Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | These materials are predominantly based on siloxy methacrylates , which contain branched dimethyl siloxane substituents on a methacrylate stem . |
| 2 | As well as cereals , root crops — particularly potatoes and sugar beet — are widely grown on the best arable land , whilst in areas nearer the big cities , vegetables are most profitable , particularly on well-drained sandy loams . |
| 3 | Neither of these two methods , both of which are widely implemented on almost every computer architecture , addresses the third artform , technical illustration . |
| 4 | Pleistocene fossils ascribed to N. lapillus are widely distributed on both sides of the Atlantic , as far south as the Canary Islands ( Talavera , Kardas and Richards , 1978 ) . |
| 5 | They are widely used on the large-scale , a familiar example being the cup anemometer used in everyday meteorological applications . |
| 6 | Lack of breakage , however , only characterizes some of the owl assemblages , but there has been little published on this subject . |
| 7 | I , I doubt whether she 's been properly taught on the subject quite frankly . |
| 8 | ‘ Taking into account all the circumstances , the committee felt that he had been properly placed on List One and on the evidence available were not minded to move him to List Two as he had requested . ’ |
| 9 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 10 | Despite a general sense of optimism surrounding Hariri 's appointment , a general strike called by the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers in protest at the deteriorating economic situation had been widely observed on Oct. 14 . |
| 11 | For example , one text which has been widely circulated on the extreme right in recent years is Gary Allen 's None Dare Call It Conspiracy . |
| 12 | Prior to the rioting the Dinkins administration had been widely congratulated on successfully avoiding the disturbances which had affected many US cities in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots of April-May 1992 . |
| 13 | Plastic ( upvc ) doors are the latest arrival on the scene , although they have been widely used on the continent for around 25 years . |
| 14 | Plastic windows are the most recent arrival on the replacement window scene , although they have been widely used on the Continent for many years . |
| 15 | Predictive readability formulae such as those of Flesch ( 1948 ) and Dale and Chall ( 1948 ) have been widely used on both sides of the Atlantic for decades . |
| 16 | This type of equipment has been widely used on the continent of Europe and particularly in West Germany and Switzerland . |
| 17 | The incidents at Coed Glas have been widely blamed on the lack of secure accommodation in Wales . |
| 18 | A famous example of the importance of checking whether the so-called facts are right occurred on the occasion of Charles II founding the Royal Society in 1660 . |
| 19 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 20 | where , despite the fact that the writ has not been duly served on the defendant , he acknowledges service of it ; |
| 21 | It is important to ensure that only current partners appear as lessees/trustees of partnership premises , if only to avoid any possibility that a retired partner who has not been duly replaced on the title could be regarded as still being held out as a member of the firm . |
| 22 | Amid all this turmoil and red ink , the aircraft manufacturers ( America 's Boeing and McDonnell Douglas , and the European consortium , Airbus Industrie ) together with the jet-engine makers ( America 's General Electric and Pratt & Whitney , and Britain 's Rolls-Royce ) are nervously sitting on the biggest backlog of orders in their history . |
| 23 | and my eyes are politely fixed on his little moustache : |
| 24 | In that case the discretionary power to refund payment of rates for which the person who made the payment was not liable had been expressly conferred on local authorities by Parliament . |
| 25 | The young however , tend to join others in large creches and are eventually deserted on their parent 's departure for Heligoland . |
| 26 | Thus wars result from authoritarian government , while the peaceful conduct of foreign affairs is a function of liberal democracy — for if the people are properly informed on foreign-policy issues they will choose peace over war . |
| 27 | Thus to honour the first of the Roman emperors an orderly arrangement was reduced to an illogical jumble that many people find difficult to remember but which in the course of 2,000 years has been successfully imposed on most of the world . |
| 28 | theses have been successfully submitted on 19th and 20th century literature , history , history of art and comparative literature topics . |
| 29 | These are mostly based on the 8th note triplet groove but are usually written as 12/8 grooves . |
| 30 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |