Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [to-vb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reporting on his efforts to get the three opposition parties to agree on a common agenda , Mr Christie said he feared the argument that 75 per cent of Scots had voted for constitutional change at the last election lost validity without some unifying factor , enhancing the Tories ' claims of legitimacy . |
| 2 | In 1971 , while the war was still going on , a group of unarmed scientists and I risked our lives and crossed into the fighting zones to check on the environmental effects of the war . |
| 3 | The 23-year-old Tynesider , now recovered from a serious pelvic injury , came on as substitute against Ipswich Town on Tuesday night to lay on the second goal for record signing Don Goodman . |
| 4 | Applications are invited for a research assistant to work on a three-year SERC-funded programme based at Sheffield University . |
| 5 | I am aware that the association has provided a review paper to OFFER on the perceived barriers to the development of CHP , and the issues raised are primarily matters for OFFER . |
| 6 | Maria paused in the doorway , surveying her new colleagues and their partners , a handful of them local people but mainly men and women from all over the English-speaking world , because radio people had a gypsy tendency to move on every few years . |
| 7 | The new centre will enable the German aircraft makers to focus on a local German-run operation . |
| 8 | With no Lamb and no Gower I can see the chance for England 's batting enigma Graeme Hick to go on the senior tour , even if he has not been offered a winter retainer contract . |
| 9 | He emerged intact from a chastening first championship appearance in a Martlet sweater , taking the only Hampshire wicket to fall on a gruelling opening day and bowling more overs than anyone all told . |
| 10 | Braille notices , ramped access to at least one bus for inspection , tactile displays and a visit to the Heaton Park Tramway to ride on a preserved tram on the park 's reconstructed tramway will be available . |
| 11 | I used Winsor & Newton 's cadmium orange , cadmium yellow light , cadmium red light , permanent rose and dioxazine purple to lay on a flat basic pattern of colour over the shoes . |
| 12 | For example , many warewashers require very little product expertise to run on a day-to-day basis and can thus be operated by general kitchen staff , who are traditionally lower paid than skilled workers . |
| 13 | But this interpretation is challenged by the observation that a reminder treatment ( foot-shock administered in a different apparatus from that used to train the avoidance response ) will allow the avoidance response to appear on a subsequent retention test . |
| 14 | The US decision was the decisive factor in persuading the military-backed interim government and local business groups to agree on the same day to renewed negotiations with the Organization of American States ( OAS ) . |
| 15 | If the result was not one for Graham Turner to celebrate on the third anniversary of his takeover at Wolves , the manner of their performance should certainly cheer him on his 42nd birthday today . |
| 16 | But Airbus now no longer needs McDonnell Douglas to help build a bigger version of the A320 ; nor does the American company need Airbus wings to fit on a bigger version of its MD-Il . |
| 17 | Euromessage , which includes BT , Air Call , Radal Vodapage , Millicom , InterCity and Digital , has been awarded the UK licence to operate on a particular UHF singled out for the service . |
| 18 | This does not include the sales back-up staff but only refers to those who are active in the field , meeting customers fact to face on an organised and planned basis . |
| 19 | Surplus cattle were slaughtered in the autumn to enable the breeding stock to survive on the scarce winter rations . |
| 20 | This back scratching may include taking data directly from the banks computer , but more often it provides details of the bank 's systems , which makes it easier for the enquiry agent to embark on the well timed impersonation . |
| 21 | Does Mr know that the County Council 's officers are involved as part of a team led by the District Council to redevelop on a medium to long term basis the entire site . |
| 22 | This is used to display instructions to the Offline Operator about which media items to load on the available units during this particular run . |
| 23 | Finally , in the climax to episode five , the camera pans up the colonnades of Westminster Abbey to focus on the fully-grown alien monster , its fronds and tendrils twitching . |
| 24 | Such a split should clarify the distribution of costs and make it easier for competing train services to run on the same track . |
| 25 | The Union also elects student representatives to sit on the principal decision-making bodies of the University , the Council and Senate , and their major sub-committees . |
| 26 | The Union also elects student representatives to sit on the principal decision-making bodies of the University , the Council and Senate , and their major sub-committees . |
| 27 | It is rather implausibly said that Christian Doppler himself demonstrated his effect by hiring a brass band to play on an open railway truck as it rushed past his amazed audience . |
| 28 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of HP 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under the new agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |
| 29 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of Hewlett 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under yesterday 's agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |
| 30 | Deanne Petherbridge 's explosive imaginary architectonics emanate from this artist 's acute critical investigations into drawing as a genre and its media ; she brought her awareness of the new art history and gender studies to bear on a recent selection of works in pencil , charcoal , pen and ink , etc for a touring exhibition . |