Example sentences of "[adv] on those [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I looked down on those falls — ‘ the smoke that thunders ’ as the Africans used to call them , with the white plumes of spray towering above the bushes and trees ; and I thought of David Livingstone trudging , the first modern white man to find them . |
| 3 | He 's gon na go down on those nuts now . |
| 4 | We 've er , he 's just been getting all the photos stuck down on those cards . |
| 5 | But obviously on those parameters you ca n't have hard and fast rules for each vehicle . |
| 6 | They 're quite expensive at the outset because what we 've got to do is pay the lecturers to put a lot of work in on those lectures — it 's not a simple thing writing this lecture for a thirteen year old and we also pay the school teachers for coming along and helping the lecturers . |
| 7 | one of these is that when the two parties separate , the manager continues to take commission for a number of years , but only on those records issued or those songs written during his or her term of office . |
| 8 | Focus only on those things you fancy trying , at least at first . |
| 9 | So far , infrared studies at observatories such as the UK 's Infrared Telescope ( UWIRT ) on Hawaii have centred only on those objects astronomers already know about from information at optical and radio wavelengths . |
| 10 | In order to be sure that our data would be as reliable as possible a decision was made to report only on those countries from which we had received at least three questionnaires among which there was a high level of agreement . |
| 11 | Second , whereas the government 's social policy extols the virtues of targeting benefits and subsidies to where they will do most good , there is no parallel targeting to ensure that interest rate policy will bear only on those aspects of the economy which increase inflationary pressure . |
| 12 | I mean what do you do normally on those days . |
| 13 | Certainly not on those conditions . |
| 14 | We 're not on those terms . |
| 15 | Here one must concentrate , not on those explanations of the Second and Third Ages which Tolkien wrote as background for The Lord of the Rings , but on his labour and preoccupation for nearly sixty years , the legends of the First Age : Tuor and Tûrin in the Unfinished Tales , but beyond and around them the whole ‘ narrative structure ’ of The Silmarillion . |
| 16 | Snow falling forever on those graves . |
| 17 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 18 | Smoke billowed forth on those days when the air was still , and spoil tips grew unchecked . |
| 19 | These effects will presumably operate both on unique features of the stimulus and also on those features that , for untrained subjects , are perceived as being common to both stimuli . |
| 20 | To see whether individual subjects performed differently on those junctions which they personally knew well a recognition measure for each subject on each junction was calculated . |
| 21 | They could also , of course , be used by less friendly rustlers descending unawares on those communities : one hill track between St Mary 's Loch and a ford across the Tweed was ruefully dubbed ‘ Thief 's Road ’ ; but most such raiders preferred to shun known tracks and ride straight across wild countryside on their sturdy little Border horses , known as hobblers or hobbies . |
| 22 | ‘ Anything could happen to her out on those hills alone , anything … ’ |
| 23 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 24 | In order that satisfactory treatments can be developed , proper studies need to be carried out on those subjects who have psychologically based reactions to foods , however manifested . |
| 25 | As a band , how much influence did you have over what came out on those recordings ? |
| 26 | My impression , based solely on those farmers whom I have met , is that the supporters of Free Presbyterianism tended to be small to medium farmers running family operations with only one or two labourers . |
| 27 | Because this book is part of a series , I have concentrated mainly on those topics which principally concern pre-capitalist and pre-feudal societies . |
| 28 | I look back on those emotions with wry amusement but also with a certain amount of self-respect . |
| 29 | The more successful the shops became , the more the branch managers reported back on those lines which sold well , thereby wielding a power which Laura did not at first wish to accept . |
| 30 | Looking back on those years between the two wars , and knowing Sam as I did , I am convinced that , had my parents landed in America , as intended , then he would have been in the prohibition racket , without any doubts . |