Example sentences of "[vb -s] on the [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever effect this has on the children 's futures as clerks , it maims creative instinct . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | First , what happens to a site or cell in our lattice depends on the neighbours ' scores , and thence on the state of the neighbours ' neighbours . |
| 5 | This depends on the manufacturers ' software . |
| 6 | Now the curtain rises on the friends ' meeting . |
| 7 | An example of this type in lead , dated 1648 , rests on the children 's shelf in the De La Warr vault , but of greater interest are three wooden versions . |
| 8 | Now essentially this also relies on the children 's using their imaginations to find answers — as in the case of the ‘ sewer ’ and the ‘ Lost Valley ’ contexts — but the difference is that ( a ) each ‘ find ’ is given due weight and attention , is publicly shared , evaluated , accepted or rejected , ( b ) the focus within which their imaginations can have free range is defined from the beginning , i.e. the puzzle is clear — ‘ what could be a logical solution ? ’ is the name of the game , and ( c ) the problem-solving does not have to be hurried by action . |
| 9 | The self-supporting framework builds on the children 's existing collective resources : their knowledge and experience , their social relationships , their capacity to support and stimulate one another through shared interests and concerns . |
| 10 | It all goes on the conservationists ' bill . |
| 11 | The effectiveness of the micro in simulating experiments hinges on the children 's accepting the analogy with the true experimental situation . |
| 12 | It has remained dominated by the police and operates on the police 's terms ( Stephens , 1988:113 ) . |