Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I make no apologies for beginning this book in the way that a conjurer might , by giving you an apparently free choice from the pack while in fact forcing on you the particular card that I want you to take . |
| 2 | Lawrence does not neglect sound effects in impressing on us the harsh sensory qualities of the industrial scene . |
| 3 | And people are sometimes aware that the kind of stress they feel is different depending on what the stressful circumstances are . |
| 4 | The principals would change depending on what the current manager could afford . |
| 5 | But it has been commonly supposed that specifications along threshold level lines must be universally relevant , without reference to the definition of objectives for learning on which the original threshold level specifications are based . |
| 6 | The governor expressed his disillusionment in letters to Penn and others : ‘ the hosts of mosquitoes are worse than armed men , yet the men without arms [ are ] worse than they ’ ; and attacked what he saw as Quaker hypocrisy : ‘ each praying with his neighbour on First Days , and then preying on him the other six ’ . |
| 7 | Perhaps the basic technique is relying on what the literary theorists call " stock responses . |
| 8 | I am not sure where the hon. Gentleman gets his figures from — perhaps from the same Labour party briefing on which the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) relies . |