Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So there was no need to have anything highly scented or smelling strongly on the table , ’ said Henry at once . |
| 2 | If an authority misdirects itself in law , or acts arbitrarily on the basis of considerations which lie outside its statutory powers , or so unreasonably that its decisions can not be justified by any objective standard of reasonableness , then it is the duty and function of the courts to pronounce that such decisions are invalid when these are challenged by anyone aggrieved by them and who has the necessary locus stand I to do so . |
| 3 | Other horses were sitting or lying comfortably on the floor , on clean blankets . |
| 4 | Many wild and evil creatures are spawned in the mountains or drawn there on the winds of magic . |
| 5 | Everyone inside knows or speculates endlessly on the politics of power implicit in the most minute gradations of change . |
| 6 | They like to be able to go to a show and to be able to see something that they do n't see in their everyday lives — you know , catching the bus to go work or coming home on the bus . |
| 7 | She could be a nuisance : she would remind his father that his exams or a dental appointment were due , or comment adversely on the state of his room . |
| 8 | Either come aboard ship with us when we have the treasure , and we 'll take you to a safe place ; or stay here on the island . ’ |
| 9 | While the Germans presented their situation as a disaster , they overlooked the fact that one of Danzig s major and continual problems had been that it could not grow or thrive purely on the traffic of its immediate Prussian hinterland . |
| 10 | Young lovers strolled quietly beneath the trees , or sat together on the few wooden benches , daring to snatch the odd , discreet kiss or embrace . |
| 11 | In a side that trades heavily on the commitment of a classy midfield quartet , the cool defender 's ability to score vital goals has often proved a trump card for Charlton . |
| 12 | It appends that promise to a clear and comprehensive code of conduct ( one that builds helpfully on the recently published Fleet Street set of principles ) . |
| 13 | It appends that promise to a clear and comprehensive code of conduct ( one that builds helpfully on the recently published Fleet Street set of principles ) . |
| 14 | ‘ With this I would make a simple straight skirt that sits just on the knee , and a large cartwheel hat trimmed with the suit fabric . ’ |
| 15 | For the producers of material X , for example , although not currently selling X to exporting firms , can argue that , if they were not supplying firms that sell only on the home market , those firms would have to buy imported supplies of X , and that , if the firms that now supply X to exporting firms were unable to do so , they would be able to take their place . |
| 16 | Travellers on foot , however , may continue along the road to its barren summit , and return to Dent on an ancient highway that joins here on the right . |
| 17 | Romantically but not altogether inaccurately , James Emerson Tennant , Colonial Secretary to Ceylon , wrote of the island in 1859 in his book Ceylon : ‘ a pendant that nestles gently on the swelling bosom of the Indian Ocean . |
| 18 | Xerox Corp has introduced LiveBoard , a five-foot wide electronic blackboard — Americans call it a chalkboard : the LiveBoard , which sells for $49,500 , uses a wireless pen that writes directly on the surface , creating an electronic document that can be shared through ordinary telephone lines for simultaneous viewing and editing from remote locations ; it includes a 67 ’ interactive surface , 80486 processor and software that enables users to edit , colour , annotate , erase , save , retrieve and print whatever they have drawn on the LiveBoard . |
| 19 | Our concern is with that huge category of stock which is not issuing well and which fills our valuable storage space : the nineteenth-century biographies ; the classics of politics and philosophy ; the long journal runs ; the multi-volume histories ; the ‘ complete ’ works ; the novels , plays and studies of and by yesterday 's men and women ; the giant topographical histories — the accumulated cultural and historical heritage that lies heavily on the stacks and on the reference shelves . |
| 20 | The industry partnership is now exploring ways in which it can serve the pyramid schools as a whole rather than focus simply on the secondary stage . |
| 21 | A light voice that dropped rhythmically on the syllables . |
| 22 | Homi Bhabha finds that Fanon most profoundly evokes the colonial condition not in his yearning for ‘ the total transformation of Man and Society ’ , nor in his appeal to the human essence ( though ‘ he lapses into such a lament in his more existential moment ’ ) , but in his understanding of the workings of ‘ image and fantasy — those orders that figure transgressively on the borders of history and the unconscious ’ ( foreword to Fanon , Black Skin , p. xiii ) . |
| 23 | They all confirm that a black hole ought to emit particles and radiation as if it were a hot body with a temperature that depends only on the black hole 's mass : the higher the mass , the lower the temperature . |
| 24 | It is right to distrust initiatives that depend only on the health and education sectors ; in the current political climate this is indeed oversimplistic . |
| 25 | In addition to the changes in teaching required by the introduction of GCSE there are many other changes in the air that impinge directly on the working lives of all teachers . |
| 26 | The police chief fears that his appointment could be terminated if he carries out policies that impinge directly on the interests of the mayor 's political supporters : electoral considerations and impartial policing thus make awkward bedfellows . |
| 27 | But it was n't that late , and he was n't particularly tired , and he knew that he 'd do little more than lie there on the hard mattress tormenting himself with thoughts of that waitress . |
| 28 | There is another major category of feeders that concentrates more on the highly nutritious parts of plants — their fruits , nuts , seeds and flowers . |
| 29 | These were sturdy little cars and although used mainly on the Norbury — Purley and Thornton Heath lines in the early days , they could and did work anywhere on the system . |
| 30 | The greatest threat to humans comes from the stingrays , large flatfish that lie inconspicuously on the seabed in shallow waters . |