Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new hearing will be at Manchester Crown Court , where the judge was already due to sit on other cases . |
| 2 | Vociferously opposed by both the profession and the pharmaceutical industry , compromises were made which both reduced the scope for potential savings and did little to impinge on clinical autonomy . |
| 3 | It may be possible to claim on medical insurance if prescribed by a doctor/specialist . |
| 4 | To return to our earlier example , a consequence of this is that it will not be possible to claim on valid grounds that " Men exist " or rather " actually exist " , reduces to , and can be replaced tout court by " ( Ex ) x is a man . |
| 5 | Prussia 's attempt in 1850 to capitalize on Austrian weakness and turn herself into the pre-eminent power in Germany came to nothing when the Austrians made plain that they had recovered their nerve and were prepared to go to war on the matter . |
| 6 | Labour 's electoral college is due to meet on 18 July . |
| 7 | Councillors were due to meet on 25 April to consider the matter — no easy task when hundreds of letters , suggesting numerous solutions , have been sent . |
| 8 | This rulemaking exercise will be undertaken by the preparatory Commission for the ISA and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ( PREPCOM ) , which is due to meet on 15 March in Jamaica . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm sorry , ’ Chesarynth said automatically , trying to look as though it were normal to stand on one leg with her skirt round her knees . |
| 10 | Police said they had no idea why Roberts was at the court as he was not due to appear on any charges . |
| 11 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 12 | Some concentrate on local authority employment , others stress the council 's planning role . |
| 13 | but erm , I think I down by his legs , all this and erm , you know , its bang , bang its just like , its over in a split second , you do n't have time to be this , I was there and there nobody really new what was going on and all this sort of stuff , he was probably one of most honest about , well , one of the most honest little bloke more willing to speak about it , and he had this other one it was right you know like , er , well I 'm already taking further than I 'm willing to go on this course , what you need is , well look , you know , all I know is that we was first , saying no more than that , not willing to go . |
| 14 | This centred on three principles : reducing work to simple tasks ; giving each worker one unvarying duty ; and removing all planning and quality control from the shop floor to the central office . |
| 15 | There is little further to report on this issue , the Scottish Office have gone quiet . |
| 16 | The aim is to produce more economists who can handle practical affairs seriously ; more generalists--aware in a rough way of what non economists think--by making it easier to concentrate on particular problems , so that their views may more easily be sought and comprehended ; and more theorists who plan their work in an economic manner . |
| 17 | the way in which cases are prepared and presented to senior officers and to prosecutors , and the influence which this has on succeeding decisions . |
| 18 | J. McL on Arran — and there was another to come on another Ramble . |
| 19 | With the longest life expectancy in the world the Japanese have become obsessed with the burdens this places on private employers , their employees and the state . |
| 20 | There are still many people who think ( perhaps a better word is ‘ hope ’ ! ) that a gyro can do all the work of controlling the tail and thus leave the pilot free to concentrate on other things . |
| 21 | If you would like further copies of the Region 's Council Tax notes I can make these readily available and I would also be prepared to comment on any draft training document you produce . |
| 22 | This occurred on several Riglos routes , where text and topo also differed as to the number of pitches ( Routes 2 , 9 and 14 are good examples ) . |
| 23 | Now although evolutionary research can lead and indeed has led to major breakthroughs , it is so unlikely that it would not be sensible to concentrate on this type of research , for which in any case there are many potential sources of funds . |
| 24 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 25 | said she might be small she said but she ai n't half put on some weight you know |
| 26 | Here we report that human mutant cell lines that lack mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) , and therefore do not have a functional respiratory chain , can still be induced to die by apoptosis , and that they can be protected from apoptosis by the overexpression of bcl-2 , suggesting that neither apoptosis nor the protective effect of bcl-2 depends on mitochondrial respiration . |
| 27 | Though it is now unfashionable to dwell on such matters , there is in sport an insistence upon physical supremacy and the partisanship of an elite , strength through enjoyment and the worship of the hero , the bond of uniform and nationalism , lying uneasily parallel to the appeal of those same traits in popular Fascism . |
| 28 | This happens on eight occasions in all ; on three occasions he is thinking about his father and on five occasions he is thinking about his mother . |
| 29 | This depends on such considerations as whether the wider context includes an indication of negation or counterfactuality , and also on the lexical character of the verb with which the adjective is in immediate construction , since the property of the adjective is not applied to the entity in isolation but only as part of the property complex constituted by the adjective and the verb properties taken together . |
| 30 | This depends on many factors but three in particular will influence feelings of wanting to get as much as possible out of the coaching opportunities which you provide : |