially the coloration of textiles . |
| 11 | The combined effect of these provisions is that the question of whether or not a child has special educational needs depends not so much on the child 's specific needs considered in isolation , but rather on the appropriateness or otherwise of existing provision . |
| 12 | For example , a legal system which sees the contact of a doctor with his patient as an assault or battery made lawful by consent , and rests so much on the notion of informed consent without showing any real understanding of the dynamics of the doctor-patient relationship , is in danger of losing respect . |
| 13 | But it may be that even where there is evidence that the patient was mentally unfit or too young , the doctor would still avoid liability , not so much on the basis of the patient 's refusal as on the proposition of Elliott that further treatment was useless , or that of Williams that life had become a burden to the patient . |
| 14 | It comes down to asking himself why he is so much on the defensive . |
| 15 | That 's a lot of time on the flat stages , not so much on the fierce and extended mountain climbs that are to come . |
| 16 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |
| 17 | Whether they eat or not in such cases will depend not so much on the food itself as on their varying mood . |
| 18 | However , during all those years of ‘ cut your carbohydrates ’ advice , which impressed itself so much on the British public that many people are still overwhelmed with guilt at the sight of a slice of bread or a potato , all high-carbohydrate foods were grouped together as culprits in causing this rebound hunger which led to excessive eating . |
| 19 | And are you surprised that a society which discriminates so much on the basis of race produces radicals like Sister Souljah , who sees race as the bottom line and ‘ weasel ’ whites as the problem ? |
| 20 | The argument rests no so much on the supposed responses of individual readers , but on the effects of institutionalising an exclusive teaching of the great works of English literature . |
| 21 | The other reason was that a paternity suit had recently been brought against my opponent by one of the Council office cleaners , which caused a great deal of moral indignation — not so much on the poor woman 's behalf , I 'm afraid , as because it was felt he had ‘ lowered himself ’ . |
| 22 | Its focus is not so much on the individuals who work and produce as on the production process , and this rather impersonal and abstract approach makes it difficult or even unnecessary to look for any exclusion of women , although this occurs . |
| 23 | And it 's always worth remembering about the Crimean erm episode that Austria in essence intervenes on the side er er intervenes not so much on the side of Britain and France but against Russia . |
| 24 | Candidates are required to sell themselves to the voters not so much on the strength of their stands on the issues as on their personal qualities . |
| 25 | Banking debts and death duties owed not so much on the estates ( which under German law enjoy tax concessions designed to hold historic estates together ) , but on business investments , have led the Dowager Fürstin , Gloria , to decide to sell . |
| 26 | Here ANDES placed emphasis , not so much on the exploitation of women as objects but on the general level of exploitation of Salvadorean women from the poorer classes . |
| 27 | Would not their votes tend to cumulate not so much on the best candidates as on the best-known ? |
| 28 | Programmers began to realize that the effectiveness of their work depended not so much on the particular format they had adopted as on the disciplined care with which their work was planned and executed . |
| 29 | While this small-scale level of analysis has its place , it is severely limited by focusing so much on the detail that it fails to deal adequately with the wider structures which generate these situations . |
| 30 | However , in the short time they flourished , they had an enormous impact , not so much on the towns they joined but on the countryside through which they passed . |