Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 'S ‘ greenest ’ car is the Subaru Vivio 660cc which has only just gone on sale . |
| 2 | Little work has so far focused on plant pathogens , but it is likely that this will ultimately develop as another component of integrated pest-management strategies . |
| 3 | But to the men of Kufra whose fathers or grandfathers had settled there because it was so centrally placed on trade routes , or because it was so remote from Ottoman , Italian or British control , ‘ central government ’ appeared indeed as a real force , but as one located — so to speak — in the extreme northwestern corner , in Tripoli . |
| 4 | Less often seen on wing than Golden Eagle . |
| 5 | And we 'll give them a fork and knife and I wo n't go into it in great detail but everything is going to be the six courses will be entirely accurately served on bread plates over on pewter trenchers . |
| 6 | The figures also demonstrate how well matched are the action and control samples : that in both places they were well matched on age , proportion with an involved relative/ friend , proportion in owner-occupied housing , and on OBS score ; they were less well matched on gender and on proportion without an inside lavatory ( though the difference was not great ) , and least well matched on marital status and on proportion living alone , with the Ipswich control sample and the Newham action sample being more likely to be married and ( therefore ) not living alone . |
| 7 | It would seem that the direction in which it will be refined is to move towards a system more or less completely based on unit costs , or common funding , and that the element of further funding has been included as a temporary measure to allow high cost institutions to adjust to the new system . |
| 8 | Never before have Corelli 's 12 Concerti grossi , Op. 6 been so plentifully represented on disc . |
| 9 | Saussure himself uses the example of polite formulas many of which , as he says , do seem to be ‘ imbued with a certain natural expressiveness ’ , but which are nevertheless entirely based on convention . |
| 10 | Despite all this , and very probably contributing to it , schools had very largely not taken on board the issue of homosexuality , and 60 per cent of the sample said it had never been mentioned at all . |
| 11 | Strategic information is generally modest in volume ( only megabits in information-theory terms ) , of the highest importance to the business historian , and is generally well preserved on paper media in corporate archives . |
| 12 | Essentially , Mrs Whitehouse 's argument was that ‘ traditional ’ Christian morals were no longer adequately presented on television , and that a new radical theological orthodoxy was in the ascendant . |
| 13 | No country has ever successfully developed on aid alone . |
| 14 | Alternatively , the company provides a compensation package which amounts to an addition to the employee 's salary — of which any not spent on housing may be kept . |
| 15 | By contrast , competition law in the USA and the EC is ostensibly more focused on competition and economic efficiency . |
| 16 | Last year Eyre was once more seen on television , quizzing representatives of ‘ the major league ’ of world religions — a Jew , a Muslim , a Buddhist , a Christian and a Hindu — about matters of spiritual import . |
| 17 | The workings of the Board and its committees are more fully described on page 23 . |
| 18 | Many of the other common aneuploidies ( such as trisomy 13 , trisomy 18 , and Turner 's syndrome-XO ) are associated with physical abnormalities that are more readily appreciated on ultrasound scanning than the subtle ones associated with Down 's syndrome . |
| 19 | In South Yorkshire , the snail Cepaea hortensis and the pill woodlouse ( Armadillidium vulgare ) , both normally centred on limestone terrain , are beginning to turn up on fragments of the urban common that are rich in mortar and therefore calcareous . |
| 20 | It 's fine walking country in any weather , though it 's probably best avoided on Bank Holidays and summer Sundays . |
| 21 | Algal fertilizers ( totally unnecessary , in my opinion ! ) are nearly always based on sodium nitrate and the same test procedure should be conducted as above if it is found absolutely imperative to use it . |
| 22 | The other supposed leader , Laurent Fabius , first secretary of the Socialist Party , is also severely incapacitated on account of his involvement in a scandal concerning the treatment of haemophiliacs with AIDS-contaminated blood , for which he is facing a charge of manslaughter . |
| 23 | The other supposed leader , Laurent Fabius , first secretary of the Socialist Party , is also severely incapacitated on account of his involvement in a scandal concerning the treatment of haemophiliacs with HIV-contaminated blood , for which he is facing manslaughter . |
| 24 | The approach is also frequently encountered on refresher courses . |
| 25 | Intradural extramedullary metastases from primary intracranial malignancies are also readily identified on contrast enhanced MRI . |
| 26 | The largest 25 producers account for more than 50% of the area planted and it is their names which are most often seen on merchant 's lists . |
| 27 | They are most often found on drawer divans . |
| 28 | A study commissioned by the CPRE called Superb Conversions ? concluded that the five arguments used to justify the conversion of a farm building are often not met on completion of the renovation . |
| 29 | The patient does not have to be positioned uncomfortably as in myelography and multiple sites of cord compression , which are often not seen on myelography or computed tomographic myelography , can be visualised . |
| 30 | For instance , non-standard or value-added lines are now frequently targeted on customer segments which seek to avoid tile purchase of standardised products , whether these are foodstuffs , clothes , computers or industrial machinery . |