Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | They featured in still lives on Sebastian 's walls . |
| 2 | In twenty acres of gardens , the Sheraton lies on Poipou 's most beautiful beach around sparkling lagoons . |
| 3 | CCG 's Bob Rae writes on CCG 's reaction to the new legislation . |
| 4 | So there is also a recognition of values in determining the ethos of a school , and of the very powerful effect that has on children 's achievement . ’ |
| 5 | The effect that this has on LDOCE 's efficacy for text recognition is discussed in later sections . |
| 6 | THOUGH much could yet depend on what happens on Scotland 's forthcoming short tour , the solution to one of the great controversies of the past season — the unexpected supplanting of Douglas Morgan as the coach for that island venture — continues to look simple enough . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the sport climbs on Polney 's Myopics buttress at Dunkeld , are acceptable within the policy ( and with most anti bolters ) , but have recently been removed ! |
| 8 | • AUSTRALIA — Wallaby skipper warns on SA 's poor infrastructure |
| 9 | A combination of drought , over-abstraction and pollution are threatening the wildlife which depends on Britain 's rivers , according to the launch report of a new organization , Water for Wildlife , headed by conservationist Sir David Attenborough . |
| 10 | He depends on Fiona 's horses to clinch his amateur-champion status . |
| 11 | It depends on Maradona 's attitude , ’ club chairman Luis Cuervas said . |
| 12 | Moving into the operating environment , Brown says NT 's suitability as a desktop environment depends on Microsoft 's ability to shrink current RAM and disk space requirement down to something reasonable . |
| 13 | Aintree says puckishly that this arrangement is reliable because it depends on people 's judgement , but it is also a hoaxer 's charter . |
| 14 | It depends on people 's expectations of exchange rate movements . |
| 15 | Now here it depends on people 's values , where their educational priorities are , what one might do . |
| 16 | It was a logical evolution of the Dino family but the adoption of the three-litre V8 engine in place of the V6 meant the end of the Dino name , although it features on Pininfarina 's original styling model of the 308 . |
| 17 | The second act rather concentrates on Chaplin 's ‘ non American ’ activities ( nothing worse than having Socialist views and an interest in Russia ) but it was enough to drive him out of the country . |
| 18 | Today 's Melody Maker concentrates on pop 's more adventurous independent fringes , while RM remains a likeable dog 's dinner , differing from the others in its A4 format , its glossy colour pages , and content which veers from a left-field feature style to consumer-guides for club DJs . |
| 19 | We must build in the kind of rebate system that the hon. Member for South Dorset ( Mr. Bruce ) tempted me to describe — a rebate system which concentrates on people 's ability to pay and which is not concerned with an artificial concept of status . |
| 20 | Johnson dwells on McQueen 's diction , complimenting him upon it and being told in return that the man had ‘ learned it by grammar ’ , and Johnson goes on to contemplate that such good English must have been acquired while such people served in the armed forces . |
| 21 | Everyone who acts on society 's behalf in this field struggles with the often competing imperatives of welfare and justice : how to protect children while respecting family autonomy ; how to keep children safe while ensuring a fair hearing for parents ; and how to intervene therapeutically without prejudicing legal evidence . |
| 22 | The old woman gave a scream of outrage and began raining slaps on Martha 's head . |
| 23 | THE AUTHOR ( left ) gets on Will 's wavelength |
| 24 | THE AUTHOR ( left ) gets on Will 's wavelength |
| 25 | I ca n't play it properly anyway and I know the sound of it gets on Mum 's nerves . ’ |
| 26 | The first major European show in the work of Georgia O'Keeffe opens on London 's South Bank in April . |
| 27 | Douglas , researching how sex-role attitudes affect therapy , calls on Bakan 's and Reason and Rown 's anti-objectivist methodological programmes . |
| 28 | Pipe calls on Dickinson 's expertise |
| 29 | Slow Fade ( 1984 ) draws on Wurlitzer 's own experiences as a screen-writer to set up narratives-within-narratives . |
| 30 | ‘ Boyz N The Hood ’ draws on Singleton 's own experience of growing up in South Central LA . |