Example sentences of "[verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It focussed on a number of different client groups and 28 projects set out to move about 900 people from hospital settings to community settings . |
| 2 | It requires a depth of human understanding , an ability to communicate on a one-to-one basis with different characters , and I do not believe that Frank can do this very well . |
| 3 | It was here they learnt to communicate on a more civilised basis than they were used to , |
| 4 | Thus deadlock can occur if and only if the environment offers to communicate on a set of channels disjoint from one of the sets represented by the |
| 5 | While non-verbal communication of the kinds described above have a powerful role in underlining , reinforcing or betraying our feelings and aspirations , the moment we try to communicate on a wider scale than inter-personal , we must look at other sign systems to convey meaning . |
| 6 | Central News followed their activities over Christmas- our cameras and microphones eavesdropping on a party conversation . |
| 7 | Central News followed their activities over Christmas- our cameras and microphones eavesdropping on a party conversation . |
| 8 | These products excel where text and graphics are to be mixed on a single page . |
| 9 | Conventional artwork for presentation graphics will be made up using typesetting , instant lettering or any of the other methods that allow text and graphics to be mixed on a page . |
| 10 | Sleep on a firm mattress — or , better still , a plank under the mattress . |
| 11 | Well that 's exactly what you 're doing when you sleep on a Sherpa Underblanket made from pure New Zealand Long Tufted lambswool . |
| 12 | His parents sleep on a setee in the living room . |
| 13 | A four-fold procedure could be used : first , the text should be read silently ; second , it should be re-told or described by the child to the teacher ; next the text should be read aloud , with the teacher marking miscues on a duplicate copy ; finally the text should be discussed in more detail with the teacher . |
| 14 | Dáil members would act on a decision of the hierarchy once that hierarchy had said the teaching of the church was at issue , providing of course that the area in question was a grey one , a new territory not previously covered by the generally accepted sacred-profane spheres . |
| 15 | There are machines which will act on a spoken command . |
| 16 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |
| 17 | The lie had a pronounced effect upon Lettice who immediately ventured on a small excursion into terror . |
| 18 | It is presumed to have taken place and been carried , for by the next Minutes in 1920 , caddies were certainly permitted on a Sunday . |
| 19 | At a conference in Stockholm in late September 1986 , nonetheless , a last-minute agreement was reached that each side should give the other advance warning of troop movements , and that on-site verification should be permitted on a limited basis for the first time . |
| 20 | But Geneva rules will apply , except in so far as fire and brimstone will be permitted on a strictly controlled basis . |
| 21 | Slosh on a bit of this , and that should do it . |
| 22 | ‘ Stella Maris , ’ he muttered against her hair , and jumped away like a fish leaping on a bank . |
| 23 | And the presidential election is not won on a first-past-the-post basis by simply tallying the votes for Bush , Clinton and Ross Perot across the country . |
| 24 | Just like the General Election , our awards are won on a first-past-the-post basis . |
| 25 | A Christmas stocking — no , a pair of red tights , actually — filled up to here with pound notes that we 'd won on a strawberry roan named Cordelia . |
| 26 | **Represents percentage of vote won on a proportional basis on individual party lists . |
| 27 | However , the Irishman countered well and with the scores at eight each the Dubliner eventually won on a count back of 30–28 . |
| 28 | It was , in fact , as if the football pools had been won on a massive international scale . |
| 29 | Any contracts won on an exclusive basis could affect the price at which it is offered for sale . |
| 30 | London gambled and won on an a free-running game by three tries to one — Dean Ryan , Andrew and O'Leary against Johnson , with Andrew and John Liley kicking the other points . |