Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a side that trades heavily on the commitment of a classy midfield quartet , the cool defender 's ability to score vital goals has often proved a trump card for Charlton . |
| 2 | It appends that promise to a clear and comprehensive code of conduct ( one that builds helpfully on the recently published Fleet Street set of principles ) . |
| 3 | It appends that promise to a clear and comprehensive code of conduct ( one that builds helpfully on the recently published Fleet Street set of principles ) . |
| 4 | ‘ With this I would make a simple straight skirt that sits just on the knee , and a large cartwheel hat trimmed with the suit fabric . ’ |
| 5 | For the producers of material X , for example , although not currently selling X to exporting firms , can argue that , if they were not supplying firms that sell only on the home market , those firms would have to buy imported supplies of X , and that , if the firms that now supply X to exporting firms were unable to do so , they would be able to take their place . |
| 6 | Travellers on foot , however , may continue along the road to its barren summit , and return to Dent on an ancient highway that joins here on the right . |
| 7 | Romantically but not altogether inaccurately , James Emerson Tennant , Colonial Secretary to Ceylon , wrote of the island in 1859 in his book Ceylon : ‘ a pendant that nestles gently on the swelling bosom of the Indian Ocean . |
| 8 | I can indeed mean the thought that occurred there , rather than mean the thought that occurred nowhere on an occasion when my location was Venice . |
| 9 | Xerox Corp has introduced LiveBoard , a five-foot wide electronic blackboard — Americans call it a chalkboard : the LiveBoard , which sells for $49,500 , uses a wireless pen that writes directly on the surface , creating an electronic document that can be shared through ordinary telephone lines for simultaneous viewing and editing from remote locations ; it includes a 67 ’ interactive surface , 80486 processor and software that enables users to edit , colour , annotate , erase , save , retrieve and print whatever they have drawn on the LiveBoard . |
| 10 | Our concern is with that huge category of stock which is not issuing well and which fills our valuable storage space : the nineteenth-century biographies ; the classics of politics and philosophy ; the long journal runs ; the multi-volume histories ; the ‘ complete ’ works ; the novels , plays and studies of and by yesterday 's men and women ; the giant topographical histories — the accumulated cultural and historical heritage that lies heavily on the stacks and on the reference shelves . |
| 11 | A light voice that dropped rhythmically on the syllables . |
| 12 | Homi Bhabha finds that Fanon most profoundly evokes the colonial condition not in his yearning for ‘ the total transformation of Man and Society ’ , nor in his appeal to the human essence ( though ‘ he lapses into such a lament in his more existential moment ’ ) , but in his understanding of the workings of ‘ image and fantasy — those orders that figure transgressively on the borders of history and the unconscious ’ ( foreword to Fanon , Black Skin , p. xiii ) . |
| 13 | They all confirm that a black hole ought to emit particles and radiation as if it were a hot body with a temperature that depends only on the black hole 's mass : the higher the mass , the lower the temperature . |
| 14 | It is right to distrust initiatives that depend only on the health and education sectors ; in the current political climate this is indeed oversimplistic . |
| 15 | In addition to the changes in teaching required by the introduction of GCSE there are many other changes in the air that impinge directly on the working lives of all teachers . |
| 16 | The police chief fears that his appointment could be terminated if he carries out policies that impinge directly on the interests of the mayor 's political supporters : electoral considerations and impartial policing thus make awkward bedfellows . |
| 17 | There is another major category of feeders that concentrates more on the highly nutritious parts of plants — their fruits , nuts , seeds and flowers . |
| 18 | The greatest threat to humans comes from the stingrays , large flatfish that lie inconspicuously on the seabed in shallow waters . |
| 19 | She fumed in silence , turning her gaze towards the soothing vista of river and fields , and the brightly coloured assortment of rafts that bobbed gently on the water . |
| 20 | Specifically , that worked best on the song War , where the melody is played over an E riff and then it 's played over a B riff and then over an A , but the melody of the verse never uses a third and so you do n't know whether it 's phrygian or phrygian dominant . |
| 21 | Country horses — horses that worked chiefly on the land — came in once in three months , on the average . |
| 22 | Ventilator holes in that hood doubled as the hollow pupils of slanting crimson eyes that focused faithfully on the chosen target , since a single discharge of super-heated plasma would completely exhaust the capacitor . |
| 23 | Furniture makers , distilleries and sweet manufacturers are just some of the many British industries that rely heavily on the US export market . |
| 24 | These concerns have led to two approaches to calming housing areas in West Germany , those that rely solely on the law to reduce speeds and those that , additionally , incorporate redesign of the street . |
| 25 | Now Lucy Netzer and Jacob Sagiv , from the Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot in Israel have developed a simpler and quicker technique for preparing monolayer films that relies simply on the chemical properties of the starting materials . |
| 26 | In United States law , for example , it is unclear whether a bank that relies solely on the CKR as its collateral can perfect a security interest in the goods , or whether having perfected its interest in the CKR it has priority over bona fide purchasers of the goods or over holders of purchase money security interests in the customer-buyer 's inventory . |
| 27 | The boy was sitting up , watching him , his dark , over-large eyes puzzling over the shapes that lay there on the cloth . |
| 28 | The presence of soils in turn ensures the presence of breeding petrels that burrow in soils , or require the dense vegetation for nesting , and of a few species of birds ( and indeed of introduced mammals ) that live entirely on the resources of the land . |
| 29 | The fearsome implement ( fashioned in this case from expensive , shiny metal ) that sparkles so on the poster ? |
| 30 | The fearsome implement ( fashioned in this case from expensive , shiny metal ) that sparkles so on the poster ? |