Example sentences of "[verb] on [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gurney 's poems celebrate his love of the Gloucestershire countryside with the same unsentimental vigour as they report on the realities of trench warfare and chart his gradual descent into madness . |
| 2 | Trapped on the edges of desire . |
| 3 | There are professional carers as well of course , who are paid to care for other people , but this discussion is probably going to concentrate on the problems of home carers . |
| 4 | The economic recession of the late 1970s has meant not only that government funds have become even more scarce for such policies but also that government and public concern has shifted away from issues of inequality to concentrate on the problems of productivity and economic growth . |
| 5 | These may also be responsible for the associated climatic phenomena and may be blamed on the effects of plate tectonics with the rise and fall of mid-ocean ridges and the displacement of water by the piling up and erosion of new orogenic belts . |
| 6 | In 1974 , D. J. de Solla price reported on the results of X-ray and gamma-ray radiography of the corroded remains of this bronze mechanism and concluded that it was a calendrical computing device . |
| 7 | There were only three episodes of acid gastro-oesophageal reflux without associated oesophageal distention , too few to allow us to comment on the effects of acidification alone . |
| 8 | Others squat on the branches of forest trees with their roots dangling beneath them in the humid air . |
| 9 | This research project will concentrate on the effects of cluster involvement on the implementation of National Curriculum mathematics , science and geography at year 3 . |
| 10 | Nanotechnology This conference organised by the National Physical Laboratory , will focus on the applications of nanotechnology in medicine and biosciences . |
| 11 | Identification of a second PLC- β complementary DNA ( PLC- β2 ) in an HL-60 cell cDNA library prompted us to investigate the effect of purified G protein βγ subunits on the activities of PLC- β1 and PLC- β2 transiently expressed in cultured mammalian cells . |
| 12 | The effect of purified G protein βγ subunits on the activities of PLC- β1 and PLC- β2 expressed in COS-1 cells was determined using hydrophilic , detergent-free βγ subunits of retinal transducin ( βγ t ) ( Table 1 ) . |
| 13 | " A woman worker " wrote to the Despatch in late August , claiming that " persistent attempts are being made by the men to work on the motives of selfishness and self-interest of the women " . |
| 14 | Trivers ( 1985 ) , R. Dawkins ( 1976 ) and Maynard Smith ( 1978 ) can be recommended on the grounds of importance , clarity , or both ; the collection edited by Bateson ( 1983 ) is useful . |
| 15 | With the first instance , we touch on the mysteries of death ; we should be careful not to make too much of the Great Mother as a goddess of birth and death ; she is not the originator of these but rather the one who shapes the coming and guides the going of each life . |
| 16 | It is often seen scavenging along the edge of the pack and regularly follows polar bears to feed on the remains of seal kills . |
| 17 | Finally we come to three speakers representing groups which have been active in researching and lobbying on the issues of employment , unemployment and training in West Belfast . |
| 18 | Much debate has centred round the relative significance of these interacting factors , and how they may apply to related baboons such as drills which range on the floors of rain forests . |
| 19 | And the supermarket Jacques had mentioned was sited on the outskirts of town , she discovered . |
| 20 | it 's five to it says on the bits of paper |
| 21 | Tan , one Gloria Greaves was charged with living on the earnings of prostitution contrary to section 30 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 . |
| 22 | The second section of the Bill enacted other parts of the Wolfenden proposals by increasing the penalties liable for offences under the new law , such as loitering , soliciting , keeping or managing a brothel , or living on the earnings of prostitution , etc . |
| 23 | This is seen , for instance , in the denial to prostitutes of ‘ normal ’ family relations through the existence and increased harshness of the offence of living on the earnings of prostitution , which effectively stops them from living with a partner . |
| 24 | Election Comment : Living on the margins of error The Pollsters |
| 25 | In a rapidly changing society , with many people living on the margins of subsistence , such support was limited in cost and likely to bring benefits to the giver in return . |
| 26 | Families whose incomes are not more than 40 per cent above the sb level are often considered to be ‘ living on the margins of poverty ’ ; in 1985 , seven in ten of all one parent families had incomes below this level compared with two out of ten two parent families . |
| 27 | Parken v Whitby ( 1823 ) Turn & R 367 is sometimes cited for the proposition that the court will not specifically enforce an agreement where the court believes that the price settled by valuers is considerably below the true value of the property ; but the case was decided on the grounds of illegality . |
| 28 | The TV items are being selected on the criteria of level of interest and validity as examples of authentic spoken English ie. we tend to go for ordinary people speaking to camera rather than voice over or straight presentation to camera . |
| 29 | Probably more management books have been written on the problems of planning , or strategic direction , or strategic analysis , or competitive advantage and how to assess it , than on any other subject . |
| 30 | Where solicitors are acting , the following or similar wording should appear on the particulars of claim below their signature : " AB ( & Co ) of … [ address ] solicitor(s) for the plaintiff , who at this address will accept service of all documents on his behalf " . |