Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if holism is true and the meaning of each sentence depends on the meanings of others , how did we do it ? |
| 2 | Little research exists on the difficult task of raising another person 's child in this situation or on the distinctive features and potential problems of step-parenting as opposed to adoption or fostering . |
| 3 | Each cell depends on the ability of others to differentiate and so specialize . |
| 4 | His move to Japan 's Grampus Eight club hinges on the health of his baby son George , who is recovering from acute myeloid leukaemia . |
| 5 | Tragedy 's specific effect depends on the interaction of its two components , the Apolline drama and the Dionysiac music . |
| 6 | The ride is a very pleasant one of about twenty miles through rural scenery and past well-maintained stations , with all the right traditional railway sounds such as ‘ chuff chuff chuff chuff ’ , which has disappeared from British Rail , and my favourite , ‘ clackety clack ’ , which is much reduced on BR due to the use of continuous welded rail on all busy lines , though the older sectioned rail survives on the lines around South Shropshire such as the Central Wales Line and the Cambrian . |
| 7 | But the geographical differences pale when they are compared to the deep threefold divisions which rend the city itself : of language ( four-fifths of the population speak French , only one fifth English and the smaller languages ) ; of culture ( the French-speaking part naturally looks to France and French literature for its mores , while the English-speaking part relies on the attachment to the Commonwealth and its close neighbour , the United States of America ) ; and of religion ( for the gulfs here are wider than the Atlantic as the former protestant cross-sectioning of Episcopalianism/Presbyterianism meets the Roman Catholicism of the French , and both meet the surging secularism and agnosticism of our day ) . |
| 8 | This story improves on the original version emanating from Arran himself , that the king was almost dead when Beaton took his hand and traced his signature . |
| 9 | This interaction depends on the extensive twist introduced in these strands by conserved β- bulges . |
| 10 | In essence this technique relies on the fact that in a dilute suspension , particles settle through a column of water at velocities which are dependent upon their size . |
| 11 | Since the total phase resistance is 20 ohms : Freewheeling resistance = 20 ohms The power rating of this freewheeling resistance depends on the operating speed of the motor . |
| 12 | It was Madeline who found the old printing works on the borders of Islington and Hackney . |
| 13 | The sides and are the II-IV and III-IV boundaries respectively , and the focusing singularity occurs on the line . |
| 14 | He suggests that the functions of speech can be to focus on any of the six basic components of the communicational event : thus the referential function focuses on the referential content of the message , the emotive function on the speaker 's state , the conative function on the speaker 's wishes that the addressee do or think such-and-such , the metalinguistic function on the code being used , the phatic function on the channel ( establishment and maintainance of contact ) , and the Poetic function on the way in which the message is encoded . |
| 15 | She looked away and fiddled with some pathology reports on the desk . |
| 16 | This study builds on the work of an existing paper ( to be published in the Economic Journal in March , 1989 ) which argued that , during the 1980's the export performance of the UK manufacturing sector improved to the extent that the historical decline of the sector 's share in the world total had been arrested . |
| 17 | By contrast , this study concentrates on the issue of public understanding as it affects scientists in conservation organisations . |
| 18 | Success or failure of this experiment depends on the basic human ability to impose a delay between the stimulus and the response . |
| 19 | It was first approved by the Association in 1983 , but in October 1985 the Library Association Council approved some guidance notes on the Code , and these were published in March 1986 . |
| 20 | Foreign investment turns on the attitude of international institutions such as the IMF and World Bank and on a major creditor , the Japanese . |
| 21 | The remainder of this submission concentrates on the changes which have occurred in the domestic market for alcoholic drinks . |
| 22 | Generally , whether computer records fall under this rule depends on the information contained within the record and the purpose for using such information as evidence . |
| 23 | This research focuses on the french perspective to the relationship between ‘ dyslexia ’ and underachievement in reading . |
| 24 | This research focuses on the tensions in State-peasant relations as autonomous producer organisations have emerged and demanded respect for their political independence and solutions to basic demands . |
| 25 | But while historical research speculates on the basis of historical fact , theology and clerical teachings speculate almost entirely on the scriptures themselves — often without any relation to historical fact . |
| 26 | This chapter continues on the theme of co-operation but now includes co-ordination , and concentrates on the organizations , committees and other groups outside the clearinghouses . |
| 27 | This chapter focuses on the ways in which age discrimination is both a product of and manifested in the social security system . |
| 28 | Although this chapter focuses on the key features of Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) as described in the Act and DES Circular 7/88 , these four elements should be seen as part of a coherent government package designed explicitly to improve the quality of education by reinforcing the accountability and responsiveness of schools and their local education authorities ( LEAs ) . |
| 29 | This chapter concentrates on the feedback which BRAC received concerning this first phase . |
| 30 | This chapter concentrates on the international context , past and present , of change in the UK . |