Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in March 1866 he offered eight to the town and the Local Government Board agreed to lay on free water . |
| 2 | In all these contexts there are high demands on individuals for effective and responsible behaviour , and it becomes crucial to know what precise effects sleep loss has had on normal functioning . |
| 3 | One is that women 's fear of rape by a stranger is inborn ; another is that crime reporting tends to focus on violent crime , particularly against women . ’ |
| 4 | For example , plasticity seems to depend on identifiable ion channels and catalytic molecules that activate or inhibit these channels . |
| 5 | Thousands of homes in the North-East had to rely on stored water for 40 hours after the pollution alert at Barnard Castle the discharge was traced to the vicinity of the Lartington Treatment Works , but its precise source has not been named . |
| 6 | The Israeli delegation wanted to concentrate on detailed discussion of the proposed Palestinian governing body ; the Palestinians insisted on discussion of overall concepts , rather than details . |
| 7 | The commission 's decision to allocate £1 million of its budget for hospital and community health services to support developments in primary care illustrates the imaginative approach now being adopted by managers who have broken free of a mind set concentrating on acute hospital services and have started to use their resources to respond to need and not demand . |
| 8 | Of late , the Laney range has focused on solid state technology to fuel its best-selling Linebacker range , resisting the current fetish for sticking a single valve into the preamp section in an attempt to provide the best of both worlds . |
| 9 | Although Jacqueline 's work has appeared on fine art posters and greetings cards , she maintains an integrity to her own working style . |
| 10 | Most serious work has focused on improving Pulse Code Modulation ( PCM ) — the basic method of breaking a waveform into discrete elements for digitisation — and on the transmission of the bit codes that measure the value of the wave form . |
| 11 | Much of the work has concentrated on verbal memory ( for words or passages of text ) and spatial memory ( for diagrams or pictures ) . |
| 12 | Harry Judge has commented on programmed learning that it : |
| 13 | Recent attention has focused on endoscopic injection with encouraging results . |
| 14 | The video for the smash hit Walking On Broken Glass — this week 's No. 9 , features stunning period costume — and hundreds of candles . |
| 15 | The ancilliary workers have accepted 9 per cent , the doctors 8 per cent and certainly my own union is at the moment balloting to decide on industrial action over the 6 ½ per cent offered to Medical Laboratory Scientific Officers . |
| 16 | The other has focused on organizational process , the management of technology . |
| 17 | The charity has to rely on public generosity and numerous fundraising ventures to fund the scheme locally . |
| 18 | He was good at them , linking all the stories together with more gum and spit , reintroducing the characters with , ‘ You know that bad bad man who was caught naked in the bathing hut ? ’ , as in a wild soap opera , until he knew that at the end of her day spent sucking on dusty brain juice , her maddening mouth would inevitably say , ‘ Hey , Changez , husband or whatever you are , do n't you know any more about that politician geezer that got thrown into jail ? ’ |
| 19 | Most students of the 1921–2 Famine have concentrated on foreign aid , the causes of the Famine , statistical evidence on mortality and disease rates , and the extent of crop failures . |
| 20 | However , some areas do not have plans ; some plans do not cover issues that arise in individual planning applications ; and much development control has to rely on unwritten policy and professional skill and judgement . |
| 21 | Obviously , the Maastricht mess has dogged this first year , so it is difficult to assess what impact , if any , the supposedly new caring Major and his cabinet have had on social policy . |
| 22 | Where an estimate of probability has to rely on human judgement and experience , this is called subjective probability , and is the most widely used in business situations . |
| 23 | By Thursday no Iraqi missile had fallen on Turkish soil , but the debris of a misfired Patriot anti-missile missile had , and air-raid sirens had gone off in Adana . |
| 24 | His future freedom depends on the political will to act ; the political will to act depends on public pressure ; yet there 's still a strange and deeply distasteful , unsympathetic undercurrent . |
| 25 | And while the bulk of public controversy has focused on Japanese investment , Britain plays by far the biggest role , accounting for 31 per cent of all foreign investment in the US , as much as the next two investors , the Dutch ( 14.9 per cent ) and the Japanese ( 16.1 per cent ) combined . |
| 26 | Steady improvement seems to depend on careful monitoring of what is going on by those involved combined with brief but efficient recording of what has been tried and tested . |
| 27 | Several palaeomagnetic studies in the Basin and Range province have focused on vertical axis rotation and on tilting of near-surface hanging wall rocks above master detachment faults . |
| 28 | There is enormous pressure to cut spending on social security , jobless benefits , public sector pay for five million workers , and on easing the council tax . |
| 29 | In the previous chapter it was pointed out that both classical and neoclassical criminology had already incorporated some principles that were to be fundamental to positivism : classical criminology had insisted on practical crime control rather than retributive desert as the aim of punishment , and neoclassicism had allowed for the principle at least of ‘ determinants ’ of crime . |
| 30 | And even in an area which is working well , Next Directory , the company failed to capitalise on strong demand , which lifted sales by 49 per cent , because it did not hold enough stock . |