Example sentences of "[pers pn] operate [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You operate on a living body . ’ |
| 2 | The salt we sprinkle on our food today is produced by the same methods our ancestors used , but we operate on a bigger scale . |
| 3 | The charitable world as a whole , as I 'm sure many of you know , has been severely hit by the recession er our donations received this year are dramatically down on last year 's and we operate on a shoestring but the provision of teams to go round the world , the provision of training , even with all the help we get from the R Y A still costs a lot of money . |
| 4 | At its root is the premise that by more openly sharing with one another both our long-term strategies and how we operate on a day-to-day basis , we will actually be able to improve both our businesses . ’ |
| 5 | At its root in the premise that by more openly sharing with one another both our long-term strategies and how we operate on a day-to-day basis , we will actually be able to improve both our businesses . ’ |
| 6 | erm I mean a few of things that I would say , first of all we operate on a freephone system , also we turn claims cheques round the same day , and the name of the game as far as we 're concerned is service . |
| 7 | We operate through a network of local , area regional and head offices across England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 8 | ‘ We operate from a comprehensive manual of quality standards listing tasks and procedures , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Bona fide NVOCC 's , on the other hand , feel that they operate at a competitive disadvantage with regard to unscrupulous NVOCC 's which seem able to disregard the 1984 Shipping Act with impunity . |
| 10 | They operate on a slightly different basis , controlling movement from the dog 's head rather than the neck , and again , a normal collar should be removed before these are used . |
| 11 | Essentially they operate on a short-term basis in the context of intense international competition . |
| 12 | They operate on a different plane altogether . |
| 13 | What is more , they operate on a completely different scale . |
| 14 | But since they operate in a real world , their force and the respect they can command depends to a very considerable extent on the degree to which they take account of the real world . |
| 15 | They operate in a way which runs counter to the original purpose of creation . |
| 16 | Corporate officials are able to transform motives which make corporate crime possible into actual behaviour because they operate in a subculture of ‘ structural immoralities ’ ( Mills 1956 : 138 ) . |
| 17 | The evidence suggests that they operate in a particular way , namely that there are predictable patterns in flows of support between older and younger generations , in which support flows in both directions , but on balance the older generation are the givers and the younger the receivers . |
| 18 | I bless you that you are an intellectual girl , like your mother , in an age when such spirits are rare ; in my age , they are less rare , but perhaps no more effectual because of their greater numbers , and because they operate in a world where the male principal has prevailed , even over the mentalities of many of your sex . |
| 19 | They operate in a hard commercial environment . |