Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It causes a clock on the ground to run more slowly than an identical one placed at high altitude . |
| 2 | The Object Management Group has published a reference model on object software design and analysis : it incorporates a survey on comparative object-based tools available on the market , as well as outlining guidelines for object software development . |
| 3 | Strasbourg wants a ban on exports of waste , although there would be a 10-year exemption fro waste for further use in EFTA countries . |
| 4 | It reveals that 75 per cent of the British population wants a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 5 | But his environment colleague , Finnin Aerts , wants a moratorium on further nuclear plants . |
| 6 | It wants a limit on the tied house system and pubs given the chance to sell different types of beer . |
| 7 | The final surface , which forms a bound for the prior surfaces , therefore contains a singularity on the line . |
| 8 | After the introductory chapter on scepticism , the first part contains a chapter on the nature of knowledge and its relation to true justified belief , and another concentrating on one particular theory . |
| 9 | Joan Higgins 's book ( see n. 5 ) contains a chapter on ‘ Social Policy and the Conspiracy Theory of Welfare ’ , which effectively reviews the debate between the Marxist and the ‘ liberal ’ explanations of social policy . |
| 10 | Apart from the effects of the war on the local populace and their church , the book also contains a chapter on the German Luftwaffe 's KG100 that was involved in the attack . |
| 11 | Reward Regional Survey 's ‘ Spring 1985 Local Salaries and Wages ’ salary survey covering central London contains a section on allowances paid on relocation and recruitment . |
| 12 | Indeed , your report contains a section on health which shows that ‘ sickness was a notable phenomenon among these families , ’ and also that many of the families failed to use a variety of health service facilities because they ‘ could not afford ’ the charges . |
| 13 | Three or four days before mating , the male develops a pouch on his belly . |
| 14 | However , irrespective of specific legislation directly related to fire safety , the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 , places a responsibility on all employers and employees to observe safety in their work premises . |
| 15 | That surely places a responsibility on any Government of any political complexion to trample on the bogus libertarian appeal of the tobacco and advertising industries that they are only offering choice . |
| 16 | In the room , Fame places a wreath on a bust of Charles II , which is flanked by two people . |
| 17 | A hovering angel places a crown on Cnut 's head , while pointing upwards to a seated Christ . |
| 18 | If Richard Heber , former director of the Milwaukee project , is in Jail for embezzlement , this places a suspicion on the reliability of his claims of having substantially raised IQs of economically deprived children . |
| 19 | Christianity places a premium on the absolute truthfulness and trustworthiness of God , so understanding doubt is extremely important to a Christian . |
| 20 | However , it will produce results as it stops the club rolling over and generating topspin — something you definitely do n't want when you are trying to play a shot which places a premium on accuracy . |
| 21 | While the primary virtue is the ability efficiently to get results , the dependence of senior staff on the man in the field for a continuous supply of information also places a premium on his knowledge . |
| 22 | Writing about local government , Clarke and Stewart argue that a strategic perspective ‘ places a premium on the role of the chief executive and its support ; it also demands that senior management of service and support departments set their ’ separate sectional interests within a wider strategic perspective . |
| 23 | Now suppose one places a screen on the far side of the partition from the light . |
| 24 | The equivalent of income-based taxes on the expenditure side is the personal expenditure tax , which places a tax on the difference between income receipts during the financial year and savings in the year , i.e. a tax on that part of the income that is consumed . |
| 25 | These same pressures help to explain why vacations are not taken and long hours are accepted as any individual decision to take a holiday or finish work on time places a burden on the rest of the work group . |
| 26 | Article 9 places a duty on all persons , whether employers , employees , or self-employed , and states ‘ No person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health , safety or welfare in pursuance of any of the relevant statutory provisions . ’ |
| 27 | First , the Agriculture Act 1986 places a duty on the Minister of Agriculture to : |
| 28 | The LPGA , for instance , does not have the equivalent of the WPGET 's Tournament Committee , a body which writes a report on every event played on the European calendar . |
| 29 | The response of those engaged in the arduous labours which led to the conclusion of the Convention is no doubt not dissimilar to that of the scholar who writes a book on the doctrine of unconscionability in contract law and is then taken to task by a reviewer for his failure to cover breach and termination — in other words , for not writing a different book . |
| 30 | The dust-cart comes , like a sort of dead-cart , at a dead hour of the afternoon ( irregular too ) and rings a bell on the wrong site of the house , and cries : ‘ Bring out your rubbish . ’ |