Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [noun] " 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Hermite had presumably gambled on Smith 's being the only entry for the competition , but there were in fact two others . |
| 4 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 5 | You do a complete circuit , left or right depending on wind , and then you can go where you want . |
| 6 | No country has ever successfully developed on aid alone . |
| 7 | A coalition was eventually formed on Sept. 20 when the conservative Social Action Party ( SAP ) was brought in , increasing the number of seats to 207 . |
| 8 | As a result of a general election held on Nov. 23 , 1986 , a " grand coalition " of the Socialist Party of Austria ( Sozialistische Partei Österreichs — SPÖ ) and the conservative Austrian People 's Party ( Österreichische Volkspartei — ÖVP ) was eventually formed on Jan. 14 , 1987 , and sworn in on Jan. 21 . |
| 9 | She wholly goes on th'other side |
| 10 | The consequences of the revolution were ramified , and the outcome rarely depended on Qaddafi 's decision to issue a decree , or on a cadre 's negotiations with a shaikh over its implementation . |
| 11 | All it was first of all was a little graze on top of the skin . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that when no α-methyl group is present in a polymer , tacticity has little influence on T g . |
| 13 | It has little influence on places along the route , but a powerful one on those at the ends of it . ’ |
| 14 | It is generally assumed that an individual candidate has little influence on voting behavior : party is the decisive factor , though the candidate can have some impact . |
| 15 | Time performance of stoves and fuels varies widely depending on temperature , weather conditions — notably wind — and altitude . |
| 16 | Although some of the participants develop hardware — Hampshire-based Neural Technologies Ltd and Gloucester-based Micro Circuit Engineering Ltd have collaborated to develop a Neural Instruction Set Processor — the project clubs will mostly concentrate on software development . |
| 17 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 18 | He hoped eventually to concentrate on diseases of the mind so he was constantly analysing people 's actions . |
| 19 | ) This being Operation Bowery , conducted with HMS Eagle 60 of 64 aircraft successfully landing on Malta — KE ) |
| 20 | The works of Hamilton which eventually appear on CD-ROM will be open to basic text retrieval but that will be about all . |
| 21 | James Howe attended the village school in Skirling but left still young and incompletely educated on account of his deafness . |
| 22 | Switzerland has long relied on Italian and Spanish workers . |
| 23 | In the first place , although non-convertible bank notes may have been a new element , many — perhaps most — commercial transactions had long depended on paper bills rather than value-for-weight coin . |
| 24 | At six I was old enough to go on errands , at seven to go further to pay the rent and rates , make the long , dreary trip to the Cap for the divi . |
| 25 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 26 | The metric in this region may be taken to be of the form ( 6.20 ) , but with the metric functions U , V , W and M all depending on u only . |
| 27 | Additional developer licenses are $3,000 and additional end-user licences go for $1,500 or less depending on quantity . |
| 28 | On 12 June , after a feint in the direction of Tours , Richard and Philip suddenly swooped on Le Mans itself . |
| 29 | Although Elton Mayo is considered to be the pioneer of the human relations movement , Lewin was another important theorist who did much research on group dynamics and leadership styles . |
| 30 | Without Gooch , the victim of food poisoning the night before the game , much depended on Mike Gatting if England were to escape with a draw following India 's first innings run-riot of 560 for six declared . |