Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have thus established that PHB mobility in vivo can be explained solely on the basis of the intrinsic material properties of the polymer . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On successful completion , and will ultimately be placed offshore on the Shell MMS contract . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To some extent a loss of conditioned responding is to be expected purely on the grounds that conditioning tends to be context-specific . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | In a language with contrastive intonation patterns , the most common ones should be drilled early on the series of lessons . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | These steps can be built directly on the earth , bedding the paving materials in concrete to bind them together . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | While Nicholson 's experience made it easy for him to contemplate such preparations , the work of the Perkins at King David For indicated that it was unlikely that more than quart quantities of aniline could be prepared safely on the Kennington Road premises . |
| 24 | ( ii ) County court staff should be again reminded of the urgency with which the documentation of contempt cases should be undertaken and of the need to comply strictly with the rules and that service of committal orders should always be made personally on the contemnor . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) Service of committal orders should always be made personally on the contemnor. ( 3 ) Either Form N111 should be resurrected and amended to include a reminder that there is a right to apply to purge a contempt or Form N79 should be revised to take account of the fact that the proceedings may begin with an arrest under a power of arrest attached to an injunction issued under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 . |
| 26 | Decisions can be made periodically on the basis of information gathered so far . |
| 27 | While one might expect eventual decisions to be made purely on the merits of the case , earlier evidence indicates that some objections are more likely to succeed in influencing decision-makers than others . |
| 28 | A projection can be made only on the assumption that current levels or trends continue . |
| 29 | But Malebranche rejected various parts of Descartes 's proof , concluding that theoretically the material world was no more than a possibility , and could be accepted only on the basis of faith . |
| 30 | He 's to be deported tonight on the British Airways flight to London . |