Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one tries to analyse the real reasons for the respect which French cookery has so long exacted from the rest of the world , the French genius for presentation must be counted as a very relevant point , and its humble beginnings can be seen on the market stalls , i the small town charcutiers ' and pâtissiers ' shops , in the modest little restaurants where even if the cooking is not particularly distinguished , the most ordinary of little dishes will be brought to your table with respect , properly arranged on a serving dish , the vegetables separately served , the object of arousing your appetite will be achieved and the proprietors of the establishment will have made the most of their limited resources . |
| 2 | The suggestion put forward by Hall and Schachtman was that the dishabituation observed in their experiment was not the consequence of a failure of input and representation to match , but rather depended on a change in level of arousal . |
| 3 | As well as hernias , conditions such as cataracts and varicose veins are also being successfully treated on a drop-in basis . |
| 4 | He had hardly feared being presented with the usual artistic creation swimming in a pool of sauce and accompanied by one or two undercooked carrots and mange-tout elegantly arranged on a side plate . |
| 5 | However , the Irishman countered well and with the scores at eight each the Dubliner eventually won on a count back of 30–28 . |
| 6 | When you have read a case in the reports or in a case book , do your best to convey this fact by referring to some apposite passage in the judgment or some other relevant detail of the report which will indicate that you have not merely relied on a textbook . |
| 7 | A piquant feature of Dorchester 's municipal charity was that much depended on a town brewhouse . |
| 8 | Underneath it , a little table bore blue candles , statues of Our Lady and the saints , and miniature vases of daisies , all arranged on a bit of old sheet with a cross painted on the front . |
| 9 | One should decide whether any information would be better given on a hand-out , or on the overhead projector . |
| 10 | My concern about this is that I do n't see how a view can be taken at a strategic level on something which ultimately can be only ascertained on a site specific basis . |
| 11 | It was very much done on a sort of personal basis , an individual basis , failing to look at any collective solutions to the many problems which women face . |
| 12 | It attributes the speedy exit to having its reorganisation plan in order and the cooperation of its creditors who are apparently agreed on a collections moratorium . |
| 13 | The room was tidy enough , after a fashion , but there was nothing of value on the mantelpiece and not one stick of furniture that would n't have been better employed on a bonfire . |
| 14 | Some Clubs feature their own children 's programme , not necessarily based on a pirate theme . |
| 15 | These households were not necessarily based on a home ashore at all times . |
| 16 | And this is all based on a regime where the tests for bacteria in the water are crap . |
| 17 | The traditional division of language into the spoken and the written is clearly and sensibly based on a difference in production and reception : we use our mouths and ears for one , and our hands and eyes for the other . |
| 18 | The more frequent words are then clustered together based on a similarity metric . |
| 19 | The shift is as much based on a desire to snag Unix software sales as by caution about competition from fellow 4GL tool suppliers Uniface and Progress . |
| 20 | Now an endowment is obviously based on a principle of interest only on l loan , so over the same term , of twenty years , you 've only ever paid interest off the loan and you still owe th a after twenty years , you 'd still owe the building society ten thousand pounds . |
| 21 | The courses are obviously based on a training model , and all colleges running such courses should evaluate longitudinally whether participants do in fact secure subsequent employment or further education and training . |
| 22 | The evidence that this approach will work more generally is patchy , and is furthermore based on a series of assumptions that have not been widely tested . |
| 23 | However , when necessary , choreographers can and should create a particular style that is perhaps based on a mixture of the above but that is , in the final analysis , a style suitable for one ballet only . |
| 24 | The later Lives of Aethelberht place his accession in 779 so that the suspicion must arise that this note is perhaps based on a misreading of a king-list which concluded by simply listing these names and misled the annalist into thinking that the kingdom had been partitioned among them . |
| 25 | With classical mechanics , things tend to be all laid on a plate , there 's not a lot of scope for intuitive thought . |
| 26 | 9.15.2 any notice or document shall also be sufficiently served on a party if served on solicitors who have acted for that party in relation to this Lease or the Premises at any time within the year preceding the service of the notice or document |
| 27 | The legal action came after Mr McArdle , a solicitor with offices in Hartlepool , Sunderland and Darlington inadvertently stepped on a train to which his tickets did not allow him admittance last autumn ( the tickets were as usual in BR-speak and difficult fully to comprehend ) . |
| 28 | It was all centred on a man who was now dead , a man who had cast her aside long ago . |
| 29 | The second stage " inseparabel " represents a state of being constantly centred on a consciousness of Jesus . |
| 30 | And if he did something dreadful to Hepzibah it would be all Carrie 's fault , though she had n't meant any harm , only passed on a message . |