Example sentences of "[verb] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they spend winter has hitherto been uncertain ; there is now strong evidence that most of the stock moves south in autumn and winter immediately under pack ice ( Marschall 1988 ) , where they browse on algae . |
| 2 | Good examples are angelfish species which browse on sponges in the wild and butterflyfish which feed on coral polyps . |
| 3 | The launch of the project at a sports fair in Southlands focussed on demonstrations , displays and competitions . |
| 4 | ‘ Families sleep on floors at relatives and friends . |
| 5 | This is one of those maverick ideas books that arrive out of nowhere and sleep on reviewers ' shelves until someone notices them . |
| 6 | It is to help them act on reasons which bind them . |
| 7 | A number of States made the declaration , commonly called ‘ the Article 23 reservation ’ that they would not act on requests for the pre-trial discovery of documents . |
| 8 | GOVERNMENT must act on quotas for suckler cows and breeding ewes which threaten the future of the landlord tenant system , the Scottish Landowners ' Federation claimed yesterday . |
| 9 | ‘ They ca n't act on maybes , Julie . |
| 10 | The report stated the firm had refused to take and act on instructions given by the council on timing or specification . |
| 11 | It is maintained that neither group of islands will lose out from this arrangement , even in emergencies , as there are deputies in both Kirkwall and Lerwick who can act on police reports . |
| 12 | Plaque bacteria will act on sugars to form acids which attack the tooth surface . |
| 13 | The social services team contracted to take and act on referrals within specified times ( the office would be manned between 9 am and 5 pm and referrals would be taken by a duty officer ; urgent referrals would be dealt with within two hours , non-urgent cases would be contacted within five working days ) . |
| 14 | There is therefore a need for restrictions on the actions that are permitted on objects that participate in trails . |
| 15 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 16 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 17 | The sale of council houses , as Malpass and Murie argue , ‘ reduces the housing opportunities of those who must rent — of those who can not buy on grounds of means , age and eligibility for borrowing — and who rely on becoming council tenants and on transfers and exchanges to satisfy their housing need . ’ |
| 18 | It has been suggested that there are three theoretical approaches to regimes binding erga omnes : they can be regarded as a special concept within the law of treaties constituting an exception to the res inter alios principle ; they can be justified on a public law basis whereby a group of States assume quasi-legislative competence to create a regulatory regime for a defined territory in the overall community interest ; or other processes such as recognition , acquiescence , estoppel , historic title , or the formation of customary international law can produce an erga omnes effect on treaties intended to have that effect . |
| 19 | There 's a full-size hovercraft held tipped on wires directly above us ; a virtually circular thing with a tiny cabin and a huge fluted central air-intake . |
| 20 | The procedure is exactly the same when you fly on instruments ; but without the external visual references . |
| 21 | Fly on wings of love in the air and to the skies , be exempt like the sun from all riding beasts … |
| 22 | With oil consumption contracting to one-third of energy requirements by the end of the century the main weight of meeting increased demand will fall on imports of gas and coal and the increase of indigenous energy production through nuclear power . |
| 23 | Since the majority of elderly people requiring help are women , then a great deal of the responsibility for looking after them will fall on women 's shoulders . |
| 24 | The blame would fall on others and you and your priory would be well rid of her . |
| 25 | The more inelastic is demand relative to supply , the more a tax will fall on purchasers as opposed to sellers . |
| 26 | The Langley girls hunt on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Mrs Langley will expect you then , and to stay a little longer than usual . |
| 27 | hesitate on things . |
| 28 | that hesitate on parapets so narrow |
| 29 | At present we are opening on Saturdays and Sundays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m . |
| 30 | Your article also reported that a record number of stores are opening on Sundays in the lead-up to Christmas . |