Example sentences of "[verb] on [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a particular environment is located on such an Eh-pH diagram provides a useful indication of the nature of chemical reactions that are likely to occur . |
| 2 | Rayner Heppenstall , in The Connecting Door ( 1962 ) , establishes two different eras in which his characters exist simultaneously , and , in a later novel , Two Moons ( 1977 ) , concurrently sustains stories set in two different months , one appearing on all the left-hand pages of the novel , the other on the right . |
| 3 | Each member of the team in turn has to jump on all the lily leaves . |
| 4 | We report on all the differing views which will produce the only comprehensive strategy for the advance to socialism . |
| 5 | From the window ledge in the living room I saw men dressed in dark clothes and wearing dark hats knocking on all the doors in the street . |
| 6 | But Rhaw drew on all the leading German composers of the post-Isaac generation — Ludwig Senfl ( c. 1486–c. 1543 ) , Balthasar Resinarius ( Harzer ) ( C. 1485–1544 ) , Arnold von Bruck ( c. 1490–1554 ) , Sixt Dietrich ( c. 1493–1548 ) , Benedictus Ducis ( d. 1544 ) ( who is possibly the same man as Benedictus de Opitiis ) , Stephan Mahu ( c. 1485–c. 1541 ) — as well as the long dead Stoltzer and one Fleming , Lupus Hellinck . |
| 7 | Some models might seem particularly good value for money when you see the price tag , but end up being an expensive option once you 've added on all the ‘ optional extras ’ you need . |
| 8 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 9 | This country is not prepared to accept the gospel of despair in mass unemployment , which is returning on such a scale today . |
| 10 | My idea of prison was that it was somewhere where you were locked up and picked on all the time — that was my impression . |
| 11 | I mean , it 's , it 's , I really do feel on these tendency to come on all the reports , I think we want , I think we want to hear that jobs and wages will undoubtedly go up , it 's erm this is absolutely inevitable that wages will go up and rise in the situation . |
| 12 | They would not have responded on such a scale otherwise . |
| 13 | He told inmates at Pentonville Prison , London : ‘ I have never sat on such a hard chair in my life . ’ |
| 14 | Well think , if you concentrated on that a bit more instead of just doing it any where in the air you might get on a bit quicker . |
| 15 | For the most part , however , he concentrated on other issues-the defects of the Government 's ‘ safeguarding ’ policy , the need for a body to co-ordinate the economic activities of the state , the responsibility for the general strike and , above all , the danger of a drift to war . |
| 16 | The defendant may apply for directions as to whether any third person with a competing claim should be joined and if that third person fails to appear on such a successful application the court may deprive him of any right of action against the defendant . |
| 17 | In a poem designed on such a scale ( and this evidence of ‘ design ’ on such a scale from the first is astonishing ) it was obviously illegitimate to look , as Edmund Wilson did , for emotional or affective unity in each or any Canto in isolation . |
| 18 | Comfort tried on all the clothes and decided to wear the black suit . |
| 19 | They were able to work on all the routes allocated to that depôt , including 16/18 . |
| 20 | ‘ As the managing director of a large commercial organisation , I employ solicitors to work on all the legal issues arising from the operation of my business and to advise me about all the new developments in legislation and case law . ’ |
| 21 | The mixing of geographical information from different map scales and sources is a key aspect of GIS functionality , but it does raise the question as to what effects the combination of different levels of data uncertainty has on both the output maps and on the data derived from spatial query and analysis . |
| 22 | But he warned that recessionary trading conditions meant the company would not be able to pass on all the added costs arising from sterling 's devaluation last September . |
| 23 | How would the OED text be presented on such a proof : |
| 24 | This one area of the swing is obviously critical to the ball 's flight , because you will either capitalise on all the swing movements that have preceded this , or you may destroy all the good that went before . |
| 25 | Share prices slumped on all the major exchanges . |
| 26 | If I stay here any longer , I will choke on all the good humour . ’ |
| 27 | It 's interesting actually that it says on all the outsides of all the tapes Aston Business School so I 'd just like to say for the benefit of the tape recorder and the British National Corpus , this is where the Business School ends and this is where Psychology takes over . |
| 28 | Anyone recording or passing on such a comment is in danger now that records are open . |
| 29 | This basic categorical imperative bids me only act on such a maxim as I can will should become a universal law to which all rational agents conform their behaviour . |
| 30 | They can absorb the loss because of the interest they earn on all the other loans . |