Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction has centred rather on a search for goodness , most often by means of loving relationships ; Amis 's with a sense of decorum and indecorum — with social habits and rules made , altered and broken by the changing generations . |
| 2 | Traditionally , language teaching has concentrated only on the three levels of the formal language system — pronunciation , grammar , and vocabulary — and the way in which they function within the sentence , on the assumption that other aspects of communication will follow fairly automatically . |
| 3 | Violence has erupted again on an estate which has been plagued by joyriders . |
| 4 | The Inland Revenue has commented further on the tax treatment of ex gratia payments made on the termination of an office or employment , as set out in Statement of Practice SP 13/91 . |
| 5 | But the blanket screening has backfired badly on the Department of Defense in Dublin . |
| 6 | In view of the educational importance of explanation , it is surprising that so little research has focused directly on the development of children 's ability to give and understand explanations ; or on how children actually cope with explanations in the classroom . |
| 7 | In addition , the elevator may overbalance so that the force needed to move forwards on the stick is abnormally high . |
| 8 | He was entitled to his moment of pride ; shooting had gone well on the set of The Viking — astonishingly well considering it had been done on a ludicrously small budget and with television crews much more accustomed to slapstick children 's shows than gritty drama . |
| 9 | Blood had congealed thickly on the end of the smashed fibula . |
| 10 | These changes in society seem irreversible , especially when the household 's standard of living comes to depend more on the wife 's income in dual earner households ( 60 per cent of all households with two adults under retirement age in 1987 , compared with 52 per cent in 1973 ) . |
| 11 | Finally , exegesis of Keynes ' work has concentrated inordinately on the ‘ model ’ of the General Theory , to the exclusion of Keynes ' earlier economic ideas and also his epistemology . |
| 12 | In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company . |
| 13 | Since its inception in 1980 , the superfund has moved slowly on the country 's 11 000 dangerous dumps . |
| 14 | At one extreme was the suggestion that at least 40 weeks of the training period should be spent acquiring the necessary accounting skills ; at the other , that there should be no requirement to record accounting separately on the grounds that it was adequately covered within the auditing function . |
| 15 | Before 1970 , my research on general relativity had concentrated mainly on the question of whether or not there had been a big bang singularity . |
| 16 | Sadly she deceived herself : as the sanitary authorities became convinced that cholera was water-borne and could be checked by means more immediately effective than prayer , public attention became focussed more on the sanitary inspector than on the parson . |
| 17 | As with most artists who have become mythical personalities in the popular imagination , such attention has focused primarily on the anecdotal and tragic details of Kahlo 's admittedly fascinating life . |
| 18 | Attention has centred throughout on the releases of radioactive iodine and its subsequent ingestion over a wide area of Britain and Western Europe . |
| 19 | With a quick sigh of relief she saw Jill and other members of the emergency resuscitation team beginning to arrive breathlessly on the scene . |
| 20 | When joining an Airway try to do so on a track as close as possible to 90° to the centre line . |
| 21 | Other costs amounted to £143 ( van hire £90 , petrol £48 , stamps £5 ) , so I 'm pleased to say that 94% of the money raised went directly on the mats themselves . |
| 22 | During 1912 , when numbers had reached 172 , it was decided that entry would have to be restricted for the next year , as " the Board of Education has commented adversely on the size of several of our classes and has refused to countenance it " . |
| 23 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 24 | I cast a third of the way across and then allowed the current to roll the tackle round until the bait came to rest just on the edge of the slack . |
| 25 | When his wife arrives to sit quietly on the end of the bed I tell her I 've been working her husband very hard . |
| 26 | When the last notes of the anthem had faded away on the moaning wind , Jinkwa shuffled forward . |
| 27 | The analysis of authority has concentrated exclusively on a one-to-one relation between an authority and a single person subject to it . |
| 28 | The new enlightenment 's assault on social democracy has focused particularly on the concept of ‘ dependency ’ . |
| 29 | Since the second world war , US foreign policy has rested largely on the identification of ‘ goodies ’ and ‘ baddies ’ , in the context of global superpower . |
| 30 | Mr Cook writing on that day states that measuring from the top of the overlying humus to the bones the depth was 173 cm and the greatest depth 190 cm , the position of the bones in the deposit was as follows : The trunk was supine north-west by south-east , the skull rested tilted forward on the ribs to north-west . |