Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cayley attracted his friend Sylvester into studying invariants ( the term " invariant " is due to Sylvester ) and these two did so much research on the subject that they were named the Invariant Twins . |
| 2 | Hence , whether a child is placed with a foster family or in residential care may not so much depend on the child 's needs but on where he or she happens to live . |
| 3 | Better not talk on the phone , had we ? ’ |
| 4 | You know , in the past … ’ she trailed off , she could sense that she 'd better not squat on the bidet to wash between her legs in front of Miss Goldilocks . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd rather not say on the telephone . ’ |
| 6 | Equally , we should remark that the interpretation of an adjective as associative does not necessarily depend on the existence of a noun from which the adjective can be seen as derived . |
| 7 | These connections suggest that what a woman says about housework at the beginning of her interview does not only reflect on the mode of feeling-expression general in her class-specific linguistic code . |
| 8 | Instructions should not only advise on the method of use but also indicate the product limitations and the checks and controls that can be applied to make sure that those limitations are not exceeded . |
| 9 | The hierarchy of a church is important in the libidinal ties in churches , for they do not only rest on the love of the abstract figure of Christ , but on living people who are his priests , bishops and ministers in the various groups . |
| 10 | The goldfish can not only spy on the fair-red secrets of our world , but its vision extends through the spectrum to shorter wavelength ultraviolet radiation , making it receptive to a wider band of light than almost any other animal . |
| 11 | attention should not only focus on the workplace . |
| 12 | As Isard ( 1975 : 377 ) remarks : ‘ communications do not merely depend on the context for their interpretation , they change that context ’ . |
| 13 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 14 | The less attractive males , however , do not just sit on the sidelines . |
| 15 | Although the issue of fraud trials was one in which Mrs Thatcher also took a personal interest , she did not normally intervene on the details of criminal policy . |
| 16 | The broad effect of this is that a defect will normally be cured as against the administrator and liquidator ( since unsecured creditors will not normally rely on the register of charges ) but not against persons who acquire an interest ( who will normally rely on the register of charges ) . |
| 17 | We would not normally insist on the wording in square brackets where the client 's legal advisers consider that the words are not required . |
| 18 | People often object to practising behaviours that they do not usually use on the grounds that it is n't natural . |
| 19 | Yeah , Could I also just quickly comment on the differences between columns H and I that you 've referred to . |
| 20 | The independent appraisals of the maths testing ( Cambridge Institute of Education , 1985 ) and the language testing ( Thornton , 1986 ) do not directly comment on the validity of the tests . |
| 21 | Now , they were combined and synthesized on aesthetic principles which apparently did not always depend on the content of the subject matter , although it is difficult to be certain in an area such as this . |
| 22 | We can not always rely on the fish already being there and feeling hungry too . |
| 23 | In practice , an employer will not always rely on the implied duty of fidelity : there will often be an express clause in the employment contract which directs the employee to devote his time exclusively to the promotion of the employer 's business . |
| 24 | We have already observed that it is more difficult to speechread unless there is enough space between you and the speaker — eyes can not possibly focus on the whole face if it is only six inches away . |
| 25 | Ollie could just about manage on the violin . |
| 26 | The elaborately multi-layered Neverland set of Spielberg 's Hook , with its lagoon and its jungle and its tree-house and its pirates ' galleon , does not really work on the screen : it 's much too claustrophobic , too tentacular , too ‘ busy ’ . |
| 27 | Obviously we can not simply rely on the raw figures if we wish to consider whether local authority expenditure had grown since the £9,230 million spent in 1974 — the year of reorganisation . |
| 28 | This case shows neither that employers should refuse jobs to those who have a murky past nor that they should not entrust secrets to subordinate employees — that is impracticable — but that they should not simply rely on the implied duty of confidence ; it can lead to misunderstandings and difficulties as to what is really secret . |
| 29 | It is clear from these brief analyses that the nature and scope of the context that is constructed for each individual poem does not simply depend on the choice of deictic expressions in the text , but rather results from the combined effect of a wide range of variables , including the content of the text as a whole , and the attitudes and experiences that readers bring to the text or develop during reading . |
| 30 | Following the great betrayal of 1882 , when Gladstone presided over the annexation of Egypt , they could not even rely on the Liberal party to resist the imperialist tide . |