Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The expressed virus-like particles ( VLPs ) were purified by lysing infected cells as described above followed by centrifugation on a discontinuous sucrose gradient 30%:50% [ wt/vol ] in 0.2 M Tris hydrochloride [ pH 8.0 ] at 85,000 g for 3 h . |
| 5 | This is likely to be approximately 36–40 h post-hCG but it is best determined by experiment on the particular strain of mouse available . |
| 6 | ‘ Hum — Perdita 's problem , ’ sighed Daisy whose tongue had been totally loosened by drink on no lunch . |
| 7 | Angst took over from utopian ideas of man 's upward march , quickly followed by despair on the one hand and pure silliness on the other . |
| 8 | In common with all educational psychologists Gagne is also restricted by reliance on evidence which comes mostly from laboratory experiments , usually on lower animals , with all the limitations and artefacts which this implies . |
| 9 | The Chinese Immigration Emergency Relief Bill , aimed at relaxing the rules governing the length of stay of the estimated 40,000 Chinese students in the USA , was also passed by Congress on Nov. 19 and 20 . |
| 10 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |
| 11 | Such analyses demonstrate that many of the orderings between one level and the next , now imposed by law on all children , lack justification in the logic of the subject or the facts of learning . |
| 12 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 13 | There tactics were strongly influenced by reliance on line formation and fire-power , as against attack at close quarters . |
| 14 | Soils which are water soluble are so often mixed with water insoluble soils that they are not readily dissolved by water on its own . |
| 15 | The attackers then called by loudhailer on those in the house to surrender . |
| 16 | Indeed , some hospitals have begun to experiment with providing complete physical rest as central to a treatment programme for cardiac cases , which is then followed by instruction on relaxation techniques through which people may be more effective in controlling anxiety ( e.g. Charing Cross Hospital , London ) . |
| 17 | Earlier general strikes had paralysed Greece on June 6 and July 4 in protest at austerity measures and an economic development bill which was subsequently adopted by parliament on July 23 . |
| 18 | … after the War the Army Graves Service were unable to locate his grave and he is therefore commemorated by name on the Thiepval Memorial , France , on which the names of the casualties from the Cameronians appear on Pier 4 , Panel D … |
| 19 | In December Bush had also authorised licenses for the export of three communications satellites and refused to impose sanctions recently approved by Congress on export-import bank funding . |
| 20 | My office was subsequently informed by telephone on 10 May and by a letter dated 13 May from the deputy manager of the unemployment benefit office that Mr. Docherty 's case had been allowed by the adjudication officer , and that he was therefore entitled to arrears of benefit . |