Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A student who is told to " make notes on the diplomatic arrangement that followed the Napoleonic Wars " may use these simple techniques to create the following structure : |
| 2 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
| 3 | However , following the success of The Addams Family , you might have to get used to seeing repeats on the big screen as well . |
| 4 | Her wet boots made footprints on the dusty floor and she still wore an apron over her black skirt , but she had a fine air about her . |
| 5 | By making copies of prehistoric stone implements and then using the copies to cut , scrape and chop different materials ( such as growing crops , bones and hides ) , the patterns of wear formed by these processes can be matched to wear patterns on the original artefacts . |
| 6 | This discourages mounting adhesive from oozing on to the lower surface of the preparation , where it would affect attachment on the lapping machine 's vacuum chucks . |
| 7 | Theodora really does make attempts on the Christian life , Julia thought . |
| 8 | ‘ Everyone made money on the immigrant worker — from the big-time capitalist to the slum landlord — from exploiting his colour , his customs , his culture . |
| 9 | We have been considering , in , groups of instructions to perform operations on the different data formats held within the computer . |
| 10 | But we do not claim that we have reached the ‘ vernacular ’ , or the most casual of possible styles , for any informant ( although some reports on our work have stated that we have ) : we merely claim that our data is rich and variable enough to enable us to classify styles on the stylistic continuum in an extremely well motivated way . |
| 11 | As well as producing data on the two sexes that is not directly comparable , this is surely simplistic , suggesting as it does that men do n't have intimate conversations ( and women do n't have large scale confrontations ) . |
| 12 | For example , one of us ( PH ) recently examined data on the relative size of the testes among primates . |
| 13 | Draft specifications for the new science qualifications have recently been sent to schools , colleges , employers , lead bodies , professional organisations , and others , with a questionnaire to gather feedback on the proposed design . |
| 14 | To provide the convection heat , air is drawn through a centrally placed fan on the interior back plate and pushed back into the cavity via all four edges of the plate for even heat distribution . |
| 15 | Naturally enough , they make demands on the National Health Service . |
| 16 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 17 | I got Toby on the second ring and explained Sally 's suggestion . |
| 18 | The electrical field also becomes confused if two fish using signals on the same frequency happen to meet , for one will interfere with the other . |
| 19 | Movement can be produced using silhouettes on the opaque screen . |
| 20 | Whereas the excavation of settlements can throw light on the useful activities of ancient societies , it is from burials not previously looted by treasure-seekers that archaeologists have recovered artefacts shaped by the finest craftsmen from the most precious substances , veritable trophies of the forces of emulation responsible for the rise of human civilizations . |
| 21 | But this principle on account of its very generality can not throw light on the above distinction , and as a result the concept of individuality remains ambiguous and obscure . |
| 22 | Indeed , it is perhaps not overly optimistic to think that the view of the relation between an event and its support put forward here may be applicable , mutatis mutandis , to the -ing form and may even throw light on the vexed question of gerund vs participle . |
| 23 | Less than ten minutes later , Ellwood was driving west on the elevated section , carving a path through the laggards and deadheads . |
| 24 | ‘ In the early Fifties , we all started setting up Resistance networks again , all over Europe , when it looked as if the Soviets were going to come west on the next train : , The Air Force was particularly interested : escape routes for aircrew and so on . |
| 25 | 5 ) The same issue contains info on the 1991 Road Traffic Act . |
| 26 | Nobody has responded more positively to Newcastle United 's desperate plight than the striker who drew blanks on the big stage with West Ham and huffed-and-puffed little more than powder puff stuff at Leicester . |
| 27 | A presidential candidate could win election on the first round only by gaining an absolute majority of the votes cast by at least one-quarter of registered voters ; otherwise the election would be decided by a second-round run-off between the two candidates with most votes . |
| 28 | The promising Belfast youngster has been gaining experience on the international front among the Federation Cup aspirants in Nottingham . |
| 29 | In the alley itself , Detective Gary Lomax had been keeping watch on the towering fire escape . |
| 30 | Options l and 2 would affect the concept of capital maintenance , and the argument would then include opinions on the relative merits of each . |