Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 2 | Now , all of those criticisms come about on the work that 's been done which has mostly been done on the recognition of characters and letters . |
| 3 | Many of the goats described in the 30 or so scientific studies that have since been published on the phenomenon ( the earliest in 1904 ) can be traced to those bred and cared for by Mayberry . |
| 4 | A discipline has since been founded on the idea that human behaviour is genetically controlled , a hybrid of sociology and biology called sociobiology . |
| 5 | Indeed , in extreme cases , it may be sensible to organise some form of help even before the nursing expert reports to avoid the argument that such help has only been obtained on the expert 's advice . |
| 6 | Spain 's pro-Europeanism has long been based on the belief that Europe was needed to defend Spain 's fledgling democracy . |
| 7 | Suffolk County Council has long been over-stretched on the conservation side , and comparable houses have suffered from lack of expert advice . |
| 8 | The observations reported below are based on the results of his studies . |
| 9 | It had all been said on the track where both McLaren 's new MP4/7As , driven by Senna and team-mate Gerhard Berger , were non-finishers . |
| 10 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 11 | While great emphasis has rightly been placed on the active involvement of the pupils in their learning , it should always be remembered that there is still a place for the teacher to convey a feel for an event or person by presenting the story . |
| 12 | Bookings can only be accepted on the payment of a non refundable non transferrable deposit of £5 per person . |
| 13 | The same reasoning does not apply where the money is sent by a stranger , in which case it can only be accepted on the terms upon which it is sent . |
| 14 | The competition is open to readers of 'Small Gardens ' and entries will only be accepted on the entry coupon provided . |
| 15 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 16 | Another distinction is between so called European type options which can only be exercised on the settlement day , and American type options which can be exercised at any time up to and including the settlement day . |
| 17 | in the case of Dahl 's study of New Haven , the power of the mayor can only be assessed on the basis of his own particular preferences for urban development and how he managed to secure these preferences in the decision-making process . |
| 18 | It was argued in that case that the taxpayer , however , could only be assessed on the income ( the gross income ) to the extent that he had power to enjoy it . |
| 19 | A union of Baptists or of Methodists could be based on shared theological foundations ; a union of Nonconformists could only be based on the one thing they shared , their nonconforming status as English Protestant Christians outside the established church of the land . |
| 20 | An increase in the pension , though , may well only be based on the amount you have left . |
| 21 | This decision can only be based on the spacing between the sites chosen rather than the importance of the sites themselves , ignoring even the cross-routes . |
| 22 | The plaintiff asked for the whole of the profits on the brassieres but the defendant said that the account of profits should only be based on the profit resulting from the wrongful use of the confidential information ; that is , the profit relating to the parts of the brassieres incorporating the confidential information . |
| 23 | Draw up a timetable — some recipes can be cooked and frozen weeks in advance while others can be prepared a day beforehand ; some dishes can only be made on the day . |
| 24 | It also means that the real value of the redemption payment will vary according to the rate of inflation during the last eight months ' life of a bond and so calculations of real yields to redemption can only be made on the basis of assumed rates of inflation . |
| 25 | This approach can only be created on the basis of managerial trust in the professional skills and attitudes of teachers . |
| 26 | This should only be operated on the specific request of ATC . |
| 27 | The crucial difference in cricket is that the consulting process can only be conducted on the field |
| 28 | So at the end of the day it must be for the courts to decide how to classify particular functions , and this can only be done on the basis of some normative judgment about the desirable scope of judicial review . |
| 29 | Today it is possible to experience places and events which even thirty years ago could only be seen on the pages of geography textbooks . |
| 30 | Rehearsal time for the cast would be limited , just a few days together in a church hall with sticky tape on the floor and a few odd props to suggest sets that will only be seen on the Friday . |