Example sentences of "on [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus any change in the structure of dendrites and the location of the synapses on them can change the neurophysiological relations of pre-and postsynaptic cells . |
| 2 | Fathers who choose instead to commit acts of oral sex or buggery on them will commit no offence save where the girl 's consent , in the narrow , legal sense of the term , is lacking or where it has been obtained by threat , which may be difficult to prove . |
| 3 | Both authorities emphasised the importance of the health helpline to start from April 1 on which would offer the chance of feedback from patients with grievances . |
| 4 | Strangely , few barns had been converted into craft or light industry centres , the rent on which would provide a permanent income for the farmer . |
| 5 | I 'm telling you , you wo n't have the fire on you 'll have the bleeding lot on . |
| 6 | They turn the water off , and then when they say do you want the water back on you can have a meter , but they do n't tell you , you pay thirty five pound a quarter for the meter , and that 's without a bit of water going through it . |
| 7 | Most of these , as opposed to Hollywood films , go to immense trouble to get the details right , and by concentrating on the background rather than what 's going on you can get a fine haul , especially with the aid of a video . |
| 8 | By calling CLARENCE free on you can get the resources of Lothian Regional Council 's Highways Department at your disposal to solve the problem . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to pull your skirt up , Ella , and if you 've got no knickers on you will get a bonus , you saucy little minx . |
| 10 | And David Vine on who 'll win the Rothmans Snooker Grand Prix . |
| 11 | There is as yet no word on who will play the part of Toole 's hero , the bloated medievalist Ignatius J Reilley , though earlier suggestions for the part have included the late Divine ( Waters 's idea ) and the late John Belushi ( the studio 's idea ) . |
| 12 | Partly this is because management has placed limitations on who can operate the VDUs , and partly the layout of the plant is such that there is only space for four cars between each work station . |
| 13 | Debate continues on who should pay the rent for laboratories to be set up if the WIPers are taken on . |
| 14 | There is no agreement on who should pay the costs imposed by new environmental standards . |
| 15 | But no one agreed on who should lead the next government , nor on how long it should last . |
| 16 | The president now plans to hold a nationwide opinion poll on who should rule the country , although it will have no legal validity . |
| 17 | In the absence of any inter-party consensus on who should fill the office of President , no candidate secured a sufficient majority in 15 rounds of voting between May 13 and May 23 in the 1,014-member electoral college which comprised the 630 deputies , the 315 elected senators , the 11 life senators and 58 delegates from regional councils . |
| 18 | We have had debates on the entrenchment of rights ; on federalism or regional devolution as against the unitary state ; on the case for consensus rather than majority as a basis for government , on the relative weight of national versus local mandates and the independence of local government , on the duty of civil servants ; on electoral reform with all its implications for the operations of government ; on who should define the national interest ; on open government and official secrecy ; on complementing representative democracy by referenda and other forms of participation — and much else . |
| 19 | So you see that being a MIDI device has massive advantages : first , sound changes which might otherwise require the drastic resetting of several controls can be carried out instantly , by calling up a patch containing the new settings ; and second , when using another MIDI device , such as a multi-effects processor , the two can be linked via the MIDI sockets and a patch change on one can trigger a patch change on the other . |
| 20 | I thought you 'd on we 'll do a reset and see how it goes , and just leave it if it , if it clears it erm that 's fine |
| 21 | Perhaps he thought powerful attacks on her might produce the result he longed for . |
| 22 | telly on it 'll pick the telly up . |
| 23 | One matter rose over erm in discussion over lunch which if we could get a clarification on it might help the remainder of the day . |
| 24 | As the tyre rolled , each point on it would enter the contact zone . |
| 25 | Further memories were revived by a visit from his mother in the summer of 1921 which brought ‘ another anxiety as well as a joy ’ when Eliot was working on what would become The Waste Land . |
| 26 | By the time when he began to work most intensively on what would become The Waste Land , Eliot was neither god nor martyr . |
| 27 | Certainly , I have known some undergraduates who would rise brilliantly to such a challenge ; but they are an exception , and one can not base a course on what would suit the exceptional student , much as one would like to . |
| 28 | The village green is really a giant theatre set.It takes hours of work by the scenic artists to turn a series of frames covered in plastic sheeting into convincing buildings.Here they 're working on what will become the church . |
| 29 | In these circumstances the court is likely to require professional evidence on what will constitute a reasonable standard of parental care . |
| 30 | Since the Brazzaville Conference of January 1944 he had never ceased to believe that " the populations dependent on us should have the right to self-determination " . |