Example sentences of "and [vb -s] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daly invents new words , breaks them up in provocative , punning ways ( as with the title ; and therapist becomes the-rapist ) and plays on obsolete meanings , as with glamour ( originally ‘ possessed of magical powers ’ ) , haggard ( connected with witchcraft ) and spinster ( one who spins a new thread ) . |
| 2 | A possible taxonomy of deictic elements and terms follows , which modifies and builds on previous attempts by linguists such as Levinson ( 1983 ) . |
| 3 | The line which the law draws is at the very least indistinct , and turns on such imponderables as malum in se , mayhem , degrees of harmfulness , and public policy , and calls for an examination of such unsatisfactory cases as Donovan , Bravery v. |
| 4 | From its Midlands grassroots in the Clean-up TV Campaign , the NVALA has grown into an organisation with over 30,000 members , and has on several occasions organised nationwide petitions which have secured a formidable number of signatures . |
| 5 | It is hexagonal and stands on seven columns ; the central one has a base of human figures and animals while the others are supported on the backs of lions . |
| 6 | Don Bradbury recounts experiences and passes on some tips . |
| 7 | The subject of whether or not the situation in Golding 's ‘ Lord of the Flies ’ would have been different had girls been on the island is very difficult to reach a decision on and depends on many things . |
| 8 | Tail rotor trim is variable and depends on many factors which are discussed elsewhere . |
| 9 | Nerco yesterday announced net losses of $551 million for 1992 following writedowns on oil and gas assets and loses on discontinued minerals businesses , totalling $714 million . |
| 10 | Here , he surrounds the politics of his imaginary country with darkness , distinguishes between its politics and what might be seen as the antics of bystanders , and concentrates on these bystanders . |
| 11 | Parliament also approved stricter laws allowing the deportation of illegal immigrants , wider powers for border police , and checks on potential refugees disembarking from aircraft . |
| 12 | The investigation covered import quotas and bans on some products , restrictive import licensing requirements , special technical standards and China 's refusal to publish regulations governing imports , and also sought to reduce Chinese tariffs of up to 170 per cent and other " unreasonable " fees . |
| 13 | The thrills and spills on two wheels dominate our sporting action . |
| 14 | News and updates on all aspects of multimedia . |
| 15 | The subjects covered include : anaesthesia for caesarean section ( percentage of nitrous oxide for general anaesthesia , maintenance of general anaesthetic skills , fetal distress , and spinal anaesthesia ) , regional analgesia/anaesthesia ( prophylactic epidural blood patch , epidural opiates , and fluid preloading ) , and updates on previous debates . |
| 16 | If one passes a string round a post and pulls on both ends there will be a force on the post in the direction of the pull which is reacted by the post pushing in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | Informix develops no applications itself , it simply ‘ supplies the building blocks ’ , and relies on value-added resellers to produce packages for a wide range of vertical markets . |
| 18 | They can , for example , digitise outline maps , generate percentage distribution maps from point data input , transform co-ordinates , incorporate place-names from gazetteer databases into maps , and print base-maps and overlays on suitable plotters . |
| 19 | They decried human rights abuses and curbs on basic freedoms . |
| 20 | The Prince also has three assistant private secretaries — Peter Westmacott , who is on secondment from the Foreign Office , and advises on diplomatic niceties ; Commander Richard Aylard , retired from the Navy , who is Comptroller of the Household , and the Prince 's resident environmental expert ; and Guy Salter , with business expertise . |
| 21 | He sits as a judge in the House of Lords , where he also acts as Speaker ; he is a cabinet minister and advises on constitutional issues ; and his department , established in 1885 , is our nearest approach to a Ministry of Justice and has responsibility for many aspects of the legal system . |
| 22 | Twenty years on , it has acquired an additional building , number 5 , has a staff of 23 and puts on 21 exhibitions each year in three exhibition spaces . |
| 23 | With respect to BACKUP , the safest way to handle the use of pseudo-devices , especially if you may be mixing saves and restores on physical devices and pseudo-devices , is to always place yourself in the [ 000000 ] directory ( whether it physically exists , or is only a notional location , as is the case with a pseudo-device ) and use the syntax [ * … ] |
| 24 | Nearly all the signatures and dates on Cubist paintings executed by Picasso and Braque between 1907 and 1913 have been added much later . |
| 25 | It pitches and bobbles on some roads , and bounces over the potholes driven fast . |
| 26 | Malekith stays on as ambassador and remains on friendly terms with the Dwarf kings . |
| 27 | For example the Philippines eagle is totally dependent on the rainforests , it nests in ferns growing on tall trees and feeds on flying lemurs , large snakes , hornbills , civets and monkeys . |
| 28 | Conversely , the husbandmen who bulked so large in the assessments of the 1520s , and formed the majority in later subsidies when the experiment of taxing wage earners was abandoned , were far from being exclusively freeholders and copyholders on advantageous terms . |
| 29 | The software , which DG is styling AV Image , is based on an SQL client/server architecture and runs on Windows-based PCs , Motif-based workstations and X terminals networked via NetWare or TCP/IP to a relational database on an AViiON server . |
| 30 | There was a ripe collection of April Fool items flying around the industry this year , with BICC Plc 's BICC Information Systems & Services promoting its underware , the first two items being BISS-SLIP for Synchronised Linked Internet Protocol and BISS-NICS Network Integrity Circuit Service , and Chase Research Inc of Nashville , Tennessee threatening to knock MS-DOS , Unix and NT off their perches with a resurrected CPM/93 version of the late lamented CP/M operating system — and comes on 300 8″ floppies , bundled with an 8″ floppy drive for $100 ; but the prize has to go for Hewlett-Packard Ltd , which yesterday announced new security features for its Vectra personal computers — User Fingerprint Recognition on all models , and both Photographic Recognition — a tiny camera in the middle of the screen that recognises you even when you come back with a tan , and Odour Recognition — designated users must not change their perfume or after shave — on 80486 models ; not recognised ? |