Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A four-fold procedure could be used : first , the text should be read silently ; second , it should be re-told or described by the child to the teacher ; next the text should be read aloud , with the teacher marking miscues on a duplicate copy ; finally the text should be discussed in more detail with the teacher . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Philip meditates on the narrative representation of action : ‘ Strange how the reality of the past comes to our mind most immediately as fiction . |
| 4 | The major airlines , so the argument goes , can easily provide for all our serious air transportation needs on a suitable basis , thus leaving the less able to concentrate their resources on more worthy causes . |
| 5 | Would you like to represent the NCT and voice our member 's opinions and needs on an official body concerned with promoting good ante-natal care ? |
| 6 | And meeting training needs on an individual basis . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Use female screws on the outside , and screw covers on the interior ones |
| 10 | Andrew Guest , of United , said the proposals for speed restrictions would mean buses travelling over 50 speed humps on a half hour round trip . |
| 11 | But with the accession of Sethos I ( probably the " new king " of 1:8 ) attention once again focusses on the fertile delta region . |
| 12 | Jacob 's dying blessing focusses on the distant future , when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Our approach , however , focusses on the individual lexical unit as the primary operational semantic unit , and consigns the lexeme to a secondary position . |
| 16 | The study focusses on the economic and social consequences both for women themselves and the societies in which they have settled . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It exposes on a minuscule scale a widely misunderstood but tiresome fact which Australia , Canada and other nations spawned by Britain have learned and taught on a larger scale . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | , ( Jean ) Jacob ( 1740–1821 ) , inventor of the first means of manufacturing artificial mineral waters on a commercial scale , was born in Witzenhausen , Germany , and baptized in the Liebfrauen church 16 March 1740 , the son of Conrad Schweppe , a peasant . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The M-form economizes on the bounded rationality of top management by decentralizing operational decisions to the divisional level . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It stands on a small hill , higher than the other villas , with a private approach road and a large balcony looking out to sea . |
| 27 | The Eibenstein stands on a small hill in its own lovely park and garden , yet it is right in the middle of this bustling resort . |
| 28 | It stands on a small mound at the junction of the two villages . |
| 29 | The Senggigi Beach Hotel stands on a small promontory with an exceptionally lovely beach . |
| 30 | The Church of the Kapnikarea , built originally c. 875 and enlarged in the thirteenth century , now stands on a small island in the centre of Athens traffic . |