Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Manners change , and the verdict must ultimately rest on the jury 's sense of what their own community would or should tolerate on environmental grounds at a particular moment in social history . |
| 2 | The United States , the Soviet Union and other leading member states , all adhered to 242 , disagreeing only over whether Israel should withdraw completely or could insist on minor border rectifications . |
| 3 | This month 's disk holds an impressive collection of DOS programs that should work on all PCs . |
| 4 | There , representatives of British manufacturers will try to overturn the government 's commitment , made only last month , to put the onus on the car firms to produce vehicles that could run on low octane petrol by 1990 at the latest . |
| 5 | It may be that a separate recogniser could be constructed that would concentrate on these sort of features , i.e. the shape of a word found from its ascending and descending characters . |
| 6 | The idea of a major exhibition that would focus on sixteenth-century Mannerist painting north of the Alps was first mooted at the Ludwig and Wallraf-Richartz Museums in 1985 . |
| 7 | These should have specialised sections that would agitate on different issues and among different sections of the population . |
| 8 | Soils can be improved by digging and adding manure or compost to give plants the lavish , freely drained , yet moisture-retentive conditions many relish , although there are many roses ( notably rugosas , species and old-fashioned kinds ) that will succeed on poor ground . |
| 9 | The most resilient part of the boxing business is the promotional side , and no doubt it will recover from the barrage of criticism that will pour on this contest . |
| 10 | How will it be possible to develop educational practices that will build on existing multicultural and antiracist initiatives , but move beyond them ? |
| 11 | Other elements of the grid , spaces for photographs and illustrations , page numbers and other items that will appear on each page can also be added at this stage . |
| 12 | This situation has more recently been reversed , and there is now a wide availability of reasonably priced expert system software that will function on low cost hardware . |
| 13 | But when questions of law do arise , their determination may be of the greatest importance because of the effect that will have on subsequent cases . |
| 14 | The initiative is part of a wider effort to facilitate the development of applications that will run on future generations of parallel architectures without loss of performance . |
| 15 | Sparc International is taking a leaf out of 88open 's book by trying to create a class of shrinkwrapped software that will run on all Sparc machines everywhere regardless of architectural distinctions . |
| 16 | To mark the momentous occasion the Procuratia di San Marco , the ecclesiastical authorities in charge , are preparing a year of celebrations that will begin on 25 April 1994 , the feast day of Saint Mark . |
| 17 | Children involved in preparing for meal-times will need to put out one mug for each child and may rely on one-to-one correspondence without counting . |
| 18 | The Scottish Basketball Association 's executive is to debate the matter on Saturday , 6 March , and may decide on further action . |
| 19 | In mania — technically referred to , unless extremely severe , as ‘ hypomania ’ — the individual is more than usually active , is distractible and talkative to the point where meaningful conversation is impossible , is expansive and grandiose in attitude with an inflated sense of self-importance , and may embark on reckless activities , such as unrealistic spending , gambling , or sexual indiscretions . |
| 20 | Often an introductory section mentions that the teacher may select and may concentrate on certain aspects in preference to others ; sometimes it gives an indication that regional variations in content may be acceptable in certain cases . |
| 21 | Training after a main event should be much less dynamic and should concentrate on improving technique in preparation for the next competition . |
| 22 | Phantasm will play direct from the Mega Disk and should run on most PCs . |
| 23 | It had expertise , powerful allies in the heavy-industry complex and could play on powerful emotions and fears within the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | The foreign intelligence operations were now to be conducted by a new and as yet unnamed state agency separate from the KGB ( although Primakov was also named first deputy chair of the KGB ) , and would concentrate on national security and on monitoring the international drugs trade and terrorism . |
| 25 | Modules in other academic courses — Such courses would be one module in duration and would concentrate on those aspects of EP of more direct relevance to the host subject . |
| 26 | This will involve the integration of research in different disciplinary fields , and will draw on existing work , such as the study of health beliefs , to establish a theoretical framework for the understandings of social perceptions of pain . |
| 27 | While there is no doubt that ROM can cause oxidative DNA damage leading to base changes , strand breaks , and enhanced expression of proto-oncogenes , and that oxidative stress can induce malignant transformation in cell culture , the relation between these observations and the development of malignancy in vivo is more complex and will depend on other factors such as the rate of damage , antioxidant defences , DNA repair mechanisms , and the necessity for multiple steps ( initiation , promotion , and progression ) . |
| 28 | These agents work on a commission basis and special rates and discounts are negotiated with the hotel groups and will depend on several factors : |
| 29 | Please note that the Office at Epsom will be closed from Monday 18th July and will re-open on 1st August . |
| 30 | They feed on crustaceans , molluscs , aquatic insects , live fish and will scavenge on dead fish . |