Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , MyMouse is remmed out cos I do n't want I do n't erm I , I choose when I start , which mouse driver I start on one , one of the mouse port and one of the serial erm times . |
| 2 | The principal difficulty I have on this aspect of the case is that in Mr. Lester 's submission reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to interpretation of a statutory provision should be allowed only with leave of the court and where the court is satisfied that such a reference is justifiable : ( a ) to confirm the meaning of a provision as conveyed by the text , its object and purpose ; ( b ) to determine a meaning where the provision is ambiguous or obscure ; or ( c ) to determine the meaning where the ordinary meaning is manifestly absurd or unreasonable . |
| 3 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 4 | If this is so , can you please let me have one of the two data only copies I requested on 14 February ( Ref. 020 ) ? |
| 5 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 6 | The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones . |
| 7 | I remember when they went to Korea and they had to have these overcoats I sewed on hundreds of buttons , about 10 minutes each coat . |
| 8 | The radicalism of his campaign for state investment owed nothing to latent dissent over economic theory , for neo-classical economics could accommodate public works and Keynes himself remained on orthodox disciple of Marshall . |
| 9 | A MUSIC club which puts on classical music concerts is facing an uncertain future due to the withdrawal of its grant from Braintree District Council . |
| 10 | In the first two books there are also units which focus on situational English , while in the later parts of the series a functional syllabus is combined with a structural grading . |
| 11 | This they generously explain by reference to limited research which focused on unique historical periods , was limited to middle class life , and was directed at individual experiences . |
| 12 | Under the heading of coarse fishing there are different types of fishing which concentrate on one species an example of this is Carp fishing . |
| 13 | The examples of ( 10 ) have interesting implications , but we shall restrict ourselves here to those aspects which bear on adjectival grammar ; we take them as confirming evidence that we are justified in following Bolinger and recognizing that certain adjectives qualify another property , qua property , and are not to be assigned , independently , to any entity present in or assumed by the structure of the sentence in which they appear . |
| 14 | Other parasitic insects which may attack the vine are pyralis ( the larvae of the meal-moth which feeds on young shoots and leaves ) ; altise ( a beetle which feeds on the leaves ) ; phyptus vitis ( a microscopic mite which attacks leaves , flowers and grapes , rendering a condition known as erinosis , first recognised by red leaf blisters which gradually turn yellow ) and cochenilles ( various bugs which feed on the sap , weakening the vine ) . |
| 15 | He suggested that the police search the Sentier area of Paris , centre of the Jewish-run garment industry which depends on immigrant labour . |
| 16 | Simple explanations are likely to come from ill-founded prejudice rather than from detailed analysis of the admittedly poor data which exist on this topic . |
| 17 | US scientists have identified a microbe which feeds on radioactive metals and may be encouraged to find an appetite for nuclear waste . |
| 18 | In March Mr Gorbachev himself remarked on this supposed fragility . |
| 19 | Western philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who speculated on these matters usually emphasized two criteria : |
| 20 | A defendant who relies on this ground would be wise to file an affidavit in answer to the plaintiff 's affidavit and not leave all the argument to the application itself . |
| 21 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 22 | ‘ The military are now occupying the national radio and television networks , and forcibly replacing journalists who insist on editorial independence and objectivity , ’ he writes . |
| 23 | There 's only so much that anybody 's brain can handle at any one time so let's just do a little experiment because there was a chap called George Miller an American psychologist who worked on this idea of what is the capacity of the brain , how many bits of information can the brain hold on to at any given time . |
| 24 | You could , for instance , try differing lengths of harness lines or changing the amount of weight you place on each foot . |
| 25 | Himmler called me to account about a professor who lectured on prehistoric times at Danzig and Königsberg . |
| 26 | In this chapter we focus on some fundamental questions pertaining to the fiscal activities of local authorities . |
| 27 | Getting some information on our actions and the effect we have on other people can also be very useful feedback . |
| 28 | ‘ We can never measure the effect we have on other people , ’ he said , although he , more than most , had a fair idea . |
| 29 | You know — right or wrong — the effect we have on each other . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't underestimate the effect we have on each other . |