Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe it 's tucked away on a high shelf somewhere . ’ |
| 2 | The 2% drop in audit and business advisory services is blamed largely on a combination of the recession , fierce competition and ‘ severe downward pressure ’ on fees , while the knock-on effect of clients ' postponing discretionary spending was a 5% drop in management consultancy fee income . |
| 3 | A much easier alternative is to come here on a summer bank holiday weekend , join the queue and be winched down in a bosun 's chair courtesy of various caving clubs . |
| 4 | He is perched uncomfortably on a settee with a photo album on his knee . |
| 5 | When he is perched precariously on a sandbag at the time , however , you could just about get away with charging extra . |
| 6 | But the celebrated Mayfair fashion house is operating only on a week-to-week basis to complete orders and little hope exists of securing its future by finding a buyer . |
| 7 | The 1963 Hovertram is seen here on an Illuminations tour at Little Bispham loop , its northerly terminal . |
| 8 | This is done either on a direct encashment basis , or through a carrier-operated Bulk Cash Withdrawal Scheme , under which a selected security carrier arranges delivery from stocks held on our behalf . |
| 9 | In fact it is practically illegal to be an authentic Christian , because the world which surrounds us is founded radically on an established disorder before which the mere proclamation of the gospel is subversive . ’ |
| 10 | Next door , steady work is going ahead on a long term , very ambitious educational project to which he is now turning his energies . |
| 11 | Today 90% is dispatched by bulk and the remainder is bagged automatically on a fully automated packing line complete with pelletiser which is pictured operating . |
| 12 | The method is used mainly on a research basis , and validation of the assumptions made is necessary before widespread adoption of such photographic surveillance in routine clinical use can be advocated . |
| 13 | The assessment presented in this chapter is based largely on a cognitive-behavioural model , but encompassing both ‘ psychodynamic ’ and ‘ systemic ’ approaches . |
| 14 | In particular , Lee 's reading of literary texts is based largely on a simple transposition of this linguistic determinism . |
| 15 | The generally utilitarian function , if not rationale of medieval universities ( Cobban 1975 ) , is acknowledged even by those such as Veblen ( 1957 , p. 3 ) , who argued that the best principles for academic endeavour are ‘ an Idle curiosity , and the Instinct of Workmanship ’ , and provides ammunition for Bell ( 1971 ) and others who contend that the liberal tradition is based largely on an historical myth . |
| 16 | The letter from Bedfordshire says : ’ our budget is based largely on an historically low number of unemployed people in the County . ’ |
| 17 | Some kinds of improvisation have their form already well defined : jazz improvisation , for example , is based either on a well-known theme or on a familiar harmonic progression ( e.g. twelve-bar blues ) , while the church organist may improvise on a ground bass , a fugal theme , or a chorale melody . |
| 18 | Streets Ahead is based firmly on a grammatical syllabus . |
| 19 | The Bill is based partly on an internal review of Her Majesty 's inspectorate which the Secretary of State has refused to publish . |
| 20 | This is based unashamedly on a system which will be familiar to students of Open University reading courses . |
| 21 | The discussion is based primarily on a current course at the University of Kent , but draws on experience we have gained from teaching electronic publishing in New Zealand , North America and elsewhere . |
| 22 | This view of bureaucracy is based primarily on a model of nineteenth-century developments , one important aspect of which was the growing scandal over the inefficiencies of administration . |
| 23 | Always the call will be for more power to the organization , so that the 1989 cry of alarm from the Police Federation conference about private security firms is based more on a fear that areas of influence are being taken from the institution than on beliefs that such groups are incompetent . |
| 24 | For both regional and world-wide studies , archaeological interpretation is based more on an assessment of evidence and arguments put forward by other archaeologists than an assessment of primary data . |
| 25 | The discussion which follows in the Report for young people in general is based mainly on a rating which is established by subtracting the number of employers who think that young people are worse than older workers from those who think that they are better on each of these attributes . |
| 26 | Reviewing Pincher Martin , Amis once mildly reproached Golding for failing to ‘ turn his lifts of originality , of intransigence , and above all of passion to the world where we have to live ’ , since the novel is set remotely on an island in the Atlantic . |
| 27 | She said , I hear the Empire , or , or hear The Garden 's doing well on a Friday night . |
| 28 | If the Laboulbeniales is found only on a single species of guest , or only on the host , this may indicate that the commensal relationship is of fairly recent origin . |
| 29 | If more than one LIFESPAN system is running simultaneously on a computer it will be necessary for each one to operate its own independent offline system using different media items . |
| 30 | The arrangement of things into classes , such as the class metal , or the class man , is grounded indeed on a resemblance among the things which are placed in the same class , but not on a mere general resemblance ; the resemblance it is grounded on consists in the possession by all those things of certain common peculiarities ; and those peculiarities it is which the terms connote , and which the propositions consequently assert ; not the resemblance . |