Example sentences of "[vb -s] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Hall collection , though primarily painted works made for hanging , extends these preoccupations : Laura Godfrey-Isaacs 's ‘ Fleshy Face ’ meditates on the feminine-coded colour pink with mordant hyperbole ; Judith Cowan 's ‘ Skin and Blister ’ ( rhyming slang for ‘ sister ’ ) transforms a common saucepan into an authoritative sculptural form ; Maggi Hambling takes a shocking newspaper image of a Gulf woman in a chador wielding a bazooka and suffuses it again with blooming pink , the garish , violated hue of feminine cosiness . |
| 2 | Philip meditates on the narrative representation of action : ‘ Strange how the reality of the past comes to our mind most immediately as fiction . |
| 3 | The Bank of England is , of course , free to respond as it chooses to any such bids or offers but , as well as being concerned to finance the government 's borrowing needs on the best possible terms , the Bank has a publicly-expressed interest in the liquidity of the gilt-edged market . |
| 4 | There is no danger of too many coaches spoiling the broth as far as the Hong Kong RFU is concerned though : Simpkin will have all the power he needs on the playing side . |
| 5 | Use female screws on the outside , and screw covers on the interior ones |
| 6 | But with the accession of Sethos I ( probably the " new king " of 1:8 ) attention once again focusses on the fertile delta region . |
| 7 | Jacob 's dying blessing focusses on the distant future , when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land . |
| 8 | Whereas make focusses on the mere producing of an effect , get evokes something which precedes the effect — prolonged efforts in ( 170b ) , persuasion winning out over unwillingness in ( 171b ) — and so to must be used before the infinitive to represent the latter 's event as a result coming after what led up to it . |
| 9 | With water privatization looming large , and with prosecutions against farmers for pollution continuing at an arguably pitiful level , concern naturally focusses on the future accountability of water companies to keep water courses clean . |
| 10 | Our approach , however , focusses on the individual lexical unit as the primary operational semantic unit , and consigns the lexeme to a secondary position . |
| 11 | The study focusses on the economic and social consequences both for women themselves and the societies in which they have settled . |
| 12 | Although there have been some useful television series , most television coverage focusses on the sensational , and some major documentaries and plays have compounded the fears and misunderstandings of the public rather than alleviate them . |
| 13 | In particular the debate focusses on the American variety of independent film , of which there have been a large number at this year 's festival , ranging from Jim Jarmusch 's annoyingly fashionable Mystery Train to Julia Cameron 's God 's Will , which cost only 31,000 dollars to make . |
| 14 | On the death of father or mother the guardianship devolves on the surviving spouse ; but either can by deed or will appoint guardians to act with the survivor . |
| 15 | The Shipman 's portrait in the General Prologue is a case , like that of the Yeoman , where a distance and unfamiliarity between " Chaucer " and the pilgrim is conveyed by a naive curiosity with which " Chaucer 's " description focuses and lingers on the sharp and pointed or menacing aspects of the pilgrim 's accoutrements . |
| 16 | The M-form economizes on the bounded rationality of top management by decentralizing operational decisions to the divisional level . |
| 17 | Standing by her place with an endearing air of domestic pride , she explained that her husband was away with the other men , spreading the meat strips on the higher thorn bushes to dry in safety . |
| 18 | Originally , the Romans had a complicated system of dividing the month , with Calends ( from which our word ‘ calendar ’ is derived ) on the first , Ides on the fifteenth of March , May , July , and October and on the thirteenth day of the other months , and Nones occurring eight days before the Ides . |
| 19 | The church stands on the highest point in the village . |
| 20 | To frame a happy picture , a timber clubhouse of imposing Swedish design stands on the highest point , a monument to local golfing aspirations . |
| 21 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 22 | The Moebius Strip stands on the southern bank of the Grand Canal about a kilometre along from the Baratha Arcade , between the Church of the Directed Panspermia and a crustacean restaurant . |
| 23 | It stands on the slight and indefinite watershed at the head of Glen Shiel and has its own group of Munros in the high country dividing it from Glen Affric to the north . |
| 24 | At that time the square was bigger , with the palazzo standing at its centre , and the northern limit being the Palazzo Giureconsulti which now stands on the far side of Via Mercanti . |
| 25 | These ridges have been built with considerable rapidity for Camber Castle stands on the innermost ridge , although , when it was constructed in 1538–9 , it stood on the ridge next to the sea . |
| 26 | ‘ that , on general principles , an injury transmitted from the actor to a person through his own organic substance , or through his mother , before he became a person , stands on the same footing as an injury transmitted to an existing person through other intervening substances outside him … |
| 27 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 28 | This friendly hotel stands on the bustling main street of traffic-free Taormina . |
| 29 | Most people who have travelled through the Monkton district of Ayrshire will have noticed the monument that stands on the high ground behind the Dutch House Caravan Park , and wondered what it is and why it is there . |
| 30 | That is why the man with binoculars stands on the opposite side of the road . |