Example sentences of "[vb -s] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A four-fold procedure could be used : first , the text should be read silently ; second , it should be re-told or described by the child to the teacher ; next the text should be read aloud , with the teacher marking miscues on a duplicate copy ; finally the text should be discussed in more detail with the teacher . |
| 2 | Just where 's he craps on the floor , you have a massive pong when that happens . |
| 3 | In the last chapter she meditates on the meaning of suffering . |
| 4 | Hornby delivers the expected critical kicking to out-of-touch literary lads Martin Amis and Bill Buford , meditates on fannish obsession and the emptiness of suburban adolescence and finds time to ponder the eternal mysteries ( eg Malcolm Macdonald 's sideburns ) . |
| 5 | Philip meditates on the narrative representation of action : ‘ Strange how the reality of the past comes to our mind most immediately as fiction . |
| 6 | The New Hall collection , though primarily painted works made for hanging , extends these preoccupations : Laura Godfrey-Isaacs 's ‘ Fleshy Face ’ meditates on the feminine-coded colour pink with mordant hyperbole ; Judith Cowan 's ‘ Skin and Blister ’ ( rhyming slang for ‘ sister ’ ) transforms a common saucepan into an authoritative sculptural form ; Maggi Hambling takes a shocking newspaper image of a Gulf woman in a chador wielding a bazooka and suffuses it again with blooming pink , the garish , violated hue of feminine cosiness . |
| 7 | Or when he meditates on The Price of Bras : |
| 8 | Think I 'll have to do some rewrites on my part . |
| 9 | Would you like to represent the NCT and voice our member 's opinions and needs on an official body concerned with promoting good ante-natal care ? |
| 10 | Farming systems research which studies the complex of decision-making by farmers as a whole system implies that the researcher spends time with the farmers rather than in the research station and adapts research needs on the spot — in the farmers ' fields — to ongoing work by the farmers . |
| 11 | ‘ To meet new career development and professional training needs on a more extensive basis ’ … |
| 12 | Win a GEM 2000S tank and REGAL cabinet BRACKISH WATER TANKS … and the fish for them ALL YOUR FISHKEEPING NEEDS ON SALE INSIDE UP AND COMING CATS New catfish and how to keep them TANK DECOR A buyers ' guide FREE ! |
| 13 | There is no danger of too many coaches spoiling the broth as far as the Hong Kong RFU is concerned though : Simpkin will have all the power he needs on the playing side . |
| 14 | The Bank of England is , of course , free to respond as it chooses to any such bids or offers but , as well as being concerned to finance the government 's borrowing needs on the best possible terms , the Bank has a publicly-expressed interest in the liquidity of the gilt-edged market . |
| 15 | The major airlines , so the argument goes , can easily provide for all our serious air transportation needs on a suitable basis , thus leaving the less able to concentrate their resources on more worthy causes . |
| 16 | And meeting training needs on an individual basis . |
| 17 | Dylan Thomas immortalised such machinery in Draper Mog Edwards ' soliloquy in Under Milk Wood : I have come to take you away to my emporium on the hill , where the change hums on wires . |
| 18 | The metal bedsteads were white , the cotton covers on them white , and the children lying straight and still wore white gowns . |
| 19 | Old style ‘ African hut ’ haystacks stood here and there , some with cloth covers on top , others with a single pole poking up through each ‘ roof ’ . |
| 20 | Use female screws on the outside , and screw covers on the interior ones |
| 21 | The blue of the main sail covers on the booms should now be added using an ultramarine blue and white mixture . |
| 22 | The early history was familiar to her from the memoir of the founder which stood in limp green leather covers on Gilbert Racy 's shelves at Betterhouse . |
| 23 | Burns units are weird places because all the staff are in masks and visitors have to wear hats and covers on their shoes . |
| 24 | A second would be to ensure corrugated iron covers on doors and windows are better secured and quickly repaired if removed or damaged . |
| 25 | Andrew Guest , of United , said the proposals for speed restrictions would mean buses travelling over 50 speed humps on a half hour round trip . |
| 26 | Residents on the Skerne Park estate , Darlington , say Durham County Council 's plans to reduce the speed limit and introduce speed humps on Lakeside would improve road safety . |
| 27 | The scheme also provides for the installation of speed humps on the estate , seven of which will be installed in Lakeside . |
| 28 | This programme of screenings focusses on films which explore areas of race and gender in a thought provoking way . |
| 29 | The review focusses on management structures , budgets and monitoring their use , securing value for money , and directing money to those hospitals which treat most patients . |
| 30 | In particular the debate focusses on the American variety of independent film , of which there have been a large number at this year 's festival , ranging from Jim Jarmusch 's annoyingly fashionable Mystery Train to Julia Cameron 's God 's Will , which cost only 31,000 dollars to make . |