Example sentences of "as [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As our awareness of this quality of light increases , we may perceive it as centring on another figure — an inner or outer ‘ Lady of Light ’ — or as an identifiable principle to which we can begin to relate . |
| 2 | The reaction was an uproar : Sir Keith had managed to offend both the left and the right , as well as touching on two taboos in one theme : sex and class . |
| 3 | One of Charles 's most fruitful contributions to knowledge of the wider world was his establishment in 1675 of Greenwich Observatory , which was intended quite as much to assist sailors with the problems of navigation as to carry on scientific research . |
| 4 | April : Robert Polhill ( US ) , Frank Reed ( US ) , Fernand Houtekens ( Belgian ) , Jacqueline Valente ( French ) , Sophie-Liberté Valente ( French ) [ see p. 37391 ; the last three were released by representatives of the Revolutionary Council of Fatah , not by the Fatah Revolutionary Council as given on that page ] ; August : Emanuel Christen ( Swiss ) , Elio Erriquez ( Swiss ) , Brian Keenan ( Irish-British ) [ see p. 37768 ] ; October : 40 Shia Moslem " hostages " from Khiyam prison , southern Lebanon [ see p. 37793 ] . |
| 5 | Friedman sees the real demand for money ( M D /P ) as depending on total wealth ( W ) , the expected rates of return on the various forms of wealth ( r ) , the ratio of human wealth to non-human wealth ( w ) and society 's tastes and preferences ( T ) . |
| 6 | The payment was made without deduction of tax , and pension rights were treated as ending on 5 November 1979 . |
| 7 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
| 8 | At long last Cyril Bleasdale , the director of ScotRail , is doing something about first class on the 158 trains , more leg-room , larger tables and new upholstery ( as reported on 17 March ) . |
| 9 | This wholly fails to take into account the sensitivities of those in the civil law tradition who see service of process as implying on judicial sovereignty . |
| 10 | ‘ I always heard tell of you that you were a wolf , but never that you were come so low as to prey on dead men . |
| 11 | Lectures , courses , events , workshops etc are organised to promote education and understanding of our work in the broadest sense , as well as passing on specific information and expertise . |
| 12 | He meant by this that the areas of colour in his painting were not to be blended by the eye but were to be seen as acting on each other reciprocally , thus producing pictorial form and space . |
| 13 | to read and store the data which represents the current edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and the four volumes of the Supplement as presented on magnetic tape by the keyboarding contractor |
| 14 | Internal reviews may be much more schematic when institutional context and course structure and assumptions are shared , as occurs on modular courses . |
| 15 | Both types were fitted with top-deck covers before the First World War , as seen on this page , but more extensive rebuilding followed . |
| 16 | Although numbers have declined , 14 of them still survive , and recently have been appearing in colourful advertising liveries , as seen on this page . |
| 17 | Here they operate in very different surroundings to Blackpool 's , as seen on this page : — |
| 18 | Some survived as works cars and snow ploughs , making possible the preservation of one of each type in working museums today , as seen on these pages . |
| 19 | Over the years , they have appeared in several liveries , as seen on these pages . |
| 20 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 21 | He did n't mind socializing with his staff as long as it was on His terms and at their expense , but to meet them as equals on neutral ground was another matter . |
| 22 | As well as deciding on new commission rates , firms will have to make extensive changes to their computer systems . |
| 23 | At the Middle English stage , the description of divergence is still very salient ( partly because the states attested in writing are unquestionably divergent states ) , but we also begin to notice attempts to launder the data retrospectively in such a way as to focus on those features that lead to modern ‘ standard ’ English and to ignore , reject or explain away those features that deviate from it . |
| 24 | This is basically the same as Reverse Polish Notation as used on certain calculators , and follows directly from the stack based approach . |
| 25 | The band can be knitted using tubular knitting and joined on the machine using the Passap method , as used on tubular neckbands . |
| 26 | His suggestions included requests for more towels on Sundays , coconut mats for the worst tees ( ‘ as used on other courses ’ ) , for the sand boxes ( used for making tee pegs ) to have small holes bored in them to let rainwater drain away . |
| 27 | First prize in our huge Relum competition is a great tent as used on two Everest expeditions and worth £459 . |
| 28 | It is possible to fit the dual circuit systems as used on later vehicles if you use the brake pipes as fitted to the later models to get the circuitry correct . |
| 29 | From then on the year was regarded by the Romans as beginning on that day . |
| 30 | The problem is that there is no satisfactory way of drawing a line between decisions of corporate managers which ought to be respected because they are based solely on the expertise of the directors and those which should be challenged as based on personal considerations or other non-corporate purposes . |