Example sentences of "that [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiegehen and Reddaway concluded : ‘ it is clear that , in total , any disincentive effects that operated on senior managers had a minimal impact on the activities of British industry ’ . |
| 2 | W. B. Coley has written that depending on wealthy patrons presented writers of the period with two difficulties : ‘ ideological inconstancy and the threat of the loss of the dependency itself . ’ |
| 3 | And it turned out that there was a big goblin that lived on this island and he just ate fairies . |
| 4 | This is a direct parallel with conservation programmes that concentrate on small peasant farmers and those marginal semi-proletariat which find themselves eking out a living charcoal-burning , cultivating the steepest slopes , or in shifting cultivation without sufficient fallow-periods — an issue which is explored in detail in Chapter 7 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That 's the bit that joins on one side of the main entrance area ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although 1988 was characterised by a freer , more open intellectual atmosphere , it was clear that the Party still held ultimate authority and would not tolerate criticism that bordered on political dissent . |
| 9 | We hear that Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on Digital Equipment Corp 's rival Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |
| 10 | I ask the Minister to consider what impact that has on innocent people and their families . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had a momentary vision of the tall , proud tower blocks that rose on either side of him collapsing in a cloud of dust . |
| 13 | Macdonald suggests that foxes account for just one in every 15 or 20 lambs that die on Scottish hills . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Or even that he is conducting a stealthy operation to ensure the BBC 's survival that depends on elaborate deception . |
| 19 | He reckoned that if any angler ever worked out how to hit all of the bites that came on that method they would win a lot of money . |
| 20 | Staying clear of water is no protection against the hundreds of poisonous insects , spiders and scorpions that abound on dry land . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This feature is intended for users that depend on constant information feeds , such as financial trading houses , IXI says . |
| 27 | Those that depend on recession-battered Germany , France 's biggest export market , have been hit hardest ; they will think twice before hiring and investing again . |
| 28 | The feet of the sauropod are small ( relatively speaking ! ) , with short , stubby toes , yet animals that walk on soft mud tend to have spreading feet to distribute their weight more evenly . |
| 29 | The dark tenement block loomed up on her left and through the broken windows she could see the reflection of the naked gas jets that burned on each landing . |
| 30 | The vegetative part of the dodder plant is an epiphyte ( that is , a plant that grows on other plants ) consisting exclusively of thread-like , often yellowish vines partly coiled around the stem of its host and partly draped over it or hanging free . |