Example sentences of "[verb] on [adj] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent article in the New Statesman & Society listed some of the current operations at Menwith Hill , including those that involve eavesdropping on Russian and West European telephone calls . |
| 2 | COMPANY MDs REPORT ON 1992 AND CHALLENGES OF THE YEAR AHEAD |
| 3 | Based in Paris and working under Professor I. Rasool , it is intended to concentrate on managerial and policy aspects of the task in the first 2 years ( 1990–92 ) but then to expand considerably thereafter . |
| 4 | If you do not understand how it works and you want more information about the method used then I again refer you to the books I have written on 1-2-3 and SuperCalc . |
| 5 | Throughout the changes , however , the MSC retained as its main responsibility the provision of vocational education and training , especially for young people and the unemployed ; and as its basic structure a central Commission with representatives of employers , trade unions and government , together with networks of local committees which advised on educational and training needs , and of local ‘ managing agents ’ ( such as employers , FE colleges and LEAs ) which ran training programmes under the supervision of the Commission . |
| 6 | Appendices focus on individual and group evaluation . |
| 7 | In general , students who embark on full-time and sandwich courses at degree level are entitled to a mandatory award from their local education authority and can apply to the Student Loans Company for loans . |
| 8 | A joint Italian-Iranian memorandum of understanding signed on Jan. 22 , 1990 , included an agreement by Italy to suspend limitations imposed on financial and capital guarantees for projects and transactions with Iran . |
| 9 | Then , as now , we had a car fitted with the optional Laycock overdrive , operating on third and top ; then as now it emphasised the low-speed/high-gear flexibility but did show up a big gap between second and third — a gap of over 30mph in maxima . |
| 10 | A short film will be shown on Black and Decker prior to the tour followed by a question and answer session . |
| 11 | The optimised compiler has a blended mode option for applications that will run on 80486 and Pentium boxes as well as a Pentium-only mode . |
| 12 | The optimized compiler has a blended mode option for applications that will run on 80486 and Pentium boxes as well as a Pentium-only mode . |
| 13 | Cliff Shepherd , the senior officer leading the City Challenge Two team , took the document which concentrates on Central and West Middlesbrough top London by train . |
| 14 | Gillian Stewart and Julie Forbes finished on 147 and Cathy Panton-Lewis produced a 77 to make the cut of 151 . |
| 15 | Gillian Stewart and Julie Forbes finished on 147 and Cathy Panton-Lewis produced a 77 to make the cut of 151 . |
| 16 | The Chinese cosmology based on li and ch'i goes back only to the Neo-Confucian movement of the Sung dynasty ( AD 960–1279 ) , a conceptual revolution which can itself be understood in Kuhnian terms as a response to the breakdown of an older paradigm . |
| 17 | It is often better to leave such exploration until the patient 's difficulties are beginning to resolve because by then the patient may be more willing to consider , for example , that his act was based on hostile and manipulation motives . |
| 18 | Recent advances in knowledge of thrust belts based on seismic and drilling have been made easier to apply to frontier areas by published descriptions of typical geometries , improved understanding of the mechanisms involved , and the establishment of standard terminology ( see , for instance : Hossack 1979 ; Berger and Johnson 1982 ; Butler 1982 ; Boyer and Elliot 1982 ) . |
| 19 | Xenophon 's training of horses was based on commonsense and kindness , and understanding the psychology of the horse . |
| 20 | Clarins Body Shaping Gel Concentrate , like all Clarins skincare preparations , is based on natural and plant ingredients . |
| 21 | Without the benefit of the results from a random allocation study based on experimental and control groups , second thoughts about how much of the two out of three success rate can be directly attributed to the AEC are inevitable . |
| 22 | The priority work of the laboratory was , of course , the development of fission weapons based on uranium-235 and plutonium — indeed , the production of a fission device was a precondition for the Super . |
| 23 | A communiqué issued on behalf of a steering group of the Ministers and central bank governor of the Group of Ten ( G-10 ) industrial economies ( the G-7 contries plus Belgium , the Netherlands , Sweden and Switzerland ) , which met in Washington on April 29 , called on central and east European countries to abandon " gradualism " and adopt the Polish model of economic reform . |
| 24 | The government 's early arguments that ‘ we ca n't afford it ’ are less persuasive with the budget surplus accumulated in 1987 and 1988 and claims that tax cuts are better than greater state spending on social and health services have found fewer takers among the public ( see below p. 297 ) . |
| 25 | Both logistically and procedurally it would be impossible for all four cases to be pursued to trial at the same time , and it was therefore natural for the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. matters to be placed in relative suspense , whilst attention was concentrated on Carrian and B.M.F.L. |
| 26 | A great deal of spending went on social and community projects , an area where the voluntary sector flourished . |
| 27 | In the last minute , Gary makes it four , he was involved in the start of the move , some good play by , fed and lays on another and scores another . |
| 28 | Burstead 's openers put on 50 and Johnson tried to up the tempo in mid-innings , but Lightfoot , with 4 for 30 , took out the tail . |
| 29 | Weir put its energies into high value-added , or what Lord Weir calls ‘ brain-based ’ , applications , with big design , research and development input , capitalising on the relatively cheap price put on scientific and development expertise in this country . |
| 30 | Relying on this and photocopies of the Viewdata artwork for Pannell Kerr Forster and KPMG Peat Marwick , he paid £500 plus VAT for a year 's subscription . |