Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tragedy 's specific effect depends on the interaction of its two components , the Apolline drama and the Dionysiac music . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was Madeline who found the old printing works on the borders of Islington and Hackney . |
| 6 | The sides and are the II-IV and III-IV boundaries respectively , and the focusing singularity occurs on the line . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Foreign investment turns on the attitude of international institutions such as the IMF and World Bank and on a major creditor , the Japanese . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The derivation of a no-arbitrage condition relies on the use of the capital market to move the cash flows arising from the arbitrage transaction through time so that they are non-zero in all time periods , and positive at least once . |
| 11 | Strong , rigid aluminium faces on the inside and outside provide outstanding security , and unlike plastic panels , the new designs can not be melted with a blowtorch or removed by would-be intruders . |
| 12 | The accelerator is such that induced investment depends on the difference between national income in the last period and national income in the period before that . |
| 13 | A teenage girl gets on the bus , then , as if she 's just remembered , takes out a comic story magazine and holds it out of the window . |
| 14 | A teenage girl climbs on the PA stack to provocatively mouth the words to Pearcy , her chest heaving . |
| 15 | A teenage girl climbs on the PA stack to provocatively mouth the words to Pearcy , her chest heaving . |
| 16 | The warehouses are built of stone and have wooden beam hoists on the gable walls . |
| 17 | a light mist breathes on the lake this morning ; |
| 18 | Maternity unit staff may have panicked on hearing alarm bells and put the wrong name tags on the girls , health chiefs admitted . |
| 19 | Sexual selection depends on the success of certain individuals over others of the same sex in relation to the propagation of the species ; whilst natural selection depends on the success of both sexes , at all ages , in relation to the general conditions of life . |
| 20 | Darwin 's argument emphasized that sexual selection depends on the ‘ success of certain individuals over others of the same sex in relation to the propagation of the species ’ . |
| 21 | When the hon. Gentleman reflects on the fact that 97 per cent . |
| 22 | If the hon. Gentleman serves on the Committee that is to consider the Bill , he will be able to reassure himself as to the way that works . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman serves on the Select Committee on Defence , and he knows that a settlement has been made . |
| 24 | Economists advising President Boris Yeltsin 's government blamed the steep price rises on the inflationary credit policy of the Russian Central Bank chaired by Georgy Matiukhin , which had advanced 600,000 million roubles in credit in 1991 , at interest rates of 6 per cent , and thereby kept enterprises running ( despite the lack of consumer demand ) and enabled them to hoard stocks and raise prices . |
| 25 | In time I was able to replace Harold Davies in covering the Monday evening sessions of the City Council , with daily morning calls on the offices of the mayor and Dan Craven , the City Clerk . |
| 26 | First , though , let's recall some of the refreshing nonsense the Land 's End Ltd press release included : ‘ Hard steel pitons were also leaving large unsightly rust stains on the cliff face and , by being chiselled in , were opening up large and damaging cracks that are irreparable by natural means . ’ |
| 27 | Just six minutes away is the beautiful picturesque old village of Altea where a lovely old church stands on the top of a hill . |
| 28 | As we have seen , over two-thirds of public spending goes on the provision of the social services discussed in this book ; the rest goes on defence , roads , employment , law and order , and so on . |
| 29 | On 4 December Sotheby 's is offering French furniture from one of the last old style tenues on the Cote d'Azur . |
| 30 | The future of British Coal depends on the results of the next general election in a few months ' time , and I do not think that any hon. Member or the Minister would refute that . |