Example sentences of "[verb] on [adj] different [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Laming list , being sorted on three different keys , lends itself to more detailed regional analysis . |
| 2 | They can have from a handful of copies to several hundred , often scattered on many different chromosomes . |
| 3 | In this chapter we will concentrate on three different modes of explanation , of which the above are examples ; namely , the empirical mode , the intentional mode and the deductive mode . |
| 4 | The letters were written on several different kinds and colours of paper , airmail paper , headed notepaper from hotels in several different cities . |
| 5 | Tribal societies , city states , ancient empires , feudal societies , are all organized on some different principle , their political cohesion maintained by other kinds of bond . |
| 6 | The exercises as taught by the authors focus on twenty different groups of muscles . |
| 7 | The conflict operated on two different levels : in the party and on the streets . |
| 8 | And the adaptations they make are made on several different levels erm they might become more alike in their language , in their pronunciation , their rate of speech , their pause or utterance length and their vocal intensities . ? |
| 9 | Despite some very inhospitable weather , causing the cancellation of racing on five different occasions , the series , which started the previous November , proved popular and very well attended over the five months . |
| 10 | Assignment , on the other hand , requires a more explicit focus on the particular property assigned ; what is assigned may be a complex property ( like fairly acceptable ) , or even a co-ordination ; but to expect a single linguistic faculty to make two separate assignments of properties to the same entity in the same phrase would be unreasonable ; it would be analogous to expecting a physical eye to focus on two different objects at the same time . |
| 11 | If you , if you had one pound fifty how much you 'd spend on these different things . |
| 12 | Plants sown on six different dates and grown at 20°C were viewed with the Milton radiometer . |
| 13 | A system of assessing ‘ tolerable ’ and ‘ desirable ’ standards at offices is being used based on 13 different factors such as accuracy and time for applications to be processed . |
| 14 | In 24 hours , night-time included , we were expected to climb on five different cliffs in three different ranges . |
| 15 | WEATHER-beaten Constantinos Kaloude has one of those lived-in faces that could have seen the sun set on 30,000 different horizons . |
| 16 | Is he saying that these benefits will remain taxable but that the equivalent cost of the benefit will be calculated on some different basis ? |
| 17 | As planning progressed the four groups into which the staff were easily divided ( because they had taught on four different sites ) came together in their views . |
| 18 | A number of steps can be taken to speed up processing , each depending on some different method of handling the search . |
| 19 | The English Schools Trophy is effectively the schoolboy F A Cup , played for by about two hundred district teams throughout the country , and ending with a two legged final , at which Oxford have appeared on four different occasions ; the earliest back in nineteen O eight , and the most recent in nineteen seventy four , when unfortunately , as with all the previous three , we were defeated , on that occasion by Manchester boys , yet er the home leg was played in front of a crowd of twelve thousand people , which was the highest recorded crowd at the Manor that season . |
| 20 | This is particularly significant in the definition and subsequent management of the same record stored on several different media . |
| 21 | The seed falls on four different types of soil : the footpath , rocky ground , among thistles and on good soil . |
| 22 | His children were hatched and grew on many different worlds . |
| 23 | He wore his clothes so well , she thought , looking at him ; not a bother on him , while she had tried on three different dresses before choosing one in desperation . |
| 24 | But , unknown to Mobuto , Ngune had tried on three different occasions to have Jamel killed . |
| 25 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |
| 26 | At the beginning of the slow movement he writes a well integrated combination of horizontal and vertical usages , with the fourth groupings centred on two different registers . |
| 27 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 28 | Many of those that use alien plants have more than one food plant ( that is , are polyphagous ) ; the cabbage moth has been recorded on 31 different species of plants including 21 aliens . |
| 29 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 30 | He will be working on 10 different projects including building a causeway to help local people during the flood season and assisting with rhino conservation . |