Example sentences of "[adv] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to teach children how to make use of books , magazines and simple source material ( eg on floppy disc and computer tape ) and to develop referencing skills ( in atlas , dictionary , information books ) |
| 2 | These include physical adsorption ( eg on controlled pore glass or alumina ) , chemical attachment to a surface ( eg on carbon , Pt or , glass electrodes ) physical entrapment in hydrophilic gels ( eg polyacrylamide , polyvinyl alcohol or gelatin ) , chemical crosslinking ( eg to albumin ) and retention in protective microvesicles ( eg liposomes or red cell membranes ) . |
| 3 | They developed detailed training proposals ( eg on mental frailty among elderly people , on dementia , on services available , on health and safety at work , on confidentiality , on employment and administrative matters , on incontinence , and on diet ) . |
| 4 | ( 8 ) If there are allotted but unissued shares in the target outstanding ( eg on provisional allotment letters following a rights issue ) the Panel must be consulted . |
| 5 | COOK 'S NOTE : To make caraque , melt about 175g/6oz plain chocolate , then spread it thickly on some baking parchment and leave to set . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I might do that better on firm ground . ’ |
| 7 | Standardised tests had shown that ‘ whereas his two older brothers had scored better on verbal ability than on visual motor ability , Balbinder had performed equally poorly on both ’ . |
| 8 | Well they go a lot better on that bike of mine . |
| 9 | Baroness Seear , a leader of the Liberal peers for several years , remarks that ‘ I can honestly say that I have never been in a place that treats you better on male-female equality . |
| 10 | But the system relies entirely on successful waste segregation . ’ |
| 11 | The system can rely entirely on coaxial cable , or entirely on optical fibre , just as a tree and branch network can be based on either technology . |
| 12 | But I am not too keen on performances which concentrate entirely on rhetorical expression , and thereby lose both the singing quality , and the logic of the ‘ long line ’ . |
| 13 | Clearly I can not get along entirely on factual information , any more than I infer from the mere facts how to act here and now . |
| 14 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 15 | I leave entirely on one side all the difficult questions which are concealed by that little phrase ‘ over a period ’ . |
| 16 | ( It is important when dealing with caterpillars to realise that many species rely for their survival entirely on one plant growing in the right place at exactly the right time . ) |
| 17 | No one , however , seriously believes that the omission of both David Gower and Ian Botham from the main event in the Caribbean is based entirely on cricketing form . |
| 18 | Although the worms appear to feed entirely on mucosal material the incidental damage to blood vessels can cause considerable haemorrhage . |
| 19 | True enough but , as I shall argue below , AI is not an experimental science but an engineering technique or , if you want something more dignified , a practical task in the alchemical tradition , and what I have to say about its suggestiveness for investigating the nature of consciousness rests entirely on that fact . |
| 20 | It seems a pity that investigators have relied almost entirely on traditional IQ tests , which can be affected by impulsivity and other personality factors related to hyperactivity ; it is quite possible that the effects of lead on hyperactivity may be responsible for the apparent loss of IQ , even if we acknowledge a causal influence of lead on hyperactivity . |
| 21 | It is based entirely on personal instinct . |
| 22 | Mostly , they drank beer , so much of it that one old man stumbled out into the night entirely on automatic pilot and a middle-aged , tired-looking woman with a wooden leg lapsed into a coma . |
| 23 | There are numerous difficulties in making an historical study which depends entirely on written evidence , which may not represent the experience of the mass of children , and is at best a distillation of the views of the literate classes . |
| 24 | The system can rely entirely on coaxial cable , or entirely on optical fibre , just as a tree and branch network can be based on either technology . |
| 25 | We recognise that a time record is a poor indicator of quality but , in combination with the necessary confirmatory certificates and the detailed examination of standards that is built into the training office appraisal process , the Institute has a monitoring system of which — given that it depends almost entirely on voluntary effort — it can be justifiably proud . |
| 26 | Because it relies entirely on voluntary effort , the Association as currently constituted is not able to face a major expansion without help from the University . |
| 27 | The early stages of the present Tory campaign were based almost entirely on this idea . |
| 28 | This kind of researched planning is so vital to the success of an advertising campaign that many agencies now have planners concentrating entirely on this aspect of the work . |
| 29 | This would be all very well , if the plants of the phytoplankton could make do entirely on solar energy , which at least in the tropics is abundant all year round , and on carbon dioxide , which is always available in solution . |
| 30 | Customer loyalty depends very much on long term customer satisfaction and belief that the school is providing quality education . |