Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regional policy recommended closure only on the last criterion but there is a discrepancy between national ideology and local educational policy . |
| 2 | The one exception , says Professor Garrow , is if you lose weight quickly on a crash diet , because you will lose more lean tissue than with gradual weight loss , and that does make the metabolism less efficient . |
| 3 | They have taught us that man has meaning only on the condition that he view himself as meaningful . |
| 4 | The questions to be resolved centre crucially on the relationship between political history , communist ideology and literary form . |
| 5 | I considered keeping observation actually on the flat but because of its its location , did not feel that it would be possible for armed officers or for that matter , any officer , to maintain observation for any period of time without being seen . |
| 6 | It is probably safest for foreign learners to assume that stress will normally fall in this way on other compounds ; however , a variety of compounds receive stress instead on the second element . |
| 7 | She ate breakfast alone on the terrace in the morning . |
| 8 | Ruth gazed past him , over his right shoulder to the yacht with its two beautiful people laughing and sipping champagne together on the upper deck . |
| 9 | MORE than 1,000 Maxwell pensioners lobbied Parliament yesterday on the eve of the first anniversary of their old boss 's death . |
| 10 | He 's got Molloy there on the ground . |
| 11 | The Act contains no provisions permitting retirement specifically on the grounds of old age or ill health or for the expulsion of miscreant or unwanted partners . |
| 12 | Large , somewhat extravagant celebrations were planned at Beida , perhaps to take students ' and teachers ' minds off the immediate economic situation and to focus attention instead on the university 's great traditional heritage . |
| 13 | When the risk factor can not be eradicated , or the stressful experience avoided , an alternative approach to prevention is to focus attention instead on the child 's resources for coping with the problem . |
| 14 | Er , it 's a good idea to got documentation actually on the spreadsheet itself , because then it does n't go missing . |
| 15 | Do they claim authority simply on the basis of electoral victory to do as they please , including changing the constitutional framework , or do they find themselves restrained from so acting by certain fundamental principles ? |
| 16 | It was afternoon before Marian awoke and her first thought was of the body lying face downward on the grass . |
| 17 | Barbecue time late on a Sunday night on the balcony , and another Embassy staffer from the floor above leaning over his parapet and complaining about the smoke . |
| 18 | From its Elizabethan origins , the Poor Law had based responsibility firmly on the parish . |
| 19 | With the advent of punk music in 1977 I transferred my energies and enthusiasm from the military and spent a lot of time dressing up and putting Vaseline in my hair , much to the annoyance of my house master , a quiet Benedictine who wrote on my term report , ‘ Christian seems to have developed a nihilistic attraction for punk rock , which is strange for somebody who avoids violence even on the rugby field . |
| 20 | I meant to leave work early on the day of the meeting but , as so often happens , I could not get away until late so , instead of the planned leisurely drive , I was home with barely enough time to squeeze my wife into the car before arriving hot and bothered at the meeting . |
| 21 | Having set up the functioning New Business teams and created the essential facilities for servicing in the first few months , much further development was still needed to create procedures to service business once on the books . |
| 22 | Trade takes place increasingly on an international basis . |
| 23 | ‘ In Ayurveda , ’ he says , ‘ the cure of mental illness takes place primarily on the plane of the body . |
| 24 | This is because acetylation takes place rapidly on the entry of 5-ASA into the cell and no unchanged 5-ASA can be detected intracellularly . |
| 25 | Telethon 92 takes place across on the weekend of July 18th/19th . |
| 26 | Obviously , since mating itself takes place mainly on the one night , and the development period is so compressed , one would expect the toadlets to emerge more or less together . |
| 27 | Where parties expect to do business together on a regular basis and to use fax or similar media to place and accept orders , the drafter should include an appropriate provision to avoid this problem , indicating when messages are to be deemed effective . |
| 28 | Many young people are attracted by the idea of a few years teaching EFL overseas on the basis of a minimal qualification , and the employment situation is therefore an essentially transient one . |
| 29 | Schemes of this kind enjoyed success only on a limited front . |
| 30 | HE MAY not say it in public , but George Graham has a clear message this morning for Ian Wright : ‘ I can always get another forward but see what trouble you 'll have leaning backwards on a broken career ’ . |