Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on the [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But I was n't prepared to sit patiently on the sidelines while this process took place . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To some extent a loss of conditioned responding is to be expected purely on the grounds that conditioning tends to be context-specific . |
| 6 | Also , news bulletins concentrated heavily on the speeches and activities of leading politicians , particularly the president . |
| 7 | In 1962 at the time the Master Plan was submitted the Architect 's Journal reported briefly on the proposals and questioned whether Cramlington New Town would ever materialize in the form recoin mended by the planning consultants . |
| 8 | Our concern is with that huge category of stock which is not issuing well and which fills our valuable storage space : the nineteenth-century biographies ; the classics of politics and philosophy ; the long journal runs ; the multi-volume histories ; the ‘ complete ’ works ; the novels , plays and studies of and by yesterday 's men and women ; the giant topographical histories — the accumulated cultural and historical heritage that lies heavily on the stacks and on the reference shelves . |
| 9 | No demand , however , was made on us by the gate-keeper , the authorities being so liberal as not to charge persons for walking either on the roads or footpaths . |
| 10 | Lord Morris said : The degree of precision or definition which makes a purpose a particular purpose depends entirely on the facts and circumstances of a purchase and sale transaction . |
| 11 | they have done so on the grounds that the company is entitled to the benefit of those exemptions as a small ( or medium ) company . |
| 12 | Is it that you may actually have lost fat but the loss may not show much on the scales because you are retaining water . |
| 13 | We have used here a mathematical theorem stating that the line integral of a gradient depends only on the end-points and not on the connecting path . |
| 14 | You sail away on the seas and I 'll commune with my spirit . |
| 15 | Pluralists , therefore , focus more on the individuals and groups who are centrally located in the ‘ black-box ’ of policy-making in the capitalist state . |
| 16 | The decision not to simply take over the entire MoMA show was made partly on the grounds that the Pompidou has already mounted a major Matisse retrospective ( in 1971 ) , and partly through a desire to study in depth a period of the artist 's life now viewed as fundamental for the development of twentieth-century painting . |
| 17 | The petrol ignited immediately , a loud whump filling the room as it consumed Connelly 's body , which twisted insanely on the ropes as he screamed in uncontrollable agony . |
| 18 | There were brake shoes acting both on the wheels and on the track . |
| 19 | At the outset , five hypotheses were selected prospectively on the grounds that they were refutable within the context of the study design , that they were of relevance to current duodenal ulcer research , or that they were of potential importance for both ulcer healing and ulcer recurrence . |
| 20 | Hodge and Parker commanded the midfield , Crosby and Rice , strongly supported by Laws and Pearce , drove forward on the flanks and it seemed only a matter of time before the right sort of cross reached Chapman or Clough . |
| 21 | You should make note of the going especially on the take-offs and landings of each fence and decide how it may change or deteriorate . |
| 22 | Hence a conjugate of ( F 2 2 ) z , such as P(FR1)JP-I is also a pair of exchanges and it acts only on the pieces that are brought to the four working locations by P . |
| 23 | This chapter concentrates largely on the fortunes and activities of Franklin Electronic Publishers and SelecTronics , the two chip-based electronic book publishers . |
| 24 | A recent scrutiny by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission commented favourably on the changes that have already been wrought and the further developments that are under way . |
| 25 | Experienced teams are constantly moving back and forth , speeding up by pulling hard on the lines or conversely running forward to slow the kites . |
| 26 | They walked daily on the cliffs and shore . |
| 27 | The design , colours used and decor of the reception area will depend entirely on the tastes and policies of each individual hotel or group of hotels . |
| 28 | The Crown did not object to the Divisional Court looking at the materials ( see p. 237G–H ) but the court itself refused to do so on the grounds that it would constitute a breach of article 9 . |
| 29 | Various provisions of the Education Reform Act 1988 ( ERA ) , particularly those relating to LMS ( under which a school 's funding is based largely on the numbers and ages of its pupils ) and more open enrolment , are aimed at creating a climate of heightened competition between schools for pupils , and the present study will be conducted within this new context . |
| 30 | At one extreme was the suggestion that at least 40 weeks of the training period should be spent acquiring the necessary accounting skills ; at the other , that there should be no requirement to record accounting separately on the grounds that it was adequately covered within the auditing function . |