Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at the level of explanation that the sexism of sociolinguistics is most blatantly on display , and I want to concentrate on it in the remainder of this section . |
| 2 | Under natural conditions it grows most abundantly on limestone soils . |
| 3 | In parts of the Atacama desert practically no rain falls , but in other deserts , especially locally on mountains , the annual rainfall may be as much as 250 mm ( 10 in ) . |
| 4 | As Dingwall and his colleagues ( 1983 ) comment , ‘ Attention was first focused on protection from children and only latterly on protection of children . ’ |
| 5 | For hinged windows , the best choice is self-adhesive epdm rubber foam , which unlike earlier foam types , deteriorates only slowly on exposure to sun and rain . |
| 6 | Questions may look all right on paper simply because we accept a more formal style in writing than we do in speech , but they may sound absolutely frightful when put into speech . |
| 7 | Even so , most of it was so pointedly on target that she began to leave some of her cynicism aside . |
| 8 | It is never — or perhaps only on occasion — the fault of an individual who has not done his job conscientiously or with an adequate standard of service . |
| 9 | It is remote from roads and habitations and can be reached overland only on foot . |
| 10 | But I tended to do much better on tests and examinations than I did on coursework , so I passed the eleven-plus and got a free place at the local St. Albans school . |
| 11 | New syllabuses ( e.g. Lesotho , Uganda ) show a greater diversification of materials and media in art and craft , and recommend many materials available in the environment rather than depending so single-mindedly on picture-making . |
| 12 | They always had to be constrained in public , Sundays or not ; and if anything they were less so on Sunday , when sometimes their clothes were pretty , and at least were seldom black , navy blue or grey as the men 's were invariably … . |
| 13 | However having spent so long on Tolkien 's powerful and complex image of evil , it is time to turn to his portrayal of the ( in appearance ) often weaker and much more limited power of good . |
| 14 | Then , when King John took over the French lands which he had inherited in 1200 , he was allowed to do so only on condition that he should recognise them as being fiefs held of the king of France . |
| 15 | If it is meaningful to say " the same colour " , then it is so only on condition that we can meaningfully speak of different specimens of the colour in question , or , at the very least , of different occasions on which this colour is talked about , or referred to as the " same " . |
| 16 | Skuas and jaegers — predatory gull-like birds — winter at sea but feed almost entirely ashore on insects and small mammals during the breeding season ; phalaropes , divers and several species of ducks similarly switch from marine foraging in winter to feeding and breeding on the tundra wetlands in summer . |
| 17 | In the event my evidence — on the scientific value of clinical ecology — played little part in the proceedings because the charges brought by the GMC touched only peripherally on Dr Mumby 's clinical activities . |
| 18 | One may well object to this , but perhaps not on grounds which can be called Benthamite . |
| 19 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 20 | It would not be surprising if you found that the work started arriving either only just on time or even late . |
| 21 | He had seldom been to the village and only once on foot but he could remember the layout of it with surprising clarity . |
| 22 | In 20 fights , Fogerty lost only once on points . |
| 23 | Good options , accessible only once on tape version 78% |
| 24 | He was against tobacco , and against dancing , and against cinemas , and against going to church only once on Sundays . |
| 25 | The bakery , and you 're expecting a delivery , especially like on produce , and then you have to go off , or something like that , get people stacking right up . |
| 26 | Some feed more or less directly on sediment , from which they extract edible particles . |
| 27 | Without such a move , the current attempts to define the notion of logical consequence more or less directly on fragments of natural language ( as initiated by Montague , 1974 ) would make little sense as a general semantic programme . |
| 28 | Similarly , the winger you cheered so lustily on Saturday afternoon might well be working alongside you down the pit on Monday morning . |
| 29 | On one occasion when the poor chap was a few minutes late , it was , ‘ He 's only ever on time when he wants to take me to church . ’ |
| 30 | He had been urgently summoned by the sexton , whom the vicar had sent off on horseback , and he was annoyed at being dragged from his bed in Kettlewell , so early on Christmas Eve ; especially as by the time he arrived it was all over . |