Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people . |
| 2 | According to Peter Hume , finance director of stockbrokers Seymour Pierce Butterfield , investors considering buying shares in a company offering concessionary discounts should only do so on the merits of the shares . |
| 3 | Bite Three : ‘ A Prime Minister and a Cabinet so busy trying to recreate the present in the image of the past that they have entirely missed out on the opportunities for the future . ’ |
| 4 | We gazed enraptured at the city of Bath from the train as it drew in to the station — it was all laid out on the slopes of Lansdown like an aerial map of a moon landscape . |
| 5 | But she has long scored highly on the qualities of being decisive , resolute , and principled , a perception helped by the Falklands war and the comparison until 1983 with Michael Foot , the Labour leader . |
| 6 | To actually just sit back on the hands , as the government are doing , is not a policy , it 's an abdication of responsibility . |
| 7 | Chile is Britain 's oldest ally in the Southern Hemisphere … and the Falcons were determined not to miss out on the celebrations to mark the 75th birthday of the Royal Air Force . |
| 8 | Jochen and Elke warn Fabian not to go out on the streets on 7 October for the 40th anniversary of the formation of East Germany , and for God 's sake not to demonstrate . |
| 9 | Hormones modify the cells which may become cancerous , rendering them less , or more , likely to do so , but the hormones do not act primarily on the processes which turn any quiescent cell into one that divides without control . |
| 10 | Whether they do so or not depends simply on the decisions which teachers , headteachers , local authority officers and elected members choose to make . |
| 11 | By whatever means possible , will the right hon. Gentleman get in touch with Ministers to ensure that , if it is right for the Government to gain publicity over Christmas for looking after a few hundred homeless , it should be right to do something about them now so that they are not turned out on the streets ? |
| 12 | Organisations should consider incorporating in their equal opportunity statements their commitment not to discriminate arbitrarily on the grounds of age . |
| 13 | For instance , the Institute of Personnel Management proposes that organisations should consider including a commitment not to discriminate arbitrarily on the grounds of age in their equal opportunities policies . |
| 14 | Is it that you may actually have lost fat but the loss may not show much on the scales because you are retaining water . |
| 15 | An ESRC-funded study at the department of psychology of the University College of Swansea of 52 people in their twenties with Down 's syndrome found that there is obviously confusion about who can and can not vote , that there is clear overlap in the abilities of those who vote and those who do not and that decisions on voting are not made strictly on the abilities of the person with Down 's syndrome . |
| 16 | Some of those problems had already shown up on the print-outs , let alone from the drivers . |
| 17 | Such ideas , however , were not based entirely on the critics ' response to what was on display ; rather , they derived from opinions about O'Keeffe and her art that had been formulated by Stieglitz and his circle of friends and published before 1923 . |
| 18 | These modest words come from Swindelli ( below , white jacket ) , vocalist/rapper with The 25th Of May , who is animatedly holding forth on the merits of the band 's neatly titled debut LP ‘ Lenin And McCarthy ’ . |
| 19 | The desired torque on this motor does not depend much on the settings of the elbow and the shoulder . |
| 20 | In nearly all examinations the scripts are not judged simply on the questions that the student has answered , where he has not answered all he was expected to answer . |
| 21 | Aycliffe coughed , and his glance drifted away to rest unseeingly on the shelves of books as he spoke . |
| 22 | Some semblance of co-operation was finally attained only on the grounds that it was everyone 's responsibility to protect the band from the internal dissension and strife which the affair was creating . |
| 23 | This is best laid out on the plates whilst the brains are being simmered . |
| 24 | It certainly is n't simply a case of just reading up on the reviews , playing around with a couple of the likely programs and then buying a system or two and expecting peace , harmony and perfect publications to be the end result ! |
| 25 | Do not go out on the streets , he begged his compatriots — instead , put a lighted candle in the window for reform . |
| 26 | Rumour has it that ‘ Cope ’ , brilliant as it is , might not end up on the Aunts ' album , such is the ‘ glut ’ of material available . |
| 27 | Sometimes you have wisdom teeth that have hung on in there for so long they wo n't come out and just lounge about on the X-rays , flicking V-signs . |
| 28 | Get down you 're not allowed up on the cushions hairs . |
| 29 | But you do n't do you hav wil will have you got to shrink wrap it at all or will it hold will it will it just sit right on the pallets without falling off ? |
| 30 | Just shoved up on the shelves with no order or reason . |