Example sentences of "[adv] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A lover of nature , he was no lover of solitude , and like many whose occupations condemn them to long silences he seized eagerly on all opportunities of conversation . ’ |
| 2 | At 9.30pm on 11 December 1876 , PC Isaacs of Hungerford Police Station chatted with Inspector Joseph Drewitt outside the Red Lion , a well known hostelry . |
| 3 | In the extreme , of course , local people may object strongly to a project ( eg on environmental grounds ) , and force a design change or even the abandonment of the project , so that public attitudes may become an important issue . |
| 4 | to teach children how to make use of books , magazines and simple source material ( eg on floppy disc and computer tape ) and to develop referencing skills ( in atlas , dictionary , information books ) |
| 5 | These include physical adsorption ( eg on controlled pore glass or alumina ) , chemical attachment to a surface ( eg on carbon , Pt or , glass electrodes ) physical entrapment in hydrophilic gels ( eg polyacrylamide , polyvinyl alcohol or gelatin ) , chemical crosslinking ( eg to albumin ) and retention in protective microvesicles ( eg liposomes or red cell membranes ) . |
| 6 | They developed detailed training proposals ( eg on mental frailty among elderly people , on dementia , on services available , on health and safety at work , on confidentiality , on employment and administrative matters , on incontinence , and on diet ) . |
| 7 | ( 8 ) If there are allotted but unissued shares in the target outstanding ( eg on provisional allotment letters following a rights issue ) the Panel must be consulted . |
| 8 | Familiarity with the Law Society 's Civil Litigation Committee 's Guide to Good Practice and other guidance ( eg on medical reports and structured settlements ) as published . |
| 9 | Open country , nesting colonially on inland cliffs and ruined buildings . |
| 10 | COOK 'S NOTE : To make caraque , melt about 175g/6oz plain chocolate , then spread it thickly on some baking parchment and leave to set . |
| 11 | They were speeding along the A40 trunk road now , the landscape growing ever more undulating as the Cotswolds drew near , the pale winter sunlight falling warmly on honey-stoned farmhouses and curving boundary walls . |
| 12 | He kissed her warmly on both cheeks and caught again that elusive scent that was special to her . |
| 13 | Clay masks which dry on the skin are grease-absorbing and act better on oily skins . |
| 14 | ‘ I think I might do that better on firm ground . ’ |
| 15 | Standardised tests had shown that ‘ whereas his two older brothers had scored better on verbal ability than on visual motor ability , Balbinder had performed equally poorly on both ’ . |
| 16 | In general , the results confirmed her predictions ; independent of sex , late maturers scored better on spatial tasks and early maturers scored better on verbal tasks . |
| 17 | She states that early maturers have better verbal aptitude than spatial ability , whereas later maturers perform better on spatial tasks than verbal ones . |
| 18 | In general , the results confirmed her predictions ; independent of sex , late maturers scored better on spatial tasks and early maturers scored better on verbal tasks . |
| 19 | Well they go a lot better on that bike of mine . |
| 20 | Baroness Seear , a leader of the Liberal peers for several years , remarks that ‘ I can honestly say that I have never been in a place that treats you better on male-female equality . |
| 21 | Farm machinery is used better on larger farms and needs fewer workers . |
| 22 | If a mutant batch of tadpoles with cannibalistic tendencies suddenly arose in a spadefoot population , they would tend to survive much better on those occasions when the pond was quickly drying out . |
| 23 | But the system relies entirely on successful waste segregation . ’ |
| 24 | The system can rely entirely on coaxial cable , or entirely on optical fibre , just as a tree and branch network can be based on either technology . |
| 25 | But I am not too keen on performances which concentrate entirely on rhetorical expression , and thereby lose both the singing quality , and the logic of the ‘ long line ’ . |
| 26 | Myth No.3 : ‘ Ratner has built his market entirely on low prices . ’ |
| 27 | Clearly I can not get along entirely on factual information , any more than I infer from the mere facts how to act here and now . |
| 28 | With the aid of another architect friend , a metallurgist and a professor of mechanical engineering from Bristol University , and assistance from the research and development department of Aerospatiale , they designed a steel and glass conservatory in the style of the period , but with many modern and labour-saving features , such as a reversible entrance , hermetically-sealed casements , low-voltage common-earth infra-red lighting and a sprinkler system that runs entirely on shredded copies of Harpers & Queen . |
| 29 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 30 | I leave entirely on one side all the difficult questions which are concealed by that little phrase ‘ over a period ’ . |