Example sentences of "and [vb -s] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King makes all the rules , appoints and dismisses Prime Ministers , and insists on marshmallows and cocoa for breakfast , while his subjects get only dry toast . |
| 2 | Beyond the Swedes was an impersonal sea of heads and hats and magazines and knuckles on hanging-straps . |
| 3 | In this you have the dividing line between business and non-business ; the one is master and depends on profits , the other is servant and depends on salary . ‘ |
| 4 | This may relate to transactions costs and limits on proportions of issues that can be lent . |
| 5 | It provides key statistics on safety matters and concentrates on details of the fatal , major and over three day injuries to employees in the chemical industry between 1981 and 1988–89 . |
| 6 | [ There is another Talking Tape Service — Lothian Sound , but this is limited to Edinburgh I believe , and concentrates on extracts from the Evening News ] . |
| 7 | Counter-insurgency theory accepts this fact as basic and concentrates on ways to expedite the process by making terrorists appear even more violent , callous and irresponsible than they are . |
| 8 | I have used all the influence that I can muster to ensure that working people do not lose their jobs as a result of a lack of competitiveness and costs on employers that could not be met without shedding labour . |
| 9 | The preponderance of pictures means that the sparse text glosses over some points and tantalises on others . |
| 10 | Baker proposes a gradual approach to regional peace and calls on Israelis and Arabs to initiate " confidence-building " measures . |
| 11 | The Trust has no endowment and relies on donations and grants to undertake its conservation work on the nunnery , the most complete medieval example of its kind in Scotland and Britain . |
| 12 | Though considered a floating plant , it frequently puts down roots to the tank bottom , and relies on nutrients both from the water and the substratum . |
| 13 | ACET UK has 40 paid staff and relies on volunteers in the office as well as in the community . |
| 14 | The scheme is intended to help buyers identify products which are least harmful to the environment and relies on manufacturers voluntarily putting their products forward for assessment . |
| 15 | The text takes the form of extracts from the author 's holiday diaries between 1946 and 1990 and reflects on changes over that period . |
| 16 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |
| 17 | It will focus in particular on the likely consequences of the absorption of a " cocktail " of insecticides , fungicides and herbicides on animals . |
| 18 | A slightly more sophisticated system is to put the names , positions and addresses on stencils or to use an addressograph system . |
| 19 | Among the new services to be offered by the Library are a Library Bulletin , which will contain notes on significant new accessions , news items , notes on ‘ missing ’ volumes , and focuses on holdings in particular subject fields . |
| 20 | The research programme examines the main institutions and agencies , and focuses on questions such as the means by which industry seeks to influence government and vice versa ; the regulatory framework which affects behaviour ; the financial transactions between the two parties ; the representation between unions and business and government agencies and the forums in which they take place . |
| 21 | The Catalogue sub-committee also looks regularly at the Catalogue and decides on areas of work where either new modules need to be developed centrally or existing modules need to be updated to take account of modern developments , changes in standards , work of Lead Industry Bodies etc . |
| 22 | It is an excellent swimmer and feeds on grasses and waterside vegetation . |
| 23 | The works of no jurist other than Scaevola give even a hint that the distinction had become unimportant , and works on trusts continued to be written separately from those on the civil law of succession . |
| 24 | The Department of Trade and Industry was lobbied by the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) , which feared higher electricity prices and controls on factories . |
| 25 | At the same time Miliband argued that these hegemonic powers would also be supported by the economic constraints ( crises of business confidence and runs on currencies ) possessed directly by the ruling class . |