Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [to-vb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irish scrum-halves tend to arrive on the scene than at 22 . |
| 2 | In public bureaucracies there may be conflicts of interest between different levels of the hierarchy arising from the values which different strata bring to bear on the policies being pursued by the government . |
| 3 | Frogs love to bask on the surface of dense aquatic vegetation |
| 4 | Even in Sicily , where unemployment is high , Tunisians come to work on the boats for low pay , no questions asked . |
| 5 | The adjustment to the rise and fall is difficult because it is always sticky , the wood chips tend to collect on the travel of the sliding table making the action very bumpy , the sliding table is always out of adjustment for one reason or another . |
| 6 | Many other companies intend to vote on the Taurus resolutions at their 1992 agms . |
| 7 | Some of these sanctuaries appear to lie on the boundaries between civitates , an indicator that they almost certainly date back to the Iron Age and marked tribal limits . |
| 8 | Companies appear to rely on the perceptions of their own managers on the spot , with a loyalty to head office . |
| 9 | So the whoopers tend to congregate on the lochs near the sea , many of which are fertilised by nutrients draining from the surrounding croft — and farmland . |
| 10 | Colin Strang Steel who is dealing with the sale told Outdoor Action ‘ Some of the potential buyers want to live on the island , but I would n't expect it would be full time . |
| 11 | Other ideas seem to operate on the mind with great force , but they are not conscious , nor readily recalled to consciousness ; they are unconscious . |
| 12 | In the meantime counsellors have to rely on the officers at the scene to specifically ask victims if they want help , perhaps with the use of a leaflet . |
| 13 | Some of those who comment on subjects such as the safe disposal of nuclear wastes seem to work on the assumption that the relevant sciences and technologies are standing still . |
| 14 | In general , pedestrians prefer to walk on the level and by direct routes . |
| 15 | Toxocara eggs have to lie on the ground for two weeks before they are dangerous . |
| 16 | Bulk businesses have to survive on the basis of their costs , |
| 17 | This is the part where there is a surfaced footway or pavement but at present it is so overgrown that pedestrians have to walk on the road . |
| 18 | This is on a dangerous bend where pedestrians have to walk on the carriageway . |
| 19 | If borrowers want to keep on the insurance after the free 12 months , the cost is 43p a month per £1,000 of mortgage so the cost would be £12.90 a month for a £30,000 mortgage . |
| 20 | As Ronnie Convery found out , local activists hope to capitalise on the company 's financial problems to kill off the incinerator plan . |
| 21 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 22 | Arguments continue to rage on the Ryder Cup side , yet Gallacher 's men are quite capable of winning back the trophy . |
| 23 | However , animal experiments have shown that , if tobacco extracts are painted on rabbits ' ears , cancerous growths tend to appear on the skin of the ear . |
| 24 | Similarly , if the London users want to enquire on the data , they initiate the enquiry on their local computer in the usual way , but behind the scenes the computer sends a message to its counterpart in New York asking for the data , which is then passed back across the network to be displayed on the enquirer 's screen . |
| 25 | Scotland had made an encouraging start , never giving the world champions time to settle on the ball . |
| 26 | Scotland had made an encouraging start , never giving the world champions time to settle on the ball . |
| 27 | At first glance some strands of these otherwise opposed political forces seem to agree on the use of censorship to oppose pornography . |
| 28 | In addition , the entrance will become smooth and well-trodden as the cubs emerge to play on the surface . |
| 29 | One method is to lay the matches end to end on the map between the two towns , and then count the matches . |
| 30 | As is the case with most areas of text-linguistics , linguists tend to concentrate on the analysis of signalling devices in English and extrapolate from that to other languages . |