Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lighting , heating , ventilation have all been carried out on the most approved modern principles . |
| 2 | The immediate ‘ bone ’ offered to Mrs Castle was the phasing out of 1,000 pay beds , but that thereafter further pay beds would only be phased out on the direction of the newly established board , with a number of criteria required to justify the release of additional beds : the principal one being the establishment of an alternative source of private beds in the locality of change . |
| 3 | ‘ Lili Marlene ’ was constantly being moaned out on the radio , but when I was with my friends , the ones who had gramophones , we played American records which their parents had acquired years before the war . |
| 4 | The division of work between the private profession and the law centre has not been based entirely on the choice of clients in deciding which problems to bring in to the law centre . |
| 5 | Such public procurement or purchasing has in the past not been carried out on the basis of buying the cheapest and/or the best . |
| 6 | As you know , something 's wrong with the computerized route-finder on the Glory ; one 's already been found up on the hill . |
| 7 | No it 's it 's the one week which bridges the two erm months , but er er I will be , that we would normally be meeting again on the thirteenth of September , would n't we ? |
| 8 | It can not be supported purely on the basis of personal factors . |
| 9 | Steve Cauthen rode his 163rd winner of the season on My Lord at Leicester , where ten races attracted a crowd of less than 600 , and announced that he would not be riding again on the flat this season . |
| 10 | Material provisions whose adequacy can not be assessed objectively on the basis of actual experience either in the run up to completion or within a short period from completion ( so that it may not be reasonable to expect to obtain a retention from the vendors ) ; for example , pension provisions and reserves for goods supplied in previous years . |
| 11 | Future European arrangements can not be built simply on the promise that the Germans will now be ‘ European ’ , whatever that means , for the unification of that country creates problems which are more difficult to resolve . |
| 12 | An agreement on a method for choosing between perfectionist principles can not be ruled out on the grounds that the methods of evaluating different ideals are themselves subject to evaluative controversy . |
| 13 | The judge can not be faulted either on the course he took or on the decision he reached on the material before him . |
| 14 | These map programs take a fair bit of work , and can not be drawn up on the launching ship ; the sailors load a ready-made map into the missile , and tell it how to get to the initial way-point . |
| 15 | Moreover , when turning to that short period , the spotlight can not be focused exclusively on the drama of the last two years . |
| 16 | It is important to realize that a deal 's merits should not be judged solely on the size of the advance and the royalties being offered . |
| 17 | How important these compromises were and to what degree they were amplified by Freemantle or her editors and publishers can not be judged precisely on the evidence available . |
| 18 | In other words , in order to obtain an award of damages it is necessary to show a private law wrong ; damages can not be awarded simply on the basis that a governmental body has acted illegally . |
| 19 | Workers will not be allowed back on the out-of-service Vulcan II well in Conoco 's Vulcan field until the area is completely clear of gas . |
| 20 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 21 | ( ii ) County court staff should be again reminded of the urgency with which the documentation of contempt cases should be undertaken and of the need to comply strictly with the rules and that service of committal orders should always be made personally on the contemnor . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) Service of committal orders should always be made personally on the contemnor. ( 3 ) Either Form N111 should be resurrected and amended to include a reminder that there is a right to apply to purge a contempt or Form N79 should be revised to take account of the fact that the proceedings may begin with an arrest under a power of arrest attached to an injunction issued under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 . |
| 23 | A region is mediated in our everyday life in the form of various symbols , which are the same for all individuals in the one region , though the meanings associated with them will always be construed personally on the basis of the individual 's life situation and biography … though the regions of a society obtain their ultimate personal meanings in the practices of everyday life , these meanings can not be totally reduced to experiences that constitute everyday life , since a region bears with it institutionally mediated practices and relations , the most significant being the history of the region as a part of the spatial structure of the society in question . |
| 24 | The defendants admitted that they had both been drinking heavily on the night of the offences . |
| 25 | The Soviet Army , has also been getting in on the act . |
| 26 | Dublin 's notorious ticket touts have also been getting in on the act through Northern front men knowing there will be a market for the tickets at ten times the outlay . |
| 27 | Exploration has also been carried out on the ophiolite complexes of the Lizard , Ballantrae and Shetland where minor PGE enrichment has been discovered . |
| 28 | I had also been brought up on the story of the man who boasted that his ancestor had lost his leg at Waterloo , to which the response was ‘ Which platform ? ’ |
| 29 | Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings . |
| 30 | And you may also be held up on the A three six one at Wardington where there are some temporary traffic lights , that 's just north of Banbury . |