Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The chi square test was used to look for differences between tokens of the two word classes in two linguistic environments ; but decisions concerning the environments and the type of differences to be examined depended on a great deal of phonological , sociolinguistic and historical linguistic information . |
2 | Britain has reneged on a 1989 agreement to use Flue Gas Desulphurisation ( FGD ) equipment on at least 12,000 MW of power stations . |
3 | ‘ I always rated Pally at Ayresome Park , but there is no doubt he has blossomed on a bigger stage . |
4 | The company will also be estopped if the transferee has relied on a false statement in his transferor 's certificate that the transferor was the registered holder of the shares on the date stated in the certificate . |
5 | But as anyone who has sat on an equal opportunities working party will tell you , it is one thing to formulate policies and quite another to implement them . |
6 | Because of this , the National Retreat Movement has decided on a new form of membership — Parish Membership . |
7 | It leaves less to the discretion of the court and has decided on a maximum sentence of just five years . |
8 | An inquest has opened on a brilliant student found hanging in her room at an Oxford college . |
9 | An inquest has opened on a young girl , who it 's alleged was murdered by her father . |
10 | A TERRIER found decapitated on an unofficial dump could have been the victim of a dog fight , it has been claimed . |
11 | Over the past 12 years , Media Action has broadcast on a wide range of health issues . |
12 | BDO Binder Hamlyn ( phone 071–489 9000 ) has recently expanded its investment management service and has embarked on a joint venture with Matheson Investment managers to give a broader base and access to greater research and expertise . |
13 | WALLASEY-based same-day courier service Mercury Express has embarked on a national expansion . |
14 | English Nature , which advises the Government on wildlife issues , has embarked on an ambitious programme to restore endangered species . |
15 | The Community has agreed on a broad definition of the trap as : " a device designed to restrain or capture an animal by means of jaws which close tightly upon one or more of the animal 's limbs " . |
16 | This alone suggests that there is a serious danger of the European Community becoming based on an absurd paradox : that of internal free trade but external protectionism . |
17 | In attempting to deal with the observable and measurable aspects of leadership behaviour , and perhaps to simplify for normative purposes , leadership research has focused on a narrow set of styles — democratic , autocratic , and laissez-faire , for example . |
18 | But , despite the fact that it has capitalised on an unproven reputation ever since , it was not so much health which eventually transformed Brighton as royal patronage and high fashion in which the exercises of the spa served largely as a formal excuse for other , equally demanding , pleasures . |
19 | The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra . |
20 | The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra . |
21 | This applies even if one of you , unknown to the other , has gone on a mad spending spree . |
22 | Some replica coaches were also made and ‘ Iron Duke ’ has run on a temporary track in Hyde Park , at Didcot and on a short length of track at the National Railway Museum . |
23 | The noise and vibration team led by Bill Stubbs has worked on a diverse range of projects from planning permissions for private opencast coal mining companies to th study of noise from Hartlepool Rugby Club . |
24 | In an American context , E. D. Hirsch has remarked on a similar conflict of interest between students who want to know the basic meanings of texts , in their historical contexts , and junior academics who believe there are no basic meanings , only a multiplicity of interpretations . |
25 | The Ness Historical Society has focussed on a small group of six unemployed young people who have gone round the villages collecting tape recordings and photographs relating specifically to past modes of employment and to emigration . |
26 | The spread of the HIV virus has continued on a massive scale throughout the decade , to the point where fears of a global depopulation of Black Death proportions have come to seem more plausible . |
27 | It might be a company with financial problems but ITN has put on a glitzier show . |
28 | WORK has started on a major business and housing development in north Essex . |
29 | He has lived on a collective farm in Ukraine since 1945 but was flown back to France by a French television station . |
30 | However , he has insisted on a better system of debtor management with a proper analysis of debtor accounts and a tighter credit policy , has required full explanations of any discounted room rates or complimentaries and has introduced spot checks to compare the Housekeeper 's reports and Reception 's daily letting reports . |