Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armstrong World Industries , so long concentrating on mineral fibre ceiling systems , has now introduced a metal laminate system — the ML ceiling . |
| 2 | Obviously much depends on personality . |
| 3 | BRITAIN 'S ‘ greenest ’ car is the Subaru Vivio 660cc which has only just gone on sale . |
| 4 | Do not pile up plates or saucepans higgledy - piggledy on a high shelf , where they can so easily fall on top of you when you reach up for something . |
| 5 | If you know someone like that , it 's worth observing and studying his or her use of language , manner , and what his body language says to you , even if it is someone you only ever see on television . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Less often seen on wing than Golden Eagle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Few report writers invest up to a third of their time on follow through which is why their efforts so often arrive on death row ; the shelf in someone 's office where doomed reports await transfer to the waste bin or shredder . |
| 11 | So please take on board that it is not good enough to answer that a notice was put up to tell people that they could claim , when many people are blind or disabled or do not have the wherewithal to understand . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Never before have Corelli 's 12 Concerti grossi , Op. 6 been so plentifully represented on disc . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Steve Kerton is one of the few professional drivers on the circuit … he just about survives on sponsorship … you see there are no big bucks in this sport … no national glory … take Kerton he 's to powerboating what Mansell is to motor racing … well in name only … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The crucial difference between the Germans and the Poles who profited from the efforts of the Colonisation Commission and the Polish banks through the sale and resale of farms and estates was that , while the Germans would eventually sell up for good and move away westwards to retire on money invested in Germany 's growing industrial enterprises , the Poles would stay put , use their money to consolidate their farms and purchases , and deposit their savings in the Land Purchase Bank . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Making war in the twelfth century was rather like going on strike in the twentieth : it was a method of exerting economic and financial pressure on your opponent — it was not intended that it should end in his death . |
| 21 | No country has ever successfully developed on aid alone . |
| 22 | This and more already happens on satellite and cable channels , which are under the more lenient gaze of the Cable Authority . |
| 23 | By contrast , competition law in the USA and the EC is ostensibly more focused on competition and economic efficiency . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Tony applauded loudly with the rest and the applause continued until the young man once more strolled on stage , this time dressed as a policeman . |
| 26 | The workings of the Board and its committees are more fully described on page 23 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Bone meal and it 's like bloody walking on ice . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It 's fine walking country in any weather , though it 's probably best avoided on Bank Holidays and summer Sundays . |