Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the middle of the nineteenth century this has produced a persistent surplus of population in the countryside with a consequent depression of wage levels-Rural depopulation has rarely proceeded on a scale to compensate for the reduced demand for labour in rural areas and neither has the demand for labour in the countryside been adequately stimulated by the provision of sufficient alternative employment opportunities to agriculture . |
| 2 | It is true that this is likely to happen when a whole class has just embarked on a subject and may be thought ready to take Grade 1 all together . |
| 3 | For its part , Scottish Nuclear has also embarked on a programme to reduce the cost of electricity it produces for the Scottish power companies from 3.2p per unit last year to a target level of 2.5p to ensure the operation remains financially strong and profitable for whatever the future might hold . |
| 4 | Anyone who has been walking across grassland and has nearly trodden on a hare , will know what a shock it is when the animal suddenly leaps up and darts off . |
| 5 | The er , Business Grants Panel share has , has , has now met on a number of occasions , and the three results of its decisions are set in the report . |
| 6 | Malcolm Beavers , a former inspector , has now retired on a police pension after contracting an infection when he dived into a polluted stretch of the River Aire at Selby , North Yorkshire . |
| 7 | Mr Reilly has now embarked on a job which even the cynical Mr Darman should applaud . |
| 8 | The EC has now agreed on a minimum of 15% VAT for most goods , but reduced rates ( minimum 5% ) will be applied to some categories , such as books and transport . |
| 9 | It has n't passed on a penny to the landlord … and his tenancy agreement may not now be worth the paper it 's written on |
| 10 | We seem to have heard it all before , but EIT Group Plc , trading in whose shares has been suspended at 9.5 pence since February , told the Sunday Telegraph that it was close to an agreement with its bankers that would enable it to put together a refinancing package ; it says its relations with its own bank , Midland Bank Plc , are good , but that Barclays Bank Plc , which had a £2.8m loan out to Sintrom Plc when EIT bought the firm for £1.7m , reckons it has prior claim on a part of any new money coming into EIT . |
| 11 | Since finishing Juice , Dickerson has again worked on a Spike Lee movie , this time the Malcolm X biopic . |
| 12 | The ‘ son of super-group ’ has yet to settle on a name . |
| 13 | The line-up was impressive , featuring Pops Staples , literally the founding father of the gospel band the Staple Singers and who has recently embarked on a solo career at the tender age of 77 ! |
| 14 | As adjunct to its education policy the BDA has recently embarked on a youth policy for reasons spelt out in a resolution passed by the Rothesay Congress in 1986 : This Congress recognises that the future development of the deaf community requires the full participation of deaf children and young people . |
| 15 | The poison is seldom dangerous but anyone who has accidentally trodden on a sea-urchin while bathing knows how painful the swelling can be . |
| 16 | If , for example , your company uses PCs extensively but the obvious choice in software happens only to run on a Unix workstation then so long as the files can be transported between the two systems there is no penalty in selecting an ‘ alien ’ hardware platform . |
| 17 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 18 | In a game that 's becoming the ultimate team sport , rivalling American football in the search for statistical truths , Campese seems increasingly to operate on a track of his own , to his own individual creed . |
| 19 | The five-part Mass Fera Pessima — as its mutilated manuscript superscription should probably be read , though certain scholars have tried to dub it A Pessinuntia ( on account of its saturation in the dark Phrygian mode ) or even A Pestilentia ( speculatively linking it with an outbreak of plague in Stirling , where Carver might , or then again might not , have been living , in the 1940s ) — seems freely based on a plainsong of the Sarum rite derived from Chapter 37 of the Book of Genesis : ‘ Jacob … rent his garments . … |
| 20 | One must distinguish from the cases of the imaginary form where price does not rest on a value correlation . |
| 21 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 22 | Nor would the suggestion of a derivational link to a noun hold good for an associative use of young rather common in advertisements : ( 14 ) the young place to go young clothes the young thing to do Another thing to emphasize is that what we are considering does not depend on a change of sense in the adjective ; in some cases , certainly , the shift from ascription to association or vice versa may be accompanied by or compatible with such a lexical change ; but this may happen equally in cases of classical structural ambiguity , such as : ( 15 ) Charles will give a talk on the village green where two different senses of on are called upon , as one shifts from the one structure to the other . |
| 23 | It is not necessary for the plaintiff to owe the defendant a duty of care : Although contributory negligence does not depend on a duty of care , it does depend on foreseeability . |
| 24 | The idea that companies should be viewed as social enterprises does not depend on a theory specifically about the nature of the corporate form , but , as has been mentioned , on a theory about the circumstances in which power may legitimately be held . |
| 25 | As was stated at the beginning of the chapter , Christianity does not depend on a belief that Jesus worked miracles . |
| 26 | The discussion here will be confined to self-interested goals ; consideration of ‘ socially responsible ’ motives will be deferred until Chapter 9 , which will conclude that sacrificing profits for socially responsible ends does not occur on a scale sufficient to raise serious doubts about the commitment of managers to profitability ( or whatever other , self-interested goals may predominate ) . |
| 27 | Chatam remains reasonably treated on a 12lb higher mark than last year , he acts well on soft ground , is ideally suited by Newbury 's left-handed track , and the weight of ante-post money suggests he will be spot on for his reappearance . |
| 28 | It does n't depend on a pathologist or any oth other information . |
| 29 | The famous $18,000m black hole that Gartner Group so memorably spotted opening up in the heart of IBM 's business will suck the entire company into oblivion if it does n't embark on a crash programme to save the AS/400 . |
| 30 | It does n't work on a movie set . |