Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Win a GEM 2000S tank and REGAL cabinet BRACKISH WATER TANKS … and the fish for them ALL YOUR FISHKEEPING NEEDS ON SALE INSIDE UP AND COMING CATS New catfish and how to keep them TANK DECOR A buyers ' guide FREE ! |
| 2 | Dylan Thomas immortalised such machinery in Draper Mog Edwards ' soliloquy in Under Milk Wood : I have come to take you away to my emporium on the hill , where the change hums on wires . |
| 3 | Old style ‘ African hut ’ haystacks stood here and there , some with cloth covers on top , others with a single pole poking up through each ‘ roof ’ . |
| 4 | The early history was familiar to her from the memoir of the founder which stood in limp green leather covers on Gilbert Racy 's shelves at Betterhouse . |
| 5 | A second would be to ensure corrugated iron covers on doors and windows are better secured and quickly repaired if removed or damaged . |
| 6 | Residents on the Skerne Park estate , Darlington , say Durham County Council 's plans to reduce the speed limit and introduce speed humps on Lakeside would improve road safety . |
| 7 | OPTOELECTRONICS RESEARCH AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON , SOUTHAMPTON FOCUSSES ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS |
| 8 | The story focusses on Mario and Pedro , two kids who are having a tough time scraping together enough money to live on . |
| 9 | The story focusses on Mario and Pedro , two kids who are having a tough time scraping together enough money to live on . |
| 10 | This is because it explicitly focusses on areas that the organisation may have previously neglected , or because it challenges the organisation to rethink areas to which it had paid insufficient attention . |
| 11 | The review focusses on management structures , budgets and monitoring their use , securing value for money , and directing money to those hospitals which treat most patients . |
| 12 | Designed for use by church groups , community centres and parent teacher groups , Parenting in a TV Age is a parent education programme which focusses on issues of children and television . |
| 13 | Research then focusses on access to the public housing sector , in order to reveal whether the role of the state was less direct ( specifically aimed at the Caribbean population through the migration agency ) than indirect ( through the role of employers and the general involvement of the state in housing provision ) . |
| 14 | The work focusses on disability among the elderly , service provision for dependent elderly people and inequalities in health and illness . |
| 15 | There are three sub-series in the scheme : Sub-series One ( green covers ) focusses on language knowledge . |
| 16 | This programme of screenings focusses on films which explore areas of race and gender in a thought provoking way . |
| 17 | UNIX LABS BEATS ON JUDGE TO REVERSE HIS BERKELEY SOFTWARE DECISION |
| 18 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 19 | Soft cellulite : This shows up as the classic ‘ orange peel ’ dimples on stomach and thighs . |
| 20 | T. Nagel , ‘ Rawls on Justice ’ , Philosophical Review 82 ( 1973 ) 220 , reprinted in Reading Rawls , ed . |
| 21 | The hotels are rarely less than impeccable , be they five star or one , and the service , though short on warmth , overdoses on diligence . |
| 22 | There is no fire in the grate ; the King economizes on napkins by tucking the table cloth around his neck . |
| 23 | On route from Kilham to Lowthorpe , the heavy stone base of the cross fell off at Ruston Parva and embedded itself in the verge side there , from where it was rescued in recent years and now stands on Ruston Parva village green . |
| 24 | Today the Victoria and Albert Museum stands on part of the renowned Brompton Nursery run by the talented garden designers George London and Henry Wise . |
| 25 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |
| 26 | Now there are imbit information stands on level five where several catering points are available for lunch and er members of the audience can also attend four fringe meetings . |
| 27 | One of the earliest private guide-posts stands on Broadway Hill , in the Cotswolds , set up by Nathan Izod in 1669 . |
| 28 | Two feet of silver Christmas tree , ( stolen from the theatre ) , stands on top of the T.V. surrounded by cards . |
| 29 | And your Mum stands on top of an ice-cream stan , van saying ten P a lick ! |
| 30 | Religion stands on tip toe in our land |