Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Target-oriented programmes tend to concentrate on a small number of permanent or semi-permanent methods ( sterilisation or IUD ) to minimise dropout rates . |
| 2 | It might be a company with financial problems but ITN has put on a glitzier show . |
| 3 | WALLASEY-based same-day courier service Mercury Express has embarked on a national expansion . |
| 4 | Pigs wandered here with bells slung round their necks to show they were the property of the Hospital of St Anthony and could n't be slaughtered Beadles armed with steel-pointed staffs dispersed fowl or curbed the yapping of fierce yellow-haired dogs , whilst bailiffs tried to move on a strange creature dressed like a magpie in black and white rags . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Over the past 12 years , Media Action has broadcast on a wide range of health issues . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Curiously I proceeded down this route and my eyes came to rest on a small , battered , but not unclean little building . |
| 9 | Yet she knew the answer , and the memory of his kiss burned with the exquisite mixture of pleasure and pain , wrenching her soul from its customary place , changing all things , so that her glance seemed to rest on a changed universe . |
| 10 | A blue-grey heron glided to rest on a pebbly strand , and a cormorant flew high overhead like a goose . |
| 11 | Football meant standing on a muddy pitch hoping the ball would n't come anywhere near me , so that I would n't be forced to tackle some vicious little boy who really cared who won the game . |
| 12 | The SJP lads had to rely on a topsy-turvy 6–21 , 21–8 , 22–20 victory for league stalwart John Wickers over Peter Hance to secure their share of the points from the last game of the evening . |
| 13 | The widely-scattered smoke-swirls from destroyed weapons and vehicles showed that the enemy had advanced on a broad front . |
| 14 | For Macpherson everything about the general run of American movies ‘ belonged to the 1910 period ’ when the industry had alighted on a certain type of narrative film as being most suitable for its mass audience . |
| 15 | As long as historical materialism no longer saw itself as involved in the objective crisis complex , as soon as it understood its critique exclusively as positive science and the dialectic objectively as the law of the world , then the ideological character of consciousness had to take on a metaphysical quality … . |
| 16 | In many respects the Glorious Revolution was a significant landmark : it did alter in certain ways the relationship between the Crown and Parliament , it did guarantee the legislative sovereignty of Parliament , it did establish some limited degree of religious toleration for Protestant Dissenters , and the fact that after 1689 Parliament came to meet on a regular basis each year did significantly alter the context in which politics operated . |
| 17 | Her willingness to talk verged on a compelling need and after all his previous attempts to gain her confidence , which had made little headway , he knew he must not let such an opportunity pass him by . |
| 18 | As industrial communities became established on a grander scale with second , third , and fourth generation residents , there was a need to express territoriality in new ways . |
| 19 | Rule-based parsers tend to work on a sentential basis which appears to be too much delay for users . |
| 20 | WORK has begun on a new , purpose-built shed at The Railway Age in Crewe , Cheshire 's newest and most innovative tourist destination . |
| 21 | Work has begun on a new £800,000 housing scheme for the elderly in Hartlepool . |
| 22 | Work has begun on a hard-hitting film about the Great Western Railway . |
| 23 | WORK has started on a major business and housing development in north Essex . |
| 24 | And on its site , work has started on a new multi purpose complex which is the latest phase in the revitalisation of the village . |
| 25 | And further expansion is on the cards as Sainsbury plans to embark on a similar programme of store opening in future years . |
| 26 | The wood panelling echoes slightly ; Lord Aldington 's counsel , Charles Gray QC , has a voice like a bumble-bee : a moment 's inattention and his even , well-modulated and comforting tones seem to embark on an erratic , heavy flight around the room . |
| 27 | Three days later , as the sun began to set on a cloudless horizon , we reached the ‘ comforts ’ of the highest permanent army outpost . |
| 28 | I had to use a lot of rudder to keep sailing on a straight course . |
| 29 | Earlier , on March 26 , boundary officials from the two countries had agreed on an early demarcation of the Sir Creek area in the Great Rann of Kutch . |
| 30 | When Camille had choked on an Aztec cuff-link , a sizeable piece of jewellery such as had then been fashionable , Constance 's mum had held her upside down by the ankles and banged her until she disgorged it , while Scarlet had knelt in the unutterable anguish of one about to be bereaved , determining to destroy herself without hesitation should Camille not survive the experience . |