Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CIE , the US-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility , and the International Organization of Consumer Unions , have all collaborated on many projects , and there are literally hundreds , perhaps thousands of transnational networks now monitoring the TNCs all over the world . |
| 2 | And Street is sure that the Premmia range can only build on this success . |
| 3 | I can only build on this hill . ’ |
| 4 | Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel . |
| 5 | A change of identity was also mooted in view of the fact that in BR livery the numbers and names were merely painted on these locomotives . |
| 6 | The fortification of staple foods with folic acid to prevent neural tube defects may be unwisely delayed on this account . |
| 7 | Then there were those first matches against other counties , with ‘ Beefy ’ present and apparently firing on all cylinders . |
| 8 | Readers might also be interested to hear that Stalin proposed signing a treaty with Morrissey when the time was right , only to renege on any agreement , later resulting in the bloody battle of Stalingrad and the division of The Smiths . |
| 9 | Okay so got on that train , thinking it would go straight to Hertford and it did n't . |
| 10 | Can I thank you for coming today , th th the media often has lots of comments from the chattering classes , saying unhealthy , British democracies , cos they only concentrate on this place . |
| 11 | Soon to be all change on this route : the French company , SNAT , pulls out towards the end of April . |
| 12 | The reticence which had surrounded the subject for so long had suddenly collapsed on all sides . |
| 13 | The figures are better grouped on this version and the bull-woman is more in proportion . |
| 14 | Since its inception , this procedure has been fiercely attacked on many occasions , including The Black Report ( Townsend and Davidson , 1982 ) and The Health Divide ( Whitehead , 1987 ) for failing to take account of morbidity and of social deprivation ( see Mays and Bevan , 1987 , for a review of the vast literature generated by the debate on the use of the RAWP formula ) . |
| 15 | ( In fact , the corporation had been wrongly reported on this score and had issued no such edict at all . ) |
| 16 | This arrangement continued for eight years , and enabled me not only to work on several books , but also to continue with my computer research . |
| 17 | In August and September the USA and the Soviet Union removed many of the travel restrictions hitherto imposed on each other 's diplomats . |
| 18 | Sometimes when groups of horses get mixed up a foal may seem to get irrationally fixated on another horse . |
| 19 | However , I am bound to say that in my judgment Ex parte Handscomb was wrongly decided on that issue . |
| 20 | 233 was wrongly decided on this point . |
| 21 | Some authorities , notably Gilbert , maintained that most of the material was supplied by longshore drift and that the waves merely acted on this material : others , especially de Beaumont , considered that the material contained in the bar was eroded from the sea bed in front of the bar , as is shown in Fig. 8.18 . |
| 22 | All teachers were personally briefed on this procedure , which is designed to minimise underreporting of smoking behaviour . |
| 23 | He seldom missed a match through injury , and he was versatile enough to play on either wing equally effectively , although his own preference was for outside-right . |
| 24 | States can not entirely depend on such measures , however , and must make provision for their own defence . |
| 25 | When you consider that the event is only played on this side of the Atlantic once every four years I do n't think that the decision-makers at the BBC did the event justice , particularly with all the hype which went before it . |
| 26 | In the south of the county , it was only beginning on some manors in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth , while on others it did not occur until the sixteenth and seventeenth . |
| 27 | Even if a document such as a catalogue or price list is not an offer in law , there is no reason why it can not set out the terms of the offer , for instance by indicating that the party who issues it will only contract on those terms . |
| 28 | They realised that they would be diplomatically isolated on these issues in any representative convention of the Great Powers and regional Third World states . |
| 29 | Although caution is necessary with this identification ( p. 211 ) , recent excavations have certainly demonstrated an expansion of the industry in the early Roman period , apparently focused on either side of the River Salwarpe . |
| 30 | I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ? |