Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Howell , in this volume , describes a similarly non-violent orientation among the closely related Chewong , but one apparently built on a much less fearful world view . ) |
| 2 | The studies only agreed on a consistently high rate of dream reports from REM sleep . |
| 3 | By approving the Act , Congress has endorsed controversial doctrines and practices hitherto conducted on a largely pragmatic and informal basis by the Commission . |
| 4 | They waited ten minutes , Paul timing it exactly on his wristwatch , then crept back to find Gittings comfortably installed on a newly delivered double bed , beginning his lunch of two fresh fish cutters and half a bottle of five-star rum . |
| 5 | This " subjective " attraction of the Soviet experiment is nonetheless not based on a purely aesthetic stance . |
| 6 | This money is not usually distributed on a truly competitive basis , a process that is widely criticized . |
| 7 | By the 1850s , Freames Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins by Perkins , Critchley and Marmont , who were there for around a decade and who later operated on a much larger scale at Wimberley Mills . |
| 8 | Our particular role may be to take over consciously and with some degree of awareness that which was formerly done on a more instinctive level . |
| 9 | She was not at all narrowly fixed on a rigidly academic education ; her warm and vigorous personality made her excellent at public relations and the promotion of her school in the outside world . |
| 10 | Yes Chairman I 'd like to second that and just to erm say very briefly that er erm I , I very much welcome the report and the speed with which the Chief Officer is seen to have addressed most of the issues there are one or two bits that , that were of course were in fact posters , posters er be dealt with erm I have to say I still have some concern erm that the Chief Fire Officer and his team are so well supported on a very broad front on their decision making and their professionalism and yet on other matters of sound advice which has been given by er who are turned aside and just simply not given the proper consideration that they should have as in that er respect Chairman and I , I , I have some concern , erm it , it would not surprise me indeed if the , Her Majesty 's Inspector of er er brigades , when he comes round himself , has some comment to make on that since I think he 's expectations as well are almost as high as mine is . |
| 11 | Although Micah 's words were first heard thousands of years ago , you can find them today inscribed on a very modern building : |
| 12 | Jalal Talabani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) , who had recently received fresh assurances of continued Western assistance for Iraqi Kurds [ see p. 38361 ] , had reportedly insisted on a more ambitious scheme involving autonomy for an area twice the size held by Kurdish guerrillas , incorporating the city of Kirkuk , and a clearer commitment by the government to hold democratic elections . |
| 13 | With QSP 's help , Pearl then embarked on a very carefully planned implementation of general ledger and accounts payable . |
| 14 | Both Aden Arabie and Les Chiens de garde were judged to be essentially lightweight literary texts , lacking in substantive Marxist analysis , excessively centred on a purely verbal , abstract revolt , and having little relevance to the contemporary class struggle . |
| 15 | They were then sent on a much fiercer one , some sixty miles eastward , at Klein Königsberg . |
| 16 | Spokes volunteers and EGBT had previously collaborated on a very successful project , the upgrading of Donkey Lane in Currie , in 1991 . |
| 17 | Heavily based on a slightly stretched platform from Chrysler 's ubiquitous K-car , the Mexican-built Spirit R/T is a boxy four-door , elongated at either end so that it appears rather narrower than its 68.1ins width conveys . |
| 18 | Its existence is one factor obviating Party-military showdowns of the kind which characterised the Khrushchev era , and the formulation and supervision of security policy is therefore placed on a more structured and continuous basis . |