Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The control panel is discreetly tucked away on the front and is totally invisible when the spa is in use . |
| 2 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 3 | Left and Right differed only on the nature of this conflict . |
| 4 | More generally , it remains true that the severity of the Monopolies Commission 's findings mean that the board is necessarily placed somewhat on the defensive about its investment appraisals , and will find all its investment assumptions scrutinised with some suspicion . |
| 5 | In each case there can be no doubt that the advantages offered by the trust over the civil-law method were significant : performance in specie was a real possibility in each case ; that this was so depended entirely on the fact that trusts were subject to a different procedural order . |
| 6 | In Lakatos 's reply to Kuhn , all turns finally on a distinction between progressive and degenerating research programmes . |
| 7 | If the sectoral approach and spillover were to achieve any great potential , they could only do so on a more limited front — that is , by the six states which had already agreed to the supranational principle by forming the ECSC . |
| 8 | According to Peter Hume , finance director of stockbrokers Seymour Pierce Butterfield , investors considering buying shares in a company offering concessionary discounts should only do so on the merits of the shares . |
| 9 | How much they can take in depends partially on the structure of their leaves . |
| 10 | The change in depends only on the second derivatives at x , and so these derivatives must embody the curvature information . |
| 11 | For example , the report appears to distinguish between ‘ genotoxic ’ substances , which are mutagenic and directly damage DNA , and ‘ non-genotoxic ’ or ‘ epigenetic ’ substances , which apparently act indirectly on the genome . |
| 12 | Again I had to resort to cutting down her weight , so that she 'd be hungry enough to focus more on the food . |
| 13 | We 're all theologians , but we do obviously depend heavily on the help of the professionals . |
| 14 | The decision was opposed by many , including some who were pro-choice ( in favour of women deciding for themselves ) , on the grounds that the court 's decision was apparently based more on a balancing of policy interests than on specifically legal argument , and it had the effect of stimulating the anti-abortion movement which in turn became a major part of the New Right . |
| 15 | Richard Baxter only preached once on a Sunday . |
| 16 | To stop the board from turning too much and possibly heading into wind , the turn can be stopped by swiftly moving forwards on the board |
| 17 | Most of the Pyrenean breeds , originally bred for work and naturally found also on the southern slopes with spanish breeds , are now rare . |
| 18 | Fairfax 's plane circles once and then comes down to land bumpily on a piece of gazelle-inhabited ground . |
| 19 | Any falling short in doing so reflects more on the teaching than on the students ' preparedness to respond . |
| 20 | ‘ The Professor 's garden , however , was not only protected originally on the College side by the Fleet Ditch , but by a Thorn-planted Hedge , which extended onwards to the Bridge in Fig Lane [ Crowndale Road ] thus also enclosing the ‘ Green ’ at the back of the Elephant & Castle Inn . |
| 21 | The suspension generally is good , especially cruising fast on the open road , and the car ‘ flows ’ through the bends . |
| 22 | But she has long scored highly on the qualities of being decisive , resolute , and principled , a perception helped by the Falklands war and the comparison until 1983 with Michael Foot , the Labour leader . |
| 23 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 24 | England 's batsmen looked in decent enough form yesterday on a shirt-front pitch , nor does the heat appear to be causing them undue distress . |
| 25 | IBM Corp and Microsoft Corp are apparently working together on a project to put Windows NT up on the PowerPC RISC . |
| 26 | Most guitarists know people who can outplay them in some way and so most register somewhere on the meek and self-effacing scale . |
| 27 | Theory Y , however , depends on mature individuals ; maturity , given the influence of group psychology etc , does not exist sufficiently on the shop floor to be practicable in its extreme form . |
| 28 | The following household tasks are generally assigned purely on a cultural basis . |
| 29 | They nevertheless will have seen some , perhaps all the works included , and can thus comment usefully on the artist 's standing , aims and achievements . |
| 30 | Third rate ‘ IN the third ( division ) Southend have no problems scoring at home , but Sunderland were desperately unlucky not to go ahead on the half hour ’ |