Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Such a move is less than entirely satisfactory because the relationship between the theory of competence and the data on which it is based ( ultimately intuitions about acceptability ) becomes abstract to a point where counter-examples to the theory may be explained away on an ad hoc basis , unless a systematic pragmatics has already been developed .
2 We have thus established that PHB mobility in vivo can be explained solely on the basis of the intrinsic material properties of the polymer .
3 Curriculum adaptations and support teaching sessions are provided by the resource teacher , and these sessions may be given either on a withdrawal basis or within the classroom .
4 Naturally , such allegations will rarely be made , although the defence of " justification " requires them to be proven only on the balance of probabilities , and not on the higher criminal standard , " beyond reasonable doubt " .
5 In the end , de Gaulle could only secure peace at the expense of a series of humiliating concessions to the FLN — concessions which could be justified only on the grounds that they averted the yet higher costs of not making them .
6 and this is a solemn 's teaching of God 's word , the bible nowhere teaches the doctrine of universalism , that everybody 's gon na go to heaven , it does n't teach that , it does n't say and it does not teach that ultimately every body will be saved , there are plenty of those around who 'd teach that today , but the bible does n't teach that there are those who will tell us that the sinner and the saint , the man who has no thought of God or no love for God and the Christian that all be gathered together on the final day , you all have another chance , Jesus never said that , the bible does n't teach that , it 's quite unscriptural .
7 junk mail can be placed clearly on a continuum with the press .
8 the transfer of the polymer chain from a pure , perfectly ordered state to a state of disorder which has the necessary freedom to allow the chain to be placed randomly on a lattice , and
9 On successful completion , and will ultimately be placed offshore on the Shell MMS contract .
10 In an ideal situation the staff to be trained will be taught externally on an identical system to the one being installed .
11 We were a long way from Orange , isolated in the farmhouse , and we knew how unpleasant the next month was going to be depended entirely on the whims of the staff .
12 All the following drinks are calorie-free , or negligible in calories , so they can be consumed freely on the F-Plan : water ; tea and black coffee ( without sugar , of course , though you can add milk from your daily half-pint allowance ) ; all bottled drinks like bitter lemon , Diet Pepsi and Tab which are specially labelled ‘ low calorie ’ .
13 He tried , though perhaps without much success , to restrict the use of chrism to bishops , and , making a further distinction between royal and episcopal consecration , he ordered that kings , like emperors , were to be anointed only on the arms or shoulders and hands , not on the head .
14 This means that a management policy that is injurious to employee interests can be attacked only on the grounds that the directors lacked good faith , meaning that the directors did not honestly believe that the policy constitutes an appropriate balancing of interests , or that they have altogether disregarded the impact of their decision on the employees .
15 His thinking , with its faith in science and brave new worlds , is very old-style ‘ Soviet ’ , at its core a belief that climate can be modified beneficially on the grand scale .
16 The representatives met again on 29 March to consider the Finlay and Shelmerdine reports , and Stanley Bruce , the Australian High Commissioner , stated that the USA and USSR should be approached immediately on the subject of civil aviation .
17 However , the responsibility for the resultant problem can not be blamed solely on an overbearing parent ; there is also a marriage partner who is failing to stand firm on biblical priorities at the expense of his or her partner .
18 The Klasies River Mouth site is made to sound almost idyllic by Ronald Singer and John Wymer , who excavated there during two seasons from 1966 to 1968 : ‘ while the sea was close , the attractions of the site were numerous : an almost unlimited supply of shellfish ; large and small mammals available for hunting in the immediate hinter land and at watering places along the adjacent river ; abundant fresh water ; seals , dolphins and fishes from the sea ; marine birds to be caught easily on the beach ; natural caves and rock shelters for protection ; and an unlimited supply of good quality siliceous quartzite for making tools and weapons .
19 Although it is a Kunsthalle rather than a collection , Hamish Fulton 's wall text ‘ Rock Fall Echo Dust ’ decorates the entrance hall and Richard Wentworth and Swiss artist , Anne Sauser-Hall , are making small sculptures to be installed discreetly on the stairwell .
20 A difficulty in interpreting laterality reaction time data according to a fixed anatomical model is that shorter response latencies for uncrossed as compared with crossed reactions would be expected simply on the grounds of stimulus-response ( S-R ) compatibility .
21 To some extent a loss of conditioned responding is to be expected purely on the grounds that conditioning tends to be context-specific .
22 The main reason that CISCs are still in more use today than CISCs are that commonly used commercial operating systems such as MS-DOS for the IBM PC can not be emulated well on a RISC computer .
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24 Price of Publications : SHALL BE THE PUBLISHER 'S CURRENT PRICE ( LESS NEGOTIATED DISCOUNT 45% ) AND SHALL NOT INCLUDE CARRIAGE OR INSURANCE AND MAY BE VARIED ANNUALLY ON THE 31 DAY OF MARCH IN EACH SUBSEQUENT YEAR
25 In a language with contrastive intonation patterns , the most common ones should be drilled early on the series of lessons .
26 Assured tenants can be evicted only on the authority of a court order , and the landlord has to give the tenant a notice of proceedings for possession , which will include a statement of the grounds for possession the landlord is using .
27 Future European arrangements can not be built simply on the promise that the Germans will now be ‘ European ’ , whatever that means , for the unification of that country creates problems which are more difficult to resolve .
28 These steps can be built directly on the earth , bedding the paving materials in concrete to bind them together .
29 The results of the survey , carried out by Dr Goran Jamal at Glasgow 's Southern General Hospital , will be revealed tonight on a Channel 4 Close to Home documentary , produced by the Edinburgh independent company , Barony Film and Television Productions .
30 No it 's it 's the one week which bridges the two erm months , but er er I will be , that we would normally be meeting again on the thirteenth of September , would n't we ?
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