Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes in methods of firing and the growing popularity of Raku have altered all this , and whether you immerse the object in sawdust , and then set fire to the lot , or just sprinkle sawdust on the newlyfired and still hot piece , the subtleties in surface texture can be extremely rewarding . |
| 2 | There is also the safety aspect : if you have bad lighting or dangerously worn carpet on part of the staircase , waiting for a few years to tackle the problem because it is all part of the grand plan could prove very false economy indeed . |
| 3 | Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples staying 5 nights or more receive dinner on arrival and a complimentary gondola ride . |
| 4 | For example , voluntary sector organisations who solely or partly incorporate work on domestic violence as part of their brief , ( eg Women 's Aid ) were investigated . |
| 5 | These proposals contrast with the growing importance and assumptions behind ‘ categorical ’ ( Harland , 1985 ) or centrally targeted funding on favoured educational projects ( e.g. Technical and Vocational Education Initiative , Low Attainers project ) . |
| 6 | He asked them to come up today or tomorrow to start work on the er pipe work again . |
| 7 | Such changes may include decisions to accelerate , decelerate , or even stop expenditure on the project . |
| 8 | are less bitter and more as if he is reasoning with the sun or with fate , saying ‘ If the sun can make a whole plant grown from a little seed , or even create life on a dead planet , why can it not arouse my friend ? ’ |
| 9 | Rather than just spend money on curing the symptom by , say , building an ‘ end of pipe ’ pollution abatement plant , we 're increasinglyseeking to solve the problem at source within the process . |
| 10 | Travelling less than hopefully puts blight on holidays abroad . |
| 11 | Moreover it was a complex issue , rather than simply splitting opinion on party lines . |
| 12 | An exception might be if your local paper is one of those that sometimes use colour on their pages . |
| 13 | Somehow it seemed delightfully ironic that on the very day that the Association of Tennis Professionals organised its fascinating and skilfully presented seminar on ‘ The Speed of the Game ’ , two renowned baseliners reached the final of the Lipton Players International Championships in Key Biscayne . |
| 14 | In late 1989 the government launched a five-year plan aimed at diversifying Macao 's economy and thereby reducing dependence on the textile industry and tourism . |
| 15 | In the presidential elections held on Feb. 2 , 1986 [ see p. 34350 ] , Oscar Arias Sánchez of the social democratic National Liberation Party ( Partido de Liberación Nacional — PLN ) won 52.3 per cent of the vote and duly took office on May 8 . |
| 16 | The letter from Petrarch to Boccaccio was written on 28 May 1362 , and besides casting doubt on the authenticity of the message , contained a fine defence of secular learning . |
| 17 | Weighting allows pre-judging of the relevance of any points and so reduces emphasis on suspect data . |
| 18 | He lied about his address and so received methadone on a maintenance basis . |
| 19 | Obviously it records when and to whom the king was giving what , and so provides evidence on royal possessions and patronage , although some texts specify that the grantee purchased the item concerned , and this may sometimes have occurred even when not stated . |
| 20 | Obviously , SHe 'd have to ratbelly hir way out of this place first , if only to get Malamute on his own . |
| 21 | A ‘ classic approach ’ implies a static , long-established , well-recognised and highly valued approach on which particular policies in the future may be based . |
| 22 | I am very , very relieved and obviously taking advice on the next steps because naturally I am not going to leave it at this . ’ |
| 23 | Luther would wait until dark , when the rest of the family had vacated the kitchen , then would take everything from the larder , spreading it on the table , spilling it on the floor , and generally inflicting mayhem on a hitherto spotless environment . |
| 24 | And er a further er fly in the ointment , if one could put it that way , will be of course with the erm the local hospital whose site is just off this er the key plan provided , their decision from the first of next month to actually charge for spaces within their area , which of course will have a further effect of decanting even more cars into neighbouring streets and thus put pressure on some of the streets which hitherto have not benefited from ah residents ' parking so there will be further er obviously further requests from er from those residents of neighbouring streets . |
| 25 | The assumption is that increasing arousal should reduce the number of peripheral cues used and thus impair performance on the subsidiary task while improving performance on a main task . |
| 26 | Under it , major changes in reserves would have created an overwhelming presumption that a change in the exchange rate was around the corner , and thus encouraged speculation on what was in effect a certain bet . |
| 27 | ‘ On the early things on Sun it 's him , and then later on , on RCA , occasionally he would play or , like you mentioned before , he would turn the guitar over and just keep time on the back of it . ’ |
| 28 | There were no houses in sight ; the sea on one side and steeply rising ground on the other had so far discouraged developers . |
| 29 | But they are still surviving and they were surviving and still paying rent on land before nineteen forty nine . |
| 30 | These are the new risers from Cellblock — they spread out making a wider area against the deck , which means more shock absorption and also reduces pressure on the deck making it less likely to snap your plank near the trucks . |