Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He has won four international rallies based on today 's RAC stages and has been rallying almost exclusively in Britain since 1975 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Besides their encounters in war and diplomacy , English and French nobles and knights met on more specifically chivalric occasions . |
| 10 | Pensions and unemployment payments were based on an insurance scheme , the funds for which were raised by taxes levied on both workers and employers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But the 700,000 refugees perched on either the Iraqi or the Turkish side of the mountain frontier are slow to be tempted down . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The problems and costs of organizing transactions depend on both their nature and the assumed characteristics of decision-makers in the model . |
| 17 | These ‘ groundbreaking enhancement techniques ’ were devised by a museum educator with a taste for Jungian psychology , in consultation with a team comprising a cognitive scientist , someone described as ‘ representing the field of environmental psychology ’ ( the study of how our surroundings affect us ) , and a Jungian depth psychologist ( ‘ someone who helps visitors draw on both conscious and unconscious experiences with the artworks ’ ) . |
| 18 | The problem is one of the continuing dominance of traditional models of assessment at the same time as trying to introduce other models based on quite different educational premises . |
| 19 | The folios and quartos laboured on so industriously by forgotten clerics and divines , the erudite editions of minor classical writers , have long been gathering dust in countless book shops . |
| 20 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 21 | Egalitarian feminist psychologists draw on both feminist and psychological criticisms of gender imbalance among psychologists . |
| 22 | Indeed , where there were longer " events " , these were normally staffed with seasonal workers employed on very different terms and conditions . |
| 23 | This demonstration is intended to counteract the tendency for pilots trained on very docile gliders to remember the full opposite rudder but to forget the stick movement . |
| 24 | Particularly noteworthy was the case of 19th Century publications , of which more than one in four ( 27% ) were in need of attention — a higher proportion than for any other group , including those of earlier date ( although it is acknowledged that the figures for earlier publications were in some cases based on comparatively small samples ) . |
| 25 | MAS will consider with yourselves in advance of the meeting a likely range of indicative values based on publicly available information and the conclusions drawn from the acquisition search activity . |
| 26 | The 1986 Act has been criticised for being a pragmatic reaction to recent events rather than a well-considered set of rules based on clearly articulated and consistent premises about the function of the criminal law in the area of public order ( see R. Card : Public Order : The New Law ) . |
| 27 | This assumption is based on the figure of 53 Roman miles , quoted on the Middleton milestone as having been measured from Carlisle as the caput viae , and backed by the name of the civitas given on both the Brougham milestone and the tombstone of Flavius Martius from Old Penrith ( see below p. 58 ) . |
| 28 | The system also allows parent firms to concentrate on more capital intensive processes . |
| 29 | But since the early 1980s , chilled fresh pasta has also been on the market , from large and small suppliers operating on both national and regional bases . |
| 30 | Although this passage is unaffected , the Penguin Parallel Text and the revised Oxford Standard Authors 1805 Prelude contain some interesting new readings based on more recent study of the manuscripts . |