Example sentences of "[vb -s] on the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ewa Kuryluk , in her study of female creativity , Veronica and Her Cloth , focusses on the saint 's veil as a key symbol of the act of representation : she created the vera icon or true image of Christ 's face , when she wiped his face and it was miraculously printed on the cloth in blood , sweat and tears.5 The body of art is born of the body itself , and women have a special relation to the fecundity , through their ascribed — and actual — part in the reproductive cycle . |
| 2 | The hotel stands on the water 's edge just outside the village-like town of Pallanza , in front of the tiny island of San Giovanni which is famed as the place where the great conductor Toscanini once lived . |
| 3 | It 's possible that the man who stands on the winner 's podium on the Champs Elysées on the afternoon of Sunday 26 July will have come to the fore in the last two days . |
| 4 | — Amadé looks on the rat 's body with sorrow , she 's soft-hearted , you know that , when the rat wife come running out , eyes left and right , watching out , a red flower in her teeth , and she makes passes over the dead creature from tip of tail to tip of nose . |
| 5 | A useful guide to the first two is to see what effect a symptom has on the patient 's ability to function as a whole , creative , happy , loving human being , taking into account their normal state of course ! |
| 6 | That said , you may be wondering what sort of effect this has on the Polo 's performance . |
| 7 | Whatever effect this has on the children 's futures as clerks , it maims creative instinct . |
| 8 | To find out what effect this has on the perch 's eggs , and how much the minnows gain from the ploy , Reiko Baba of Japan 's Osaka City University spent up to six hours a day face down in a stream , armed with a snorkel and face mask . |
| 9 | Rather , on the assumption that the firm manages to devise effective mechanisms for routeing potentially relevant information from the external environment to its decision makers , we will ask : ‘ How should we try to ensure that the information , when it arrives on the executive 's desk , is usable by that executive ? ’ |
| 10 | When some bit pattern arrives on the node 's input lines , this pattern is treated as the address of one of its memory cells . |
| 11 | Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public 's perception of what life imprisonment means : if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years ' imprisonment , the effect will be somewhat blunted . |
| 12 | How they drive more carefully depends on the vehicle 's braking and handling , night time vision and so on . |
| 13 | To show that the price charged by the monopolist depends on the firm 's objective , consider the following possibilities : |
| 14 | This depends on the judges ' views of the merits of the case before them or ( I would add ) the direction their political inclinations lead them — what I call below their ‘ view of the public interest ’ . |
| 15 | Interpretation of the artist 's work , however , depends on the artist 's own account , since Nordenfalk had ‘ the deliberate intention of presenting Van Gogh the writer and thinker ’ . |
| 16 | Where the disclosure is made in confidence by a child victim to his solicitor , the solicitor 's entitlement to breach his duty of confidentiality depends on the child 's degree of maturity . |
| 17 | While there are some objective scientific analyses that can be used at this point , depending on the type of pottery being studied , for pottery from most excavations the analysis depends on the specialist 's judgement . |
| 18 | This is because the shearing force on a building depends on the building 's mass multiplied by its horizontal acceleration during a quake ; vertical acceleration is usually much less in quakes , and buildings are built to resist vertical forces anyway . |
| 19 | A lender classifies a borrower on the basis of credit-worthiness which , in turn , depends on the borrower 's status , income , current loan commitments , purpose of the loan and so on . |
| 20 | Students may find themselves performing in final productions over two full terms , which means they have the opportunity to play twice as many parts , but this depends on the school 's policy and how they think you have progressed . |
| 21 | Thus , the time taken to identify a /t/ will be directly related to the time taken to identify the word in which it occurs ; and , as we have seen , this time depends on the word 's recognition point . |
| 22 | This depends on the patient 's eyesight , manual dexterity and willingness . |
| 23 | The decision to give tetanus immunisation depends on the patient 's immunity as well as the wound 's susceptibility to tetanus . |
| 24 | The amount of income tax rebate depends on the person 's previous income and the time of the year when it is paid . |
| 25 | The lucidity or obscurity of the result depends on the composer 's aesthetic ideals . |
| 26 | It depends on the individual 's attitudes , needs and priorities which clearly vary from person to person and from time to time . |
| 27 | Which standard is salient depends on the individual 's dispositions and the situation at hand . |
| 28 | Increasingly , the practical application of many mathematical techniques depends on the computer 's ability to carry out calculations with faultless accuracy at ever more extraordinary speeds . |
| 29 | It rests on what is bound to be , to some extent , subjective assessment , as in playing a game when there are rules and communal experience to draw on , but ultimately it depends on the players ' awareness and skill . |
| 30 | It also depends on the doctor 's approach . |