Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing turns on the statutory definition of those words : it is sufficient to note that from 1988 onwards , governors have been bound to admit a minimum specified number of applicants . |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone lives on a neighbourly basis with each other . |
| 3 | Because the rate of cycle I depends on the local concentration of SO 2 , it shows a maximum in the SO 2 cloud . |
| 4 | Well , I 'm really wanting to go to Birkdale , so I jumps on the last train out of St Andrews . |
| 5 | Carry on like this throughout the row until only one is left , which goes on the last needle , overlapping the one already on it . |
| 6 | This study which builds on a previous study of social class variations in surgical rates , focuses on women suffering from menorrhagia ( heavy bleeding ) — a common indication for hysterectomy . |
| 7 | The treble end of the check continues to be lifted , with the gap-spacer as a pivot , until the bass end , which rides on a vertical pin , is seated on the raised side of the action frame . ’ |
| 8 | It is part of the daily truck in street markets ; it the kind of thing which turns on the average car dealer ; it is part and parcel of many of the transactions carried out in the building trade and cash or at least early settlement means a better price for the retailer when negotiating with a manufacturer . |
| 9 | An important defensive position against the Turks was the fortress of Klis , which stands on an isolated pinnacle of rock overlooking the route which leads from Solin ( Salona ) to Sinj , in a gap between the Kozjak and Mosor mountains . |
| 10 | Therefore if calves grazed from early spring are given an anthelmintic treatment in early July and moved immediately to a second pasture such as silage or hay aftermath , the level of infection which develops on the second pasture will be low . |
| 11 | Nin , which lies on a sheltered bay 20 km north of Zadar , was the seat of the first Croatian bishopric and was under the authority of the Patriarch of Aquileia , which indicates that Christianity came to the Croats from the west . |
| 12 | On the basis of some remarkably weak clinical evidence he decided that the site of emotional experience was the cingulate gyrus , which lies on the medial surface of the hemispheres . |
| 13 | ‘ and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence ’ |
| 14 | The closer to AD ( which lies on the stable manifold of the origin ) a trajectory starts , the closer to one of the points R or L it will return ; R is the point where the right-hand branch of the unstable manifold of the origin first strikes the top face of B , and L is the equivalent point for the left-hand branch . |
| 15 | Excursions : Liechtenstein , the tiny principality which lies on the Austrian/Swiss border is not too far away and makes for a fascinating destination . |
| 16 | The reservoir is a grim and comfortless place , flanked to north and west by the exceedingly severe Pic de Néouvielle and Pic Long — the Pic Long , 10,480 feet high , being the highest summit the entirety of which lies on the French side of the frontier . |
| 17 | Its cars climb in 10 minutes to Braunwald ( 1,256m , 4,120ft ) , a traffic-free climatic resort , well equipped for both winter and summer sports , which lies on an extensive terrace-plateau beneath the slopes of the Eckstock and the Ortstock , facing south across the Linth valley to the Hausstock massif on the Grisons frontier . |
| 18 | Through several stages , the subject moves to an increasing degree of separation which allows on the one hand for the development of greater variability and specificity , and on the other hand for the development of abstraction . |
| 19 | The area of suggested centuriation lies well to the north of the town on Cliffe Marshes , and Nightingale even claimed that a plot measuring 2 by I actus ( =1 iugerum ) , which features on the 1840 tithe map and is still in the possession of a single owner , was a survivor of the Roman survey . |
| 20 | However , such polymorphism does not account for senescence itself , which depends on the mean life history , determined by maximization of fitness subject to what is possible . |
| 21 | ‘ The Government is railroading through a new contract which depends on the comprehensive computerisation of practices . |
| 22 | The division of labour is the division of expertise which depends on the shared assumption that almost all work needs special skills , that we do better to concentrate on our own skills , leaving others to their own , and that this arrangement is functional for the community . |
| 23 | a demand effect , which depends on the relative labour intensities : if the corporate sector is relatively labour-intensive , then a relative rise in its output implies an expansion of employment ; |
| 24 | The cause is a blood fluke , the Schistosoma mansoni , which depends on an aquatic snail as an intermediate host . |
| 25 | That is what is wrong with narcissistic chat shows which create , then devour , media personalities who have not achieved anything in the real world ; or politics coverage which concentrates on the intra-party power struggles rather than the world to which the party hopes to appeal . |
| 26 | Even work which concentrates on the social flexibility of gender relations , often ends up making biological determinants the core of its project . |
| 27 | That convergence is the concluding point of Animal Farm , which ends on a sudden vision of a resemblance , even an identity , between the warring representatives of two dictatorial orders : ‘ … already it was impossible to say which was which ’ . |
| 28 | There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) . |
| 29 | Caffeine is found in varying amounts in coffee ( and tea ) , and is a stimulant which acts on the nervous system . |
| 30 | The subjective estimate could be based on pure hunch and guesswork at the end of period t - 1 , but in order to introduce a degree of empirical testability into the model it is normally assumed that is arrived at by some policy rule which includes on the right-hand side only those variables whose magnitudes are known at the end of the period t - 1 . |