Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This causes further tension if disgruntled clients vent their anger on the advice worker . |
| 2 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 3 | Even Wilbye did not disdain specific Italian models ; his ‘ Lady , your words do spite me ’ takes off from Ferrabosco 's ‘ Donna se voi m'odiate ’ which had appeared in Musica Transalpina as ‘ Lady , if you so spite me ’ : and once more the English monosyllables leave their stamp on the music . |
| 4 | Intermittent war rages across Ulthuan once more as the Dark Elves consolidate their hold on the northern lands . |
| 5 | The reformers argue their case on the assumption that voting behaviour experienced under the current mode of election would most likely continue under a new mode : this is , as Geoffrey Alderman has pointed out , a most unlikely hypothesis . |
| 6 | Both these underminings have their impact on the life of reason , and how we view it . |
| 7 | Some individualists defend their view on the grounds that it not only provides simpler , more detailed and more perspicuous explanations than its rival , but that it is also morally superior to holism . |
| 8 | In the United Kingdom , users and providers focus their attention on the spending departments in Whitehall . |
| 9 | Liberal theories centre their attention on the almost free-floating power of the Commons , whereas liberal-democratic accounts by-pass the significance of the Commons in order to place a twin emphasis on the government ( the Cabinet and the Prime Minister ) and the people in special relationship each to the other . |
| 10 | The problem with environmental legislation of every kind is that , while we all applaud the intentions , we know automatically that the large-scale offenders have their own scientists , barristers , public-relations campaigns and representation in the House of Lords , that government inspectorates are hopelessly understaffed , and that consequently , at a local level , the enforcers concentrate their attention on the small fry who lack the time and resources to answer back . |
| 11 | On a line like Stratford to Leamington Spa in Warwickshire more than 80 per cent of the passengers continue their journey on the main network . |
| 12 | ALTHOUGH critics give their judgment on the latest movie releases , it is the public that determines which films become hits . |
| 13 | Finally , only when the other two planks have become established can the freeing of prices work its magic on the economy , by dragging supply and demand into line and injecting commercial rationality into production processes . |
| 14 | Moreover , how do the bunched innovations have their effect on the economy as a whole ? |
| 15 | These sorts of activities take their toll on the world immediately around us . |
| 16 | Then he saw one of the boys turn his back on the man he seemed to be dancing with , hook his fingers in the skimpy underpants , wriggle them down to reveal his bottom and then wiggle the bottom until it shook like a jelly . |
| 17 | Politicians keep their silence on the big questions of the future |
| 18 | When enterprises plan their production on the criterion of profitability they are only honouring their obligation to their shareholders — — to earn them a reasonable return on their money — and if those shareholders are institutions which are in turn merely trustees of the people 's savings … well , evidently notions of class struggle and exploitation must be out of date . |