Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 6 March the Copyright Office conducted the second of two hearings to gather testimony for the recommendations it will eventually make to Congress on artists ' re-sale royalties . |
| 2 | He provided Gordon with excellent feedback from the track and by now he rarely got into trouble on the circuit . |
| 3 | Women whose ovaries produce too much suffer from hair on the face and chest , which they find very upsetting . |
| 4 | The former UK Prime Minister Edward Heath , conducting a humanitarian mission for which he was much criticized at home on the grounds of the possible propaganda opportunities which it might afford to the Iraqi leadership , secured the release of some 40 British nationals who arrived at Gatwick airport early on Oct. 24 ( two children , several women , and some of the men on the list of the elderly and sick which he had presented to Saddam Hussein at lengthy talks on Oct. 21 ) . |
| 5 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 6 | An all too common kind of crisis for community and primary care teams is that a vulnerable patient is suddenly discharged from hospital on a Friday afternoon without any formal referral or plan for aftercare . |
| 7 | 1.10:USEFUL Flat handicappers Barford Lad , Beauchamp Express and Busted Rock all shaped with promise on their debuts . |
| 8 | He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman . |
| 9 | Continued success in this area will obviously depend in part on the unions ' continued ability to stay abreast of developments , and contribute to any agreement or trade and legal standards that are produced . |
| 10 | Inadequate knowledge of basic factors resulting in excessive or untimely tillage , improper implements , poor use of the right equipment , burning of crop residues , and excessive livestock grazing have all contributed to erosion on cultivated land … |
| 11 | Mm but this was last year and I just cleared the ball and everybody ran out ran out and I suddenly collapsed in agony on the floor cos my knee just completely gave way and it was really painful and a minute later I stood up and it was fine , it did n't give me any more hassle for the rest of the day . |
| 12 | Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy . |
| 13 | It was much influenced by evidence on the poor quality of the men employed in the merchant service provided by British consuls in all parts of the world . |
| 14 | In fact , Chubby has only appeared in TV on Opportunity Knocks , New Faces , Starburst and an episode of Play for Today . |
| 15 | This disposable income is not all directed into consumption on goods and services produced by firms in the domestic economy because some portion will be saved and some part will be used to purchase goods and services produced by firms in other countries ( i.e. imports ) . |
| 16 | Crocodiles can lose water at a rate of up to half of that of amphibians ( which have a much more permeable skin , and would greatly suffer from desiccation on land were it not for the safety valve of a reduced urine flow , which passes much of its water content back into the body ) . |
| 17 | Example 2:1 Parcels clause of office suite ALL THAT suite of rooms on the floor of the building known as ( excluding the outer faces of the walls enclosing the said building and its roof and roof structure but including the structure supporting the floor of the said rooms ) and for the purpose of identification only edged in red on the attached plan Example 2:2 Parcels clause of open land ALL THAT parcel of land in and numbered on the Ordnance Map ( 1968 edition ) for the said district a copy of which is attached hereto ( including the entirety of the hedge and ditch on the western boundary of enclosure number but excluding the entirety of the hedges and ditches on the northern boundaries of the said enclosures and the entirety of the road on the southern boundaries thereof ) Example 2:3 Parcels clause of building excluding airspace ALL THAT building known as shown edged red on the attached plan but excluding the airspace lying above the existing roof of that building together with a right for the tenant with or without workmen to enter that airspace for the sole purpose of inspecting the building or carrying out any works for which the tenant is liable under this lease Example 2:4 Parcels clause with details of boundaries ALL THAT the floor of the building known as ( " the property " ) including ( i ) all non-loadbearing walls situated wholly within the red edging on the attached plan ( ii ) one half ( severed vertically ) of all non-loadbearing walls separating the property from any other part of the building ( iii ) all plaster or other decorative finish applied to any wall bounding the property and not included in paragraphs ( i ) or ( ii ) above or applied to any column or loadbearing wall within the property ( iv ) the whole of all doors door frames windows window frames ( including mastic joints or seals ) bounding the property ( v ) all ceilings bounding the property and any void between any suspended ceiling and the structural slat above ( vi ) all floor finishes and floor screeds including raised floors and floor jacks supporting such floors ( vii ) all light fittings and air conditioning units incorporated in any ceiling but not any other part of the air conditioning system |
| 18 | Not until the late sixteenth century , under the warlords Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi , was the country unified under a single military hegemony , and this was only achieved by building on a series of successful military alliances . |
| 19 | Unix System Laboratories Inc still harbours the belief that COSE will eventually result in agreement on the kernel , namely System V.4 or its descendent . |
| 20 | Unix System Labs still harbours the belief that COSE will eventually result in agreement on the kernel , namely SVR4 or its descendent . |
| 21 | Just , just to sprinkle on water on them . |
| 22 | Alternatively , you could try a labour-saving electrical gadget which should give an even deeper massage , generally designed for use on your hips , thighs and bottom . |
| 23 | Eventually , you will be able to work higher and higher into the aerobic band , thus staving off reliance on fatigue-producing anaerobic respiration . |
| 24 | As parasitic tissues generally depend for survival on a more rapid synthesis of nucleic acid than the tissues on which they prey , anything which stopped the synthesis of nucleic acids had a chance of harming parasites more than their hosts . |
| 25 | The designer is thus presented with information on the type of " failure " , its value , and where it occurred during the mechanism event . |
| 26 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 27 | After a long period of drafting and redrafting , a European Merger Control Regulation ( Council Regulation 4064/89 ) finally came into force on 21 September 1990 . |
| 28 | it is not easily angered over mud on the floor , |
| 29 | We have n't set up a company , we 're just going to work on each other 's customer base and then take the value proposition to the market . |
| 30 | Well people generally complain about sex on television so , the way it 's being presented . |