Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delicately placed on a slight ridge , left-centre and midway between gatehouse and river , the surviving columns of the forum balanced , lifting the eyes to the exactly right focal point in a sky of scintillating , tearful blue feathered with airy clouds . |
| 2 | By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator . |
| 3 | Mr C F Motley of Lincolnshire has a small collection of such things which I feel sure have a rarity value as match-slips are eagerly collected on a world-wide scale . |
| 4 | However , to date this exciting new technology has only adopted on a voluntary basis . |
| 5 | If , then , all the evangelists agree that Jesus is the unique bearer of the Spirit , in whose power he ushers in the Messianic Age , they are no less agreed on a second vital point . |
| 6 | Many look even better used on a textured wallcovering , as they heighten the relief design . |
| 7 | Thus Senghor was able to build a political regime which was not only founded on a democratic tradition two generations old , but also had to accommodate a major countervailing influence to that of the state in the form of the Brotherhood . |
| 8 | Leading companies in the US take the whole process from beginning to end , from assistance in credit marketing , through processing applications to opening accounts and managing them , all based on a complete picture of each individual and their circumstances . |
| 9 | It exists in four slightly different forms , all based on a ring-like atomic structure formed by four chemical units known as pyrroles . |
| 10 | And it is all based on a true story . ’ |
| 11 | The Secretary of State 's authority on this matter has been accepted , not out of docility or in the belief that the Secretary of State for Scotland is infallible in curriculum matters : it has been accepted because it is very obviously based on a clear national consensus . |
| 12 | Asians ‘ kept their heads down ’ , a strategy supposedly more likely to succeed in a ‘ hostile ’ ( read : ‘ racist ’ ) environment — a view perhaps based on a selective construction of Jewish history in Britain ? — in contrast to the ‘ West Indian ’ tendency to engage in protest ( against racism ) . |
| 13 | Other major Matcham theatres which survive include the Everyman Theatre , Cheltenham ( 1891 ) ; Grand Opera House in Belfast , Grand Theatre in Blackpool , and Opera House in Wakefield ( all 1894 ) ; Lyric Theatre , Hammersmith ( 1895 , dismantled in 1972 and the auditorium only re-erected on a new site in 1979 ) ; Empire , Langton ( 1895 ) ; Tivoli , Aberdeen ( 1896 and 1909 ) ; Richmond Theatre , Surrey ( 1899 ) ; Gaiety , Douglas , Isle of Man ( 1900 ) ; Hackney Empire and Hippodrome in Brighton ( both 1901 ) ; Opera House in Buxton , Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne , Shepherds Bush Empire , and Royal Hall in Harrogate ( all 1903 ) ; King 's , Glasgow ( 1904 ) ; King 's , Southsea ( 1907 ) ; His Majesty 's in Aberdeen and Olympia in Liverpool ( both 1909 ) ; London Palladium ( 1910 ) ; and the Victoria Palace ( 1911 ) . |
| 14 | Each box had the name of its occupant thoughtfully provided on a typewritten card slotted into a holder on the door . |
| 15 | The forecast may then be based on this synthesis of informed and developed opinion , perhaps reformulated on a quantitative basis . |
| 16 | A female cuckoo , ready to lay her egg , had apparently fixed on a particular reed warbler 's nest as her destination . |
| 17 | decision to work towards BS 5750 naturally followed on an existing project to achieve the TEC Award for Investors in People . |
| 18 | The estate youth centre is only run on a part-time basis . |
| 19 | At first glance it appears that Braudel has merely hit on a convenient fashion of dividing up the past , to bring it under control and make it easier for historians to encompass . |
| 20 | Human bodies , apparently etherised on a sturdy table of outstretched arms , are passed across the throng like courses at a great Medieval banquet ; no surreptitious groping of tits occurs whatsoever . |
| 21 | A submarine trench has been postulated to accommodate the thick piles of Manx and Skiddaw slates in north-west England , perhaps superimposed on an earlier Cambrian island arc . |
| 22 | Noting that " negotiations can not take place behind the backs of our people " , he implicitly reaffirmed the ANC demand for a one person one vote system , declaring : " It is our belief that the future of our country can only be determined by a body which is democratically elected on a non-racial basis . " |
| 23 | Calls to the single market hotline are not necessarily recorded on a geographical basis . |
| 24 | The elections to the three chambers of the Croatian assembly , all conducted on a multiparty basis in two rounds on April 22 and May 6-7 , were won overwhelmingly by the right-wing nationalist Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) , led by Franjo Tudjman . |
| 25 | To put it broadly — ignoring all the smaller points of detail — one landscape has grown up piecemeal over centuries , the other is almost entirely planned on a large scale . |
| 26 | entirely planned on a large scale . |
| 27 | The only one of the renewable sources currently commercially exploited on a significant scale is hydro-electric power which in 1983 contributed about 7% to world energy supply . |
| 28 | In all the restaurants down on the coast they offer you very much the same salad , sometimes with a few olives , cucumber slices and cos lettuce all prettily arranged on a flat dish , a mixture not unlike the salade niçoise of Southern France . |
| 29 | Perhaps what has saved it is the fact that it is not situated on a major road . |
| 30 | is not justified on a general reading of that case . |