Example sentences of "operate on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France too , the Lumière Brothers operated on a much larger scale than their British counterparts and , by 1902 , Pathé-Frères had expanded to the point where it carried out all the functions relating to film production — from the manufacture of film stock to exhibition . |
| 2 | Surgeons operated on a 22-year-old American male who had died from gunshot wounds . |
| 3 | I am contemplating plumbing in an electric SU petrol pump , operated on a push button , to prime the carb only , |
| 4 | By the 1850s , Freames Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins by Perkins , Critchley and Marmont , who were there for around a decade and who later operated on a much larger scale at Wimberley Mills . |
| 5 | The mill was last operated on a regular basis around the end of the Second World War . |
| 6 | It is doubtful if the mill could ever be operated on a commercial scale and in Wilf Medlam 's words it is ‘ a desirable and harmless anachronism , doing its bit to satisfy the immense demand for 100% wholemeal flour ’ . |
| 7 | Domestic washing machines operated on a hot cycle and commercial laundering are also effective means of disinfecting cloths , protective apparel and other laundry items . |
| 8 | Before the reorganization of British local government in 1972 book selection in many of the smaller borough authorities was virtually operated on a personal basis by the librarian and/or his deputy . |
| 9 | Most early societies at the dawn of civilisation operated on a barter basis whereby goods were exchanged , i.e. traded , for goods . |
| 10 | The undercarriage is operated on a lever with a clear plastic , wheel-shaped knob . |
| 11 | The Foreign Exchange Allocation Committee operated on a case-by-case basis . |
| 12 | They are generally operated on a fixed cycle , so that , when a known volume of water has passed through the plant , a valve is turned so as first to backwash the bed to cleanse the zeolite , and then to pass in brine for a fixed time to regenerate the material . |
| 13 | The amount at which materials are charged out to sites on stores issue notes must therefore reflect the whole of this on-cost if the stores are to be operated on a profitable basis . |
| 14 | The Group 's entitlement to turnover proceeds from Indonesian LNG sales is included in turnover after adjustment to add back the Group 's share of transportation and liquefaction costs and debt service which is deducted on an incurred basis on loans raised by the owner to finance the construction and expansion costs of the Bontang LNG plant which is operated on a break even basis . |
| 15 | All versions of Okapi up to Okapi '87 were written in Z80 assembly language and operated on a network of Apple IIe microcomputers connected to a Nestar PLAN/4000 file server . |
| 16 | When British Telecom was approached on the subject , we found that DDI can only be operated on a digital system ; the existing system is analogue . |
| 17 | ‘ Even though the business has charitable status , it still needs to be operated on a commercial basis . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ For some time now we have operated on a customer-led basis , ’ explained Paul . |
| 19 | External verification is now operated on a cognate group basis , with over five hundred SCOTVEC external verifiers extending their experience , within the groups , across National Certificate Modules , Higher National Units and Workplace Assessed Awards . |
| 20 | One of these , which specialised in regular nine-panel arrangements and residual lozenge arrangements , was based in Colchester- Another , which specialised in irregular saltire arrangements and fine figured work , operated on a semi-itinerant basis while the former was still working . |
| 21 | Most of the actual work of book provision is operated on an area basis — in common with other functions of the library service . |
| 22 | In response to this growing problem , the Prosecution of Offences Act 1995 empowered the Home Secretary to introduce statutory time limits and since 1997 these have been operated on an experimental basis in a number of areas . |
| 23 | Since the early 80s , when Chatham dockyard — and the Royal Naval cookery school — closed and the Army had spare capacity to offer , all three services have based their catering schools there , operated on an entirely separate basis with the Army as landlord . |
| 24 | MEMBERS of Dyfed County Council 's highways and transportation committee will decide on Friday whether to continue the Sunday morning town bus service in Aberystwyth , operated on an experimental basis since last October . |
| 25 | We are now plainly operating on a Deutschmark standard , and the rise in British base rate to 15 per cent was dictated by the rise in German rates . |
| 26 | Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed . |
| 27 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 28 | All that folklore about women operating on a different intellectual level because of their hormone differences would appear to have some basis in fact . |
| 29 | But there are several small highly competent organisations , operating on a regional basis , that can provide the necessary level of service . |
| 30 | This was when most of the older breeds ' herdbooks and breed societies were established and in 1874 the Nederlands Rundvee Stamboek ( NRS ) national herdbook was formed , operating on a provincial basis and registering and describing all breeds and types without differentiating between them . |