Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research focusses on specific decisions in the areas of human resource management and technological investments in strategic enterprises closely matched between the UK and China . |
| 2 | Engels here , as elsewhere , is clearly influenced by the romantic nationalist tradition of nineteenth-century historians , and the praise which he lavishes on these groups , as well as the labelling of them as ‘ German ’ , is probably misplaces . |
| 3 | In the great tempting scene between Angelo and Isabella the deputy hypocritically exclaims on other men 's sins — ‘ Ha , fie , these filthy vices ! ’ |
| 4 | Oh , sure , he quivers on slippery poles as tall as the moon is high , and lopes nude down tunnels while alarm-clocks sound , etc — but there are no worrying resonances . |
| 5 | Pursuant to the provisions of the NHS Act 1977 and other enabling powers , the respective Secretary of State regulates on all aspects of financial control of health authorities . |
| 6 | Pipe stands on 170 winners from more than 660 runs , a strike rate of 26 per cent . |
| 7 | The capital stands on both sides of a river , and has more than eighty thousand houses . |
| 8 | ever stands on both sides of him at once . |
| 9 | It is hexagonal and stands on seven columns ; the central one has a base of human figures and animals while the others are supported on the backs of lions . |
| 10 | Ward ( 1971 ) found good agreement with the lower ( Reuss ) bounds on elastic moduli when considering the effects of orientation in low-density polyethylene , but in cold-drawn polyethylene terephthalate the elastic compliance lay midway between the Voigt and Reuss bounds . |
| 11 | the red-faced ‘ Parlour Orator ’ who complacently pontificates on public affairs to the admiration of his little coterie : ‘ there is not a parlour [ i.e. in an inn or tavern ] , or club-room , or benefit society , or humble party of any kind without its red-faced man ’ . |
| 12 | He said he lives on baked beans ! |
| 13 | But his music lives on 35 years after his first hit . |
| 14 | She is wearing her party smile which slashes to a snarling slaver and she makes it to the kitchen where cold steal lies on Dutch tiles . |
| 15 | A Great Tightness lies on most pavements unleashing itself round all passing ankles . |
| 16 | With the longest life expectancy in the world the Japanese have become obsessed with the burdens this places on private employers , their employees and the state . |
| 17 | The incidence of a tax describes the distribution of the burden it places on different individuals or groups within society . |
| 18 | But it is also believed that such cellular circulation develops on smooth coasts with uniform offshore bottom topography . |
| 19 | Of particular importance is the effect that deforestation has on tropical soils . |
| 20 | mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright . |
| 21 | In the United States this principle has the status of a constitutional principle , and the Supreme Court has on many occasions overturned criminal convictions because the supposed crime was too vaguely defined to give the necessary notice . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has on new initiatives undertaken by car manufacturers as part of his strategy to defeat car crime . |
| 23 | Thus the function of the family is the effect it has on other parts of the social structure and on society as a whole . |
| 24 | the way in which cases are prepared and presented to senior officers and to prosecutors , and the influence which this has on succeeding decisions . |
| 25 | These fears have been partly generated by the substantial representation which the DES has on both tiers of NAB . |
| 26 | These are examples of externalities — the economic effects that a transaction has on third parties . |
| 27 | This project will find out how different local waste disposal authorities deal with this problem , especially how they apply national and EEC directives and regulations , and what effect regulation has on particular industries . |
| 28 | One gentleman , who has not actually seen the apparition , has on several occasions heard footsteps walking up a stairway in the station . |
| 29 | Insensitive and often racist policing have fused with inner urban decay to create a climate of both despair and rebellion in which black ( and white ) youth 's sense of injustice has on several occasions provoked urban revolt ( Benyon , 1984 ; West Midlands County Council , 1986 ; Gifford , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | From its Midlands grassroots in the Clean-up TV Campaign , the NVALA has grown into an organisation with over 30,000 members , and has on several occasions organised nationwide petitions which have secured a formidable number of signatures . |