Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as cereals , root crops — particularly potatoes and sugar beet — are widely grown on the best arable land , whilst in areas nearer the big cities , vegetables are most profitable , particularly on well-drained sandy loams . |
| 2 | They are widely used on the large-scale , a familiar example being the cup anemometer used in everyday meteorological applications . |
| 3 | I , I doubt whether she 's been properly taught on the subject quite frankly . |
| 4 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 5 | For example , one text which has been widely circulated on the extreme right in recent years is Gary Allen 's None Dare Call It Conspiracy . |
| 6 | Plastic ( upvc ) doors are the latest arrival on the scene , although they have been widely used on the continent for around 25 years . |
| 7 | Plastic windows are the most recent arrival on the replacement window scene , although they have been widely used on the Continent for many years . |
| 8 | This type of equipment has been widely used on the continent of Europe and particularly in West Germany and Switzerland . |
| 9 | The incidents at Coed Glas have been widely blamed on the lack of secure accommodation in Wales . |
| 10 | A famous example of the importance of checking whether the so-called facts are right occurred on the occasion of Charles II founding the Royal Society in 1660 . |
| 11 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 12 | where , despite the fact that the writ has not been duly served on the defendant , he acknowledges service of it ; |
| 13 | It is important to ensure that only current partners appear as lessees/trustees of partnership premises , if only to avoid any possibility that a retired partner who has not been duly replaced on the title could be regarded as still being held out as a member of the firm . |
| 14 | Amid all this turmoil and red ink , the aircraft manufacturers ( America 's Boeing and McDonnell Douglas , and the European consortium , Airbus Industrie ) together with the jet-engine makers ( America 's General Electric and Pratt & Whitney , and Britain 's Rolls-Royce ) are nervously sitting on the biggest backlog of orders in their history . |
| 15 | These are mostly based on the 8th note triplet groove but are usually written as 12/8 grooves . |
| 16 | While standards have become tighter for landfills and incinerators , they are rarely imposed on the plants at which recycled materials are sorted for reprocessing . |
| 17 | Nevertheless it should again be stressed that decisions about weeding programmes and/or new building programmes are rarely made on the basis of such calculations . |
| 18 | Appointments are rarely made on the basis of professional or technical competence alone . |
| 19 | Research posts often have short-term contracts and are rarely held on a tenured basis . |
| 20 | The schemes are locally run on a franchise basis , by voluntary organizations , schools or employers , and the hope is that in the first phase , up to 1993 , 10,000 people aged between sixteen and twenty-four — immediately dubbed ‘ Charlie 's Army ’ by the press — will join full- or part-time programmes of about twelve weeks . |
| 21 | And of course the peoples of the world are intensely divided on the issue . |
| 22 | The borings are concentrated high on the pillars but are remarkably lacking on the masonry lower down . |
| 23 | The courses are obviously based on a training model , and all colleges running such courses should evaluate longitudinally whether participants do in fact secure subsequent employment or further education and training . |
| 24 | The room was tidy enough , after a fashion , but there was nothing of value on the mantelpiece and not one stick of furniture that would n't have been better employed on a bonfire . |
| 25 | When subjects were performing a variety of other judgment tasks they may have no longer expected to see particularly risky situations and consequently would have been better centred on the scale for risk ratings . |
| 26 | Comments are especially sought on the following : |
| 27 | We are basically settled on the areas that we want to service . |
| 28 | His attention had been fiercely concentrated on the back of the girl as she had slowly walked away , his blue eyes narrowed in appreciation . |
| 29 | Geopetal sediments in stromatactoid cavities , for example , may be difficult or impossible to see on unetched , polished surfaces ( Fig. 4.2a ) , but are clearly seen after etching ( Fig. 4.2b ) , although other features are better revealed on the polished surface . |
| 30 | Mr C F Motley of Lincolnshire has a small collection of such things which I feel sure have a rarity value as match-slips are eagerly collected on a world-wide scale . |