Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet leaders had been prepared to consider international arrangements and guarantees only on the external aspects of the Afghan problem . |
| 2 | PASSION AT THE POOLSIDE : Fergie and Johnny enjoy getting down to some serious canoodling as the sun beats mercilessly on the naked pate of the whizzkid from Texas |
| 3 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 4 | Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’ |
| 5 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 6 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 7 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
| 8 | Romantically but not altogether inaccurately , James Emerson Tennant , Colonial Secretary to Ceylon , wrote of the island in 1859 in his book Ceylon : ‘ a pendant that nestles gently on the swelling bosom of the Indian Ocean . |
| 9 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 10 | Congressman Solarz also beavers away on the duller stuff that most of his colleagues see little point in pursuing . |
| 11 | To satisfy Moore 's requirements an activity has somehow on the one hand really to somehow matter , and on the other hand not to do so on account of anything ordinarily thought of as of practical use . |
| 12 | It is often not appreciated how much of the stresses and assaults that impinge upon us are suppressed into the unconscious — an area which probably lies more on the spiritual plane than the mental one . |
| 13 | area team exercises usually on a single issue , sometimes followed by an internal report ; |
| 14 | To a backdrop of deserted stands , Andrew Hudson becomes the first South African to score a hundred on his Test debut : ( below ) Curtly Ambrose mops up on the final day , bowling Meyrick Pringle . |
| 15 | Lord Ross now lives near on the Central Wales Line , and is a frequent user . |
| 16 | This one now , er again hits him Mahammama on the pad , trickles out on the off side and Goch picks it up from extra cover . |
| 17 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |
| 18 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 19 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 20 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 21 | Whereas Palmer focusses exclusively on the non-actual character of the infinitive 's event , we wish to draw attention here to what his observations imply about the nature of the modal auxiliaries and the relation between the latter and the bare infinitive . |
| 22 | It follows that is not an objective number generated by considerations of overall balance in the labour market : its value turns critically on the political preferences of governments which are supposed to be in a position to define for themselves what unemployment rate will correspond to full employment and to be capable of action to achieve their newly defined objective . |
| 23 | There are far too few structures for democratic representation and control over union education , so that decision-making depends mostly on a smaller number of individuals . |
| 24 | As a result , the evidence for this second stage in the history of marriage depends entirely on the two assumptions which we have already noted . |
| 25 | Ms Garner said : ‘ Whether or not a murder charge stands or is reduced to manslaughter depends entirely on the individual case . |
| 26 | Whether nurses would come under the arrangements identified in the White Paper depends entirely on the contractual arrangements that they make with their employers . |
| 27 | I accept that the sophisticated application of integrated pollution control depends crucially on a good and effective inspectorate . ’ |
| 28 | It still scores highly on the academic community 's own measures — the number of publications and their citations — and the British Technology Group has generated more licensing income from UK academic discoveries than all the US institutions earn together from licensing . |
| 29 | Its viability depends less on the final validity of its basic assumptions than upon its own internal logical coherence and appropriateness in the lives of those who acquiesce in or profess it . |
| 30 | The change in depends only on the second derivatives at x , and so these derivatives must embody the curvature information . |