Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near to this was a small pool designated by our guide as Lod an Suidhe [ Pool of the Sitting ] where the guga hunters sit on surrounding rocks to wash their feet after the day 's toil . |
| 2 | The first relevant principle to be derived from the ticket cases in the case of contracts placed on standard terms and conditions is that , if the party whom it is sought to bind knows that there is a set of standard terms which the other party intends should apply to the contract , and he enters into the contract on this basis , he will be bound by them . |
| 3 | This is however , not always practical , and in the absence of a change in the law through statute , the battle of the forms will continue to be a feature of the formation of contracts placed on standard terms and conditions . |
| 4 | Access to literacy was determined and directed by institutions formed on these assumptions . |
| 5 | Subtle lamps gleamed on pink-clothed tables , each with its own vase of flowers . |
| 6 | Indeed , an early CDP inter-project report was devoted to dismissing such cultural explanations of the situation of areas like North Shields in favour of structural accounts centring on industrial change and its consequences . |
| 7 | The roofs are flat , fully exposed to the rain , made by packing mud on wooden reeds resting on wooden beams . |
| 8 | This was provisionally arranged for early May 1994 , after Easter but before the ACTS gathering on 25 June . |
| 9 | Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups . |
| 10 | Some employers sponsor students by paying fees and maintenance ; there is widespread employer involvement in various forms of sandwich courses and work placements including , in some cases , co-operation in student assessment ; there are endowed chairs at universities and polytechnics ; there are sponsored courses sometimes with a single client as customer for the whole student cohort ; employers sit on various boards and committees concerned with activities from course unit level to governing body ; employers use academics as consultants and engage academic departments to do research for them ; there are sponsored research and collaborative projects ; and curriculum material is available at all levels — usually for free — from industrial and commercial bodies . |
| 11 | It was just like Tracey to take unfair advantage of her attempts to remain on friendly terms with him . |
| 12 | Most local authorities insist on separate systems to reduce the volume intake at sewage works , since rainwater can be discharged into the nearest watercourse without treatment . |
| 13 | The continents sit on shifting plates that form the outer crust of the Earth ; and the oceans fill the spaces in between . |
| 14 | Many existing maps concentrate on urban areas , but the National Register of Maps for the Visually Handicapped in London ( 071–873 2599 ) is building up a library of rural maps too . |
| 15 | Chapter 8 takes up another theme from chapter 6 : why managerial strategies concentrate on particular issues rather than others . |
| 16 | The profit the investors/ shareholders make on eventual encashment looks like a capital gain but , by statute , is not taxed as such . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Experts say on 12 October it will wipe out the hard disc of any machine it has entered . |
| 19 | Cook published books and pamphlets of advice to women travellers which contained every detail of suitable dress — even to a preference for button , rather than elastic-sided boots , which made ankles swell on lengthy tours of museums , cathedrals and ruins . |
| 20 | It must seem natural that the profession should direct its attention to needs of prisoners appearing on overnight charges … |
| 21 | Moreover recent racialist attacks are worsening and spreading to West Germany , as The Times reported on 7 October 1991 . |
| 22 | Farm suicides blamed on extra pressure |
| 23 | Physiologists capitalized on this instrumentation to demonstrate that the electrical activity of the brain and its nerve cells was a function of what the individual was doing , or not doing , or how sensory receptors were stimulated . |
| 24 | A new company , Paravent , which specialises only in screens , has commissioned several artists to work on new pieces , while Liberty , which is always interested in the work of new and interesting designers is holding an exhibition ( from 6 to 22 September ) , of its own specially commissioned screens made by different artists working in many different media and styles . |
| 25 | One Lubavitch rabbi in Stoke Newington organises gifts and loans — often running into thousands of pounds — for congregants fallen on hard times . |
| 26 | I tcalls on manufacturers to agree on standard packet sizes toaid re-use . |
| 27 | SPAR 's input was processed initially by a syntactic and semantic analyser ( Boguraev 1979 ) that resolved as much non-anaphoric ( word-sense and structural ) ambiguity as possible , leaving anaphors untouched , and constructing alternative case-labelled dependency structures when non-anaphoric ambiguities depended on contextual information for its resolution . |
| 28 | Two probes situated on each side of the deletion zone were used : the srRNA probe and the CO III probe ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Marketing priorities for LVMH 's Hennessy and Hine cognacs concentrate on premium product categories such as VSOP and XO ranges , which undergo a longer ageing process in oak casks . |