Example sentences of "on [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | There followed lean years in a cottage in Sussex , ‘ living on nothing but spaghetti ’ while he perfected his newly-discovered skill . |
2 | It is by no means unheard of for a band to be offered a deal on nothing more than a ‘ concept ’ . |
3 | But a new note has surfaced , a note which points out that while philosophical scepticism may have nourished and stimulated the mind of Greeks trained in civic religious observances , it was not nourishing to modern minds trained on nothing at all . |
4 | Thus during the period of restrictions the contras grew , and occasionally even thrived , apparently on air : or on nothing more than the scattered largesse of rich Americans . |
5 | Nikos is , among other things , a barefoot waterski champion and does the most wonderful tricks flying through the water at 60 mph on nothing but the soles of his size 11 feet ! |
6 | It was conceded that where the attitude of respect is based on false assumptions and on nothing else , and where it does not cohere with the person 's other attitudes and beliefs , it can not be the foundation of authority . |
7 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
8 | Pigs often lie down and chew on nothing ; they may consume their food in ten minutes during the day . |
9 | There was an increase in the urban programme but on nothing like the scale he wanted . |
10 | Yet it is misleading to suggest that this means that legal authority depends on nothing more than the testator 's intention , whatever it may be . |
11 | Rose Shepherd goes on to argue that a first affair , usually based on attraction , leads to further affairs based on nothing more than boredom , loneliness , resentment , or the need for further boosting of confidence once the first extramarital partner has bowed out . |
12 | But on nothing has the culture of contentment been so successful as in shaping the accepted attitude toward the state . |
13 | A rationalism which imprisons in systems of means and ends , in which the ends are both disconnected from spontaneity and without rational foundations , resting on nothing , summons up irrationalism as its nemesis . |
14 | The busy ‘ factory ’ went on producing , running on nothing but aspiration , perseverance , and the passion for art . |
15 | It also incorporated a tiny iron-framed window with thick bubble-glass panes which opened and closed on nothing in particular . |
16 | That is , one side touched the ground and the other rested on the air , on nothing . |
17 | My legs felt as if they had gone to sleep : I trod painfully on nothing . |
18 | After the Helga Maria was finally towed into the remote Faroe Islands , a coastguard said : ‘ They were on nothing but a bottle drifting on the high seas . |
19 | It had come from Chessington Zoo and trodden on nothing but concrete all its life . |
20 | The Capellan was floating above the ground , standing on nothing , smiling . |
21 | He twisted in the air , coming round to face her again , drawing his legs up under him , lying back on nothing with his heels against his buttocks , his knees spread . |
22 | The generations of this century will , in their turn , hand on to the next generation the archaic unconscious problems , unless the guilt becomes too strong , the rebellion so great , the need to kill and be killed so overwhelming that we hand on nothing at all . |
23 | He 's an expert on nothing except how to make profit . |
24 | They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them . |
25 | Where great houses , from the middle ages into the seventeenth century , had been built to contain a single household in an ordered hierarchy beneath one roof , their classical counterparts in the eighteenth century and Regency became increasingly an expression of stratification into two quite distinct classes , though as yet on nothing like the scale of the grand Victorian house . |
26 | On this subject , if on nothing else , Christian and Mussulman agreed . |
27 | At dinner a military band played ; the governor 's wife was ‘ a very agreeable woman , with an uncommonly mild and sweet tone of voice ’ , and the governor told Johnson and Boswell that ‘ the Arabs could live for five days without victuals , and subsist for three weeks on nothing else but the blood of their camels , who could lose so much of it as would suffice for that time , without being exhausted . ’ |
28 | A younger , more graceful Norman Blake , Edwards , fuelled on nothing more potent than youthful enthusiasm , powers his way through the set . |
29 | The slots and slits in their visors were full of dust , their drooping gauntlets gripped on nothing at all . |
30 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |