Example sentences of "[vb -s] on the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or when he meditates on The Price of Bras : |
| 2 | In the last chapter she meditates on the meaning of suffering . |
| 3 | Most of Scott 's discussion focusses on the core of the business class . |
| 4 | It focusses on the interaction between the criminal or deviant and those who define him/her as such . |
| 5 | In summary , interactionism focusses on the process of interaction in particular contexts . |
| 6 | This project focusses on the process of migration and the role of governmental and private agencies in shaping and implementing migration policy ; and on patterns of residence and employment amongst Afro-Caribbean immigrants , with particular reference to Paris and to the health service . |
| 7 | who can better that tomorrow I wonder … now our action round up this week focusses on the final of the village cricket knockout competition at Lords … it 's between two Central South teams … |
| 8 | This project focusses on the extent to which the transferral of industrial ownership between public and private sector has been justified , ex ante and ex post , by political considerations on the one hand an economic considerations on the other . |
| 9 | Here a single actor plays an imprisoned man , and performs in silence , and the scene culminates in an emotional breakdown where the prisoner beats on the door of his cell . |
| 10 | Violent heat , so intense that it lingers on the hand after touching the patient 's skin . |
| 11 | [ History ] is not rigorous because it always proceeds by faults and corrections , because it is not in any way a universal schema but a unique adventure that unfolds on the basis of prehistoric circumstances which constitute in themselves , and in relation to all the objectives and all the practices , a heavy and badly understood legacy of fundamental deviations . |
| 12 | The rituals Tamino and Papageno are required to undergo , which include taking vows of fasting and silence , have exact parallels in the initiation ceremonies which an apprentice Mason undergoes on the way to becoming a Master . |
| 13 | To demonstrate the power of the animals , a fully grown man stands on the back of the 6-inch-long shrew , balancing himself on one leg . |
| 14 | An epitaph to this era of modern housing stands on the crest of the city — where once there was a slope of slums , there now stands a barrage of flats for thousands . |
| 15 | Overlooking the town of Bordighera and the sea , this elegant hotel stands on the hillside among lush gardens . |
| 16 | Bosnia-Hercegovina stands on the edge of an abyss . |
| 17 | THE LACE HALL stands on the edge of the lace market , once the hub of the industry . |
| 18 | The Combe , sometimes called Dent Scar , stands on the edge of the Dent Fault and its massive bowed wall of Silurian stone is dotted with thorns and cut by gullies . |
| 19 | Sueno 's Stone , or ‘ King Duncan 's Monument ’ , as Boswell calls it , stands on the edge of the bypass . |
| 20 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 21 | Using local stone and featuring impressed illuminated granite tablets with an engraving of a Beaufighter attacking a German ship , the memorial stands on the edge of the airfield near the original main gate , overlooking the empty and abandoned airfield control tower . |
| 22 | Boris Anrep , for instance , whom the Berkeleys used to encounter when they stayed with Maud Russell at Mottisfont , gave them the model he painted for the mosaics which were intended for the apse of Westminster Cathedral ( it stands on the chest of drawers in their bedroom ) and Hugh Honour and John Fleming gave them the marble hermaphrodite which reclines on the top of a bookcase in the study . |
| 23 | The US already stands on the brink of a trade war with the EC over the failure of GATT talks . |
| 24 | Willie Carson stands on the brink of his 21st century after reaching 98 on Thawakib , but that 's 69 adrift of Michael Roberts who struck twice at York . |
| 25 | IN THE light of the recent debate on defence in the House of Commons , perhaps now is a good time for the people of Darlington to be told where the prospective Labour candidate stands on the issue of nuclear disarmament . |
| 26 | Just six minutes away is the beautiful picturesque old village of Altea where a lovely old church stands on the top of a hill . |
| 27 | Occasionally two individual pieces are brought together to make a new complex whole as in the bronze cast Doll and Bow which now stands on the top of the Toybox where the toys , including a ball , are again in bronze and the box itself is the broken-off end of a stone carved sarcophagus . |
| 28 | I hate it cos when I call Jones she stands on the wall like that , right . |
| 29 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 30 | Back room stage so small the performers have to rest their mike stands on the floor in front . |