Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If none wins outright on first preferences , the bottom name drops out , and his backers ' second preferences go to their recipients ; then , if need be , the next-bottom drops out ; and so on , till somebody gets over 50% . |
| 2 | His score of 568 points out of 600 was only seven points down on first position , which was taken by R Jones of Racketts Archery Club , with T Preston of Braintree Archery club second . |
| 3 | By the time ‘ Cobweb Soup ’ grinds in on thin guitar it 's already too late , as curiously gets the better of you . |
| 4 | By the time ‘ Cobweb Soup ’ grinds in on thin guitar it 's already too late , as curiously gets the better of you . |
| 5 | Who actually sits in on these video meetings . |
| 6 | Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 the NCC must offer a management agreement to any farmer on an SSSI whose application for an agricultural grant it turns down on conservation grounds . |
| 7 | The Christian achievement turns less on individual geniuses than in any other period of remotely comparable length in the history of this ever fermenting religion . |
| 8 | Deborah Levy drops in on Canadian maestro Robert Lepage , suspended between worlds in his solo show |
| 9 | Old time pro Brad Bowman drops in on this year 's comp and shows good stylish skating , unlike Davross who amazed visiting US skaters Lance Mountain , John Lucero , Steve Keenan and Spidey with his unstylish but entertaining hang-ups ( yeah Jase ) . |
| 10 | He looks down on hi life . |
| 11 | Redhead , however , is also a great country-lover and he writes eloquently on this theme for the magazine Country Living . |
| 12 | In spite of her misadventure , Diana looks back on that trip to Val Claret as one of the most enjoyable and carefree holidays of her life . |
| 13 | Diana now looks back on those days at Coleherne Court as the happiest time of her life . |
| 14 | MARY BAILEY looks back on seven years as the cichlid-keeper 's agony aunt . |
| 15 | The almost ceaseless trade winds of the central Pacific propel the Ocean 's surface waters westward on both sides of the equator , forming the basis of the two enormous — but essentially very simple — circulatory systems of currents that dominate the Ocean . |
| 16 | Jan 's pure voice rings out on quiet tracks such as Denim , Blue and Going Nowhere , accompanied either by fellow songwriter Tony Kirkham on acoustic guitar or by herself on piano . |
| 17 | Your mother looks well on these photographs though . |
| 18 | He lives here on that hill behind the village . |
| 19 | Turning the Corner Starts tomorrow on Central News South . |
| 20 | ZIG Kurecolor KC-1100 Markers and ZIG Kurecolor KC-400 Brush Pens deliver a free flowing transparent ink that sits luminously on white paper . |
| 21 | This chapter has necessarily concentrated on activity at the centre and , in doing so , demonstrated how much any local initiative depends eventually on Course-wide endorsement . |
| 22 | The CRC depends entirely on voluntary contributions . |
| 23 | The CRC depends entirely on voluntary contributions . |
| 24 | There are numerous difficulties in making an historical study which depends entirely on written evidence , which may not represent the experience of the mass of children , and is at best a distillation of the views of the literate classes . |
| 25 | Whereas knowledge can be acquired through lectures , seminars and reading , and skills are learned through demonstration and practice , the process of attitude-formation depends crucially on two things : role modelling and group socialization . |
| 26 | Any such development depends crucially on popular initiatives and can not simply be legislated ( there are , however , important ways in which a socialist government could help to foster enterprise democracy , by making changes in company law , e. g. turning shareholders into mere bond-holders , granting the right to set up democratic mechanisms where this was approved by the workforce , and by means of preferential funding for democratic enterprises and ‘ workers ’ plans ' ) . |
| 27 | As we have noticed above , the success of any social dialectological project in a dialect-divergent community depends crucially on adequate methods of analysing linguistic variation , and it is this analysis that takes most of the time . |
| 28 | The way that organisational information systems are used depends less on technological forces or notions of information need than on the nature of organisational authority and control into which they are introduced . |
| 29 | So I says only on one condition if your daddy pi leaves you at the door at school and picks you up |
| 30 | The idea of fitness is a subtle one , and depends greatly on genetic make-up rather than morphology . |