Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordinarily the referee and judge remain on opposite sides of the contestants but sometimes , for example when the latter are circling each other , both end up on the same side . |
| 2 | Of course we have the additional complication that the over- large government bureaucracy 's at present run by a political party which seems to have given up thinking about anything much other than staying in power and I know and hope that you will be part of thinking about much more than that , but still even with a large union , you could regulate concentrate on stimulating the grass roots and then on building upwards . |
| 3 | Oh do n't worry about it now , all the plastic things then put put on that blue leaflet for now and then when you 've taken them all off you can put them in the bin . |
| 4 | Some of the tapes we receive arrive on dodgy cassettes , have various bits and pieces of other music on them , and we have to waste time trying to find the relevant bit of the tape . |
| 5 | It was Ceauşescu who reassured Sadat with positive answers to his key questions : Could he trust Menachem Begin and could Begin deliver on any promises he might make to Egypt ? |
| 6 | So she gazed and her finger traced the outlines of nymphs — thinner , higher cheek-boned than she could ever hope to be , garlanded with flowers , stepping barefoot through the forest ; and sometimes she saw an exhausted Venus , a hand below her belly , lying in a countryside where oxen were driven and ships set sail on uncharted seas . |
| 7 | The Dunera , an 11,000 ton former troopship , bound for Australia , set sail on 10 July . |
| 8 | Tit for Tat , of course , has played COOPERATE on this move , and so is landed with the Sucker 's payoff of 0 points . |
| 9 | Tories pledge curb on young crime Clarke aims to close gap in law on jail sentences for juveniles |
| 10 | At present , subsidies to owner-occupiers in terms of mortgage interest tax relief and capital gains tax forgone on owner-occupied dwellings amount to £5 billion per annum : a sum about four times the total spent on National Health Service hospital buildings — i.e. capital spending ( Social Trends 18 , 1988 , Table 7.33 ) . |
| 11 | Eventually deciding that he is bringing discredit on all Jews by serving Fledgeby as he does , Riah quits his service , and takes up his abode with Jenny Wren . |
| 12 | Accordingly of those who have increased spend on one particular area in the past year advertising has accounted for the lion 's share of growth . |
| 13 | In addition , of those who have increased spend on one particular area in the past year mail-shots have been increased by nearly one quarter . |
| 14 | I can not believe the amount of injury time actually , you see if I put a record on at half past eight they 'll have finished bang on half past eight but er the fact that I carry on rabbiting and telling you about the quiz competition three or four times er they decide to play plenty of injury time . |
| 15 | More realistically , it is easy for each of us to pick up $3,000 of the banker 's money by both playing COOPERATE on all ten rounds of the game . |
| 16 | It seems to mean that , whereas we form ideas of substances by observation of commonly conjoined properties and qualities , the modes we form depend on human conventions , purposes , and institutions . |
| 17 | Thank you Chairman you will only agree concentrate on this business over traffic calming . |