Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction has centred rather on a search for goodness , most often by means of loving relationships ; Amis 's with a sense of decorum and indecorum — with social habits and rules made , altered and broken by the changing generations . |
| 2 | Traditionally , language teaching has concentrated only on the three levels of the formal language system — pronunciation , grammar , and vocabulary — and the way in which they function within the sentence , on the assumption that other aspects of communication will follow fairly automatically . |
| 3 | " Heinrich has to stand here on the deck while you drone on , said Tilda . |
| 4 | Violence has erupted again on an estate which has been plagued by joyriders . |
| 5 | The Inland Revenue has commented further on the tax treatment of ex gratia payments made on the termination of an office or employment , as set out in Statement of Practice SP 13/91 . |
| 6 | But the blanket screening has backfired badly on the Department of Defense in Dublin . |
| 7 | In view of the educational importance of explanation , it is surprising that so little research has focused directly on the development of children 's ability to give and understand explanations ; or on how children actually cope with explanations in the classroom . |
| 8 | He breathed a sigh of relief as he heard Corbett begin to play gently on the lute he always carried , a sign his master was content , reflecting on his own secret thoughts and not keeping a wary eye on him . |
| 9 | In addition , the elevator may overbalance so that the force needed to move forwards on the stick is abnormally high . |
| 10 | He was entitled to his moment of pride ; shooting had gone well on the set of The Viking — astonishingly well considering it had been done on a ludicrously small budget and with television crews much more accustomed to slapstick children 's shows than gritty drama . |
| 11 | Blood had congealed thickly on the end of the smashed fibula . |
| 12 | But Mrs. Pridmore had seized gratefully on a familiar name . |
| 13 | Other exposures such as the Swindon affair and the irregular payment to Graham Roberts have depended largely on the Press or dissident club officials . |
| 14 | These changes in society seem irreversible , especially when the household 's standard of living comes to depend more on the wife 's income in dual earner households ( 60 per cent of all households with two adults under retirement age in 1987 , compared with 52 per cent in 1973 ) . |
| 15 | Finally , exegesis of Keynes ' work has concentrated inordinately on the ‘ model ’ of the General Theory , to the exclusion of Keynes ' earlier economic ideas and also his epistemology . |
| 16 | In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company . |
| 17 | Since its inception in 1980 , the superfund has moved slowly on the country 's 11 000 dangerous dumps . |
| 18 | At one extreme was the suggestion that at least 40 weeks of the training period should be spent acquiring the necessary accounting skills ; at the other , that there should be no requirement to record accounting separately on the grounds that it was adequately covered within the auditing function . |
| 19 | For these reasons , the evaluators chose to focus specially on the Major Project . |
| 20 | Before 1970 , my research on general relativity had concentrated mainly on the question of whether or not there had been a big bang singularity . |
| 21 | The Crown Prince could recall how , the previous year , when Hindenburg and Ludendorff had stood seemingly on the very brink of a Russian collapse , Falkenhayn had terminated the immensely successful Gorlice offensive . |
| 22 | As the pre-gig DJ 's preference for tunes by the likes of Carter and Senseless Things attests , the Inspirals have stowed away on the bus reserved for hardworking merchants of no-nonsense , boys ' own indie-rock , and their new home seems to suit them . |
| 23 | One , the director of education has now got , and his staff , have now got to accept that they are no barriers to prevent moving forward on a linked , a form of linked centres . |
| 24 | Sadly she deceived herself : as the sanitary authorities became convinced that cholera was water-borne and could be checked by means more immediately effective than prayer , public attention became focussed more on the sanitary inspector than on the parson . |
| 25 | As with most artists who have become mythical personalities in the popular imagination , such attention has focused primarily on the anecdotal and tragic details of Kahlo 's admittedly fascinating life . |
| 26 | Attention has centred throughout on the releases of radioactive iodine and its subsequent ingestion over a wide area of Britain and Western Europe . |
| 27 | With a quick sigh of relief she saw Jill and other members of the emergency resuscitation team beginning to arrive breathlessly on the scene . |
| 28 | When joining an Airway try to do so on a track as close as possible to 90° to the centre line . |
| 29 | No one 's temper was improved when they learned that the Land Rover had parked right on the patch of ground they were going to plant things in . |
| 30 | Independent observers have published widely on the zones and their effects ( MacLeary and Lloyd , 1980 ; McDonald and Howick , 1982 ; Norcliffe and Hoare , 1982 ; Catalano , 1983 ; Talbot , 1988 ) . |