Example sentences of "[adv] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) The announcement must specify in what circumstances any irrevocable undertakings will cease to be binding ( eg on receipt of a higher offer ) . |
| 2 | Many situations predispose to spatial disorientation — The main ones are : a ) Any situation involving a reduction or change in the way essential cues are available to you , eg on transition from visual to instrument flight or attempting to fly visually when what you can see is inadequate as in poor light , haze or high altitude . |
| 3 | If the interim payment was specifically assigned to one head of damage ( eg on account of nursing services or the cost of a specially modified bungalow for a quadraplegic ) there is no difficulty , and the note at para 29/11/2 of the 1993 White Book encourages the court to assign the payment to special damages to simplify the calculation of interest at trial . |
| 4 | She still felt somewhat on probation within the group : Sam had n't looked too keen when Evelyn had brought her in . |
| 5 | Sessions would run from 10am to around 4.30pm Tuesday to Thursday and 10am to around 2pm on Fridays throughout the hearing . |
| 6 | The second-half had n't lived up to the football of the first but Tranmere played far better on Friday with less reward . |
| 7 | The FT-SE 100-Share Index was down 20 points after half an hour , then rebounded to show a 20-point gain shortly after midday , before slipping back in line with Wall Street to close 8.7 better on balance at 2,843.0 in heavy trading . |
| 8 | Whales and seals , the largest polar aquatic mammals , rely almost entirely on blubber for insulation . |
| 9 | For those who might be interested in such peculiarities it can be recorded that this book was written entirely on aeroplanes in the course of a trip to North America : London to New York ( British Airways flight 177 ) ; New York to Los Angeles ( American Airlines flight 3 ) ; Los Angeles to Toronto ( Air Canada flight 792 ) ; Toronto to Edmonton ( Air Canada flight 613 ) ; Edmonton to London via Toronto ( Air Canada flights 126 and 856 ) . |
| 10 | New Millennium 's unique programme of inexpensive , good value holidays to Eastern Europe is based entirely on travel by coach . |
| 11 | It had struggled from beginning to end , had depended entirely on charity throughout its four-year existence , and now the girls working there were being irresponsibly left destitute . |
| 12 | The choice between them should thus rest entirely on simplicity of key — the piece as a whole with all its modulations and sectional key-changes being taken into consideration . |
| 13 | Volkenstein ( 1959 ) criticized the theory , mainly on the grounds that it concentrates entirely on barriers to rotation , neglecting intermolecular cohesion , and that it is not applicable to low-molecular-weight polymers , which also form glasses . |
| 14 | Shot entirely on location in South Central LA , the film aims to give the first true picture of what life is like in the ‘ LA Hood ’ . |
| 15 | At Play In The Fields Of The Lord ( 15 ) Hector Babenco 's lengthy ( over three hours ) but stunningly-wrought ecological tragedy , shot entirely on location in Amazonia , centres on a group of missionaries and a Cheyenne half-breed who set out in different ways to ‘ save ’ a tribe of rain-forest Indians but bring them only death , disease and destruction . |
| 16 | They were filmed entirely on location in England with a cast of experienced actors and a top television light entertainment director . |
| 17 | Mystery Tour is an atmospheric mystery thriller filmed entirely on location in the city of Oxford and in the Oxfordshire countryside . |
| 18 | Filmed entirely on location in and around Oxford , the setting provides an attractive backdrop to learning . |
| 19 | The show was filmed entirely on location in Spain , where a 25-acre village was specially built for the purpose . |
| 20 | The show was filmed entirely on location in Spain , where a 25-acre village was specially built for the purpose . |
| 21 | However , carers with savings above the limit for means-tested benefits have to rely entirely on ICA plus income from their savings , a strategy which is likely to increase their risk of poverty in the longer term ( Glendinning , 1990 ) . |
| 22 | The electric furnaces now used to produce high quality steel , depend almost entirely on scrap for furnace feed . |
| 23 | Toads are amphibians and , like the other amphibians — frogs , newts and salamanders — they depend entirely on water for their survival . |
| 24 | The islanders inhabit the coastal strip only , and subsist almost entirely on royalties from the mining . |
| 25 | When Lord Addison was made Minister of Health he concentrated entirely on methods of financing council housing , and under the ill-conceived Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919 he guaranteed local authorities all losses over that covered by a penny rate . |
| 26 | Attempts have been made to distinguish predation from scavenging ( Binford , 1981 ; Bunn , 1982 ; Shipman , 1983b , 1986 ) , but this work has been based entirely on analysis of large mammals ( Behrensmeyer , 1987 ) . |
| 27 | To maintain this focus , the book does not dwell much on forms of expert determination where the decision is not made by a third party or the decision is interim . |
| 28 | And where did they get so many Stars and Stripes , not , surely , a commodity much on sale in the socialist republic ? |
| 29 | He was told : ‘ We try to keep the panelling for three years , to get it thoroughly seasoned while other wood is dried artificially if required before it has time to get seasoned … we use chiefly mahogany , oak and walnut , a vast amount of teak — one of the most useful woods in railway construction — sycamore ; yellow deal for partitions , roofs and floors ; elm we find of very little use , but we are now very partial to Padouk wood [ from South Australia ] , though the workmen do n't like it much on account of its toughness ’ . |
| 30 | Meanwhile John Aldridge , released by Liverpool at the start of the season , is apparently on song with his new club Real Sociedad , scoring in their defeat of the Spanish champions Real Madrid at the weekend . |