Example sentences of "[adv] on [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Strevens ( in Altman 1979 ) points out ‘ In order to focus better on the learner we must also produce teachers of a calibre to do the focusing . ’ |
| 2 | The type of work offered will depend very much on the employer you train with . |
| 3 | PPC : The DOS field has a plethora of programs , both commercial and shareware , that will do quite nicely on the machine you have . |
| 4 | He breathed a sigh of relief as he heard Corbett begin to play gently on the lute he always carried , a sign his master was content , reflecting on his own secret thoughts and not keeping a wary eye on him . |
| 5 | Two halves rested gently on the bookcase I examined the inside of one half . |
| 6 | I mean obviously on the whole he ca n't guarantee what sort of priest we 're going to get , but the whole meeting was quite positive . |
| 7 | If you 're one of the millions of people who is constantly on a diet we had a shock for you earlier this year . |
| 8 | Their communities were generally established in remote locations far from possible government interference , so on the whole they were to one side of the main process of ingesting Siberia into the Russian state . |
| 9 | However , once you hand over your work to the framer , you can not always guarantee that the design will not have moved slightly , so on the whole it is probably best to use a cold-seal film at home , unless the item is extremely important and you want to achieve as professional a finish as possible . |
| 10 | I thought so on the day you stole Andrew 's horse ; I still think so . |
| 11 | In truth , he also wanted to get married and could not afford to do so on the salary he was receiving at the Yorkshire Institution — one of the worst paid in the country . |
| 12 | A murmur crossed the room like a wave when Blanche revealed she was seeking a man called Mr Kennedy , who had been due to meet Nicola Sharpe at nine o'clock on the night she was murdered . |
| 13 | ‘ He did not change for death till about four o'clock on the day he died . |
| 14 | At ten o'clock on the plate you 'll find Milano salami . |
| 15 | This means that you pay interest only on the amount you actually borrow and not the full amount of your limit if you do n't use it . |
| 16 | another one of these for you for tomorrow , oh god , rest of it , oh it 's only on the cloth it is dirty anyway |
| 17 | If you use only part of your agreed overdraft , you will pay interest only on the sum you have actually borrowed and not on the full amount agreed . |
| 18 | She had called it ‘ Death in the Buildings ’ , and had based it not only on the tragedy she had witnessed , but had also written of the temptation for young girls to make money by selling themselves than by working long hours for poor pay , and had followed that by writing of women 's disabilities in a world where care in childbirth was minimal , and how only the kindness of humane doctors made it possible for them to have any skilled treatment at all . |
| 19 | On this principle write all initial letters together on the day you receive instructions , or at the latest the following day . |
| 20 | But she was away on the day he struck out . |
| 21 | My father 's generation was not one accustomed to discussing and analysing in the way ours is and I believe the telling and retelling of this story was as close as my father ever came to reflecting critically on the profession he practised . |
| 22 | It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast . |
| 23 | Once you have decided which facts you have to face , and whittled down the possibilities according to space , family and pocket , you can decide much more easily on the feeling you would like to introduce . |
| 24 | Far above on the moor we could see some new machinery which meant that someone was working out the tailings for spar and barytes for the North Sea oil industry where they 're used in the drilling Processes . |
| 25 | He was hired anyway on the condition he spend two months studying English at Berlitz . |
| 26 | So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury . |
| 27 | But it 's just on the surface it 's not , it 's not the same as the other one . |
| 28 | And , as I was leaving , just on the off-chance I asked , ‘ Well , fine , Anastasiya Pavlovna , but how about these things ? ’ . |
| 29 | Tonight on the phone she was sounding down ; the washing machine had broken down and the cat was thought to have broken its hip . |
| 30 | A neighbour who did not give evidence at the trial of Lisa and Michelle Taylor has said she saw a girl resembling Alison , 21 , arrive home at 6pm on the night she was stabbed . |