Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This decision depended on highly loaded definitions of contested terms such as ‘ economic ’ and appeared to substitute judicial for electoral decisions as to the proper balance between the interests of ratepayers and public-transport users ( Griffith , 1991 , pp. 128–36 ) . |
| 2 | That the four lead artists got on so well with each other was a distinct advantage in coping with the pressurised working schedules they were expected to maintain over the next year . |
| 3 | Whilst such an attitude to life is clearly desirable for hunters depending on highly unreliable food resources which would soon reduce them to chronic anxiety if they were to take a less prodigal view of things , it is evidently less suitable for seasonal hunters who must store food if they are to avoid starvation . |
| 4 | Anti-peptide A abolishes DRTF1/E2F complexes formed on both class 1 and class 2 binding sites ( Fig. 2 d ; compare tracks 3 , 4 and 7 , 8 ) . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ Relegation was unfortunate , but it might yet be the making of the club depending on just how we respond . |
| 6 | This could have taken years , so the President decided on more drastic action . |
| 7 | Though the effect is purely symbolic , even poetic , as well as chilling , much of its force depends on rapidly cutting away to Marion 's car being pulled out of the lake — a banal , everyday detail of the investigation that almost makes us doubt whether we really saw that skull , previously forced on the viewer with horrifying shock impact in the cellar scene . |
| 8 | Its future depends on continually convincing these companies , and others yet to take the plunge , that it is the best place in South-East Asia from which to do business . |
| 9 | This called for the establishment of a multi-party political system in place of the present one-party state , with a ban on parties based on just one ethnic group . |
| 10 | IRIMS uses a number of expert systems techniques including : a language input parser based on sideways chaining and rule values which allow Bayesian probabilistic reasoning to identify possible user intentions/hypotheses ; fuzzy set methods to translate uncertainty and ambiguity in the databases or user specifications into linguistic or graphical descriptions ; and various rule-based pre- and post-processors to define appropriate context-dependent default input values . |
| 11 | He has won four international rallies based on today 's RAC stages and has been rallying almost exclusively in Britain since 1975 . |
| 12 | Many composers have used melodic shapes based on virtually the same scale and chord patterns , or on similar rhythms , yet produced themes unmistakably their own . |
| 13 | The text rests mainly on specific cited examples , drawn from the literature up to 1987 , but the authors comment on both the scope and the likely mechanism of the various transformations . |
| 14 | To Alison Yarrington , writing about the ‘ sensuous ’ in fin-de-siecle sculpture , an examination of the human figures of Antonio Canova sheds light on more recent sculptural interpretations of the body although he was very much the product of the patriarchal system of the day . |
| 15 | Ramsey lectured on all the later part of the Bible and on the central Christian doctrines . |
| 16 | Last month I wrote about the carriage controls on both the main bed and the ribber . |
| 17 | Besides their encounters in war and diplomacy , English and French nobles and knights met on more specifically chivalric occasions . |
| 18 | Many cases of resistance depend on only one or a very few genes . |
| 19 | Pensions and unemployment payments were based on an insurance scheme , the funds for which were raised by taxes levied on both workers and employers . |
| 20 | Following the appointment of Jacques Chirac as Prime Minister in March , French broadcasting developed on radically more commercial lines : TFI , the national TV channel with traditionally the largest market share , was privatized ( spring 1986–87 ) ; in the following year the number of brands advertising on TFI doubled , the maximum authorized advertising minutes per hour — all six channels take advertising — rose to 12.3 In Britain , Conservative governments introduced commercial television in 1954–5 , and outlined broadcasting policies ( in the November 1988 white paper ) that would facilitate the development of commercial channels broadcasting by ( cable and ) satellite . |
| 21 | Every time you spend your cash on particular products or services in any one of the participating outlets , you will receive a number of Air Miles vouchers depending on just how much you spend . |
| 22 | Every time you spend your cash on particular products or services in any one of the participating outlets , you will receive a number of Air Miles vouchers depending on just how much you spend . |
| 23 | For example , the need to generate income may lead trusts to concentrate on more profitable areas of work at the expense of others , or to discriminate between different categories of patients — private and public , DHA patients and those of GP fundholders — and between patients from one district and those from another . |
| 24 | But the 700,000 refugees perched on either the Iraqi or the Turkish side of the mountain frontier are slow to be tempted down . |
| 25 | The predictable result would have been an intensification of agriculture and we may be witnessing this in the drift of settlements ending on more fertile and productive soils and the changes in cereal crops being cultivated . |
| 26 | Hibernation in the marmot , hamster and hedgehog depends on more complex physiological adaptations , and some can drop their basal metabolic rate to as low as one per cent of their most active level . |
| 27 | Jurisdiction over the peasantry operated on markedly more authoritarian principles ; as a result , it was both arbitrary and capable of producing solid financial rewards . |
| 28 | The problems and costs of organizing transactions depend on both their nature and the assumed characteristics of decision-makers in the model . |
| 29 | This protein also causes the white lather seen on profusely sweating horses or those which are very nervous/excited . |
| 30 | This exercise depends on only one clue : you know that the clue word is some living creature . |