Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Providing authorities/hospitals would be paid for cases treated either on the basis of actual cost per case , or on some laid-down or agreed cost per case , and there seems little to prevent them behaving in the same manner as hospitals elsewhere where either ‘ Retrospective full cost reimbursement ’ or ‘ Prospective reimbursement ’ systems are in operation . |
| 2 | The small birds clustered tightly on the swinging coconut were fighting for a firm grip . |
| 3 | Also , news bulletins concentrated heavily on the speeches and activities of leading politicians , particularly the president . |
| 4 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 5 | High fences around Admiralty installations gave good views as the birds perched briefly on the wires , taking their bearings . |
| 6 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 7 | The berths were practically dry at low water and vessels lay aground on the mud bottom whilst loading and discharging their cargoes . |
| 8 | Think of rock concerts where they have those banks of giant speakers grouped together on the stage . |
| 9 | The task was designed to minimize feelings of risk and thus prevent attention focusing , however , it is possible that actually feeling risk is not necessary for drivers to concentrate exclusively on the risky aspects of the stimuli . |
| 10 | From inside the house the scratchy gramophone burble of " Muskrat Ramble " was providing an incongruous counterpoint to the screech of the wild birds wakening unseen in the roof of the surrounding jungle , and Duclos sighed and closed his eyes to concentrate better on the music . |
| 11 | It seemed utterly incongruous that there were cars parked outside on the wide circular drive — carriages would have looked more appropriate . |
| 12 | See how there are shells exploding almost on the same spot in that field over there . ’ |
| 13 | Thousands of bats squirmed hideously on the ceilings . |
| 14 | That one blister I was rather proud of , is now lost in a rich crop of blisters , bloated , white , obscene — a big blister on each heel and sole , and small blisters disposed neatly on the underside of each toe . |
| 15 | In ( a ) no geometrical details are allowed for and the bounds depend only on the relative volumes of the constituents . |
| 16 | His eyes lingered wistfully on the flame , followed it through air as Isambard lifted it . |
| 17 | The hairs lifted slightly on the nape of his neck and a rush of tingling spread on his scalp , then flooded his face so that he blushed in the darkness . |
| 18 | With the water high up on the beach the sea is very choppy and launching is very difficult because the waves break viciously on the steep upper slopes of the beach which is frequently a shingle ridge . |
| 19 | In 1922 , the blue cars operated regularly on the Promenade for the first time , during the track relaying in Central Drive , and in 1926 were extended to the Gynn . |
| 20 | He looked at the words written simply on the coffin lid — Fanny Robin and child . |
| 21 | The theorems indicate that the results to be expected from bargaining sessions depend heavily on the institutions which govern the manner in which the bargaining takes place . |
| 22 | a way of allowing readers to focus just on the appearance of logical objects , but authors to be aware of them as structural entities . |
| 23 | Other units based briefly on the airfield were the 15th Bombardment Squadron , 305th Bombardment Group and the 96th Bombardment Group . |
| 24 | She received the watch and chain from the pawnbroker 's daughter , together with the new pawn ticket and fivepence , and went off in a pleasured state over the transaction , although a little worried that Queen Mary might find out that her naughty niece wanted to show her legs riding bareback on a circus horse . |
| 25 | The preferred solutions draw heavily on the lessons of the " excellence " literature . |
| 26 | people who were not regular paper readers relied more on television , while Guardian readers relied more on the press ; but a plurality of every other paper 's readers said they found press and television equally useful . |
| 27 | Two sandpipers landed lightly on a boulder and raised their wings high in a courtship gesture . |
| 28 | Her eyes focused gratefully on the door . |
| 29 | Fazisi survived only on the good will of the people at each stopover . |
| 30 | The constancy of the aggregate parameters rests either on the assumption that individual wealth shares are constant or on the assumption that all investors perceive the same expected returns and variance covariance matrix of returns and exhibit the same degree of absolute risk aversion . |