Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since preview audiences rated it both best and worst thing in the film — presumably depending on level of squeamishness — it obviously made an impression . |
| 2 | You do a complete circuit , left or right depending on wind , and then you can go where you want . |
| 3 | Time performance of stoves and fuels varies widely depending on temperature , weather conditions — notably wind — and altitude . |
| 4 | Similarly , if a firm 's name keeps on appearing on behalf of plaintiffs against major local factories , you can be fairly sure that they are retained on behalf of a union . |
| 5 | Additional developer licenses are $3,000 and additional end-user licences go for $1,500 or less depending on quantity . |
| 6 | In your situation , as both employees work in the kitchen , it might be possible to monitor the situation , eg checking on stock after each shift , etc . |
| 7 | ‘ I really believe they have not had any capital for twenty years , but were entirely trading on credit . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He 's better looking on TV … ’ |
| 9 | He was president of St Bartholomew 's Hospital from 1572 to his death , comptroller-general of all the hospitals from 1581 , and MP for the City from 1572 to 1583 , naturally serving on House of Commons committees concerning London , trade , and industry . |
| 10 | Four months ago Alan Govier was looking forward to early retirement , buying a new car and perhaps going on holiday . |
| 11 | When students fail to make explicit the relevance of a piece of information , they are usually seen as not understanding or merely relying on memory . |
| 12 | I am merely placing on record , as precisely as possible , the conditions that determined the starting-point of our inquiry . |
| 13 | Angel and Tess decided to spend a day together shopping on Christmas Eve . |
| 14 | Armstrong World Industries , so long concentrating on mineral fibre ceiling systems , has now introduced a metal laminate system — the ML ceiling . |
| 15 | Even when their children go to school , single mothers are more likely to go on living on welfare benefits than other lone parents . |
| 16 | and these people were not depending on agriculture alone . |
| 17 | The pole floats range from .3 to 1.3 gram and retail at around 90p , the wagglers take between 2BB and 4AAA and retail at around £2.60 for a pack of five or between 50p and 60p individually depending on size . |
| 18 | that 's , that 's the other thing when there 's only two of you involved and you , we were opening for that first sort of eighteen months five , six days a week just keeping on top of a day to day business does n't allow you to sit back |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm just checking on dinner , ’ he said , as she stalked in . |
| 20 | The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal . |
| 21 | In his preamble to the report Lord Hunter quoted Lord Denning 's preamble to the Profumo affair report about the importance of justice to the individual and not condemning on suspicion , and he also promised to avoid what he called wild speculation . |
| 22 | I 'm not living on morphine for nothing , am I ? |
| 23 | Street declared in The Builder that Parker was expressing his personal views and not writing on behalf of the Oxford Architectural Society , and if Parker 's ‘ excessively antiquarian view of our own present duties were to be put forward as the real and right ground for us to work upon , I , for one , should have very little hope of the ultimate success of our course ’ . |
| 24 | The Company was not acting on behalf of the government when it entered into the concession agreement . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think so , she was just passing on gossip . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm just passing on gossip for what it 's worth . ’ |
| 27 | The fax is transmitted at a much faster rate thus saving on telephone bills . |
| 28 | He will usually be able to purchase in larger quantities , thus saving on delivery costs . |
| 29 | The significant features of Arazi 's victory over Supermec and River Majesty were that the knee operation carried out last November appeared to have no effects and , this time , the colt was not racing on medication , as he had been when winning the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile . |
| 30 | At least then he would know that she was not lying on ice in a bloody mortuary . |