Example sentences of "[vb -s] on an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | who stands on an island denouncing buses , |
| 2 | It lies on an estate run by the Ital-Reding Foundation , and its main building is the Ital-Reding mansion , built in 1609 , which combines features that are typical of local farmhouse architecture with baroque trends befitting the town houses of families of that era which had " done well " in mercenary service abroad . |
| 3 | On these figures the extra service cost of using a car adds on an amount equal to the cost of the petrol . |
| 4 | yeah , well he obviously has on an R S two thousand twenty , twenty one |
| 5 | Still , it would be churlish not to greet this release for the light it casts on an age long gone . |
| 6 | The surprise effect , of which we talked before , depends on an expectation . |
| 7 | The legality of the threat of use of a weapon therefore depends on an evaluation both of the characteristics of the weapon and of the possible circumstances in which it might be used . |
| 8 | ‘ I would like to have something makeshift set up by Friday but that depends on an assessment from the health and safety people . |
| 9 | As has been implied from the comments made , the nurse 's ability to identify patients ' problems with the AL of maintaining a safe environment which result from impairment/loss of the senses , to a great extent depends on an ability to be imaginative and empathetic . |
| 10 | The success of the kinematics approach thus depends on an ability to define the geometric arrangement of the physical system at desired positions in space . |
| 11 | Public perception of the engineering profession depends on an engineer 's motives in safety and environmental issues being understood . |
| 12 | Scepticism in its most interesting form always depends on an argument ; the better the argument , the stronger the scepticism it generates . |
| 13 | Since it depends on an argument , it must be able to be expressed as a conclusion . |
| 14 | Once the appeal is made , however , we are back with a scepticism that depends on an argument . |
| 15 | The conclusion is that with which we started ; scepticism in its most interesting form always depends on an argument . |
| 16 | Proof of that complaint depends on an analysis of tabloid content as well as tabloid readers voting behaviour . |
| 17 | Orwell makes miners the core of his chronicle , they are the essential man and the essential worker , but the equation between work and masculinity depends on an exclusion — women . |
| 18 | Whether a risk is worth running depends on an estimate of its magnitude in the light of the size of the potential reward . |
| 19 | These royal ordnance workers know that much depends on an ammunition order currently frozen by the treasury . |
| 20 | Also , a Third World country which depends on an export crop for foreign exchange simply can not change crops in times of recession — it takes several years and many dollars to restructure an industry and to plant new crops . |
| 21 | Effective rule of any kingdom necessarily depends on an understanding of its particular characteristics . |
| 22 | The answer to this question depends on an understanding of the role that intention played in the interpretation of civil-law dispositions . |
| 23 | It depends on an understanding by the man of the horse 's natural reactions , knowing that if he recognises the horse 's signals and makes the right moves , the horse will treat him — and trust him — as he would another horse . |
| 24 | It is certainly true that they enact an awareness of the efficacy of penance which is at the very foundation of Christian spirituality ; but it also true that part of their potency depends on an understanding of the joy of " brennyng in loue ouur al thynge " when : The meditation on the Passion in Ego Dormio , on the other hand , engages directly with the experience of receiving such a gift . |
| 25 | The assessment of the relative " equities " of the parties depends on an understanding of the geology of the site and the engineering technicalities of extracting the oil and/or gas , and the application to that information of an agreed method of calculation . |
| 26 | The acceptance of the former dogma rather than the second depends on an acceptance of the unique salvation history expressed by God through his people Israel which has significance for the whole of mankind . |
| 27 | ( He chats on an intercom ) |
| 28 | Here he elaborates on an argument sketched out a few years earlier , that the label ‘ postmodern ’ denoted the quality of being ‘ free to come to new terms with both realism and anti-realism , linearity and non-linearity , continuity and discontinuity ’ . |
| 29 | our own stuttering that ends on an echo ; |
| 30 | The main concept in associative learning theory is that there is a basic unit of learning which consists of a more or less permanent connection between two events : a stimulus ( S ) , which is any object or event that acts on an organism , and the reaction to it , or response ( R ) that the learner makes . |