Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the rate of cycle I depends on the local concentration of SO 2 , it shows a maximum in the SO 2 cloud . |
| 2 | Well , I 'm really wanting to go to Birkdale , so I jumps on the last train out of St Andrews . |
| 3 | She sits on the only chair in the room , by the night table . |
| 4 | From her work as a professional painter and teacher she passes on the many tips , secrets and techniques that she has learned over the years and shows how gardens , with their immense variety and colour , can provide the artist with endless ideas . |
| 5 | ‘ And Feargal said he would be down there that day , and I said — you know how you do — if you happen to see a dark green Morris Minor driven by this astonishingly beautiful girl with cropped dark hair , would you make sure she gets on the right road ? |
| 6 | He plays on the right wing and has pace as well as skill . |
| 7 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
| 8 | It turns on the general relation between the justification for a binding directive and its status as a reason for action , and more generally on the relation between rules as reasons for action and their justification . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it is pernicious because it trades on the pernicious habit of labelling things or qualities ( hard/soft , consonant/vowel ) masculine or feminine ( a habit we must return to in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 10 | Once , twice , smash , in it goes on the third kick . |
| 11 | Apart from the fact that a possible-worlds approach inevitably runs into problems if it insists on the logical completeness of fictional universes , it seems to me that what is a valid issue in logic does not necessarily have to be a valid issue in poetics and narratology . |
| 12 | When he goes on the one day in two years that something went wrong , that shows he 's doing a good job . ’ |
| 13 | While retaining a determinative role for the former , he insists on the relative autonomy of the latter : these have their own modes of existence , their own inertia , their own time-scales , such that we have to speak of a ‘ necessary reciprocity ’ between economic/social and cultural/ideological levels . |
| 14 | However , he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision . |
| 15 | It involves on the one hand an examination of the changing local demand for labour , and on the other an examination of the effects of unemployment on , and the response of , local voluntary associations . |
| 16 | When the Theogonist accompanies the Empire army into battle he rides on the mobile War Altar of Sigmar , a huge chariot which carries the sacred altar surmounted by a huge statue of a griffon . |
| 17 | Like the linker , it sits on the main bed and has a cog wheel and spring at the rear to lock it on to the needlebed . |
| 18 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 19 | If this does indeed prove to be the case , one of the most significant outcomes of the GCSE is likely to be the limitations it imposes on the parallel development of records of achievement . |
| 20 | Having regard to the terms of that subsection in its substituted and current form I would for my part place the duty which it imposes on the local authority on the decision-making , as distinct from the executive , side of the line . |
| 21 | The actual proportion in which each individual holds his wealth depends upon the relative yields he receives on the whole range of assets , and upon his individual tastes and preferences . |
| 22 | I am sure that all my colleagues are as delighted as I am to support this excellent Bill , not least because it builds on the firm foundation organised during the passage of our privatisation measures . |
| 23 | It lies on the eastern edge of the Ruhr coalfield and is some fifteen miles from the Möhne Dam , one of the targets of the famous ‘ Dambusters ’ raid . |
| 24 | It lies on the northern margin of the Skiddaw Granite in a greisen zone with veins of quartz carrying wolframite , scheelite and sulphides ( MRP 7 , 33 and 60 ; Ball and others , 1985a ) . |
| 25 | ‘ He lives on the sixteenth floor of the RCA building . |
| 26 | Though he lives on the French-Italian border , most of his frauds are perpetrated from Amsterdam . |
| 27 | There is no danger of too many coaches spoiling the broth as far as the Hong Kong RFU is concerned though : Simpkin will have all the power he needs on the playing side . |
| 28 | The dream itself has no meaning ; the effect it has on the second person tells a great deal about that person . |
| 29 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
| 30 | They do n't know the impact it has on the British public . ’ |