Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the parser has only to decide on the syntactic structure that can be made from combining these different parts of speech . |
| 2 | The Chancellor fought hard to improve on the initial proposals put to ECOFIN , but he was fighting with one hand tied behind his back . |
| 3 | Gloucester city council meets tonight to decide on the fate of it 's controversial plans to raise council house rents by 45 per cent and to close Gloucester law centre . |
| 4 | High on Victoria Peak , it overlooked the city through a faint mist , the sun breaking through to gleam on the skyscrapers and the bay below . |
| 5 | The little boy went back to sit on the stairs with his seven brothers . |
| 6 | As of the end of March the Security Council had yet to agree on a further resolution to establish definitive ceasefire conditions . |
| 7 | In Wisconsin the Assembly agreed not to vote on an abortion measure , thereby killing a revised bill for the time being and allowing a stringent , but inoperable , law imposing criminal penalties for doctors performing abortions to remain in force . |
| 8 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 9 | Indeed , because the oceans are heated from above , and warm water expands and is less dense than cold water , the warm water tends simply to sit on the surface , unless otherwise disturbed . |
| 10 | Drivers who pass their test in Banbury in the next few months are being offered the chance to learn how to drive on the motorway . |
| 11 | And if some of the material in the book seems occasionally to verge on the utopian , it is worth reminding ourselves that , as Jan Montefiore says in Feminism and Poetry , ‘ the value of utopias is that they enable us to imagine possibilities of difference for the brute contingent world ’ . |
| 12 | The report went on to comment on the absence of objective criteria for setting health priorities and to emphasise the need for health service research to be multidisciplinary . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Such a dictionary is unlikely to appeal to a member of the general public wishing only to check on a word when solving a crossword or playing Scrabble . |
| 15 | These were lean times for Spain 's biggest heroes — Jorge Martinez suffered technical frustrations in the 125 series , Alex Criville took much of the year to get up to speed on a 250 , while Sito Pons and Juan Garriga never got near the front of a 500 GP . |
| 16 | If the opposing party refuses unreasonably to act on the interrogatories , they can be administered with leave , application to be made on notice in Form N 244 . |