Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I doubt whether she 's been properly taught on the subject quite frankly . |
| 2 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 3 | Copernicus had shown that the apparent movements of the planets as observed from the earth can not be satisfactorily or coherently explained on the assumption that the earth itself lies immobile at the centre of the universe . |
| 4 | Christmas dinner rather depended on the weather . |
| 5 | Critics have since commented on the paradox offered by a Secretary of State sharply defining two categories of higher education — the one more theoretical and academic than the other — in the same year as he was energetically destroying similar categories in secondary education . |
| 6 | The incidents at Coed Glas have been widely blamed on the lack of secure accommodation in Wales . |
| 7 | As club manager , however , he was widely travelled and widely respected on the Continent , spreading the name and prestige of Arsenal in his imperialist fashion . |
| 8 | Today , it is being slowly eroded on the south face by the sea . |
| 9 | David Blunkett MP showed himself most committed on the issue , protesting at the sheer chutzpah of the Tories in purloining for themselves a concept of essentially socialist origin . |
| 10 | Thus gestures in the direction of participation are very rarely premissed on the basis of any considered political theory , much less on the adoption of any fundamental moral position . |
| 11 | Tommy Pickernell duly won on the horse with ease . |
| 12 | Creatures were not necessarily placed on the earth in the form in which they appeared now . |
| 13 | Other notable examples include the Church at Znojmo and S. Maurice at Olomouc , though the latter has been much altered on the exterior ; it has a hall church interior . |
| 14 | I join the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare ( Mr. Wiggin ) in pointing out that the Inland Waterways Association believes that it was not sufficiently consulted on the Bill . |
| 15 | Then came the inevitable qualifications — much depended on the state of international trade and on the efficient running of industry . |
| 16 | But in Timor , much depended on the containment , if not defeat , of the guerrillas . |
| 17 | But so much depended on the interpretation : if only Yorick had contented himself with unvarnished English prose . |
| 18 | Naturally , much depended on the quality of the education these men received . |
| 19 | We have seen this rapidity on other occasions also in his earliest letters of friendship , but never before in circumstances where so much depended on the quality of those around him . |
| 20 | However , it does not extend to the Regimental Headquarters , where the Adjutant appears to be becoming somewhat heated on the telephone as a local unit announce that a helicopter will be arriving at 1130 hours to collect maps from the adjoining map depot . |
| 21 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 22 | It could also have a bearing on its unusual style — no verbal testimonies from friends and colleagues , no old archive footage , just Van getting royally stoned on the music with some mates . |
| 23 | This naturally depended on the terrain : there is no evidence that I can find to suggest that gliders were used in the Morvan on Operation Houndsworth . |
| 24 | Around 370 million years old , it was once a tropical sea-bed yet it was only placed on the tourist map nine years ago when a TV crew flew over it by chance . |
| 25 | While everyone else had been trying to solve this problem by heating … to millions of degrees , we had apparently stumbled on the solution involving low temperatures instead . ’ |
| 26 | The seaman moved quickly and was only grazed on the ear . |
| 27 | According to those at the vigil , the police only checked on the hose twice before the massacre occurred at 4am . |
| 28 | Some light is perhaps shed on the problem by the most recent psychological researches on memory , which have identified two rather different kinds of memory — ‘ explicit ’ memory , which amounts to relatively detailed recall of a set of stimuli ; and ‘ implicit ’ memory , which is distinctly short of detail , but enables people , in effect , to ‘ know I 've seen it before somewhere ’ . |
| 29 | Plato , Descartes , Spinoza and Bergson have all descanted on the subject . |
| 30 | She grabs her handbag and rushes along the landing , and she falls — so hard , they say , that she has a nasty long wound on the back of her head . |