Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the therapist is placing responsibility for change firmly on the client 's shoulders , reinforcing the notion that people help themselves . |
| 2 | Even when subjects are selected for experiment not on the basis of extreme scores in the attribute being studied but on the scores of some correlated attribute , the same problem can arise . |
| 3 | The case of Timothy Evans , however , who had been hanged in 1950 after conviction for murder partly on the evidence of John Christie , also convicted and executed for murder three years later , had convinced him that mistakes could occur . |
| 4 | After arrival overhead on the initial approach , a turn directly towards the outbound leg of the let-down will only be made when the initial approach direction does not require a turn of more than 60° . |
| 5 | Brando as icon in On The Waterfront : a powerhouse performance , all passion and churning frustration |
| 6 | Not quite knowing what to expect other than that she wanted a new job , Jean turned up for work promptly on a cold , wet , Monday morning but found no one to let her in . |
| 7 | He concluded , ‘ The matter … falls for determination not on the basis of accuracy , validity , or acceptability of the scientific evidence or aspects of it , but simply upon its existence . ’ |
| 8 | Finally , it is worth dwelling briefly on the role that users play in the innovation process , and on the factors which seem to be associated with successful innovation , since these are considerations which help to determine whether joint R&D activities need to be coupled with joint marketing to be successful . |
| 9 | It might be argued that it is. but it is worth dwelling briefly on the insights which structuralist Marxist accounts contain . |
| 10 | He had then put the bottle of whisky out on the table , in the hope that after a couple of shots , Pat Milligan 's rage would abate , and they could talk instead about the Red Sox 's chances in next week 's match against the New York Giants . |
| 11 | bit of Araldite just on the end of the thread is |
| 12 | Fifty thousand pounds extra for the voluntary sector at a time when a recession , when so called but completely un care in the community is putting a tremendous burden of responsibility both on the voluntary sector and on we know what a good job the voluntary sector do in this city thousand pounds is a small proportion of the money that they are actually requesting from us . |
| 13 | The microwave chimed and she hauled a still half-frozen block of chilli out on a big plate ; she started breaking it up with a large wooden spoon . |
| 14 | I did two rabbit sculptures for an exhibition in Yorkshire made of cow much on a metal frame . |
| 15 | And they 're intervening of course here on the side of a revolt which is going against the grain of erm of certainly for Russia of course of er of of the attitudes of the eighteen erm er eighteen teens early eighteen twenties . |
| 16 | Raskolnikov has admitted to visiting the old woman on the first occasion but of course not on the second . |
| 17 | Of course not on the same scale , but there helping , supporting . |
| 18 | Our courts have refused to consider the validity of an Act of Parliament either on the ground that Parliament had no power to pass it or on the ground that the statute had been improperly passed . |
| 19 | Sergeant Morrison put his mug of tea down on the greasy bar and turned . |
| 20 | Out there is a whole world full of garbage and it gives me ulcers to throw one more shred of scum back on the heap . ’ |
| 21 | At the car plant in Kragujevac , 3,000 workers raised a loaf of bread halfmast on the pole where the national flag is usually flown . |
| 22 | You get a whole class of thirty-five people sat round absolutely mucking about , chucking books , ripping up books , everything like that , and the teacher stood out in front of the classroom writing a load of work down on the blackboard you ca n't really work . |
| 23 | ‘ You ca n't take one decision on a particular area of reform in isolation because everything relates to some other aspect , so we are carrying the study of the different components of reform forward on a broad front . ’ |
| 24 | I quickly exhaust my quota of courage out on the roads when seated on something flighty . |
| 25 | Also , they come of a class of person frequently on the move from household to household so a great deal of time was wasted by officials seeking to interview relatives who were in fact temporarily with other members of the family in another part of the country , where , of course , the authority I am representing has no jurisdiction . |
| 26 | the effects of high levels of inflation particularly on the costs of long-term capital projects ; |
| 27 | information , er , they did it on erm , one of the programmes they actually put a bucket of water actually on the equator , I do n't know if you saw it . |
| 28 | This spell may be used to freeze over an entire body of water anywhere on the battlefield , for example an entire river , a marsh , or a lake . |
| 29 | But he was the adult involved , after all , he thought , eating a piece of chocolate hard on a particular tooth to get rid of some bitter aspirin lodged in a broken stopping . |
| 30 | They squeezed into the little , bright cubicle and Keith put a piece of paper down on the shelf . |