Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 20 years ' service the almost total entitlement to remain on full pay , albeit suspended from duty , until the age of 65 . |
| 2 | And at floor level the Revue sits on four skid feet . |
| 3 | Indeed , an early CDP inter-project report was devoted to dismissing such cultural explanations of the situation of areas like North Shields in favour of structural accounts centring on industrial change and its consequences . |
| 4 | Lawson insists on high interest rates |
| 5 | Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups . |
| 6 | Fourth , the grant depended on continued government goodwill ; in 1983 it was cut , and part of the rest was allotted only to courses jointly approved by employers . |
| 7 | The unification treaty provided for existing arrangements to continue to apply and required parliament to agree on uniform legislation by the end of 1992 [ see pp. 37661 ; 37833 ] . |
| 8 | If the GP insists on that referral , the health authority will honour it , provided that it is not wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds . |
| 9 | Yet the conventional wisdom in the transport world of the 1970s was that all progress depended on public investment , public controls and , of course , public ownership . |
| 10 | Suffolk County Council is building ramped crossing points on either side of the road , plus an island in the centre of the carriageway . |
| 11 | Judge Allen told Clarke : ‘ Nothing this court can do can remedy the harm caused by your decision to drive on that day . ’ |
| 12 | The nasal-directed response in young infants has been widely interpreted as reflecting a functional crossed pathway , direct to the NOT , with the temporal-directed response depending on later maturation of an uncrossed pathway through binocular cortical neurons . |
| 13 | Costa Rica and Panama agreed on ecological protection measures for their joint border areas . |
| 14 | The profit the investors/ shareholders make on eventual encashment looks like a capital gain but , by statute , is not taxed as such . |
| 15 | It will also meet with resistance from some of the groups that stand to gain from such policies because of the grip that the ideology of inequality has on British society . |
| 16 | It was only sometimes that I 'd wake and find Bernard snoring on one side of me and Uncle Bill giving an occasional snort on the other . |
| 17 | Essentially , what the communications course does is to bring to the fore issues which had hitherto been considered marginal ; it brings the perspectives of a variety of disciplines to bear on one subject . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend brings a great deal of expertise to bear on this issue . |
| 19 | He needs to have time and freedom to concentrate on proper spending ! ) |
| 20 | No counsel appearing on this appeal has attempted to defend those findings of fact or suggest that the reasons are in any way adequate . |
| 21 | ‘ The Graces dwelt on ev'ry Limb : |
| 22 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on this draft PPG Note . |
| 23 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 24 | Farm suicides blamed on extra pressure |
| 25 | Physiologists capitalized on this instrumentation to demonstrate that the electrical activity of the brain and its nerve cells was a function of what the individual was doing , or not doing , or how sensory receptors were stimulated . |
| 26 | ‘ With his business training and keen sense of duty , he makes an admirable country gentleman ; on all Boards , on all Committees , on all Councils , in politics , and generally in affairs , he is to be counted on and depended upon ; he brings an admirable sense of rectitude and a very kindly heart to bear on public business . |
| 27 | Relocation to a new area could , therefore , provide the opportunity to consolidate on one site and to provide sufficient area for future expansion . |
| 28 | I tcalls on manufacturers to agree on standard packet sizes toaid re-use . |
| 29 | SPAR 's input was processed initially by a syntactic and semantic analyser ( Boguraev 1979 ) that resolved as much non-anaphoric ( word-sense and structural ) ambiguity as possible , leaving anaphors untouched , and constructing alternative case-labelled dependency structures when non-anaphoric ambiguities depended on contextual information for its resolution . |
| 30 | Look also at the position of the rig — in high speed turns on flat water the sail is deliberately sheeted in and inclined into the turn . |