Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even while authoritative actions reflect the subjects ' reasons , indeed in order that they should do so , they may well lead to different outcomes on particular occasions , and that without being in any way wrong or mistaken on those occasions . |
| 2 | As well be fried and roasted on that side of the door , as turned to something very nasty by the Robemaker and fed into the furnaces . |
| 3 | All of these guidelines tend to be narrative and concentrate on qualitative trends and areas of concern but with an accompanying outline of quantitative forecasts . |
| 4 | Footballers grew old and fell on hard times , so perhaps it was the same for horses . |
| 5 | Each day 's enquiries could be different and based on different parts of the database . |
| 6 | ‘ There is strong support for local government closer to the people , easily accessible and based on established and identifiable communities , ’ he said . |
| 7 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |
| 8 | But as I have already said , individual tastes vary enormously and the best advice is to play as many different models as possible and buy on personal suitability . |
| 9 | She had been expecting a visit from Rick Lawrence ; if Lou 's predictions were correct she would have changed from her working clothes into something more alluring and put on fresh make-up and perfume to receive him . |
| 10 | My experience suggests that many lesions that are macular and blanch on direct pressure respond more favourably to pulsed dye lasers than to alternatives such as copper vapour lasers , although in many cases responses are similar . |
| 11 | For further characterisation of the platelet aggregation molecules , platelet activating factor extracted from biopsy specimens from patients with Crohn 's disease was pooled , dried and eluted on high performance liquid chromatography . |
| 12 | Rawls is surprisingly brief and inexplicit on this issue . |
| 13 | We can not see directly whether a fossil animal was warm or cold-blooded when alive ; often the evidence is indirect and depends on careful study of little bits of bone . |
| 14 | ‘ He really loves his country visits as he is very pampered and fed on roast chicken , ’ she says . |
| 15 | The tentacle pores are large and open on proximal arm segments . |
| 16 | The cells were grouped around a central flue which led to considerable fuel economies but was labour intensive and relied on separate slurry drying facilities . |
| 17 | It contained amongst others a set of ‘ Flags of all Nations ’ , each one about two inches square and printed on white silk . |
| 18 | Others were baffled , not able to believe that free people , famous and rich too , could say what they saw printed or heard on Romanian television or radio . |
| 19 | I suppose I thought she 'd either be fantastically frosty and sit on one of those little gilt chairs with a fancy gilt mirror behind her , or else be quite fat and red-faced and come in from the stove holding a wooden spoon and give me a huge embrace smelling of garlic and stockpot . |
| 20 | Beginning with scale-derived thirds and sixths , the first nine examples show some fingerings extracted from the scale of A major and played on all string-sets . |
| 21 | It is less intimate and based on different emotions . |
| 22 | The plots are slight and turn on small everyday incidents , but the reader is absorbed in the background , and lives the experiences of her child characters . |
| 23 | When it 's ill-conceived , ill-considered or based on incomplete information , the Profitboss wo n't criticize the critic . |
| 24 | On one hand , the multinationals with their headquarters in the UK increasingly organize their worldwide production to gain the benefit of cheap labour in the Third World to carry out those parts of the manufacturing process that are labour-intensive , while the parts that are capital-intensive or rely on skilled techniques such as design are carried out in the UK . |
| 25 | He added that the application procedure is very complicated and depends on full information from the tenant . |
| 26 | Everything we 've heard today this afternoon shows the disinclination of the County Planning Department to be flexible and enabling on this matter . |
| 27 | It is severe and built on monumental lines . |
| 28 | To determine the extent to which symptom diaries of asthmatic patients are inaccurate or based on retrospective recall . |
| 29 | Some researchers try to counteract this problem by frequently collecting diary forms , but this is a burdensome procedure and the actual extent to which diaries are inaccurate or based on retrospective recall is unknown . |
| 30 | The parish school was usually small and relied on one teacher , whose small house was often part of the school buildings . |