Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | area team exercises usually on a single issue , sometimes followed by an internal report ; |
| 3 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I accept that the sophisticated application of integrated pollution control depends crucially on a good and effective inspectorate . ’ |
| 7 | The disc itself spins easily on a sealed ball-bearing race . |
| 8 | At one point , at some point , very late , the old man breaks away from his partner , and spins easily on a shiny patch of yellow floor , his long arms folded to his sides , not dancing at all now but simply spinning , spinning , for quite a while . |
| 9 | What was overlooked in our discussion of stylistic competence is that our intuitive " placing " of a text depends not on an undifferentiated capacity to compare a text with the norm of the language , but rather on a responsiveness to a set of norms : a norm for spoken conversation , a norm for news reporting , a norm for writing diaries , a norm for historical novels , etc . |
| 10 | In all but the smallest countries export success , at least in manufactures , depends largely on a solid domestic market . |
| 11 | If the plant 's behaviour depends continuously on a single coefficient , then binary chopping is a safe standard approach . |
| 12 | Each session lasts approximately one hour and twenty minutes , and occurs initially on a weekly basis at the same time and place . |
| 13 | The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course . |
| 14 | Just before the climactic murder , Desdemona 's maid Emilia is shown in deep focus closing her mistress 's door , while in the foreground Othello 's dark shadow looms ominously on a white wall . |
| 15 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 16 | The family gets by on a hundred and sixty pounds a week from social security and family allowance payments . |
| 17 | For every 100,000 inhabitants , Belgium boasts 32 central bankers , France 31 , Germany 23 , America and Britain both 9 , while Japan gets by on a paltry 5 . |
| 18 | Doug Sherry , the proprietor of Doug 's and the car-wash that camouflages its entrance , winces and puffs philosophically on a fat cigar . |
| 19 | A horse will soon become used to the excitement of a show provided that he goes out on a regular basis from an early age . |
| 20 | Pop concert goes out on a bad note |
| 21 | Another facet , and the gentle acoustics of ‘ Silent Lucidity ’ restore the human balance before the much older ‘ Take Hold Of The Flame ’ signs out on an optimistic high note . |
| 22 | Another facet , and the gentle acoustics of ‘ Silent Lucidity ’ restore the human balance before the much older ‘ Take Hold Of The Flame ’ signs out on an optimistic high note . |
| 23 | If you produce a lovely little item which fits perfectly on a particular radio programme , or newspaper , and that happens to be the week that it 's the county show , or an earthquake , or something like that , there 's no way you 're going to get it in , because there 's too much competition , and the next week it 's dead . |
| 24 | Strawson himself relies entirely on an intuitive sense of the line between them , but we can see from the history of the social sciences that such intuitions change with time and place . |
| 25 | Realism rests squarely on a contrary view , both in substance and for purposes of method . |
| 26 | From Rorschach a direct road to the south-west brings the traveller quickly to St Gallen , the largest city in north-east Switzerland , the capital of the canton which bears its name , and a place whose prestige rests securely on a joint foundation of industry , its role in Switzerland 's cultural life , scholarship , expanding tourism , its success in preserving an inherited past , and its development as a congress centre . |
| 27 | Bill races regularly on a 35 foot yacht called Gemini , and on this occasion the boat scored a double victory — winning the Class 4 25-mile race from Port Bannatyne , by Rothesay , around Garroch Head to Tarbert , then the 12-mile return race to Kames in the Kyles of Bute . |
| 28 | It relies instead on a political theory about the legitimacy of private power and the conditions subject to which that power may be exercised : a theory that contends that power may be legitimately held only for the purpose of furthering the public good . |
| 29 | Mr Kilfedder relies heavily on an unquestioning personal vote and a reputation , particularly among the older electorate , for local diligence and national prominence . |
| 30 | The MP 's report draws heavily on an earlier study by consultants , W. S. Atkins , which said that CHP and district heating schemes would be viable in no fewer than nine cities in Britain . |