Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chi square test was used to look for differences between tokens of the two word classes in two linguistic environments ; but decisions concerning the environments and the type of differences to be examined depended on a great deal of phonological , sociolinguistic and historical linguistic information . |
| 2 | Advanced Micro says a number of its personnel will be assigned to work on a full-time basis at Hewlett-Packard 's Deer Creek Research and Development Facility in Palo Alto , California over the next two years , although some tasks associated with the project will be handled at Advanced Micro 's Submicron Development Centre in Sunnyvale . |
| 3 | Alice said , " I have come to report on an agreed squat — you know , short-term housing — surely you know … " |
| 4 | The winner will automatically be booked to appear on a paid basis at a later Gong Show and as a support to one of the visiting star acts . |
| 5 | Teacher Researcher groups are expected to meet on a regular basis . |
| 6 | The company is also now expected to embark on a new round of lay-offs in addition to those already planned for , with the need for further provisions against its fourth quarter figures — despite still having $694m of the $1,100m reserves already taken that is not yet allocated . |
| 7 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6 ’ by 9 ’ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |
| 8 | What am I expected to do on a regular basis ? |
| 9 | Trades Union leaders and the Labour Party successfully projected an image of moderate , social patriots , committed to reform on a broad front . |
| 10 | John Barry and Tim White and Professor Gordon Dunlop ) with whom the successful applicants are expected to interact on a daily basis . |
| 11 | Commenting on its figures ( see page seven ) , Amsterdam-based networking and electrical engineering group Getronics NV says it sees no evidence of market growth , and assuming no major acquisitions occur , its business will grow hardly any faster than in 1992 , when net profit rose 14% ; its investment is expected to remain at the same level as in 1992 , and cash flow is expected to develop on a comparable basis . |
| 12 | Whatever its precise terms an exclusion clause designed to operate on a national basis can not be justly applied to a party active in only one part of the country and putting up no candidates elsewhere . |
| 13 | You can buy packs which you complete manually with exact timings taken from a digital clock , but it is more common for standard pads to be completed operating on a six-minute unit . |
| 14 | While MICHAEL PALIN goes Pole to Pole , ZODIAC MINDWARP and enigmatic KLF mastermind BILL DRUMMOND have decided to go on an Arctic adventure all of their own and without the help of special medication … |
| 15 | In May 1977 the policy was amended , when it was decided to concentrate on a few tourist growth points in areas of rural depopulation where there was unrealized tourist potential . |
| 16 | J j just agree with client he might , might be prepared to accept on a quarterly basis |
| 17 | The car , a green Morris Minor , had been toppled over the edge of a shallow depression in the wasteland , and had lurched to rest on a grassy plateau about ten feet from the ridge like a clumsy animal going to earth . |
| 18 | Scaling : the relaxation ( time-correlation ) functions ( which characterise a material 's response to changes in an applied mechanical or electromagnetic field ) , measured at different temperatures , may be made to coincide on a single ‘ master ’ curve by scaling the time axis with a temperature-dependent characteristic time . |
| 19 | An Astropath on board a barge bound on the long slow haul from Karkason to the dwarf partner star , Karka Secundus , had chanced to eavesdrop on a telepathic message from the mining world to one of those agric planets that Sagramoso had seduced , using pirates paid with power crystals as his emissaries — pirates who had made themselves scarce with their illicit starships when the crusade had come through the Warp to Karka 's Sun . |
| 20 | Next day , Dot was made to lie on a high hard bed in a glittery room without windows and they pressed a black rubber bowl over her face which smelled like the inside of her gas-mask . |
| 21 | He got some kind of perverse pleasure out of this , thinking at the back of his mind that when The Graduate opened in the movie houses around Manhattan , the face would be seen magnified on a big screen and imprinted on audiences ' minds . |
| 22 | It was foolish , he told himself , ever to have supposed anybody might be following him , yet the hour he was destined to spend on a chill damp station , awaiting the next Swindon train , was not entirely wasted . |
| 23 | The millionaire Boss has agreed to appear on a new TV programme called Takeover , which highlights an outlawed squatter group who have seized buildings in eight US cities for use by the homeless . |
| 24 | The verbal pinpricks are shrewdly administered in a story indulgent to the conscious flippancy of the early 1920s ; from our own angle of vision it seems as though one socially artificial and isolated world is being used to comment on an earlier , equally artificial and isolated one . |
| 25 | The others have preferred to compete on a local-for-local basis with many others whose limits are purely national . |
| 26 | Europeans are not used to change on a major scale . |
| 27 | A co-operative may have more difficulty in raising a large initial sum of venture capital and hence be at a greater risk of starting with too big a burden of interest on loan capital ; but , having got started on a sound financial footing , it would be under no special difficulty in doing as well as ordinary firms . |
| 28 | That is where the power of the edge , the fringe , should n't be underestimated : artists have had to take on a self-sufficient approach which I applaud . |
| 29 | However , he would not have been around to negotiate with the RAF and would have had to rely on a tenuous radio link with the LRDG main base . |
| 30 | In others , where the courts have been unable to find any contract between the parties , the courts have had to rely on an equitable doctrine of confidence . |