Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that these organizations have different points of unity depending on the concerns of their members . |
| 2 | Julian was telling me that erm he 's house on a Friday night is like a mad house because his daughter does a bit of hair dressing on the side , and she 's having people come to have their hair done |
| 3 | Police chiefs say they had evidence of drug dealing on the site , and had met with violence when they approached before . |
| 4 | Materiality is the monetary amount of misstatement which would affect the user of an account ; the amount is a matter of judgement depending on the circumstances of the case . |
| 5 | The issue was that of teaching writing on the sabbath , which was being described as a " growing evil " by 1786 . |
| 6 | It has become big business with a huge amount of money riding on the outcome . ’ |
| 7 | The tiny bit of silver lining on the cloud is a new application by National Wind Power — they want to reduce the number of proposed turbines from 15 to 12 . |
| 8 | ‘ We did not want the burden of administration falling on the taxpayer so we put it on the prime beneficiary , which is the farmer himself . ’ |
| 9 | Fresh bone breaks with a jagged , spiral type of break depending on the nature of the bone rather than the breakage agent . |
| 10 | The white-fronted geese , when they arrive for the winter , spend nearly all the hours of daylight grazing on the banks of the River Severn . |
| 11 | A breeze ruffled her hair and set hanks of wool waving on the fence-wire . |
| 12 | Until recently , AEI was handling its accounting using a combination of batch processing on the mainframes , mixing proprietary and third party software , plus locally sourced mini and PC-based packages . |
| 13 | Certain colour vocabularies are more likely to be adopted than others because of another rule : the retinal colour cones and certain interneurons within the brain encode light into four basic colours , even when the wavelength of light falling on the eye varies in a continuous manner . |
| 14 | The wedge of light lying on the open stairway leading down from the hatch fanned out and a voice draped in icicles called : |
| 15 | The amount of ACT arising on the net dividends paid in the accounting period ( ie after relief for any FII ) can be offset ( subject to certain limitations ) against the company 's corporation tax liability for that same accounting period ( s 239(2) ) . |
| 16 | The association of thrust faulting on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau with normal faulting in its highest regions has been interpreted as suggesting that it has attained its maximum elevation , and that consequently it is tending to grow outwards rather than increase in altitude . |
| 17 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 18 | I 'm suprised at the lack of SCUM bashing on the server . |
| 19 | This is specially constructed to give the correct amount of flexibility depending on the activity the boot is designed for . |
| 20 | However , Bonhams auctioneer Alastair Laird believes the actual numbers of artwork coming on the market is not as great as 10 years ago . |
| 21 | Although the subject received some coverage in the course of routine reporting on the war by journalists with access to the usual range of sources — specialist spokesmen in government information agencies , defence attaches in various embassies , the occasional interview on the field of battle — the main authorities are the specialized bodies which monitor developments in the strategic field , the international arms trade , and so on . |
| 22 | The insulation panels for Rockwell sheet are profiled to match the sheet and as well as providing thermal insulation they greatly reduce any risk of condensation forming on the underside of the sheet . |
| 23 | It 's certainly possible to do a fair modicum of string bending on the Moon without suffering from the usual de-tuning syndrome which afflicts most floating trems . |
| 24 | I found a little bit of string choking on the upper three frets and on inspection , found there to be a slight bow to the neck . |
| 25 | The girls awoke to the sound of rain rattling on the windows and the constant clattering of downspouts filling water-butts . |
| 26 | Another is the mixture of toxic liquid seeping out of the decaying rubbish which , with the help of rain falling on the tip , leaches into our groundwater steams . |
| 27 | His own fear clammying his T-shirt , Trent imagined the long terror the men would suffer , men with no experience of the sea set adrift in the pitch dark and drizzle with the swell building and the rising thunder of surf breaking on the reef ahead . |
| 28 | Three hours later she was back at the rendezvous but there was no sign of the canoe , only the sound of surf breaking on the beach two miles away . |
| 29 | One drum had burst open on impact with the water , leaving plastic bottles of waste floating on the surface . |
| 30 | Th the reality is that elsewhere in West Sussex erm the business allocations are erm reasonably generous or indeed slightly over generous and er therefore er overall the concern i is very much reduced erm but it might also be just worth mentioning that erm although er there is clearly an opportunity for this committee , this planning authority , the strategic planning authority to , to question figures of this nature and to challenge local plans if they are significantly adrift erm that has to be done in the context of the the local plan enquiry by er in the form of an objection almost and past experience has been that the inspectors and the Secretary of State have allowed a certain amount of leeway depending on the erm proportional er deviation from erm th the figures that were in the structure plan and depending on what is happening elsewhere and on the state of the economy and whilst it would be something which erm it was possible to prepare a case for erm i it is o on , on the balance of erm er the various things that are , that are taking place in West Sussex that the recommendation i is , is put to you that and it seems to be the reasonable course of action , particularly bearing in mind the downturn in , in er erm the er business activity and the er amount of developments taking place . |