Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But there are guidelines for women using tampons : Do n't leave a tampon in for too long ( time differs depending on menstrual flow ) .
2 To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement .
3 This resort has developed on either side of an old fishing town , along two stretches of gently shelving beach .
4 His belief is that work has to go on all year round , whether or not that means taking on the hazardous and snow-covered Carpathian mountains .
5 This integrating process needs to go on all the time , whatever is happening or being studied .
6 No visitor can claim to have had a totally Swiss experience until he or she has travelled on one of the many cogwheel railways that whisk the traveller from ground level to the heights .
7 Harry Judge has commented on programmed learning that it :
8 Frank Mort has commented on this kind of separation between the new intellectuals who are happy and confident to mix genre and ignore qualitative and semantic difference ‘ because they already know the map of Western culture ’ and are distinct from those ‘ who do not carry with them those levels of cultural capital . ’
9 Paul has commented on this in several places .
10 The Commission has commented on this ‘ problem ’ in a way which is rather surprising given the stated free-market aims of the EEC :
11 Nobody has commented on any possible biological advantage of such a reaction on the part of tom-cats , or why the males should want to eliminate their own genetic progeny .
12 ‘ Follies are in their way heroic , ’ William Feaver has commented on these grand narratives , aligning them with the epic paintings by the vainglorious diarist , Benjamin Robert Haydon .
13 A GRIEVING family 's plea to have a symbolic teddy bear carved on their seven-week-old daughter 's grave has fallen on deaf ears .
14 If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground .
15 It will be a matter for consideration whether the fact that the plaintiff has passed on the tax or levy so that the burden has fallen on another should provide a defence to his claim .
16 As more and more is understood of the way in which interactions between the child and the environment create privileged opportunities for language learning , so it may be possible to reduce the burden of explanation which has fallen on innate factors .
17 The survival of the Honours of Scotland over the centuries has depended on many loyal Scots , some known but just as many unknown .
18 PETER Rice , the Irish structural engineer who has collaborated on some of the most notable buildings of modern times , has been chosen as the RIBA 's nomination for the 1992 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture .
19 They now feel that the Foundation has reneged on that agreement .
20 By nationalising the right to use land for a new purpose — in this case , to build houses on it — the Act has placed on all building land a value which is both high ( because monopolistic ) and arbitrary ( because determined not by the market but by the individual , unappealable decisions of the Central Land Board in assessing ‘ development charge ’ ) .
21 Instead , he has relied on great fitness and stamina to enable him to keep sprinting in at full pace , and speed of arm and perfect balance to capitalize on the momentum ; combined with an unrelenting desire to keep on taking more and more wickets , it has all proved irresistible .
22 As the educated urban elite abandon Mr Collor , following a series of media exposes of his political record , he has relied on continued support from rural voters at rallies of up to 70,000 .
23 Initially supported in its early stages by a grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust ( the first Getty grant to be awarded to an art journal ) , Print Quarterly has relied on generous benefactors and advertising revenue since that date .
24 More frequently , the MMC has relied on informal assurances that criticized behaviour will be discontinued .
25 Mr Clinton may say that he wants to concentrate on domestic policy until he is blue in the face ; the truth of the matter is that in a federal system such single-mindedness will not get him far , because most domestic policy is reserved to state and local governments .
26 Each member of the team in turn has to jump on all the lily leaves .
27 Our Harry has trodden on some Very Important Toes , she thought .
28 Well I know that my colleague Joanna Innes wants to comment on this , but if I could answer that immediately , I think there is a question about how you define what the major problem is .
29 This can be one time when a young writer has to compromise on some immediate ambitions in order to progress on to the next stage of securing a record deal or having artists cover his or her songs .
30 Water has frozen on cold nights in the cracks or joints of rocks and this has split them apart .
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