Example sentences of "[verb] on [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the most Anglophobe of Pound 's books is , appropriately , the one that is most full of shoptalk — though of shoptalk of a special kind , the talk of the master to his apprentices in the shop that is a workshop , the atelier where the talk that goes on is the vehicle by which an artistic tradition is transmitted , not in conceptualizing , and tendentious readings of history , but where it is concrete , in tricks of the trade and rules of thumb and words to the wise . |
| 2 | excellent , scale and ability what we need to agree on is the skills and abilities that we want in there . |
| 3 | What passed on were the gold frame and certain historic jewels from earlier dynasties . |
| 4 | In the end , all I had to go on was the gallery itself . |
| 5 | In terms of performance , the main facets to concentrate on are the feel and the overall sense of dynamics . |
| 6 | The other aspect Mr Mayor that I , that I want t to dwell on is the thing about housing benefits themselves , there 's been a lot of talk by a lot of speakers about benefits and er means testing in the years gone by and well okay I 'll give councillor a few more years than I have , I do n't remember the forties because I was born towards the end of them but , y'know , maybe that happened . |
| 7 | I know but what all going on is the history , that fact is since the mid-fifties we , we have had dealings cos they 've been one of the stronger of the world |
| 8 | " We are convinced that what is going on is the beginning of Renamo in South Africa , " said Mandela on Sept. 14 , in a reference to the actions of white-backed rebels in Mozambique . |
| 9 | The important point to focus on is the relationship between the modern economic sector and the informal sector which is clearly not as negative as the formal/informal dichotomy would imply . |
| 10 | What it does rely on is the government 's ability to change its policy instruments more quickly than firms can change prices . |
| 11 | But however that may be , we take it as axiomatic that unless it can be established to the contrary , the best authorities as to what went on are the actors themselves . |
| 12 | Typical of what went on was the booking of Weir . |
| 13 | How long this can and should , go on is the question which has to be asked , and answered . |
| 14 | Less remarked on are the inadequacies and crudity of language when faced with objects in everyday interaction . |
| 15 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 16 | All we have to rely on is the Sanpro ( Sanitary Protection ) industry 's own Code of Practice : a scanty document mainly concerned with sizes of lettering , multiples of goods and public relations . |
| 17 | Just as the Prime Minister , or whoever briefed him , will be doing a few months after that when he tells the House that the report that Summerchild was working on was the comparability study which has since been published . |