Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] on [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 He places strong emphasis on empathy and optimism and less on the need to investigate the unconscious mind .
2 The whorls are arranged densely and alternately on the stem to form rosettes .
3 There was less emphasis on integration into a white-dominated society and more on the need to define a black " identity " based on black culture and black values .
4 The emphasis will be less on the mechanics of neutralisation and more on the means to exclude certain forms of involvement in Southeast Asia by outside powers .
5 Effective communication of the gospel depends not only upon a thorough understanding of the content of the message , but also on an ability to relate that message to the contemporary situation .
6 It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions .
7 And my mother , they were keeping six cows there after churning , old Jane made the butter and er taking it to erm Mrs from who used to buy my grandmother 's butter my my mother took her stock as well on the Thursday to market .
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