Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some theorize that income distribution is mainly a result of government action ( wage policy , taxation , etc. ) while per capita income is mainly a result of transnational forces ( for example , the price that exports bring on the world market ) . |
| 2 | The sun has warmed the walls of the garden , the cherries hang on the tree . |
| 3 | I do remember seeing two — maybe three — cars pass on the Silcaster road , but I did n't notice anything shown up in their headlights . ’ |
| 4 | Then , distant beyond the broad bowl full of skeleton walls , she saw the headlights of a car pass on the road to Silcaster , sweeping eerily across the filigree of stonework and grass , and vanishing again at the turn of the highway . |
| 5 | The rocker switch on the side of my head clicked … work off , weekend on … stress off , mellow on … and sea air crackled static through my stale brain . |
| 6 | Turning the machine over reveals the high and low speed switch on the top . |
| 7 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 8 | When the onboard tuner is activated in this way the guitar signal is instantly muted , avoiding the need for the player to bend down to the tuner switch on the unit , or re-patch the guitar lead . |
| 9 | A five-strong British team will contest the Commonwealth Tournament at Northumberland Golf Club from 6 — 8 June ; Great Britain and Ireland take on the Continent of Europe for the Vagliano Trophy at Nairn from 20 — 21 September , and the four Home countries will be among the line-up for the European Team Championship at Wentworth from 10 — 14 July . |
| 10 | Many in the music business sneer at coverage in the regional press but Gedge has always encouraged it , especially in the Middleton paper where articles take on the role of a public letter home . |
| 11 | EVENTS / Conkering heroes take on the world |
| 12 | The therapists take on the role of director , facilitator , organizer , reinforcer , and teacher . |
| 13 | A third group of carers take on the job because they feel that they have to . |
| 14 | Then player manager Brian Flynn latched on to a Mark Taylor pass on the edge of the penalty area but his shot rebounded to safety off the inside of the post . |
| 15 | A new cast of John Nettleton and Patrick Toomey carry on the ghoul work . |
| 16 | Tors take on the appearance of ruined castles or huge animals through the hanging cloud while stunted trees add to the other-worldly landscape . |
| 17 | By law , all gas and electric fires have now to be fitted with a fire-guard by the manufacturers , and when helping an elderly Person to choose one it is wise to encourage her to buy one with the on/off control switch on the top or high up on the side , to avoid unnecessary bending . |
| 18 | ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets . |
| 19 | With a group of other Australians , I first went there in 1973 , to see Graeme Langland 's Kangaroos take on the Lions before a much smaller crowd than honoured Ellery 's boys last year . |
| 20 | The input/output address of the VidiPC card can be easily changed by setting a jumper switch on the board . |
| 21 | The wiper switch on the dash is starting to annoy me , as is the headlight flasher which refuses to flash with dipped beam on . |
| 22 | Later on , the winners were joined by top pop group , Londonbeat , who sang their latest single , 'You bring on the Sun' . |
| 23 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 24 | Although some doctors carry on the tradition of the medical profession in refusing to accept these ‘ outsiders ’ , more are now realising that osteopaths and chiropractors can relieve pain . |
| 25 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 26 | Oxford City Stars take on the city 's University team . |
| 27 | There 's ice action for hockey fans in swindon tomorrow … wildcats against sheffield … on sunday Oxford city stars take on the basingstoke bulldogs |
| 28 | Otherwise the loudspeaker cables should be transferred to terminals on the Stax energiser which has the necessary loudspeaker/headphones changeover switch on the front . |
| 29 | Tomorrow the Parks take on the Provincials at Carrick while at Pickie in Bangor the Private Greens meet the BLI . |
| 30 | To have the spokesman for science take on the churches seemed to many neither congenial nor wise . |