Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Maisey of Cosham , Hants , has a more friendly approach , since he believes ‘ a dog bounding towards you is probably more intent on play than dinner . |
| 2 | Whether for an hour or even a full day , once you step on board it 's all hands on deck as crew members don their lifejackets and take to the seas in the adventure of a lifetime . |
| 3 | COMMENT AND FACT Newspapers should not express comment on conjecture as fact and should distinguish between them , but they are free to be partisan . |
| 4 | Richter was taken on board because Tank was in favour and recommended him . |
| 5 | The emphasis is more on milk than meat and yields average 4,400kg at 3.7 per cent butterfat . |
| 6 | Such an aseptic definition , however , seems rather sterile as it focuses mainly on literature as text thus ignoring its socio-cultural values . |
| 7 | Warning on funding as enrolment at polys rises by 47% |
| 8 | Like the tiger , the leopard relies on stealth when hunting . |
| 9 | During the early and mid-1970s , however , the balance changed in favour of direct taxes on income as revenue providers for central government , due in part to inflation raising money incomes ( and therefore direct tax receipts ) and in part to fiscal drag . |
| 10 | and we 'll be out on the water on monday as banbury gets ready to launch its own water sports week … |
| 11 | I was on watch as quartermaster on the forenoon watch on February 6 when the officer of the watch asked why HMS Glasgow and HMS Liverpool were flying the flag at half mast . |
| 12 | The Spaniards are stronger on honour than hygiene . |
| 13 | Similarly , those who can not bear to know about differences between people out of bed , and whose marriage is based more on identification than complementarity , can be disturbed by actual bodily differences which can not be ignored in bed . |
| 14 | As the positive part of conventionalism shrinks in practical importance in court , because there are so few occasions for judges to rely on law as conventionalism construes this , so this particular defense of the negative part becomes weaker , for the exceptions steadily eat up the rule . |
| 15 | The V8 was put on ice when Lotus went through one of its regular periods of financial cramp in 1981 — but a few years later its key features were sold to GM in the shape of the LT5 engine for the Corvette ZR1 . |
| 16 | Venables ' initial bid to sign Sheri for £2million last week was put on ice because Forest boss Brian Clough refused to let him go until he found a replacement . |
| 17 | He believes longer climbs such as Jibé Tribout 's Just Do It ( see Reports ) , Which rely more heavily on stamina than power , are not of the same order of difficulty . |
| 18 | For those sociologists keen to establish the scientific credentials of sociology , both the attempt to comment on epistemology as knowledge and the attempt to found an empirical subject on relationist methods seemed impossible . |
| 19 | Even though these treatments drive the chemicals into the timber to a much greater depth than surface application by spray or brush , the wood may not be completely impregnated , particularly in the heartwood , so that notches and ends cut on site after treatment must be dipped in preservative or touched up with a brush . |
| 20 | Colebrooke marched up and down as if he was on parade whilst Mistress Philippa leaned against the wall , looking sorrowfully down at Tower Green . |
| 21 | Mr Watkins is said to be keener on education than energy — indeed the NES includes plans to improve science education . |
| 22 | Wilfrid withdrew to Ripon and , although he acted on occasion as bishop for Wulfhere among the Mercians and even ordained priests and deacons in Kent , he did not at this time exercise episcopal functions north of the Humber ( HE III , 28 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 14 ) . |
| 23 | Fate seems rather to depend more on ancestry than position , family rather than friends . |
| 24 | Lawyers are used to relying on paper as evidence of legal transactions but new technology may come to challenge that reliance . |
| 25 | Between was set out on paper as theory and what actually happened in practise . |
| 26 | Stating that the 11th Mayfest would place greater emphasis on quality than quantity , Robson said the programme would strike a balance between new Scottish work and international attractions , while at the same time it would celebrate the talents of the local community . |
| 27 | The teacher daily makes decisions about which register to teach , which lexical items to emphasise , whether to teach colloquialisms , and such decisions are frequently based more on instinct than knowledge . |
| 28 | After they hit the racquet they make another , more resonant sound , as they bounce on the ant soil surface , a sound you can hear on television when tennis is played at Stade Roland Garros . |
| 29 | Procedural gender biases are a source of serious anxiety in a science as powerfully dependent on method as psychology . |
| 30 | Spends more time on ground than Buzzard , and has distinctive habit of robbing bees ' and wasps ' nests . |