Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 2 | Two heating mats would be equally good ( and probably less likely to fail on balance ) . |
| 3 | The Central board has recommended acceptance of the offer and says the resulting group will be better able to compete on world markets . |
| 4 | It is only fair to put on record , so that the student of war today can trace Trenchard 's early thinking , by recalling that the Harris war aircraft were laid down in the mid-thirties . |
| 5 | Gas and oil pipelines were already being laid and the first oil and gas field at Eckofisk was more or less ready to come on stream at that time . |
| 6 | Is it not possible to focus on form because you want to make your meaning clear , because you want to be more communicatively effective ? |
| 7 | Low capitalisation tended to be a factor in stifling competition , as firms were not willing to compete on price terms if they did not have the capital backing . |
| 8 | Where leave was given , it was not uncommon to find on investigation that there were no grounds for granting any relief . |
| 9 | Now that may not be the best way to have structured it , but some of the checks that we 're imposing at the moment are not necessary to put on paper . |
| 10 | But it is not wise to rely on fairy godmothers reappearing . |
| 11 | In Mecca Ltd. v. Kirkcaldy Burgh Licensing Court , 1975 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 50 , it was held that a licensing court was not entitled to found on information neither adduced in evidence , nor within judicial knowledge . |
| 12 | A transatlantic vagrant , larger , longer-billed , much more prone to run on land , white rump , no wing-bar. 9 in. ( 23 cm . ) . |
| 13 | If the company feels that it can largely pass changes in input prices on , it will be more appropriate to focus on productivity changes than on absolute cost changes . |
| 14 | Quite apart from nearly a hundred years of intensive research having failed to demonstrate such a cause of functional psychosis , there is another important reason why it is totally inappropriate to draw on analogy with the neurological diseases proper . |
| 15 | One retail analyst said he believed it would make customers more likely to spend on food and gifts . |
| 16 | However , small businesses also need to forecast and they are more likely to rely on judgement alone . |
| 17 | It is true that we live in an age when people are increasingly more likely to act on intuition , but many are still able to calculate when two and two add up to five . |
| 18 | The main reason why the US market is so much more competitive appears to be tradition : American consumers are accustomed to hunting out bargains and buying on price , whereas Europeans are more likely to buy on brand name . |
| 19 | Bear in mind that see it but it 's more likely to pass on energy units , because it 's the stronger , you know . |
| 20 | It is always advisable to check on marketability as it can be tight for some smaller issues . |
| 21 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 22 | It is not always sufficient to rely on challenge tests only . |
| 23 | It has a distinctive texture which becomes stringy when cooked and is most famous served on top of pizzas or lasagne . |
| 24 | Most institutions are also able to draw on hardship funds of their own , of course . |
| 25 | After years of waiting , building work is now due to start on Stream Bank Cottage . |
| 26 | It is now possible to get on CD-ROM everything from the Yellow Pages to a civil engineering database . |
| 27 | If the new version of events is what they are now prepared to say on oath , you must accept it and reassess your case in the light of that knowledge . |
| 28 | A further cut in base rates to 6% is now likely to stay on ice till next year . |
| 29 | Feminist psychologists are often reluctant to call on psychoanalysis . |
| 30 | Whilst teachers seemed to be fairly happy to comment on provision for equal opportunities , some heads of department had misgivings about commenting on provision for multicultural education . |