Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has little influence on places along the route , but a powerful one on those at the ends of it . ’ |
| 2 | He hoped eventually to concentrate on diseases of the mind so he was constantly analysing people 's actions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Managers con who constantly pick on individuals sometimes resulting in sudden and unsupportable dismissals . |
| 5 | There were various elongated portraits , all painted on canvases of an idiosyncratic size , roughly six foot by two . |
| 6 | In group discussions , a married 35-year-old teacher gave his reasons for not identifying with successful men : ‘ I have the feeling that successful men have got to their position by being unpleasant , perhaps stepping on others to get there . |
| 7 | The timetable will need to be agreed with court officials and will be affected by this and also by the fact that petitions are usually only heard on Mondays . |
| 8 | The SADR first took its seat at the Organization of African Unity summit of 1984 , not 1989 as inadvertently given on pp. 37014 , 37220 . |
| 9 | The grass margins are trimmed neat as a Home Counties lawn and there are single-storey farmsteads with shuttered balconies all perched on stilts to suit the climate . |
| 10 | ‘ In these circumstances it is not fair and reasonable for building societies and valuers to agree together to impose on purchasers the risk of loss arising as a result of incompetence or carelessness on the part of valuers ’ , he said . |
| 11 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 12 | The world is blurred and they can only focus on things that are very close — seven to 12 inches away . |
| 13 | Commissions in the eurodollar market as a whole ( not illustrated ) obviously depend on maturities and the quality of the issuer , but similar trends in fees are observable . |
| 14 | Much depends on acoustics . |
| 15 | The painters downstairs , skylarking on the fringe of the main action , celebrate ( though they would be surprised to hear it ) the living life which was , I said , merely imposed on Notes from Underground , but which now surrounds both crime and punishment and makes the whole novel responsive like a touched spider 's web . |
| 16 | Basically , however , it is our practice only to paddle on Sundays in the fishing season and not even then on certain rivers when the salmon are running . |
| 17 | This technique can only be applied in bold , relatively thick outlines , and is therefore only used on items which employ reasonably simple designs . |
| 18 | They have place that Rosemary mentioned , it 's only opened on Saturdays . |
| 19 | But biological weapons are unlikely to be much used on troops in combat , mainly because of the difficulties of getting the aerosols on to them without seeing them drift back on to those who released them . |
| 20 | But we do not only report on events as they actually occur , we also make judgements about them , and we can call them into existence out of context . |
| 21 | Counsel for B and Q say the sunday trading laws unfairly discriminate against women because many female staff can only work on Sundays . |
| 22 | Other listening modes — for instance , those where music is associated with activities of various kinds , the sounds perhaps impinging on muscles , skin , nerves as much as conscious thought processes — have a long and continuous history , however ; and , still , as anthropologists have shown , a living ethnography . |
| 23 | Those schools are achieving improved academic results , better staying on rates and lower pupil teacher ratios . |
| 24 | The others all dragged on planks and sandbags . |
| 25 | This sentiment was not so much based on results — those of the evolutionist disciplines were hardly capable of experimental falsification — as on a belief in the infallibility of the ‘ scientific method ’ . |
| 26 | They were made in Plasticine , and obviously based on photographs of Hindu sculpture in the art books on his bottom shelves . |
| 27 | Instead the article , obviously based on interviews with my critics , attacked what I had said or written about IQ in other places . |
| 28 | It needed too much spent on repairs , and the stock was old-fashioned and out-of-date . |
| 29 | Editors have naturally concentrated on sources closest to Bach , but there is in the more peripheral ones a wealth of information about the origin and reworking of pieces , as well as performance practice ( notably fingerings and ornaments ) for which musical sources can shed light on specific details in a way more generalized literary documents rarely can ; and on the estimation of Bach 's music by his contemporaries and immediate successors . |
| 30 | And he was a central figure on a night of high drama in Belgium as the Lurgan team almost pulled off one of biggest Euro shocks of all time , only losing on penalties after a 1-1 extra-time draw . |