Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some authorities , notably Gilbert , maintained that most of the material was supplied by longshore drift and that the waves merely acted on this material : others , especially de Beaumont , considered that the material contained in the bar was eroded from the sea bed in front of the bar , as is shown in Fig. 8.18 . |
| 2 | There is one large blunt apical papilla flanked by 3–4 oral papillae irregularly arranged on each side ; those nearest the apical papillae are conical the distalmost ones may be more spine-like . |
| 3 | The Leith Chamber of Commerce was instituted in 1840 and in 1852 the Directors petitioned for and obtained a Charter of Incorporation on their representation ‘ That the town of Leith is the principal seaport in the East of Scotland and it would tend much to the encouragement and promotion of the trade and manufacture already extensively established and carried on there , if the Petitioners were incorporated as a Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers , with the powers and privileges usually conferred on such bodies ’ . |
| 4 | We report the expression cloning of a complementary DNA , pICAM-3 , encoding a protein constitutively expressed on all leukocytes , which binds LFA-1 . |
| 5 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 6 | He has already sampled success at the highest level and after winning the Celebration Mile at Goodwood last Saturday on Swing Low he has his eyes firmly focused on more Group One events . |
| 7 | Mike Stein 's chapter reviews what his research revealed and the policies and practice currently focused on this vulnerable group of young people . |
| 8 | However when a measurement is made the state vector undergoes a discontinuous change , collapsing onto that particular eigenvector which corresponds to the result actually observed on that occasion . |
| 9 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 10 | But it goes without saying that their refined phrasing and shading is infinitely preferable to the garish exaggeration often forced on these endearing Czech mood-pictures . |
| 11 | A percentage misguidedly based on either would give two widely different figures , namely 25 or 35 per cent . |
| 12 | There are four binding sites symmetrically arranged on each of its six faces . |
| 13 | He has been associated with the Clyde Yacht Club 's Association for a quarter of a century and headed the team which organized the nineteen seventy three Clyde and National Regatta , the largest event of its kind ever held on that famous stretch of water . |
| 14 | The fact that the Australian batting rarely fired on all cylinders either during the series merely served to show-up the large gulf between the two sides , with the home team 's 4–0 triumph not flattering them unduly , although India were unlucky not to win at Sydney , and might have won at Adelaide too had their fielding not let them down . |
| 15 | If the donor is an individual ( or a company ) and pays basic rate income tax the RNLI can claim back the tax already paid on that money from the Inland Revenue turning the donor 's £600 , for example , into £800 for the Institution . |
| 16 | The Blackshirts deliberately concentrated on those areas where there were liable to be violent counter-demonstrations . |
| 17 | All children must be aged 2–11 years inclusive on the day of departure ( unless taking advantage of the special offers for children aged 2–16 years inclusive shown on this page ) . |
| 18 | Moderator I too would want to resist th th the addendum that has been proposed for number two because it seems to me that we 're concerned as a church with the issue of baptism and initiation and we want to keep our mind and our ideas firmly fixed on that however unpleasant and uncomfortable it is . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , Crumley 's is a starkly presented argument which should be read and studied alongside the barrage of soulless technical documentation already written on this emotive subject . |
| 20 | The paths were thickening as people slowly converged on that part where the machinery was getting into motion , but plenty else was going on far over by the tennis courts , by the children 's playground . |
| 21 | As the novel progresses , more and more details ( like the protagonists ' arrival at an island not marked on any charts ) are released which trigger off fears of their being the victims of conspiracy . |
| 22 | Although a lack of continuity of part-time workers and the difficulty of accruing experience may partially justify higher demands on volunteers , nevertheless the outer London suburbs suspect that the heavy demand of a 2-day-a-week commitment now placed on all new London volunteers stems not from these practical considerations but from a poor stereotypical image of the volunteer and from a negative attitude towards volunteering in general . |
| 23 | Therefore the only operations nowadays provided on this data-type are to jump to or execute an instruction ; we deal with these operations in 3.3 and 3.4 . |
| 24 | 5.2 The Proprietor further grants to the Publisher the right to grant sub-licenses under the Licence hereby granted on such terms as the Publisher may determine . |
| 25 | Following an interval of mourning for Caesar , Octavian adopted an image loosely based on that of earlier Hellenistic kings . |
| 26 | His dignity now depended on this , the shame he was prepared to experience . |
| 27 | The children immediately seized on this , and with permission emptied the contents on the floor . |
| 28 | In August and September the USA and the Soviet Union removed many of the travel restrictions hitherto imposed on each other 's diplomats . |
| 29 | General checklists or weighting systems not based on such an understanding are likely to do more harm than good . |
| 30 | The early industrial development of the USA largely depended on this kind of borrowing . |