Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] on [noun sg] " 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 | As Dingwall and his colleagues ( 1983 ) comment , ‘ Attention was first focused on protection from children and only latterly on protection of children . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even so , most of it was so pointedly on target that she began to leave some of her cynicism aside . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is remote from roads and habitations and can be reached overland only on foot . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | It would not be surprising if you found that the work started arriving either only just on time or even late . |
| 13 | He had seldom been to the village and only once on foot but he could remember the layout of it with surprising clarity . |
| 14 | Good options , accessible only once on tape version 78% |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Some feed more or less directly on sediment , from which they extract edible particles . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Each set of four had their reins held by a ‘ driver ’ , so once on stage there was no way that a message could be passed to a colleague should anything go amiss . |
| 20 | Performance measures still impact only slightly on resource allocation decisions ’ . |
| 21 | The Lyle family took out the lease in 1920 and spent their own money on the restoration of Barrington Court and the creation of the Gertrude Jekyll-inspired gardens , which are only partly on Trust owned land . |
| 22 | The Finance Minister , Adnan Kahveci said on April 12 that Turkey had spent $45,000,000 so far on relief and expected to spend another $50,000,000 to provide food for refugees . |
| 23 | Having concentrated so far on administration and CIA involvement , Walsh declared that the final stages of his investigation would focus on other agencies which either collaborated in , or had detailed knowledge of , the Reagan administration 's secret arms sales to Iran or its covert resupply network for the contras . |
| 24 | ‘ I was so far on side the decision was a joke , ’ said Hazard , adding : ‘ The TV people told me after watching a replay that I was at least two yards on side . ’ |
| 25 | The accounts also provide details of the gains so far on executive share options in the merged company . |
| 26 | Freshwater lakes in the taiga , less often on tundra than Common Scoter ; in winter mainly in coastal waters , in small parties or with Common Scoters or Eiders . |
| 27 | So now on top of everything else she 'd look a wreck in the morning . |
| 28 | He repeated the phrases he had heard so often on TV but Ralph sneered . |
| 29 | CL depends so often on rendition of a range of colours , some soft and subtle , some brilliant , that optimum reporting of CL studies in publications may demand expensive colour plates . |
| 30 | Such phenomena are not manifestations of alien technology ; rather , they are phenomena that occur naturally here on Earth . |