Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on one [noun] " 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 | At the three courts of Lothar , Louis and Charles , the primores populi agreed on one thing : there was to be no repeat of Fontenoy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . " |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One contender is the SQL Access Group , which was set up by database vendors to standardise on one SQL dialect . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | because we 've got three things happening on one night |
| 17 | Most questions focus on one word , all you have to do is to find the correct word or phrase to match it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In fact , the erratic supplies of kerosene and LPG make it impossible for many middle-class families to rely on one source of energy . |
| 20 | Often , the aphids feed on one kind of plant in spring and summer , but their eggs are laid on a different kind of plant . |
| 21 | It was rumpled , with the impression of their bodies clear on one side and across the middle . |
| 22 | DB2 Version 3 will enable users to work on one partition of a table space or index space without locking the other partitions . |
| 23 | Two games fit on one disk . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nogai rested on one knee and brought his fork up so that Jotan almost ran on to it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | US Cobra helicopter gunships swooped on one area , apparently to confine the gunmen . |
| 28 | This hardly tallies with the sentiments expressed in a letter in the possession of the College in which Coleman , writing on 24 February 1813 , gracefully declined an invitation to become President of the London Veterinary Society : ‘ Gentlemen , I received your letter , and it gives me great pleasure to see so much zeal for the improvement of the veterinary art in Gentlemen , whom any & every Teacher might well be proud to call his Pupils — I shall most willingly grant the use of the College Theatre for the examination and discussion of such points as may be considered by you most important for the advancement of the Veterinary Science … you rightly observe that a number of minds concentrated on one object can not fail to improve any art far beyond the reach of any individual and I have no doubt that the Public will ultimately derive great benefits from your united exertions . |
| 29 | University College Hospital and Middlesex hospitals to merge on one site . |
| 30 | If all plausible values fall on one side of this point , this result may clarify the issues and thus assist decision-making . |