Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the reluctance of some courts to convict on forensic evidence and the fact that terrorists do not usually leave a signed visiting card at the scene of the crime , will it not become more and more difficult to obtain convictions ? |
| 2 | They sometimes excelled in the art of misleading Whitehall with what at best were plausible half-truths , and expressed astonishment at the mixture of the trivial and the monumental which the political origins of some queries forced on civil servants . |
| 3 | If you rely on your computer and value the investment you have made , then it is well worth the few minutes spent on preventative maintenance . |
| 4 | Some animals feed on living plants ; even if no animals come at first they may come later if plants begin to grow in the microhabitat . |
| 5 | Unfortunately some solutions rely on structural changes for effect , but these do n't always have to involve vast expense . |
| 6 | He would like some moorings removed on pure safety grounds and to make navigation by large numbers of boats easier . |
| 7 | The occurrence of oil-induced current account deficits encouraged some countries to rely on external borrowing from public and private sources . |
| 8 | The deeper the soil , the better : few kinds thrive on shallow soils , and drought can be a problem on light sandy ground unless you dig in a lot of organic material . |
| 9 | Some committees focus on single services ( such as housing or education ) and are frequently called vertical committees ; others , usually known as horizontal committees , deal with a single aspect of all services ( such as personnel , finance ) . |
| 10 | Attitude formation is thought by some writers to depend on personal characteristics . |
| 11 | Some attackers rely on sweet talk , rather than physical force , to get into your house . |
| 12 | As there are at present few materials focusing on this aspect of discourse , the remainder of 8 suggests what such relevant activities might be . |
| 13 | Transfer of all courses into the new system will follow a planned three-year programme of implementation , with some students embarking on new-style courses in September 1990 and 1991 and all students embarking on new-style courses in September 1992 . |
| 14 | But every day doctors across the country are trying to cope with the traumatic effect such illnesses have on ordinary people whose family tragedies do not make the headlines . |
| 15 | We should not have to anguish over what needs to be done to stop the physical and mental havoc which such racists wreak on black people . |
| 16 | Such schemes depend on local enthusiasm , skills and initiative , although some work may be performed by contractors . |
| 17 | It is also perfectly valid to use data about other cultures to show that , because these cultures work on other principles than the principles which govern our society , the principles are historically specific and not universal and unchangeable . |
| 18 | These views rest on different assumptions about the power and ideologies of trade union officials and the aim of this research is to try to establish how powerful are local trade union officials in their relations with shop stewards , and what sorts of ideologies inform their behaviour in these relationships . |
| 19 | These views depend on political values and preferences which we are not going to explore here , but clearly if you believe that society as a whole will gain by children from all income groups being educated together , or children from a local community or religious group being educated together , you will prefer a system of finance that favours such provision . |
| 20 | The fund will provide grants for up to a thousand pounds for these organisations to spend on such training . |
| 21 | Tanzanian ministers had seen Kenyan and Ugandan television and been struck by the extent to which these stations relied on imported material such as Rawhide , Bonanza , The Lucy Show , Steptoe and Son and the like . |
| 22 | In their terms , however , all of these exceptions turn on legal concepts ( ultra vires , misfeasance/nonfeasance , special damage ) which are difficult to define and apply and which , on their own , give little help in predicting whether or not a judicial remedy will be available . |
| 23 | Both of these problems depend on some clarification of what can be legitimately called censorship , and the question of what is censorship will be examined later . |
| 24 | The research aims to document the nature and extent of these changes based on detailed survey work in a number of UK motor and component manufacturers . |
| 25 | ( 1982 ) , and at a more introductory level by Watts ( 1981 ) , but unfortunately these treatments focus on offshore subsidence rather than uplift inland . |
| 26 | These conditions touch on many aspects of our national life : health threatened by overcrowded and insanitary homes ; education retarded when children have no room in which to do homework , or arrive tired at school after sleeping in a room with several others ; marriages broken up through the strain of sharing a home or making do in cramped and uncomfortable quarters ; Borstal institutions , remand homes and approved schools filled by the products of an unhappy home life . |
| 27 | His vision of the future also included a reduction in university support services for authors ; fewer editors working on more books ; cheaper typesetting and data processing costs ; significantly reduced print runs ( ‘ I expect 50 copies will be considered a large run for some titles ’ ) ; electronic customer catalogues ; improved customer service ; a merging of the jobs of copy editor , designer and production controller ; and dramatically improved distribution ( ‘ the 10 minute book run off locally in the shop could soon be a reality ’ ) . |
| 28 | The deterrent effect which these difficulties have on potential claims for compensation is undoubtedly compounded by the non-availability of legal aid to putative applicants in many cases . |
| 29 | In summary , pain-related behaviours in animals and in humans may be triggered by injury , but the intensity and latency of these behaviours depends on many circumstances other than injury . |
| 30 | However , the courts may gradually have fewer and fewer decisions to make on this issue because the pendulum , swinging between control and decontrol since 1915 , has swung once again in favour of the landlord . |