Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 2 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 3 | Deal them face upwards on the table in groups of two but so that each card can be clearly seen . |
| 4 | In the end , the interpretation of research data and the results of statistical tests applied to them rests squarely on the researcher 's shoulders : |
| 5 | One solution is to allocate property rights over the resources , so that the cost of the individual 's use of them falls only on the individual . |
| 6 | We may know these things on an intellectual level , but there 's nothing like having the emotional truth of them brought home on a gut level-none of us are free from some degree of the self-blame that makes so many women feel responsible for their own rape . |
| 7 | They lay together on the bare , splintered boards . |
| 8 | They met once on a date , nine years ago , and again when she was the make-up artist on Bad Influence , in 1988 . |
| 9 | Dexter parked the car next to the first telephone kiosk they chanced across on the way back to Reading . |
| 10 | They eat outside on the terrace , it 's so warm , by candlelight , with the lights of the city spread out in front of them — a sea of lights , twinkling in the uneven layers of warm air like a still sea shimmering and glittering . |
| 11 | They grow opposite on a dark green , purple-tinged stem . |
| 12 | They appear again on the south and east sides of the Spanish Meseta and then on way down into Africa . |
| 13 | They waded ashore on the Polynesian atoll of Raroia on 7 August 1947 just over three months after leaving Peru . |
| 14 | Reporters and feature writers wore a path through the pastures of Low Birk Hatt , and now they knock constantly on the door of Belle Vue Cottage , Cotherstone . |
| 15 | The two or three families who had come without money or slaves and who had kept themselves rigorously segregated from the few black people they found already on the island , were still shunning newcomers . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sorry to interrupt , ’ they say politely on the phone , and I sit up straighter and always feel guilty . |
| 17 | They focus particularly on the number of legs in view — six legs indicate food , while eight suggest a potential mate . |
| 18 | Criminal laws against corporate behaviour again facilitate crime because they focus purely on the regulation broken and not on the consequences of that broken regulation . |
| 19 | ( 9 ) Most farms are run without hired labour ; they depend primarily on the labour of the owner or tenant , supplemented by that of his or her family . |
| 20 | the theories of accumulation on a world scale , or the capitalist world state , or lineages of absolutism depend ( a ) on the same displaced percipient and historicist observer who had been an Orientalist or colonial traveller three generations ago ; ( b ) they depend also on a homogenising and incorporating world historical scheme that assimilated non-synchronous developments , histories , cultures , and peoples to it ; and ( c ) they block and keep down latent epistemological critiques of the institutional , cultural and disciplinary instruments linking the incorporative practice of world history with partial knowledges like Orientalism on the one hand , and on the other , with continued ‘ Western ’ hegemony of the non-European , peripheral world . |
| 21 | Just as groups depend on the allocation of roles ( and power ) , so they depend also on the consequences of power — conflict/cooperation , trust/ mistrust , etc . |
| 22 | We hope that it has not escaped the reader that the predictions concerning the different effects of word and feature masks do not depend on the mask being a word ; they depend only on the mask being composed of letters . |
| 23 | They were accused of attempting to bribe opponents into losing so their chairman would win an election the following day ; illegal signing-on payments were made ; they were accused of ‘ trafficking in players ’ ; their books never tallied , and they seemed constantly on the verge of bankruptcy and relegation . |
| 24 | Professions are sometimes referred to as institutions , but the interesting point is that compared to many institutions they function less on the basis of formal , explicit regulations and codes than on informal , tacit norms and expectations . |
| 25 | They only used to ever lock the door from the outside and er I er had to make er fifty and as I say , number them one up to fifty and er then they 'd perhaps on a odd occasion they sent me an order for one , the number the number |
| 26 | With a major breakthrough in America beckoning , they look well on the way to becoming the first stadium techno band . |
| 27 | Most products — and even people — require special techniques to ensure that they look right on the TV screen . |
| 28 | The camera was set up to cover the interior of the store , and the images of the men , filmed as they walked past on the pavement outside , are not clear . |
| 29 | They walked daily on the cliffs and shore . |
| 30 | They relied heavily on the readiness of the local aristocracy and gentry to go along with them . |