Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it is not one of the more imposing buildings for which public funds are more readily available , it has had to rely on the care and attention of those who live around it and they are among the poorer people of the city . |
| 2 | Ironside , who joined Boro for £40,000 in the close season , has agreed to return on a month 's loan . |
| 3 | The majority of research has tended to focus on the pattern recognition level , with the higher level processes being progressively of lesser interest . |
| 4 | As the term ‘ socialisation ’ suggests this research has tended to concentrate on the macro-level , emphasising the influence of the social structure on the individual . |
| 5 | THE president of Liss WI , Heather Gold , welcomed members to the recent meeting and announced that Jean Pay has volunteered to serve on the committee . |
| 6 | Improvements in certain allowances were made , described as divisive by the unions , but the company has refused to compromise on a reduction in the shorter working week . |
| 7 | British Rail Engineering has refused to comment on the award . |
| 8 | Carmen Callil said : ‘ I 've been working with Frances Coady since 1986 , when she joined Jonathan Cape , and one of the greatest pleasures of my working life has been to observe the publishing genius she has brought to beat on the creation of Vintage . |
| 9 | The local valuation office has declined to comment on the matter , although the Inland Revenue said mistakes were inevitable in such a huge valuation market . |
| 10 | Over the last two years , however , it can hardly have escaped your notice that a new software application called desktop publishing has begun to appear on the scene . |
| 11 | Over the millennia , nature has learnt to capitalise on the abundance of iron and its mild reactivity to perform many important biochemical reactions , these include oxygen transport , which depends on the iron maintaining its Fe(II) oxidation state , to bioredox catalysis ( for example in the production of metabolic energy ) where iron rapidly undergoes reversible oxidation state changes . |
| 12 | The horse has evolved to walk on the tip of the equivalent of the third finger in the human hand : the other ‘ fingers ’ have been lost in evolution . |
| 13 | Indeed , it appears that in terms of its expected percentage vote the Right has failed to capitalise on the electorate 's wish to punish the ruling Socialists . |
| 14 | Foster City , California-based Blyth Holdings Inc says that the Norwegian Police Force has chosen to standardise on the company 's Omnis Seven Plus Windows-based software on thousands of personal computers to be linked to unidentified Unix servers running the Ingres relational database management system . |
| 15 | There was another piece which asked the simple question : ‘ How far are you prepared to go to turn on a tap ? ’ which was an appeal for cash help to provide water supplies , any water supplies , in the Third World . |
| 16 | Am I going to have to live on the street when I get out ? |
| 17 | It was the sort of notice that one might have expected to read on a bus going from New York to Philadelphia . |
| 18 | They were absolutely not a disaster for women , obviously I would have preferred to stay on the shadow cabinet , but we have three women in the shadow cabinet , and we have a number of women in senior positions outside the shadow cabinet . |
| 19 | But as no one shareholder had control to sell , the Government was able to acquire control of the company 's assets for a fraction of their true value ( and for a fraction of what it would have had to pay on a take-over bid ) . |
| 20 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 21 | The surgeon may have refused to operate on the passenger because it was her own baby . |
| 22 | ‘ KISS ’ IS the record that made Prince unnecessary ; it contains everything that is great about him and after he had released it , he could quite easily have gone to live on the Moon and he would not have been missed . |
| 23 | He would have liked to stand on the roof of the train and leap along from car to car like one of the bad guys in that Western . |
| 24 | I should have liked to trample on the face of the first German I could find and kick him over and over again in the stomach . |
| 25 | Any-way in September 1990 I decided to further my career in Horticulture and started a college course full time at Houghall College , County Durham , which meant having to live on a Educational-grant My expenses weekly are £29 rent , bus fares to college £25 , HP £10 , electric £5 total £69 weekly this is without food . |
| 26 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 27 | I was asked if I wished my name to be withdrawn a second time but I declined , feeling it would be wrong to have to continue to rely on the goodwill and hospitality of friends in order to continue playing . |
| 28 | I do need to stay on the fairway , though . ’ |
| 29 | Indeed , Bethurum Loomis argued that Wulfstan 's disillusion with Æthelred , and perhaps with Cnut too , can be traced in his work , stressing that he modified his views on royal sanctity , seems not to have wished to rely on the king 's ability to keep public order , and eventually stated that bishops should direct all affairs , both lay and ecclesiastical . |
| 30 | Mike Gallagher of the corporate quality team has been seconded to EFQM to work on the award . |