Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It causes a clock on the ground to run more slowly than an identical one placed at high altitude . |
| 2 | It reveals that 75 per cent of the British population wants a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 3 | It wants a limit on the tied house system and pubs given the chance to sell different types of beer . |
| 4 | The final surface , which forms a bound for the prior surfaces , therefore contains a singularity on the line . |
| 5 | After the introductory chapter on scepticism , the first part contains a chapter on the nature of knowledge and its relation to true justified belief , and another concentrating on one particular theory . |
| 6 | Apart from the effects of the war on the local populace and their church , the book also contains a chapter on the German Luftwaffe 's KG100 that was involved in the attack . |
| 7 | If Richard Heber , former director of the Milwaukee project , is in Jail for embezzlement , this places a suspicion on the reliability of his claims of having substantially raised IQs of economically deprived children . |
| 8 | Christianity places a premium on the absolute truthfulness and trustworthiness of God , so understanding doubt is extremely important to a Christian . |
| 9 | Writing about local government , Clarke and Stewart argue that a strategic perspective ‘ places a premium on the role of the chief executive and its support ; it also demands that senior management of service and support departments set their ’ separate sectional interests within a wider strategic perspective . |
| 10 | Now suppose one places a screen on the far side of the partition from the light . |
| 11 | The equivalent of income-based taxes on the expenditure side is the personal expenditure tax , which places a tax on the difference between income receipts during the financial year and savings in the year , i.e. a tax on that part of the income that is consumed . |
| 12 | These same pressures help to explain why vacations are not taken and long hours are accepted as any individual decision to take a holiday or finish work on time places a burden on the rest of the work group . |
| 13 | First , the Agriculture Act 1986 places a duty on the Minister of Agriculture to : |
| 14 | The response of those engaged in the arduous labours which led to the conclusion of the Convention is no doubt not dissimilar to that of the scholar who writes a book on the doctrine of unconscionability in contract law and is then taken to task by a reviewer for his failure to cover breach and termination — in other words , for not writing a different book . |
| 15 | The dust-cart comes , like a sort of dead-cart , at a dead hour of the afternoon ( irregular too ) and rings a bell on the wrong site of the house , and cries : ‘ Bring out your rubbish . ’ |
| 16 | This constancy indicates as a preliminary hypothesis that the meaning of luxury is deeply political : it manifests a concern on the part of society — or its authorities — to uphold a particular conception of public order . |
| 17 | My most successful Boston fern looks a picture on the corner of the bath , where it enjoys good , indirect light and a humid atmosphere . |
| 18 | in the third division its saturday as usual for hereford … united were given a pat on the back by Wimbledon this week for playing so well against them in the cup … it beats a kick on the leg … tomorrow its all change for Crewe |
| 19 | This obviously has a bearing on the design of shop , type of advertising and form of packaging which will satisfy them . |
| 20 | The main philosophical argument I come across that has a bearing on the Devil is the old one of dualism . |
| 21 | What do the various international agreements on the laws of war say which has a bearing on the legality or otherwise of nuclear weapons use ? |
| 22 | Although there is no South Pacific equivalent of the foggy collision of the Kuro Shio and the Oya Shio , there is one crucially important peculiarity about the currents off the South American coast which has a bearing on the economic livelihood of tens of thousands of people . |
| 23 | ( One wonders how much the latter has a bearing on the former , notwithstanding the fact that Riley herself is adamant that being female has not been an issue in her career ) . |
| 24 | This has a bearing on the priorities of different chargees and of course the equitable charge holder can be defeated by the bona fide purchaser for value |
| 25 | The manner in which libraries deal with the theses in their custody thus has a bearing on the uses to which the research contained in these works is put . |
| 26 | It is suggested that spending on support services , such as libraries and computing , has a bearing on the quality of research work carried out in individual universities . |
| 27 | But the result no longer has a bearing on the National Division Two relegation situation after Morley beat Newcastle Gosforth on Saturday to go clear of trouble , while West have forfeited the chance to go up to National Division One as champions , settling for second spot and promotion . |
| 28 | I do n't know how Wheeler knows him except that Charles has a cottage on the Cumbermound estate so perhaps he 's come across him that way . |
| 29 | It 's another of his ideas which he keeps trying to interest people in ; he has a manuscript on the subject ( ‘ The State of the Fart ’ ) which he also sends away to London to publishers now and again and which they of course send back by return . |
| 30 | ‘ Robson has a clot on the calf muscle and we are giving him some fitness routines in the gymnasium in the hope of clearing it , ’ said Mr Ferguson yesterday . |