Example sentences of "[adv] on [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ratios should be spaced so on changing up , the engine operates in the area of steep torque rise . |
| 2 | John Stork , until recently also an entirely British-owned search firm , has established a significant niche in the British headhunting business but , unlike GKR , it has concentrated less on building up a large volume of business in London and more on expanding into Europe . |
| 3 | Funny how turning points can visit in plain clothing and only on looking back is the impression found , an impression made by the weight of a moment so apparently modest it 's hard to recall . |
| 4 | There was ‘ Pooper Scooper ’ Watkins , a young woman who insisted not only on picking up her dog 's faeces with a see-through plastic glove , but also on waving it in the faces of passers-by in order to emphasize her ecological soundness . |
| 5 | But enormous sums are also being spent by polluters and their insurers , not just on cleaning up but also on legal fees , as the courts struggle to decide who should pay what share of the bills . |
| 6 | The grammar translation method of teaching languages is based largely on finding out how a language works and analysing its structure . |
| 7 | All language is morally loaded ( one campaigner 's unborn child is another 's clump of cells ) but those who would trick the public by the term pre-embryo should be prepared to concentrate on the moral status of the early embryo , not on dreaming up a new vocabulary . |
| 8 | Distracted also by his own uncertain future , he began to spend less time on Lake Street and more on getting back into journalism . |
| 9 | The UN 's outer-space division wants to spend $500000 next year on schemes for training and also on setting up an advisory service for Third World space engineers . |
| 10 | ‘ Hello ? ’ she queried evenly on taking up the receiver — and an instant later , Lubor 's apologetic tones hit her ears . |
| 11 | And this is why any new owner is strongly advised to have at least a safety inspection of the system carried out immediately on moving in . |
| 12 | A suggestion that Dunne threw out caught many a reader 's fancy : anybody , he argued , could obtain the same results as he had simply by having a pad and a pencil beside the bed and writing down remembered dreams , immediately on waking up . |
| 13 | It also has three heated public glasshouses and a small propagation unit which concentrates mainly but not exclusively on bringing on plants for amenity planting . |
| 14 | He took his pulse again to calm himself ( it had gone up to sixty-five ) and then began to concentrate hard on gathering up the bits of himself . |
| 15 | Fabia was shaken , but was more intent then on finding out what she could do to help whatever the trouble was , than concerned that it looked as though she could say goodbye to her much looked forward to Czechoslovakian holiday . |
| 16 | The conservation strategy will focus initially on building up an information database on the region 's bird life , and on conducting further surveys , with a view to making information available to locally-based researchers . |
| 17 | Crown lending was never a major part of Aaron 's business , however , and after 1169 he ceased to be a primary Crown lender , concentrating instead on building up his own vast financial network of agents and clients from his Lincoln base . |
| 18 | Can you really tell countries like India and China that they should switch from coal to some other , more expensive fuel or spend heavily on cleaning up emissions ? |