Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] on the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lighting , heating , ventilation have all been carried out on the most approved modern principles . |
| 2 | The separate identity of such organisations was accepted both on the purely factual level ( a non-member can not deny the factual existence of the United Nations ) and on the legal level ( a non-member may owe duties to an organisation and be able to make claims against it ) . |
| 3 | The view that a ‘ threshold of effect ’ exists for the effects of phenylketonuria on brain development is based largely on the apparently normal intelligence of subjects with the mildest forms of the disorder ( so called ‘ benign ’ hyperphenylalaninaemia ) , whose plasma phenylalanine concentrations are <1000 µmol/l ( normal 50–120 µmol/l ) and who do not usually receive treatment . |
| 4 | This model , based initially on the fairly crude neuroanatomical data available a century ago , has stood the test of time remarkably well but data obtained over the last two decades have prompted modifications in the details . |
| 5 | Mutual benefits and shared learning are assumed to emanate from partnerships , predicated perhaps on the too simple notion that ‘ two plus two can make five ’ . |
| 6 | When I arrived , the village was deathly quiet ; a few fishing boats were pulled up on the shingly beach but there was no activity . |
| 7 | But it remained uncertain whether they were strong enough to create conditions in which peace could be negotiated even on the most minimal of their terms . |
| 8 | Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme . |
| 9 | For the remainder it was back to Milford Station where they were probably penned overnight on the extremely wide platforms , before dispatch the next day in newly lime-washed trucks . |
| 10 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 11 | It must be deployed also on the hitherto comparatively neglected first four years of the reign , that brief part of her life which is the only one which can be considered in any way typical for a reigning monarch . |
| 12 | Any book with an American look on its cover , a trilby , a turned-up collar , a gun and a mean expression , is snapped up on the rapidly growing street markets . |