Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the female workers were not in fact very much worse qualified or less experienced on average than the males , there was not much of the gap explained on these counts . |
| 2 | Are they going to be your serviceable everyday sets or only used on special occasions ? |
| 3 | Whether it is so or not depends on all the circumstances of the case including the context and wording of the provisions , the degree of emphasis , the purpose and effect of the default clause and any other relevant consideration . |
| 4 | The XII Tables — whether or not modelled on Greek legislation — provided Rome with a written constitution of the Greek type . |
| 5 | A court can include a requirement for the child to be medically or psychiatrically examined on one occasion or from time to time as directed by the supervisor ( para 4(2) ) . |
| 6 | The NUT , reporting to the Younger Committee on Privacy in 1972 , proposed that reports about a child 's misbehaviour should be kept from parents and that information on the pupil or his home background ‘ which might be gleaned from hearsay or possibly based on malicious gossip ’ should not be kept on a permanent record . |
| 7 | Some of the artwork is nice but if you 've got a tenner or more to spend on nice artwork then you 're probably the subject of a public inquiry at the moment so you 're likely to be more than a little preoccupied . |
| 8 | A complimentary excursion for all guests staying 7 nights or more arriving on 23 May , 12 and 19 Sept . |
| 9 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 10 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 11 | Copyright does not give a monopoly in ideas ; what it does is to prevent a person from copying or otherwise capitalizing on tangible expressions of ideas made by others . |
| 12 | The partners for the time being should not exclude the possibility of negotiation to take account of the particular circumstances of a partner 's departure , eg where to delay payment for his share could result in hardship for himself or his family , or where to insist on strict observance of restraint covenants might stand in the way of a young solicitor wishing to develop a specialised practice in a field of work rarely undertaken by the firm . |
| 13 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 14 | Whilst the basic facts about drinking are well known and mostly based on common sense , some of the issues surrounding alcohol abuse are a lot more complex . |
| 15 | A particularly gruesome tale is appended to the embalming of Queen Katherine de Valois , wife of Henry V. Katherine died at Bermondsey Abbey ( by whose monks she was presumably embalmed ) on 3 January 1438 and eventually buried on 8 or 9 February 1438 in front of the high altar of the new Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey — indeed hers was the first royal body to be buried there . |
| 16 | It is at least arguable : the employers did after all give in when faced with a strike , and effectively surrendered on this very question for the future , since they would have to pay the male rate to all the new ( male ) monotypists . |
| 17 | I went back to my old eating habits and slowly put on more weight . |
| 18 | Studies from the community are few and predominantly based on single practices . |
| 19 | One response is to turn away and say that research is difficult and irrelevant and so rely on practical experience and rules of thumb . |
| 20 | However , it is only open to those who already hold the overpriced asset and so relies on this group of investors trading sufficient assets to move the relative prices of the shares in the index and index futures back into line . |
| 21 | Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) . |
| 22 | A set of chambers in London may have as many as twenty pupils and only keep on two . |
| 23 | My story was that I was the orphaned son of my father 's long-lost younger brother , and only staying on occasional extended holidays on the island while I was passed from relative to relative and my future was decided . |
| 24 | Initially these were missed on ultrasound , and only shown on careful computed tomography scanning as the fluid was not localised in the right upper quadrant . |
| 25 | There would be every justification for her to stay at home most of the time and only emerge on joint engagements with her husband . |
| 26 | First let's look at the ribber controls that we do n't use during most ribber knitting , which are set to their basic position and only changed on special occasions . |
| 27 | In some instances , Islamic Religious Knowledge under the influence of Egypt becomes more concerned with belief and less centred on mere learning of the Koran ( Uganda and Nigeria ) . |
| 28 | At Goulbourn a large brick structure with stone quoins and cornices and a central tower and dome had been built in the 1870s , and structure with powerful round-headed arches and long arcading on two storeys was more reminiscent of Indian stations than of those of Europe or North America . |
| 29 | Then there were those first matches against other counties , with ‘ Beefy ’ present and apparently firing on all cylinders . |
| 30 | Apparently , most of the sounds on the GR-1 are unique and not based on another synth from the Roland range . |