Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank has decided to capitalise on short term difficulties by attempting to diminish staff terms and conditions . |
| 2 | Russian airline Aeroflot , which started its Stansted to St Petersburg twice-weekly flights on March 28 , has had to lay on extra flights for tomorrow . |
| 3 | The community has had to rely on occasional ferry trips in fine weather and flights on tiny Islander planes , operated by Loganair , for four years . |
| 4 | But because there is no legal requirement to deposit records ( as with books ) the institute has had to rely on voluntary donations over the years . |
| 5 | The nouveaux romanciers themselves have been reluctant to embrace the term , which has tended to occur on those occasions when parallels are bring drawn with novelists in other countries , as at the New York nouveau roman conference in 1982 which many of them attended and which also saw the participation of several leading American postmodernists . |
| 6 | In its first rôle , it has tended to concentrate on low-technology businesses which are managed with a close eye on reducing costs and generating cash . |
| 7 | Tit for Tat , of course , has played COOPERATE on this move , and so is landed with the Sucker 's payoff of 0 points . |
| 8 | When they were installed to start working on 24 October 1931 , the Company 's nine bogie cars and one or two Milnes four wheelers were then taken into store at the L.U.T 's Fulwell Depôt , never to turn a wheel in service again . |
| 9 | He has gone missing on previous occasions but he has always returned within a short time . |
| 10 | I noted what my right hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury ( Sir T. Raison ) said and it is interesting that , in reply , the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) has tried to sit on both sides of the fence on the difficult question of acquisitions and disposals . |
| 11 | Erich Fromm , who has continued to work on both lines of development together , as psychoanalysis should , has equally unfortunately dropped the death instincts , and at times the sexual instincts , out of his work . |
| 12 | Several thousand Estonians were reported to have demonstrated on 23 August , the date of the pact 's signature ; still larger numbers , between 7,000 and 10,000 , were reported to have demonstrated in Latvia ( where substantial demonstrations also occurred in June 1987 to commemorate those who had been deported from the republic by the Soviet authorities in 1941 ) . |
| 13 | In another incident up to 80 Croatian police officers and at least 35 civilians were reported to have died on 1 August in the village of Dalj in Slavonia . |
| 14 | He was reported to have acted on individual initiative , in expression of his radical Islamic sympathies . |
| 15 | Something similar has started appearing on British television , so if they have to be shown surely the details could be kept to a minimum and shown for the shortest possible time . |
| 16 | It has begun to dawn on some investors that Waste Management is set to finance its growth by acquisition through the issue of paper . |
| 17 | Though Alner has failed to finish on both occasions he has ridden Seven of Diamonds this season , the horse won at the two previous meetings on this afternoon 's course , when partnered by Malcolm Batters . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , as will be seen from both Precedent 1 and Precedent 2 , neither the buyer nor the seller has chosen to rely on this maxim . |
| 19 | While the debate has continued , women have felt compelled to work on both strategies , depending on their local situations and , of course , their own vocational preferences . |
| 20 | So I ca n't go away in the autumn now cos that 's just when everybody 's start you know raring to go and wanting to get started on next year 's programme . |
| 21 | Anthony had once seemed to want her badly , but that had hardly lasted even through their honeymoon , and he seemed to have seized on any excuse since Flavia 's death to avoid sharing her bed . |
| 22 | Three of the alleged assaults are said to have occurred on New Year 's Eve 1991 . |
| 23 | The coup de grace for this unrealistic man of reason attempting to rationalize came on 11 February . |
| 24 | Many patients said that they had had to avoid lying on one side ( not always the side of pain ) from the onset of their symptoms . |
| 25 | Germany 's principal problem at the outbreak of the war was to avoid having to fight on two fronts , east and west , at the same time . |
| 26 | And she was never going to get impaled on those stakes again . |
| 27 | Stem stitch which would be fine on cloth tends to get hidden on knitted fabric . |
| 28 | He wants full control of the club and yet he 's going to have to rely on other people . ’ |
| 29 | In contrast , Section 11 grants available since 1966 to some authorities to provide funding for the special needs of ethnic minority pupils , have tended to marginalize spending on black pupils . |
| 30 | Often this higher return corresponds to that which the holder would have expected to receive on non-convertible debt . |