Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] on [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently Ziegfeld spied on rehearsals by watching through a peephole in the wall . |
| 2 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 3 | Yeah but I do n't , see savings they 've got on suits at the moment , special offers on them cos they 're not shifting them . |
| 4 | I just know that I would n't sacrifice the experiences I 've had on drugs for anything . ’ |
| 5 | State-owned French banks , such as Crédit Lyonnais , have relied on share-swaps with other state companies . |
| 6 | Others have embarked on careers in teaching ( at all levels ) , and a good few now work in journalism and the mass media . |
| 7 | Throughout this book , however , we have drawn on examples from research in other sign languages and found parallel or identical structures . |
| 8 | In Newcastle , 145 companies have acted on concerns over education by forming a compact with local schools . |
| 9 | In this chapter so far we have focused on specificities in your argument — the presuppositions in your sentences , the specific things you can say about particular texts , the setting of something in its context , and so on . |
| 10 | Researchers in this tradition have focused on questions of the status of switching within a community , its relation to other phenomena such as language maintenance ( e.g. the survival of a language among a migrant community in their new home ) or language death ( the decline and demise of such a language ) . |
| 11 | Instead of defining clearly the uniqueness of man their efforts have focused on aspects of human life comparable to those of animals . |
| 12 | The HarperCollins discussions have focused on terms for small orders and credit periods . |
| 13 | In many cases the studies have concentrated on populations of a single species within 1 m² ; quadrats , though sometimes the reductionist level of study has been yet smaller — a scale of 1 cm² ; ( Thorhallsdottir , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | Later studies have concentrated on comparisons with attitudes to oil development in Dorset and on reactions to Chernobyl . |
| 15 | Traditional analyses have concentrated on links between government policy , output , employment and inflation in one country . |
| 16 | We have led on proposals for environmental labelling of products , for environmental reporting by companies , for public access to information , and on directives as diverse as the nitrates directive and forthcoming tighter controls over emissions from cars and heavy diesels . |
| 17 | Previous investigations of protein metabolism in these clinical disorders have centred on measurements of whole body protein turnover . |
| 18 | Many graduate students and overseas visitors have worked on aspects of the ecology of this field . |
| 19 | During the past 60 years , I have lived on islands in the Hebrides where Gaelic was the normal means of communication in church services and in daily life . |
| 20 | The deepest divisions have centered on demands for greater internal party democracy and the pace of party reform . |