Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many , the roads debate therefore rested on measures of speed restriction and road safety , but with 2 million motor cars on British roads in 1939 , and urban congestion a growing problem , this was scarcely a satisfactory situation . |
| 2 | Social scientists seem to confuse the two , and because they oppose religion and are unbelievers , they do little work on religion in human societies . |
| 3 | In the crudest sense , there are indeed ‘ young old ’ and ‘ old old ’ ; and although you can be either younger or older at any age , physical and mental disabilities do slowly cumulate on average with increasing years . |
| 4 | In fact , in the world of international banking today , supervisory authorities in various countries can , should , and no doubt do regularly co-operate on matters of mutual supervisory concern as sections 84(6) and 86 confirm . |
| 5 | We 've just gone on pink onto red . |
| 6 | And then we 've gradually worked on building up the spelling . |
| 7 | We 've never looked on EMF as a career . |
| 8 | The number of species of animals and plants living today runs into millions , and similar numbers of species have probably lived on earth for at least part of the earth 's history . |
| 9 | Browne reckons that the value of the UK hardware market will fall 28% in real terms by 1994 , which means that vendors that have traditionally relied on maintenance as a key cash generator ‘ will be forced to act rapidly to avoid crisis ’ . |
| 10 | For research focused on formal aspects of code switching , much of the interest lies in the process whereby two widely divergent grammatical systems are made compatible in such a way that switching is possible between them : hence researchers in this area have mainly concentrated on pairs of languages that have no more than chance ( or universal ) similarities . |
| 11 | Reviewers have again fixed on Leapor as a figure of considerable interest . |
| 12 | Previous studies of MINTEC have primarily concentrated on aspects of science policy planning , which has neglected the question of procurement policy . |
| 13 | His plans have recently gone on display to the public . |
| 14 | THREE NEW EXHIBITS for the Midland Air Museum have recently arrived on site at Coventry Airport , Warks . |