Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 2 | Or got on the same bus . |
| 3 | Should he start on the idle or concentrate on the incompetent ? |
| 4 | For that sum they could parade up and down the grounds at any time of day or sit on the grassy banks at will . ’ |
| 5 | When he can walk outside confidently , the patient can plan to increase the distance he walks , or to go on the same route , but taking less time to complete his walk . |
| 6 | On the lake-bed cladocerans Macrothrix hirsuticorna , Aloma rectangula and Ilyocryptus brevidentatus and two ostracods Notiocypridopsis frigogena and Eucypris fontana browse or scavenge on the benthic mats , which contain a microfauna of protozoa , turbellaria , rotifers , tardigrades , nematodes , gastrotrichs and enchytraeid annelids ( Heywood and others 1979 , Heywood , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | No matter how well intentioned an author may be , no matter how good his work is considered , a lavish photographic book of this kind , and of this price , must stand or fall on the sheer quality of the pictures selected and the way in which they are presented . |
| 8 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
| 9 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 10 | Scholz was wearing that wise , reflective look that pipe-smokers get or act on the few occasions their pipes are working well . |
| 11 | If they could not exercise that power themselves , or count on the eastern empire to do it for them , then they would find it where they could . |
| 12 | They may be physically attached to the front cover of the publication , slipped between the pages or offered on the editorial pages . |
| 13 | Now , the next gig was weeks ahead at Earls Court in London and there was a choice of sailing round the Cape of Good Hope , going over the Khyber Pass or going on the Trans-Siberian Express . |
| 14 | As most light aircraft are either made in the United States , or sold on the second-hand market there , she learnt to fly the Atlantic in small planes . |
| 15 | In the shower cubicle , water hissed on ceramic tile or clattered on the green plastic curtain , according to the gyrations of the nude body within . |
| 16 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 18 | Everyone on the site seemed to be out of doors , pottering round their tiny gardens , or lolling on the parched grass . |
| 19 | The one indisputable position which connects the two poems is that Octavia should not marry Florio or Philander on the slender hope that love will prevail . |
| 20 | Would it seek merely to codify the existing case law or to reform on the existing case law ? |
| 21 | These are available where indicated on the individual Club pages for a first child sharing a room with 2 adults . |
| 22 | ‘ Will Percy come south to Wales , think you , or stay on the Scottish march ? ’ |
| 23 | The task might be to review the progress of a project or to plan a piece of action or to analyse a problem or to decide on the best solution to a problem . |
| 24 | To change options double click on the text window or click on the underscored arrow button . |
| 25 | I believe that the stricter interpretation above has to be preferred to the common-sense interpretation , because I believe the ASB was trying to follow the exemption in the Companies Act , so that cash flow statements would be included or excluded on the same criteria as group accounts . |
| 26 | It 's cramped if there are four of you , but the atmosphere is very friendly and relaxed — neighbours popping in to borrow a cup of sugar or a 50p coin for the electricity meter , children running along the balconies or playing on the thin strip of grass between the blocks . |
| 27 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 28 | This paper is chemically treated and whatever is written or typed on the top copy , automatically creates a carbon copy on the paper beneath . |
| 29 | This may be felt to be a relatively radical conclusion — namely , that emotions , or affect on the normal human adult level , should be regarded as a symbolically generalized system , that is never ‘ id-impulse ’ as such . |
| 30 | The purchaser is likely to impose a cap or limit on the maximum amount payable under the earn out . |