Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This has effectively banished explicit work on religious concepts in most primary schools , because children in those age-groups are deemed unable to think in abstract terms , but only concretely . |
| 2 | Some might think a little delayed public spending on roads would not have been a bad idea at that time . |
| 3 | Its domination resides in the fact that it keeps the economy going , without which the whole society would collapse , and in the fact that it thereby imposes certain restrictions on other practices . |
| 4 | Most recently the White Paper ‘ Buses ’ ( Cmmd 9300 , 1984 ) has proposed the complete abolition of road service licences thereby allowing open competition on stage carriage services . |
| 5 | With 7,000 students spread across three campuses , King 's badly needs more space on its historic Strand site . |
| 6 | Your Transport Policy Committee presumably has some thoughts on rail privatisation which are prevented from being published until the House of Commons Transport Select Committee has published its own evidence . |
| 7 | In addition Mr Reynolds will eventually undergo major surgery on his bowel and will have a colostomy raised . |
| 8 | The writing on other categories of contemporary rugs may be of interest , but rarely has any bearing on their quality or value . |
| 9 | While this obviously placed great limitations on the evidence available to social anthropologists it also spared them.the problems of trying to find out what help they could get from documentary sources . |
| 10 | the crews of the cutters did not always see the completed puzzle , and for obvious reasons were only given sufficient information on a need-to-know basis . |
| 11 | In fact , it was only naming one lady on the paper . |
| 12 | The train was large enough to carry one boy on the engine , with one in each truck . |
| 13 | For those teaching the sixteen to nineteen age group , for example , the development of pre-vocational training in recent years following the establishment of the Manpower Services Commission , the changing pattern of technician education as a result of the creation of TEC and BEC , and the growth in GCE work in the further education colleges have all placed new demands on them , including additional curriculum development and course assessment duties . |
| 14 | ‘ The Prime Minister has shown herself completely unfit not only to attend any conference on human rights anywhere , but even to utter the very words . ’ |
| 15 | We can certainly take shortcuts if we wish , perhaps using creative visualisation on its own — and sometimes with spectacular success . |
| 16 | After so long eating recycled meals on Belial , her salivary glands sprang into life with sharp little pangs of anticipation . |
| 17 | It seems natural to assume that as in the twenty-first century more people live to be very old , more of them will necessarily make heavier demands on health and social services ; that people who die in their nineties experience a longer period of dependency and illness before death than those who die in their seventies . |
| 18 | This will give the Library the flexibility to maintain accurate records of each of the buildings , and through interface with facilities management software , to build up full records of maintenance costs , asset registers , floor areas , and circuit diagrams , so producing accurate statistics on which to base maintenance decisions . |
| 19 | Dall has produced writing to the staggering scale of 250 bibles to the square inch , small enough to write one bible on a pinhead , but the individual letters on that scale are so minute , no higher than a micrometre ( one or two wavelengths of visible light ) , that they are at the limit of resolution of optical microscopes . |
| 20 | The Commission normally takes two months to investigate charges , after which it could either instruct Britain to set its VAT rates in conformity with European legislation or proceed to put into effect the long awaited 7th Directive on fiscal matters . |
| 21 | As the prevalence of a high waist-hip ratio among healthy women is larger than the prevalence of obesity ( 15% and 5% respectively in our study ) body fat distribution apparently has more impact on fertility than obesity . |
| 22 | The previous examples of the use of bioceramics have all included some dependence on mechanical strength and uses have focused on replacing diseased or damaged tissues . |
| 23 | Leaf excision alone has little effect on pin induction in tomato plants . |
| 24 | Hackney alone has 20,000 pupils on roll . |
| 25 | Before oiling your hands , very gently place one hand on the crown of the head and the other at the base of the spine . |
| 26 | Similarly , one can find examples where in the African context , women are the primary producers in agriculture and this non-recognition of this fact has often led to the incongruous situation where strategies erm for change modernisation programmes have erm been directed to me and this erm has meant often the kind of bias in extension services , in training services , has meant that the target group , that is the women towards whom you should really be aiming those programmes , has not have not benefited , and this obviously has detrimental effects on your potential for increasing a casual output and for solving problems of increasing erm productivity and income for these women . |
| 27 | My contention is that both the justice and inhumanity of capitalist societies result inevitably from the failure to assert certain absolutes and so place proper limits on the use of freedom . |
| 28 | I mean , Essex only has 3,000 students on a good day , and modern university campuses may be foreign turf to you , but they 're happy hunting grounds to people like me . |
| 29 | Lisson only has two women on his books , although he has shown women in the past . |
| 30 | The 31-year-old Australian is a ‘ below-the-knee amputee ’ and only has three toes on his left foot . |