Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Augustus laid out the first Imperial residence in this part of Rome , followed by Tiberius , Caligula and Domitian ; Septimius Severus built here on a very large scale . |
| 2 | At the same time , he also drew heavily on a strictly Judaic body of material , including numerology and other forms of early Cabalism — which , as we noted previously , were firmly rooted in Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean sources . |
| 3 | If Celtic Christianity drew heavily on Egypt , it also drew heavily on the more explicitly heretical traditions of Syria , Asia Minor and Mesopotamia . |
| 4 | Suggested explanations for this pattern of results focus predominantly on the highly polysemous nature of the English language . |
| 5 | If the sectoral approach and spillover were to achieve any great potential , they could only do so on a more limited front — that is , by the six states which had already agreed to the supranational principle by forming the ECSC . |
| 6 | Nocturnal spiders , on the other hand , depend largely on an extremely delicate sense of touch to find their prey . |
| 7 | The separate identity of such organisations was accepted both on the purely factual level ( a non-member can not deny the factual existence of the United Nations ) and on the legal level ( a non-member may owe duties to an organisation and be able to make claims against it ) . |
| 8 | CAP had many positive effects , not least in showing that the Six could work together on a very complicated issue . |
| 9 | ‘ The signs are that we can work together on a more certain basis , that we can find principles on which we can agree . ’ |
| 10 | There is another major category of feeders that concentrates more on the highly nutritious parts of plants — their fruits , nuts , seeds and flowers . |
| 11 | Today 90% is dispatched by bulk and the remainder is bagged automatically on a fully automated packing line complete with pelletiser which is pictured operating . |
| 12 | i would have preferred to have seen different brands compared in the main text , which concentrates instead on a very personal and traditionalist viewpoint . |
| 13 | Wendy ( played by Maggie Smith plus wrinkly make-up ) has to stay in the Wendy house , while grown-up Peter forgets all about his kidnapped daughter , and concentrates instead on the more important business of bonding with his kidnapped son . |
| 14 | Knead thoroughly on a lightly floured surface until the dough is smooth and elastic . |
| 15 | One of the hazards of interviewing is succumbing to the temptation of jumping to a conclusion too quickly , based perhaps on a hastily formed first impression ( see First impressions on page 69 ) . |
| 16 | The letter from Bedfordshire says : ’ our budget is based largely on an historically low number of unemployed people in the County . ’ |
| 17 | The view that a ‘ threshold of effect ’ exists for the effects of phenylketonuria on brain development is based largely on the apparently normal intelligence of subjects with the mildest forms of the disorder ( so called ‘ benign ’ hyperphenylalaninaemia ) , whose plasma phenylalanine concentrations are <1000 µmol/l ( normal 50–120 µmol/l ) and who do not usually receive treatment . |
| 18 | Based mainly on a very close examination of all surviving copies of the print , and in particular on what can be deduced from the erasure of page numbers , Butler has reconstructed two distinct layers of composition . |
| 19 | This model , based initially on the fairly crude neuroanatomical data available a century ago , has stood the test of time remarkably well but data obtained over the last two decades have prompted modifications in the details . |
| 20 | Sooner or later the predator will end up feeding preferentially on the most abundant of the available types of prey . |
| 21 | Mutual benefits and shared learning are assumed to emanate from partnerships , predicated perhaps on the too simple notion that ‘ two plus two can make five ’ . |
| 22 | One white lone mother in my study noted that her mother was also a woman coping alone on a very limited income : ‘ she 'd rather put us first but I do n't want to see her go without . ’ |
| 23 | Benson puffed comfortably on a sadly blackened pip– . |
| 24 | Certainly , circulating in the world of the 1670s , the poem can be seen as important to groups of Protestant dissenters , offering them a visionary politics founded both on the scripturally based structure of history they favoured but also by appropriating and re-employing the scriptural Word which was a familiar practice of their own revolutionary writing . |
| 25 | Lord James added : ‘ These efforts must now be redoubled and focused increasingly on the most pressing problems . ’ |
| 26 | But it remained uncertain whether they were strong enough to create conditions in which peace could be negotiated even on the most minimal of their terms . |
| 27 | The demand fur such a common culture rests either on an altogether over-optimistic belief in the educability of the majority that is certainly not justified by experience or on a willingness to surrender the highest standards of taste and judgement to the incessant demands of mediocrity . |
| 28 | This chapter draws heavily on the best known and most detailed model of cohesion available . |
| 29 | But I will do no more than offer a few remarks about their rights and wrongs , focusing instead on the most productive ways in which teachers can develop and promote their own positions . |
| 30 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |