Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] on the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are not aware that your eating habits change depending on the time of your menstrual cycle , it would be worth keeping diary for a few months to check . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Liberal Democrats intend to concentrate on the prevention of crime by putting more policemen on the beat and setting up special committees to discuss law and order . |
| 4 | Local authority loans for house purchase are more likely to be made to manual groups and they tend to concentrate on the purchase of older dwellings . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To understand what the issue is really about , we must look more carefully at the premises they bring to bear on the discussion of reduction ; for this debate functions as a strait-jacket , stifling the very assumptions and aspirations which lie at the heart of the dispute . |
| 7 | region in terms of the general business conditions , or the second most optimistic so it 's not entirely surprising that they now say that they expect to invest on the back of the strength of that optimism . |
| 8 | If you just want to work on the length of pipe between the cistern and the taps , shut the gatevalve first ( if there is one ) opening the taps will drain the pipe . |
| 9 | By March 1989 Paddy Hopkins of MEG was arguing against the type of short-term development involved in mining and in favour of development based on indigenous , renewable natural resources , especially on the tourist and leisure industries : ‘ We want to concentrate on the development of tourism to provide jobs , not the short-term benefit — perhaps five years — which mining would bring ’ . |
| 10 | In this chapter I want to concentrate on the response of community educators , particularly their reaction to the problems and issues facing the working class . |
| 11 | I want to concentrate on the week in Adelaide in January 1933 that brought it all to a head , and the personal dilemma I faced as the Teuter-Press Association correspondent . |
| 12 | How well public sector employees perform in providing the goods and services their customers and clients want depends on the system of incentives and sanctions within which they operate . |
| 13 | This course , which is the only one of its type in Northern Ireland , is designed to cater for students who wish to study accounting and other related subjects before deciding whether they want to embark on the study of professional accountancy , or who wish to acquire sufficient knowledge of accounting before taking up employment . |
| 14 | I shall plan out what I propose to do on the farm for the next three years , season by season , and we 'll look for a ploughman to help with your new venture . |
| 15 | While I agree that worm watching will probably never catch on as a mass pursuit , something well known here in Cornwall is to observe seagulls tap dancing on the lawn after rain . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Why did this fellow Dickens want to live on the top of a hill ? |
| 18 | I hesitate to pronounce on the degree of tranquillity in his life , but since 1943 he has not been further than sixty miles from this spot . |
| 19 | For its part , the Commons itself was representative of a limited electorate although there was no expectation that the electorate , should , or would , seek to impinge on the independence of members ' judgements . |
| 20 | Many databases include terms from controlled indexing languages and also support searching on the text of the record , thus offering what might be regarded as the best of both worlds . |
| 21 | It all but sunk Pompey and put United on the crest of the wave . |
| 22 | If Les Negresses Vertes tend to jostle on the stage like animals being herded down a narrow street , it is partly because there are so many of them ( 11 , when all the strays are rounded up ) , but also because , even as the show begins , several key members appear to be too drunk to be capable of motion in a straight line . |
| 23 | At first glance some strands of these otherwise opposed political forces seem to agree on the use of censorship to oppose pornography . |
| 24 | Delegates did not , however , manage to agree on the proposal for a nationality law referendum put forward by former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of the liberal UDF . |
| 25 | These provisions vary depending on the nature of your work — a building site is obviously different from an office . |
| 26 | And they seem to work on the principle of allowing each other to do anything they like . |
| 27 | When the oratory is finished the ladies begin dancing on the floor of the arena ; after some time the Ngwazi descends to join the dancing , fly whisk waving merrily , and for at least an hour joins in the celebration . |
| 28 | Plans for global communications now often seem to rest on the semantics of international standards . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If the raw material of most of these ergs has been provided by other agencies , as differences in character between the surface wind-worked material and the sand at depth seem to indicate , then the locations of desert dunes , coastal dunes and periglacial dunes all seem to depend on the concentration of sand provided by some.other factor . |