Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A silver coin rang tunefully on the scored wood of the little table . |
| 2 | Weight loss depended entirely on the calories we did n't eat . |
| 3 | Before the fascinating high-fibre research findings it was assumed that weight loss depended entirely on the number of calories consumed compared with the number expended by the body . |
| 4 | Dating back to the late 1960s when the announcement of the Wilson government Urban Aid programme followed swiftly on the heels of Enoch Powell 's predictions of rivers of blood flowing through British cities as a result of racial conflict , there has regularly been a connection between the fear of ( racially based ) civil unrest and the implementation of high profile symbolic palliatives for inner city malaise ( Sills , Taylor and Golding , 1988 ; Solomos , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | The importance of this group in any one organisation 's casual labour force depends largely on the state of the local labour market . |
| 6 | 6 The quality of design , production and maintenance work depends critically on a number of factors which are under direct control of project managers . |
| 7 | An electric fan heater thrummed away on the floor next to the table while the two bars of the electric fire in the hearth burned like red-hot pokers . |
| 8 | Until the last couple of decades , the understanding of horse behaviour depended more on the insight of sympathetic and thoughtful trainers than on scientific knowledge . |
| 9 | Any changes to a style ( possibly to an ancestor style held centrally on the network ) will permeate to all other styles inheriting from this style . |
| 10 | Injuries and sickness wiped out half the regular first team early in the season , and the goal-scoring burden fell disproportionately on the left-wing triangle of half-back Watson , Stephenson ( now captain ) and Smith . |
| 11 | After the artificial light in the interview-room , the late afternoon sun shining directly on the entrance to the police station was like a physical blow to the eyes that tapped a gush of protective tears . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the level of community charge or council tax depends partly on the efficiency of the local council and partly on the proportion of local government spending which is required to be raised by local taxation ? |
| 13 | The effect of hit rate depends also on the pattern of hits . |
| 14 | This GLEB report focused mainly on the manufacturing aspect of the independent sector and recommended the setting up of a modern plant to make records for the smaller companies . |
| 15 | The director of a company paying Schedule E income tax does so on a current year basis under the PAYE system . |
| 16 | The nature of the code ( that is , for example , that GGC codes for glycine ) depends entirely on which anticodon and which attachment site occur together on a tRNA molecule . |
| 17 | There are usually three rugose arm spines from the first tentacle pore situated ventrally on the arm ; their position corresponding with the bands of hooks . |
| 18 | A range of critics ( including Coate , 1983 ; Hamel and Prahalad , 1985 ; Porter , 1985 ; Naylor , 1982 , 1986 ; Prahalad and Doz , 1987 ) have emphasized that the validity of the portfolio-matrix approach depends fundamentally on the existence of SBUs which have little or no interdependence in a corporate group 's portfolio . |
| 19 | Below : An alternative signals configuration in which the display is split between the view-finder and a separate LCD panel mounted elsewhere on the camcorder body . |
| 20 | This cost should be off-set by the savings , estimated at £450m in the years to 1996 ( it should be remembered that the current single market arrangements are intended to be replaced by a tax system based purely on the country of origin , to be introduced in 1997 , subject to the unanimous agreement of EC member states ) . |
| 21 | It results in a tendency for water level to rise both on the North Sea and English Channel ends of the Straits of Dover thus preventing the water escaping in either direction . |
| 22 | As a service organisation , The Catering Guild depends entirely on the quality of its staff to maintain its own high ideals and , to help them recruit the very best people , it offers attractive terms and conditions — higher than the average rates of pay , Christmas bonuses , paid holiday from year one and superb training . |
| 23 | The bicycle basket sagged heavily on the front mudguard . |
| 24 | I accept that the sophisticated application of integrated pollution control depends crucially on a good and effective inspectorate . ’ |
| 25 | This is because night vision relies mainly on the monochrome rods instead of the centrally placed colour-coded cones . |
| 26 | perceptions of newspaper bias depended more on the partisanship of the paper being read than on the partisanship of the reader who read it . |
| 27 | But Daedalus remembers that microwave heating acts specifically on the water in a sample ( because of the high dielectric-loss factor of water ) . |
| 28 | A price list drooped listlessly on the back wall , the letters and numbers formed from rectangles of clear plastic slid into horizontal grooves . |
| 29 | The following year , on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Income Tax ( 1920 ) , the child allowance was increased to £30 and the income limit removed altogether on the grounds that ‘ in all ranges of income some regard should be had to the taxpayers marital and family responsibilities ’ … and that ‘ rates of tax should be so adjusted that the taxation to be borne by each class should be redistributed among the individual taxpayers in that class with due recognition of family obligations ’ ( Section VIII ) . |
| 30 | The morning sun touched lightly on the eyes of Laura Lynch . |