Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which authority exercises them depends on local arrangements . |
| 2 | The main concern of Out ( 1964 ) , Such ( 1966 ) , and Between ( 1968 ) is the process whereby the subject constructs his or her identity in and through the language of specialized discourses , and the way in which he or she acts on those discourses to make them ‘ run here and there again' . |
| 3 | She draws on subterranean forces to subjugate and control . |
| 4 | She serves on several committees connected with classics teaching . |
| 5 | However , it trades on special terms , which this chapter has attempted to describe . |
| 6 | How do you think I feel when I bring home three hundred a twenty quid a week , and all of it goes on fucking bills ! |
| 7 | The Training Agency frequently claims that it insists on non-discriminatory practices , but ‘ all the evidence points to widespread exclusion of Black trainees from prestigious employer based schemes … most likely to lead to full-time jobs , top-ups to the allowance and higher quality training ’ . |
| 8 | He sits on 1,299 points , only 300 behind his Russian rival Andrei Mazunov who is No 50 . |
| 9 | Oh , sure , he quivers on slippery poles as tall as the moon is high , and lopes nude down tunnels while alarm-clocks sound , etc — but there are no worrying resonances . |
| 10 | He said he lives on baked beans ! |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has on new initiatives undertaken by car manufacturers as part of his strategy to defeat car crime . |
| 12 | mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright . |
| 13 | Thus the function of the family is the effect it has on other parts of the social structure and on society as a whole . |
| 14 | More important , it has on several occasions presented to the European Commission solutions to technical problems with the Directives which have had the unanimous support of member associations . |
| 15 | The incidence of a tax describes the distribution of the burden it places on different individuals or groups within society . |
| 16 | Engels here , as elsewhere , is clearly influenced by the romantic nationalist tradition of nineteenth-century historians , and the praise which he lavishes on these groups , as well as the labelling of them as ‘ German ’ , is probably misplaces . |
| 17 | It is possibly the least effective method of change because it depends on two steps both of which are unnatural . |
| 18 | But it 's rare and it depends on all kinds of things — like how mature you both are , how much experience of relationships you have and how well you could cope with time spent apart . |
| 19 | We noted in Chapter 4 that it is hard to predict which sentences will have very many overlapping interpretations , that it depends on many factors including the phonemes in the utterance , the content of the lexicon , and so on . |
| 20 | It depends on some friends of mine . |
| 21 | The degree of competition in a market is an imprecise concept , as it depends on those factors which force firms to take account of the possibility that their business will be lost to rivals if they do not satisfy their customers . |
| 22 | It arrives on several disks , in a box covered with glossy pictures and explanations ( sometimes exaggerations ) about its capabilities . |
| 23 | It arrives on ten disks , not all of which are needed , and , being a Windows application , installs very easily . |
| 24 | If it passes on lower costs to its customers in the form of lower prices it may be open to the accusation of behaving in a predatory fashion . |
| 25 | In this case I would think that , if the minister does not act in good faith , or if he acts on extraneous considerations which ought not to influence him , or if he plainly misdirects himself in fact or in law , it may well be that a court would interfere ; but when he honestly takes a view of the facts or the law which could reasonably be entertained , then his decision is not to be set aside simply because thereafter someone thinks that his view was wrong … |
| 26 | This course recruits 15 students across the method range ; it dwells on metaphoric aspects of language and learning . |
| 27 | He succeeds on both counts . |
| 28 | 5.00pm : It closes on foreign markets at 2.7528 marks — two pfennigs below ERM floor . |
| 29 | Erm he goes round the pubs and he agitates on these lads . |
| 30 | In this he concentrates on two men guiding a crate on the end of a pulley . |