Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes such material is simply tipped-in or stuck down on a blank ; the professional may prefer to inlay it on paper to match the size of the volume , which will often be fairly large . |
| 2 | Most of these villages have little access to land , are not self-sufficient and rely heavily on food aid and food-for-work programmes . |
| 3 | John says government has promoted the message that people should become more self-sufficient and rely less on the community . |
| 4 | He vehemently dislikes smoking and while they were together she stopped smoking and cut down on drinking . |
| 5 | Stop smoking and cut down on sugary snacks . |
| 6 | Her mother had sat at the crowded dinner table , drinking steadily and smoking and speculating aloud on why her daughter had married costive Brian . |
| 7 | Unlike Sartre , Nizan was not given the opportunity to grow old and reflect serenely on his past life . |
| 8 | Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’ |
| 9 | Many of these organizations were self-financing and depended heavily on donation , feminist patronage and solidarity from other better-resourced groups . |
| 10 | ‘ The points collation system is very detailed and focuses individually on each TNT principle . |
| 11 | What we need is Speed and Wallace back and to buy a good striker , White is OK but stuck out on the right wing he wo n't score many goals IMHO . |
| 12 | Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today . |
| 13 | ‘ And if one man did just what you say is impossible and slipped in on the darkside ? ’ |
| 14 | As Soviet troops left Eastern Europe and a CFE treaty was implemented , fundamental changes to NATO 's structure and strategy would include : smaller and restructured active forces , highly mobile and versatile and relying increasingly on multinational corps of national units ; scaled-back readiness of active units , with less training requirements and exercises ; and more reliance on the ability to build up larger forces if and when needed . |
| 15 | For the accelerated basic education programme teachers received an extra payment in kind ( afa — see page 133 ) but popular teachers doing literacy work were unpaid and relied heavily on the commitment of young people . |
| 16 | Subsequently , I have had the advantage of reading in draft the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Slynn of Hadley , in which he concludes that the decision is indeed reviewable and does so on grounds which I venture to find convincing . |
| 17 | Rosalba felt that if only she could stop blinking and concentrate totally on the sweet and grieving countenance of the Madonna of the Spasm , she would catch the fleeting flutter of her eyelids and twitch of her lips as she granted Rosa 's prayer . |
| 18 | Keep it simple and build up on it |
| 19 | Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not . |
| 20 | Keep refrigerated and use liberally on the arms and legs for gardening scratches and abrasions . |
| 21 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 22 | The successful artiste is neither timorous nor tremulous but leaps around on the high-wire glittering with outrageous élan and gathering applause . |
| 23 | The times of retiring and getting up on the next morning were noted on the diary sheet and marked electronically by pushing the appropriate buttons on the recording unit . |
| 24 | The cloud was thick and low and moving slowly on a damp , chilling wind , a lidding expanse hiding the sky and the snow on the distant hills . |
| 25 | As for cutting it away , it was obvious that to wander about on the other side of the rampart was to invite certain death . |
| 26 | Just got in , well it were n't , it had n't gone right the way through , we just turned it over and chu , chucked the sheets and blankets back on once they 'd stopped smouldering and got back on it ! |
| 27 | We hoped our lack of response would eventually put him off His side-kick , the thin man , was edgy and sat forward on his seat . |
| 28 | It is not the looming tyranny of prefab structures , square and scowling down on treeless roads of cracked cement , strangled shrubberies and dull-hued minis all in a row . |
| 29 | Rachel was very tired and paused now on the monumental steps of her museum . |
| 30 | ‘ I am aware of these people who are professionally famous and turn up on all these clever panel shows , but I think Have I Got News For You is watched by a really wide spectrum of people and that is a big part of its appeal . |