Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IMMATURE SOILS have indistinct or weakly developed horizons , generally restricted to surface organic horizons or A horizons resting directly on little-altered parent material or rock . |
| 2 | Garages cash in on chipped windscreens |
| 3 | This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection . |
| 4 | Dustin , with darkened eyebrows , oily black hair smoothed down on either side of a central parting , dark sunglasses and Italian gestures , wastes much of his talent in this frenzied , intermittently funny satire on Italian customs . |
| 5 | I like big heads that are flat at the back , not pointed , and for that reason in recent years it is Korean males who have attracted me most , with their rich , straight black hair laid perpendicularly on that square-backed skull — always , to me , the sign of a male good at mathematics , the sexiest science . |
| 6 | ‘ Both John Emburey and Phil Tufnell have not bowled as well as they can but they must be given the opportunity to bowl more on these kind of turning pitches at home . |
| 7 | you , if there 's any money to come back on that |
| 8 | Esther , having thus fulfilled her obligations to her friends , forgot them both instantly , and returned her attention to a volume called The Vegetation of Medieval Europe and a German monograph on Sodoma ; works which she was reading and annotating by her own interleaved system , a system which had evolved from her inability to concentrate fully on any one topic for more than ten minutes . |
| 9 | When the rules concerning driver 's hours changed significantly on 29 September 1986 the haulier , not Overdrive , had the task of informing all drivers on the new provisions . |
| 10 | Among these 17 patients , five also had endoscopic biopsies ; two at first had false negative biopsy specimens with malignancy found only on subsequent biopsies one month and one year later . |
| 11 | Morphological measurements and enzyme activities carried out on intestinal mucosa are another good method of assessing dietary nitrogen quality . |
| 12 | I thought you did n't like your German , are you a bit picked up on that then ? |
| 13 | A study by Tahira Hira carried out on 400 CAB debt cases in Scotland between 1984 and 1987 points to interesting trends . |
| 14 | I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits . |
| 15 | IF you have ever wondered whether or not you would enjoy a canal holiday , a Cheshire boat operator is offering the opportunity to find out on short cut-price ‘ taster ’ breaks . |
| 16 | By 11 a.m. the bombardment intensified to the point where Campana could count the shells raining down on two neighbouring companies at a rate of five a minute . |
| 17 | Aide got off on wrong foot |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a psychological boost to go back on top but we have been there before and we wo n't be getting too carried away . ’ |
| 19 | 38 , 51 , afford a sufficient basis for saying that a party would not be allowed in equity to go back on such a promise . |
| 20 | Parts of the test-tube fusion episode failed sadly on this score . |
| 21 | This fumble at the back allowed Richard Walker to equalise just on half time . |
| 22 | We do most humbly refer our cause and ourselves to the Goodness of your Honor and the Company beseeching you to consider favourably of our unfeigned hindrance beside the great loss of our own stock laid down on these mines . |
| 23 | In studies of this kind there was evidence of a shift in the attitude to physical environment as environmental perception had a significant influence on the research undertaken by on physical geographers . |
| 24 | One way of ensuring a fairer distribution of additional resources is for schools to work together on joint fund raising . |
| 25 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 26 | Based on research carried out on paraprofessional social service personnel in fourteen developed and developing countries — Australia , Britain , Canada , Denmark , India , Indonesia , Israel , Japan , The Philippines , South Africa , Spain , Uganda , the US , and West Germany — over the last seven years , this paper presents some findings that , if acted upon by social service organizations , social work education programmes , and paraprofessional training programmes , could strengthen the contribution of both professionals and paraprofessionals to social service and social development goals . |
| 27 | Four pairs of eyes fastened momentarily on this and absorbed the fact that they had been cheated . |
| 28 | The first phase of the Urban Programme concentrated mainly on educational provision , following the Plowden Report ( see Chapter 3 above ) , and was used to provide extra nursery education , day nurseries , community centres and language classes for immigrants . |
| 29 | Well I I think I 'll wait for H B F to come back on that one . |
| 30 | The news of the additional departures was accompanied by a new capacity-reduction programme focussed primarily on physical assets , such as equipment and buildings , with some employee relocations involved . |