Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CIE , the US-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility , and the International Organization of Consumer Unions , have all collaborated on many projects , and there are literally hundreds , perhaps thousands of transnational networks now monitoring the TNCs all over the world . |
| 2 | Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel . |
| 3 | A change of identity was also mooted in view of the fact that in BR livery the numbers and names were merely painted on these locomotives . |
| 4 | The fortification of staple foods with folic acid to prevent neural tube defects may be unwisely delayed on this account . |
| 5 | The reticence which had surrounded the subject for so long had suddenly collapsed on all sides . |
| 6 | The figures are better grouped on this version and the bull-woman is more in proportion . |
| 7 | Since its inception , this procedure has been fiercely attacked on many occasions , including The Black Report ( Townsend and Davidson , 1982 ) and The Health Divide ( Whitehead , 1987 ) for failing to take account of morbidity and of social deprivation ( see Mays and Bevan , 1987 , for a review of the vast literature generated by the debate on the use of the RAWP formula ) . |
| 8 | ( In fact , the corporation had been wrongly reported on this score and had issued no such edict at all . ) |
| 9 | In August and September the USA and the Soviet Union removed many of the travel restrictions hitherto imposed on each other 's diplomats . |
| 10 | However , I am bound to say that in my judgment Ex parte Handscomb was wrongly decided on that issue . |
| 11 | 233 was wrongly decided on this point . |
| 12 | Some authorities , notably Gilbert , maintained that most of the material was supplied by longshore drift and that the waves merely acted on this material : others , especially de Beaumont , considered that the material contained in the bar was eroded from the sea bed in front of the bar , as is shown in Fig. 8.18 . |
| 13 | All teachers were personally briefed on this procedure , which is designed to minimise underreporting of smoking behaviour . |
| 14 | When you consider that the event is only played on this side of the Atlantic once every four years I do n't think that the decision-makers at the BBC did the event justice , particularly with all the hype which went before it . |
| 15 | They realised that they would be diplomatically isolated on these issues in any representative convention of the Great Powers and regional Third World states . |
| 16 | Although caution is necessary with this identification ( p. 211 ) , recent excavations have certainly demonstrated an expansion of the industry in the early Roman period , apparently focused on either side of the River Salwarpe . |
| 17 | We continued with our three-man tent , a Phoenix Phor-3 , and I must say , the extra space was much appreciated on several occasions , not least on 6 August when it snowed all day and I thrashed Pete at cards . |
| 18 | The questionnaire survey , seminars , and interviews that have been carried out as part of the evaluation and monitoring exercise have all focused on this area . |
| 19 | She and her brothers had always found the idea of ancestral spirits appearing during the Cia ceremony an awesome prospect , but her sense of unease had been greatly heightened on this occasion by the fear of unknown punishments that seemed certain to follow the incident involving her baby gibbon at the governor 's palace . |
| 20 | I 'm still not too happy with the quality of the frets , although both frets and fingerboard are better finished on this guitar . |
| 21 | Handsome and articulate , a keen patriot , he was greatly liked on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 22 | Banbury School opened its doors on 1 September 1967 , but not very much changed on that day . |
| 23 | Partnership may turn out to have a relatively long life but are not formed on that expectation . |
| 24 | If I had not intervened on these pages to explain a few points this book ( or its opening section ) would be a gun aimed at my own temple . |
| 25 | I have already commented on this point . |
| 26 | The early industrial development of the USA largely depended on this kind of borrowing . |
| 27 | This implies that the vendor is representing itself as an insurer whereas the real claim is the full value of the damages suffered by the breach of contract ; ( d ) ensuring the purchaser acknowledges it has not relied on any representation other than those incorporated in the sale agreement and that it shall not have any right to rescind the sale agreement . |
| 28 | Although warranties may be implied by statute , not only may they be inadequate , but the vendor will want the purchaser to acknowledge it has not relied on any warranty , representation or undertaking unless expressly set out in the sale agreement . |
| 29 | So that 's just summarized on this diagram here , which is shown er for a squid axon , and I 've plotted here the equilibrium potential for sodium , which is relatively positive , here at mi at plus fifty millivolts , and the equilibrium potential for potassium which is held relatively negative . |
| 30 | Previous convictions : several as a juvenile for theft and taking without consent : conditionally discharged on each occasion . |