Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 2 | This continuous time model finds that the price of index futures depends on the volatility of returns on the index , as well as on the spot price , dividend yield , the risk-free rate of interest and the time to delivery . |
| 3 | When the goat was made ready , Loopy Lil helped Dot up onto the little red-painted cart with the empty milk cans clattering on the wooden seat beside her , while Mrs Hollidaye took the leading-rein at the front . |
| 4 | Gryglewski et al ( 1978 ) incorporated collagen strips into extracorporeal circuits in animals and showed that prostacyclin brought about disaggregation of platelet aggregates formed on the collagen strips . |
| 5 | I have already said that the success of a Government 's defence policies depends on the conviction that those policies and their spokesmen carry in the eyes both of prospective opponents and of present friends . |
| 6 | However , the quality of placement outcomes of primary teachers is of the highest standard , with evidence of significant curriculum programmes based on the placement experience . |
| 7 | Museums are desperately trying to shed their dusty image , Tag Gronberg sheds light on the V&A 's new look at life this century |
| 8 | This issue is currently at the centre of pedagogical discussions about language , since many teaching methods rest on the assumption that when children talk or write , they are also developing their ability to think . |
| 9 | The number of articles , booklets and text books written on the subject of corporate finance is vast . |
| 10 | ‘ All the same , ’ he said , when the spring buds burst on the seven trees that grew in Mafeking Street , along which Wendy had once half-run , half-walked , on her way to give birth to Apricot , ‘ it would be nice to be somewhere different , just for a time , just for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 11 | It was only the light from their own carriage lamps falling on the neglected driveway that told her they were approaching the house , and the salt smell that got stronger and stronger and seeped through the closed windows of the carriage . |
| 12 | However , such benefits depend on the investment returns achieved on the contributions to the endowment policy and there is no guarantee that these will match expectations . |
| 13 | The clash of ginger on pink as a small skipper butterfly lands on petals of camp ion ; gorse pods popping in the hot sun ; small striped snails creeping out on to the wet path after a cloud burst ; soldier beetles gathered on the white umbels of wild carrot : these sights and sounds I can enjoy at my pottering leisure — whilst the hordes of laden hikers tramp by with stern faces and never a glance to left or right . |
| 14 | However , from the mid-1980s onwards , a series of research projects emerged on the consequences of the programme , particularly within the Partnerships . |
| 15 | No , five currant buns in a baker 's shop , round and sticky with the sugar on the top , Peter paid a penny and took one away , two currant buns left on the tray sing that one then three currant buns in the baker 's shop |
| 16 | fat and sticky with sugar on the top , Peter paid a penny and took one away , then there were two currant buns left on the tray , two currant buns in the baker 's shop fat and sticky with sugar on the top , Peter paid a penny and took one away |
| 17 | From Ballintoy harbour , the path winds round the bottom of the cliffs to Whitepark Bay , a beautiful , curved sandy beach where oyster-catchers are common and fulmar petrels nest on the surrounding cliffs . |
| 18 | ( In today 's political and economic climate , it is unlikely that research proposals based on the work of an obscure German geologist ( Wegener ) supported only by an even more obscure South African theoretician ( Du Toit ) would have any chance of getting an ‘ A ’ rating from a Research Council ) . |
| 19 | Huge carrion birds gorged on the flesh . |
| 20 | The probable trigger for the induction of LTP is the entry of Ca 2+ through NMDA channels located on the postsynaptic cell . |
| 21 | Occasionally , the figure subjects wobble on the edge of sentimentality . |
| 22 | However , it claims DEC missed an opportunity to ship revenue units based on the 4000 since January and believes the 150MHz Alphas likely to be announced November 10 will be in short supply for some time . |
| 23 | A pair of pied wag tails alighted on the path . |
| 24 | Men from the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders berthed on the ship and on one occasion she had war scars inflicted on her when a bomb fell on Portland Place and debris rained down on the top deck gouging pieces out of the timbers . |
| 25 | In 1971 , while the war was still going on , a group of unarmed scientists and I risked our lives and crossed into the fighting zones to check on the environmental effects of the war . |
| 26 | Would my cycling shoes grip on the ice ? |
| 27 | Thus , the issues raised by the use of NVOCC bills remain on the agenda of the UCP revision . |
| 28 | Current European efforts to preserve electronic information are paltry as most of the existing data archives concentrate on the retention of datasets produced by researchers . |
| 29 | Water comes through the roof seams through the windscreen frame and can even come around the rear vents and down the roof side rails to fall on the driver 's knee when braking . |
| 30 | The 25° bends centred on the repressor sites correspond to compression of the major groove around the bound proteins . |