Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can make , first , an important general distinction , with continuing social and sociological effects , between ( i ) that class of material means which depends wholly or mainly on inherent , constituted physical resources , and ( ii ) that other class which depends wholly or mainly on the use or transformation of non-human material objects and forces . |
| 2 | A and numbers in our , a s in a stage group too small to say definitely that we can pick out those T two tumours badly or well on the vascular count . |
| 3 | Using an efficient computer program in which each lattice-site is represented as a pixel of the screen , we have explored the asymptotic behaviour of this system for various values of b , and with various initial proportions of C and D arranged randomly or regularly on an nxn lattice ( n=20 and more ) . |
| 4 | Fresh water gastropods are different from marine ones , and within the marine habitat itself the gastropods are strongly zoned ecologically , so that even on the same shore different species will be found in different areas according to their relation to the tide marks , degree of exposure , their diet , and so on . |
| 5 | He looked in that first moment like a spaceman who had landed suddenly and unexpectedly on a strange planet . |
| 6 | Instead of standing stubbornly and heroically on the Right Bank , the French could have drawn back their hands from Verdun , which , since the dismantling of its forts , was in any case no longer such an indispensable defensive pinion . |
| 7 | He , he was apparently and then on the Saturday or Sunday h h he , he started to reject so he had to go back in . |
| 8 | The Wenlock/Niagaran limestones spread gently and widely on the shallow shelves . |
| 9 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 10 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
| 11 | Suddenly Jack was playing less and less on the tour and so Greg asked me if I 'd be interested in working for him . |
| 12 | I mean serious winter puddings , steamed , boiled and baked , sticky , rich and sweet , that sit fair and square on the plate and fill you with a glorious glow of warmth and well-being . |
| 13 | If its enemy is still not daunted and picks up the toad in its teeth , the poison acts so swiftly and powerfully on the mucous membranes of the mouth that the attacker drops the toad almost immediately . |
| 14 | Doctor Rawlings from Bradford , having warned me long and loud on the flight about the perils of raw food , cold food and ice , passes beaming , with a mountainous plate from the buffet . |
| 15 | Probably HMI 's greatest influence was Aspects of Secondary Education ( 1978 ) , which first commented so authoritatively and adversely on the short-changing of youngsters through the unfettered and badly guided option system at the end of the third year of secondary education . |
| 16 | This puts the Law literally and metaphorically on the side of the blacks , who are also deemed ‘ out of order ’ for having broken the rules of a fair fight . |
| 17 | In the case of non-resident discretionary trusts the Inland Revenue are effectively increasing the amount of tax due as the flat rate of 35 per cent applies on the combined amount of the dividend and a notional tax credit of 20 per cent rather than simply on the net dividend as before . |
| 18 | You 're doing all the right things but it may be that the source of the irritation is from within your vagina rather than just on the outer labia . |
| 19 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 20 | You need to stand back from what you write and explicitly present it to your reader , commenting directly on its organisation , rather than just on the ideas it contains . |
| 21 | It is perhaps not surprising that when older pupils come to sit their leaving examinations , they generally view the prospect of the examinations without much apprehension ; this may be because most decisions about their future are taken on the recommendation of their teachers rather than directly on the basis of examination results . |
| 22 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 23 | A design term for one or more motifs repeated either vertically or horizontally on a fabric . |
| 24 | American poets can be so thunderstruck by the sheer oddity of being a poet in America at all that they often deny to the poet , in advance , any claim to represent a people or even a social class ; and classic New York drama in this century , as in the plays of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , has concentrated painfully and insistently on the pre-eminence of family ties and the ineluctable need of everyone in that world to be loved , as they continuously imply , by their closest relatives . |
| 25 | ( 6 ) Finally , and importantly , the study of homoclinic orbits can be undertaken relatively easily and cheaply on a computer . |
| 26 | That is based s s very easily and solely on the number of patients they have listed . |
| 27 | It is however I think relevant to the debate on policies I five and I twelve , to the extent that the County Council adjustments to the wording of policy I five which would provide for the distributional strategy and its emphasis on directing development to locations in and adjacent to main urban areas , main towns and small towns , to be modified so as to pe permit major employment allocations to be made elsewhere and indeed on a scale which effectively improved distributional strategy . |
| 28 | people are shopping already and normally on a Wednesday we we 're we 're really bustling , it 's our busiest day of the week . |
| 29 | In order not to alarm her unduly , he moved into a space about ten yards ahead of her , and started to walk backwards and forwards on a ten-degree arc in her direct line of vision . |
| 30 | Other noisy people who were very grey moved rapidly backwards and forwards on the end wall . |