Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should he start on the idle or concentrate on the incompetent ? |
| 2 | For that sum they could parade up and down the grounds at any time of day or sit on the grassy banks at will . ’ |
| 3 | On the lake-bed cladocerans Macrothrix hirsuticorna , Aloma rectangula and Ilyocryptus brevidentatus and two ostracods Notiocypridopsis frigogena and Eucypris fontana browse or scavenge on the benthic mats , which contain a microfauna of protozoa , turbellaria , rotifers , tardigrades , nematodes , gastrotrichs and enchytraeid annelids ( Heywood and others 1979 , Heywood , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | Scholz was wearing that wise , reflective look that pipe-smokers get or act on the few occasions their pipes are working well . |
| 5 | If they could not exercise that power themselves , or count on the eastern empire to do it for them , then they would find it where they could . |
| 6 | The one indisputable position which connects the two poems is that Octavia should not marry Florio or Philander on the slender hope that love will prevail . |
| 7 | ‘ Will Percy come south to Wales , think you , or stay on the Scottish march ? ’ |
| 8 | To change options double click on the text window or click on the underscored arrow button . |
| 9 | This may be felt to be a relatively radical conclusion — namely , that emotions , or affect on the normal human adult level , should be regarded as a symbolically generalized system , that is never ‘ id-impulse ’ as such . |
| 10 | The purchaser is likely to impose a cap or limit on the maximum amount payable under the earn out . |
| 11 | When the criminal proceedings in the youth court end , and the same young person who has been held in secure accommodation or remand on the same day may be the subject of an application in the family proceedings court , with a guardian to represent them . |
| 12 | Excitatory effects of somatostatin or octreotide on the sphincter of Oddi may impair biliary and pancreatic duct outflow . |
| 13 | New toys are found for me and I play in the courtyard of the high-walled convent or slide on the waxed floors , too shy to talk to anyone . |
| 14 | They come out to feed on the insects and other invertebrates that swarm on the soft oozy surface of the mud . |
| 15 | It would have been better if Cuntona had n't equalised or if Bruce had been sent off for clothes-lining that turk on the half-way line . |
| 16 | If you generally only go out as a treat , a commitment to healthy eating will mean that you want to choose dishes that build on the good work you have carried on at home . |
| 17 | It is misleading to dismiss arguments that focus on the unequal distribution of power in Japanese society simply because there are some examples of disagreement among dominant groups . |
| 18 | Stage 3 Making Operating Decisions — Operating decisions are those that focus on the efficient use of resources available to the firm in the short term and will be embodied in plans , conventionally referred to as budgets . |
| 19 | The revenue has no answer to the anomalies which arise when the cost of providing a loss-making facility means that the average cost basis results in the taxpayer being treated as receiving a sum by way of benefit greater than the cost of buying that benefit on the open market . |
| 20 | But the selectivity of H-7 for potentiated pathways has been challenged , and other PKC inhibitors that act on the catalytic subunit , including K-252b ( ref. 85 ) , are not able to depotentiate fully established LTP . |
| 21 | This chapter attempts to raise some of the contextual issues that impinge on the inner-city debate . |
| 22 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |
| 23 | For instance , I can see that writing this book is a function of my job and as such is part of the responsibility of earning a living , but it is also an escape for me , a kind of haven to which I can take refuge from the hundred and one pressures that impinge on the practical business of living . |
| 24 | Limiting oneself to just the products that run on the standard graphics card , be it colour or monochrome , reduces the options to a mere handful . |
| 25 | Claims that verge on the outrageous are made for this material — but very many fishkeepers will vouch for its effectiveness . |
| 26 | Copepods Parabroteas sarsi and Pseudoboeckella poppei overwinter only as eggs in water bodies that freeze completely or become anoxic ; in large lakes they are active year-round , breeding in late winter to produce nauplii that feed on the early plankton bloom . |
| 27 | Or it is like the light pictures that enter the eyes lenses and escape into the vastness of the tundra and like ice crystals on the windows , they freeze and become the light flowers that bloom on the endless snow fields . |
| 28 | We measure that claim on the two dimensions now familiar . |
| 29 | The ancestors of practically all the animals that live on the vast plains of western India originally came from the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East . |
| 30 | Mistakes between positive and neutral fusing are critical and could be fatal , which is why it is vital that work on the electrical circuits should only be carried out by the Electricity Board or by an NICEIC ( National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting ) registered contractor . |