Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 'S ‘ greenest ’ car is the Subaru Vivio 660cc which has only just gone on sale . |
| 2 | Little work has so far focused on plant pathogens , but it is likely that this will ultimately develop as another component of integrated pest-management strategies . |
| 3 | But to the men of Kufra whose fathers or grandfathers had settled there because it was so centrally placed on trade routes , or because it was so remote from Ottoman , Italian or British control , ‘ central government ’ appeared indeed as a real force , but as one located — so to speak — in the extreme northwestern corner , in Tripoli . |
| 4 | Less often seen on wing than Golden Eagle . |
| 5 | And we 'll give them a fork and knife and I wo n't go into it in great detail but everything is going to be the six courses will be entirely accurately served on bread plates over on pewter trenchers . |
| 6 | The figures also demonstrate how well matched are the action and control samples : that in both places they were well matched on age , proportion with an involved relative/ friend , proportion in owner-occupied housing , and on OBS score ; they were less well matched on gender and on proportion without an inside lavatory ( though the difference was not great ) , and least well matched on marital status and on proportion living alone , with the Ipswich control sample and the Newham action sample being more likely to be married and ( therefore ) not living alone . |
| 7 | It would seem that the direction in which it will be refined is to move towards a system more or less completely based on unit costs , or common funding , and that the element of further funding has been included as a temporary measure to allow high cost institutions to adjust to the new system . |
| 8 | Never before have Corelli 's 12 Concerti grossi , Op. 6 been so plentifully represented on disc . |
| 9 | ( This is a goodwill payment , not necessarily based on admission of error ) . |
| 10 | Tax is not necessarily paid on fringe benefits , indeed many qualify for tax relief . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I scarcely think so , ’ she said carelessly , ‘ I am not much set on jewellery , you know … ’ |
| 12 | They are not only based on nature , they copy nature , line almost for line . |
| 13 | Saussure himself uses the example of polite formulas many of which , as he says , do seem to be ‘ imbued with a certain natural expressiveness ’ , but which are nevertheless entirely based on convention . |
| 14 | In Hippolyte , independent wind parts in the famous Tonnerre ( Act I scene 4 ) and the enharmonic Trio des Parques ( Act 2 scene 5 ) are wholly editorial ; so are the added oboe lines not easily negotiated on Baroque instruments at the entry of Diana ( Act 1 scene 5 ) and the woodwind in a number of the choruses ( e.g. ‘ Pluton commande ’ , Act 2 scene 3 ) . |
| 15 | Despite all this , and very probably contributing to it , schools had very largely not taken on board the issue of homosexuality , and 60 per cent of the sample said it had never been mentioned at all . |
| 16 | It is not directly represented on Senate which is the supreme academic body . |
| 17 | The EFL is not directly imposed on wage and industrial costs , so that these have sometimes risen within the total EFL at the cost of lower investment , higher prices or a reduced quality of service . |
| 18 | A " states paid " defence is not automatically transferred on receipt of the defence . |
| 19 | Buoyant , tern-like flight not often seen on surface of water . |
| 20 | A final chance to pick up the kind of luxuries not often seen on sale nowadays . |
| 21 | But resistance to government reorganization was not simply based on self-interest ; what a person 's self-interest was , was defined by institutions and economic expectations , by a social framework which was to some extent traditional and entrenched . |
| 22 | Wages in Japan are not simply based on age alone . |
| 23 | It means only that ideas both given and new will be subjected to scrutiny and not simply accepted on trust . |
| 24 | The piano works of Igor Stravinsky are not well represented on CD , so the re-issue of Michel Béroff 's recordings is to be welcomed with open arms . |
| 25 | About half of the infants in each group were not clinically dehydrated on presentation to hospital ( 102 ( 47% ) in group A and 99 ( 53% ) in group B ) , 102 ( 47% ) in group A and 75 ( 40% ) in group B were mildly dehydrated ( by up to 5% ) , 10 ( 5% ) in group A and 11 ( 6% ) in group B were moderately dehydrated ( 5–10% ) , and only one child in group A and two in group B were dehydrated by 10% or more . |
| 26 | Strategic information is generally modest in volume ( only megabits in information-theory terms ) , of the highest importance to the business historian , and is generally well preserved on paper media in corporate archives . |
| 27 | They argue that the creation of a market in index futures diverts volume that is not primarily based on information about a specific company away from the stock market , and so the remaining trades in shares are more information-based than before . |
| 28 | That 's the right on top of the left okay , right on top of the left , now you 've crossed over again left on top of the right , put that through there okay yeah |
| 29 | Essentially , Mrs Whitehouse 's argument was that ‘ traditional ’ Christian morals were no longer adequately presented on television , and that a new radical theological orthodoxy was in the ascendant . |
| 30 | No country has ever successfully developed on aid alone . |