Example sentences of "on [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solid bodies , generally American alder , are routed on numerically controlled machinery , much of which has been designed or customised by Yamaha staff . |
| 2 | The coach trip back to the Academy is remembered by few , as the dirty and damp officer cadets catch up on much lost sleep . |
| 3 | The village of North Ferriby is situated on gently rising ground on the north bank of the river Humber , about seven miles west of the city of Hull . |
| 4 | This may be the inescapable question for the foreseeable future so long as NATO procurement policy is predicated on highly trained work forces , scarce materials and sophisticated machine tools . |
| 5 | One of President Bill Clinton 's early decisions was to lift the ban on federally supported research on human fetal tissue . |
| 6 | Siroca , however , is based on easily produced grain or ethyl alcohol ( ethanol ) combined with fatty essence such as coconut oil . |
| 7 | Toward the end of the war , many artillery pieces were of such a size and weight that they could only be moved around on specially strengthened railway freight wagons . |
| 8 | Molecular biology is continuing to increase our understanding of metazoan evolution , yet information from fossils is still an important component in deciphering metazoan phylogeny , and data on rapidly radiating animal groups place early metazoan evolution in a new perspective . |
| 9 | Island Records , never the exploiters of Marley 's music some believe ( Lee Parry once claimed on quickly deleted vinyl that the company ‘ Kill Bob Marley and take away his royalties ’ ) , have recently issued the ‘ Talkin' Blues ’ album of out-takes , and last year released several Marley albums afresh on tape and CD . |
| 10 | But dinosaur mania currently sweeping Britain is viewed by some as a an opportunity to cash in on illicitly produced video recordings of the film . |
| 11 | Light claims the NHS comes out badly on the Cochrane test for effectiveness ; it is worse than most systems in not treating patients in the most effective place and preventing only what is preventable and poor on openly evaluating effectiveness against non-established alternatives and minimising ill timed interventions . |
| 12 | This is reinforced if the intention of Parliament in passing the Act was that deficits on internally generated revenue would most likely be incurred , not merely casually , but deliberately as a consequence of treating transport as a social service . |
| 13 | His theories are based on clinical observations , and not on carefully controlled experimentation or systematic statistical comparison of groups and control groups . |
| 14 | Dissecting and describing , he makes you not only know but feel what it 's like to live without a phone and be totally dependent on erratically functioning call boxes for the battle-lines on which to fight for late or lost benefit payments . |
| 15 | Paradoxically , the highly–skilled performer , because he or she depends on finely tuned allocation of his or her attention to avoid having to think carefully about every minor detail may be likely to make a slip . |
| 16 | We were sitting cross-legged on either side of him with a vast array of tiny dishes on finely worked brass trays stretching before us , and entirely lit by Aladdin lamps on specially wrought stands . |
| 17 | Press releases should be eye-catching and on boldly headed paper . |
| 18 | In Britain 's largely black discos and dance-halls , which have always been dependent on mainly recorded music , the role of the DJ or Master of Ceremonies was able to take on a special significance . |
| 19 | They may be , indeed they usually are , based on freshly invented material or the composer may take a plainsong melody not as a cantus firmus but for plastic treatment through all the parts , as Gombert does in his ‘ Salve regina ’ . |
| 20 | A case in point might be the Unabashed History of Pornography from InCat Systems of Milan , available on well illustrated CD-ROM . |
| 21 | The emphasis would be on well designed infrastructure in a high quality environment , with the whole area perhaps run by a municipally-employed ‘ street manager ’ . |
| 22 | This is placed on chemically treated plastic strips which react with cancer cells , turning a fluorescent green . |
| 23 | Protein-based products are used for the maintenance and reconstruction of the inner and outer layers of the hair and are particularly beneficial on chemically damaged hair . |
| 24 | They 're best for naturally dry , curly and frizzy hair but can be used on chemically damaged hair too . |
| 25 | Because that one on there had counselling and group counselling , and er things like that on which are n't really things we 're familiar with . |
| 26 | No one else was in the garden and dense rows of leafless poplars damped the grinding roar of the lorries on Am Treptower Park . |
| 27 | He enthusiastically supports Ewan MacColl 's sentiment , ‘ no man has a right to own mountains ’ , by trespassing to climb — sometimes naked — on privately owned rock faces . |
| 28 | He enthusiastically supports Ewan MacColl 's sentiment , ‘ no man has a right to own mountains ’ , by trespassing to climb — sometimes naked — on privately owned rock faces . |
| 29 | Hey ( 1979 ) suggests that Seebohm employed a variety of understandings , shifting from concentration on closely defined function to notions of distinctive competence . |
| 30 | We join all the other dancers jumping up and down , round and round the dance floor , stopping momentarily as I place my rifle in a corner near the band , then on again keeping time to the music . |