Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] on the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
| 2 | The public has to rely on the media but some presentations seem to be made more for dramatic effect than to provide unbiased information . |
| 3 | I hope this will cut down on the time your typesetter has to spend on the job and , therefore , on the final cost . |
| 4 | The researcher goes out looking for respondents who conform to the quota requirements , either by knocking on doors or by asking people in the street to participate : it must be stressed that the point is not to interview everyone who happens to live on the street or who happens to pass by , but only those who conform to the quota controls and in the proportions specified . |
| 5 | and they 're doing it again and again and again , it suits them , it suits the ones that are really rich to have ordinary people struggling like that and it suits them not to have that two hundred pounds a week going in to help those people and they 're the people who it suits who will decide whether that two hundred pounds a week goes to help on the mortgage or put them into what is it , a bed and , a bed and breakfast ? |
| 6 | Whereas the disorder associated with violent demonstrations , riots or industrial confrontation tends to focus on the defence or assertion of ‘ rights ’ which are perceived as being violated or denied , football hooliganism is an issueless form of activity , pursued primarily for pleasure and excitement , and to achieve the status and respect of one 's peers . |
| 7 | Humanist psychology , although it is interested in unconscious phenomena , tends to focus on the mechanisms and structures which psychoanalysis proposes , making the unconscious rational , and usurping psychoanalytic insights for itself . |
| 8 | These are often run by university extra-mural departments as evening classes ( although daytime courses are held in some areas ) , and the range of courses on offer tends to depend on the lecturers that are available — introductory and basic courses are popular and are quite frequently held . |
| 9 | Accepting without question his uncle 's explanation that , as captain , he can not be too directly concerned with the minutiae of shipboard life , the boy eagerly agrees to spy on the seamen and find out their weaknesses and their delinquencies . |
| 10 | Arrangements were also made for two firemen to take it in turns to sleep on the premises and instructions were given to these men to go all round the shops after the Works are closed and ‘ inspect every hole and corner to see if there is any sign of fire and afterwards to sleep on the premises so as to be ready in case of accident ’ . |
| 11 | Even at first sight the connotations of this expression are distinct , for it seems to rest on the assumption that in other circumstances the addressee would actually be entitled to more . |
| 12 | The distinction between public law and private law interests seems to rest on the assumption that the latter are in some way more important and more worthy of protection than the former . |
| 13 | And so erm we did n't wan na put them off and I like to be here because erm Bob likes to go on the Moor as well , so we shall go out on the Moor with the dog a couple of times |
| 14 | I urge the Secretary of State to say why , when business person after business person tells him , ’ Of course , we must have a single European currency , ’ he continues to insist on the opt-out that is so unrealistic and damaging to British industry ? |
| 15 | In particular , he fails to comment on the fact that eighty-five per cent of the seven-year-olds passed item ( 1 ) — a fact which suggests that even younger children might have been capable of passing this item , especially if it had been presented in an oral rather than a written form . |