Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially , what the communications course does is to bring to the fore issues which had hitherto been considered marginal ; it brings the perspectives of a variety of disciplines to bear on one subject . |
| 2 | The cast , all in full costume , are standing near their initial cue points , eyes riveted on one man , the sweep of whose arm will tell them to start acting out the next episode of Doctor Who . |
| 3 | And , in addition , there are dozens of other autonomous voluntary groups , many operating only in one locality , launched by the enthusiasm of a single initiator , as well as certain quite large national organizations focusing on one type of disorder , such as Alcoholics Anonymous . |
| 4 | As the Cornell team points out , recent research sheds light on one reason for this . |
| 5 | In mainland Europe the spacing between tracks and reversible signalling enables engineers to work on one track in complete safety while traffic continues to pass on the other . |
| 6 | Adult cancers focus on one part of the body : the lungs or the colon , for example . |
| 7 | FIG. 2 A most parsimonious phylogenetic tree of parthenogenesis and cytoplasmic incompatibility microorganisms based on 16S rDNA sequences . |
| 8 | At the three courts of Lothar , Louis and Charles , the primores populi agreed on one thing : there was to be no repeat of Fontenoy . |
| 9 | This will enable users to transfer applications developed on one machine to another without fear of mismatches in timing — so removing a major headache for developers . |
| 10 | Instead of hunting all over the sky , the pilots concentrated on one scatter of targets and spiralled down through them , turning tightly in order to cut down the risk of collision . |
| 11 | Two bored tunnels for road traffic with rail tracks laid on one carriageway to allow one train per hour in each direction : estimated cost £2.6bn . |
| 12 | Kozyrev highlighted the spirit of co-operation between the two sides : " We worked as friends and allies standing on one side of the barricade of all the problems that beset us on the other . " |
| 13 | If we assume that a LECTURER can only teach one COURSE , and many LECTURERS teach on one COURSE , then the ‘ closed loop ’ shown in Figure 4.21 represents such a set . |
| 14 | They bought white cotton sheets with lace borders and matching pillow-cases , blue towels with white alamandas appliquéd on one corner , a collection of decorative shells for Elaine 's bathroom , and an assortment of locally made wicker baskets . |
| 15 | One contender is the SQL Access Group , which was set up by database vendors to standardise on one SQL dialect . |
| 16 | One contender is the product that the SQL Access Group was formed to produce : the group was set up by database vendors to standardise on one SQL dialect . |
| 17 | because we 've got three things happening on one night |
| 18 | Most questions focus on one word , all you have to do is to find the correct word or phrase to match it . |
| 19 | The main difference between the ‘ new ’ and the ‘ old ’ series is that the weights of the new are derived from trade flows in manufactured goods rather than trade in all goods based on 1977 trade flows , which was used for the old index . |
| 20 | Although initial studies focused on three area , all of them parallel to the existing runway , consideration is now being given to a non-parallel alignment . |
| 21 | Whatever the theories , scientists and campaigners agree on one thing ; that , if the means of reducing air pollution are available then it should be done . |
| 22 | In fact , the erratic supplies of kerosene and LPG make it impossible for many middle-class families to rely on one source of energy . |
| 23 | Often , the aphids feed on one kind of plant in spring and summer , but their eggs are laid on a different kind of plant . |
| 24 | It was rumpled , with the impression of their bodies clear on one side and across the middle . |
| 25 | These have been used to calculate continuous price series for 50 individual items based on 10 year average prices . |
| 26 | DB2 Version 3 will enable users to work on one partition of a table space or index space without locking the other partitions . |
| 27 | Two games fit on one disk . |
| 28 | A second focus for integration has been through the design of materials based on one subject discipline but specifically planned to feed across the curriculum . |
| 29 | Nogai rested on one knee and brought his fork up so that Jotan almost ran on to it . |
| 30 | He was impressed by the Madras or monitor system of Dr Bell , in which pupil teachers passed on one teacher 's instruction to hundreds of junior pupils . |