Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter has concentrated on the challenges of bureau work . |
| 2 | B. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution , about 200 years ago , the way most of the people in Northern Ireland make their living has depended on the links that business managers and factory owners have made with the mainland , especially with Scotland and England . |
| 3 | Most research has focused on the effects of aerobic exercise such as running and swimming , with the conclusion that low intensity aerobic exercise during low risk pregnancy is safe . |
| 4 | Much research has focused on the messages coming from plasmid DNA which somehow codes for new versions of DHFR , subtle altered in shape ( stereochemistry ) , to prevent the TMP performing its task of inhibiting the active site . |
| 5 | Much recent research has focused on the degrees of co-operation and collusion between the mass media and those with the power to impress their own definitions of the world onto the practices of news organizations . |
| 6 | According to reports , the investigation has centred on the activities of the cult at an address in north London and more recently at a manor house at Lutterworth , Leics . |
| 7 | So far as the production of documents is concerned much attention has focussed on the words ‘ particular documents specified in the order ’ . |
| 8 | Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change . |
| 9 | A vacancy has arisen on the Women Chemists Committee , the role of which is to raise the profile of women in chemistry by : |
| 10 | A new hill painting to rival the famous White Horse on the Ridgeway has appeared on the Downs near Oxfordshire . |
| 11 | Much of the critical attention paid to its implications for special education has centred on the procedures by which children can be excluded from the ‘ common entitlement ’ through the disapplications and modifications permitted by the Act ( Norwich 1989 , Tomlinson 1990 ) . |
| 12 | Indeed , there is a sense in which most of the working genes in a body can be said to cooperate with each other as a team , because over evolutionary time they ( i.e. ancestral copies of themselves ) have each been part of the environment in which natural selection has worked on the others . |
| 13 | If a landlord has distrained on the goods of the bankrupt in the three month period before the bankruptcy order , the proceeds of that distraint are charged for the benefit of the bankrupt 's estate with the preferential debts to the extent that the estate is not sufficient to meet them ( s347(3) ) . |
| 14 | AI has called on the authorities to initiate an independent inquiry into the incident and to bring those responsible for extrajudicial executions to justice . |
| 15 | Related research in this area has focussed on the views of information systems managers only , and generally , has not taken into account the views of a range of managers . |
| 16 | At first , it is internal , just checking to see that the code to make two and two add up to four gets the right answer , but as more flesh gets put on the bones of the program , and it begins to look more like a real product , the first of the heavy testing stages starts . |
| 17 | Published today the book has arrived on the shelves of Gloucester shops . |
| 18 | Pleased with the way dust has settled on the sieves . |
| 19 | Some of the fiercest controversy about the pressure on land has focused on the issues of housing and housing land shortages in the south which have accompanied the economic boom in the region and social changes leading to an increasing number of households . |
| 20 | Generally speaking , psychology has concentrated on the processes involved in dealing with verbal data as it arrives in the individual . |
| 21 | Recent research in the sociology of technology has focused on the factors that determine crucial design choices : in the sociology of science , the role of instrumentation in shaping the development of science is being stressed . |
| 22 | Of the six occasions when the government 's continuation in office has depended on the votes of an opposition party , five have lasted less than 30 months . |
| 23 | Most of the evidence about whether industrialism raised or diminished the living standards of the working class has centred on the wages and prices prevalent at different periods , data which is patchy and hard to interpret . |