Example sentences of "[that] [vb base] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must be prepared to understand the Evil One as the Dark Power — that which is evil — rather than elaborating ( new ) mythologies that concentrate on personalised demons and personified devils . |
| 2 | The gold medal exhibit from the Society 's Lily Group offers a chance of seeing the fritillaries that grow on arid hillsides in Turkey , often of bizarre colouring . |
| 3 | The sausage-like sea cucumbers that sprawl on sandy patches in the reef are also echinoderms , which lie neither face-up nor face-down , but on their sides . |
| 4 | Macdonald suggests that foxes account for just one in every 15 or 20 lambs that die on Scottish hills . |
| 5 | Giving what we 're being asked to do we do need to have something that focus on general skills and abilities , we 've got ta decide what they are . |
| 6 | The two major approaches to control are ( a ) those that focus on financial values , such as budgetary control , and ( b ) those that focus on physical values , such as quality control . |
| 7 | There are also liturgies in this book that focus on specific kinds of sexual violence to women and the need for healing from sexual violence . |
| 8 | The two major approaches to control are ( a ) those that focus on financial values , such as budgetary control , and ( b ) those that focus on physical values , such as quality control . |
| 9 | Species that depend on small numbers of prey species either require large hunting ranges ( Nilsson , 1984 ) or have to be nomadic , migrating in search of prey . |
| 10 | A distinction should be drawn first of all between limits on the discretion of the directors that result from the company 's objects clause , and limits that depend on fiduciary duties . |
| 11 | There are of course many aspects of language usage that depend on these relations ( see e.g. Brown & Levinson , 1978 , 1979 ) , but these usages are only relevant to the topic of social deixis in so far as they are grammaticalized Obvious examples of such grammaticalizations are " polite " pronouns and titles of address , but there are many other manifestations of social deixis ( see Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 183-92 , 281-5 ; Levinson , 1977 , 1979b ) . |
| 12 | They see in it a threat to the right of each country to protect viridian quirks : quaint old farming practices , bottle-recycling schemes that depend on local breweries or milkmen . |
| 13 | 2.7 The difficulty is compounded by the fact that the idea of association can correspond to a wide range of referential or " factual " relationships ( just as can the ascriptive use of an adjective or the qualifying use of a subordinate noun ) ; and , importantly , this is true not only of those relations that can ultimately be reduced to arrangements of objects in the physical world , but also of those that depend on human judgements and evaluations , e.g. relations of loving or resemblance ; all these we shall consider as factual relations by contrast with syntactic relations . |
| 14 | With modern circuits that run on low voltages the mains transformer provides two functions . |
| 15 | Almondsbury , Bristol-based virtual reality developer Division Ltd is looking to expand into the mainstream by launching a new version of its dVS software for Silicon Graphics Inc workstations : prices start at £5,000 for basic networkable two-dimensional virtual modelling systems that run on Indigo machines ; virtual reality helmets can be added to larger host machines for fully immersive virtual reality applications ; Division is expecting to announce dVS for the RS/6000 soon , paving the way for an open systems Unix System V version . |
| 16 | We strongly support measures to control noisy recreational activities in the countryside , especially those that rely on mechanical aids . |
| 17 | So many things that rely on new techniques are in the pipeline for consumers , such as interactive compact discs where you can see and hear , and choose or even change , sound and vision on your TV , satellite broadcasts for instant world news and events , liquid crystal displays ( called LCDs ) will replace our aging CRTs ( cathode ray tubes ) so we can watch HDTV ( high definition TV ) . |
| 18 | Many members ' agents , and many syndicates that rely on those agents for business , would perish . |
| 19 | With several separate aquaria , each kind of animal can be given the type of food it needs , and animals that feed on other animals can be kept apart . |
| 20 | Those caterpillars that feed on older leaves , with a high tannin content , are less nutritious for the chicks . |
| 21 | There is another experiment which demonstrates the presence of factors in cells that turn on specific genes . |
| 22 | Amis nudged along his suburban ensemble with typically unhurried assurance , but he did n't seem to notice or care that each character spoke the same jocular bloke-in-the-pub idiom : long , broken-backed sentences that thrive on small qualifications . |
| 23 | But it 's such a limited range whereas the the and other bodies that come on these courses have got the whole the whole investment field so er you do get the the advantages there . |
| 24 | Avoiding making these latent potentialities manifest is a constant concern , evidenced by the multitude of taboos that bracket even the most mundane activities in a ( usually vain ) attempt to forestall the dangers that lurk on all sides . |
| 25 | As the IPG has a commitment to maintain a comprehensive information system at all times for bureaux , it was decided that work on other sections of the files should continue alongside the social security work so as not to let the changes dominate the work of the group . |
| 26 | The move was sharply criticized by environmental experts , who said it would set back research and also meant that NP had reneged on a pledge that work on environmental problems would not suffer under privatization . |
| 27 | Elizabeth Ashton , an experienced primary school teacher and now lecturer at Durham University , has found that work on particular symbols can energize children into relating effectively to their own experience ( Ashton 1989 ) . |
| 28 | The huge conglomerates that assemble on such occasions provide us with some of the greatest spectacles in the animal world . |