Example sentences of "operate on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crack dealers operate on the west end of the street , near the Good Medicine and Co storefront theatre . |
| 2 | It differs from ordinary hammer drills ( which operate on a ratchet/percussion mechanism ) because it is operated by an electro-pneumatic mechanism . |
| 3 | You operate on a living body . ’ |
| 4 | But prison regulations then ( and now ) permit prisoners to have only radios that operate on the medium and long waves . |
| 5 | A number of smaller firms also operate on the site . |
| 6 | Schools that operate on assumptions about parents ' beliefs and attitudes face the danger of stick in the mud complacency , become resistant to change and , through the adoption of self-fulfilling prophecies , limit both ambitions and achievements . |
| 7 | SURGEONS in the US have pioneered the use of a mechanical arm laden with sensors to track the positions of their surgical instruments while they operate on patients ' brains . |
| 8 | Dishwashing etc. machines : Despite being used for a variety of functions , including cleaning crockery , bottles , trays , crates and numerous other items , these machines all operate on the same general principle . |
| 9 | Most operate on a local basis but there are some national groups . |
| 10 | Individual nerve cells , muscle cells and secreting cells operate on such precisely similar principles that knowledge from one species can be transferred to all others . |
| 11 | Everyone is able to choose how to behave in a given set of circumstances , although many people operate on the assumption that they can not choose and never give the alternatives a moment 's thought . |
| 12 | The examination , held at the Freemasons ' tavern , was entirely viva voce and the complaint was made that the candidates did not even have to cast a horse , or operate on a dead one , still less on a live one which might have benefited . |
| 13 | Off the busway the buses operate on the streets in the same way as any other bus . |
| 14 | The Commission have more recently proposed a Directive on establishing European works councils that provides for informing and consulting employees within certain sized undertakings which operate on a Community-wide scale [ see pp. 45–6 ] . |
| 15 | The salt we sprinkle on our food today is produced by the same methods our ancestors used , but we operate on a bigger scale . |
| 16 | Each of the five available databases — Regional Finance , Enterprise , Venture Capital , Factoring , and Commercial Mortgages — run on IBM compatible PCs , provided they operate on MS DOS 3.1 ( or above ) and have at least 5 megabytes of free disk space . |
| 17 | The bookstore : Most still operate on a sale or return basis |
| 18 | And pub landlords who operate on overdrafts may be forced to put up to 2p on a pint to stay in business . |
| 19 | Thus , if we operate on traditional assumptions about the nature of law we are left with a political strategy in relation to international law which assumes either that law is effective ( by definition ) or that it is potentially effective ( so that while it may not deserve the name ‘ law ’ it is at least potentially deserving of that description ) . |
| 20 | They operate on a slightly different basis , controlling movement from the dog 's head rather than the neck , and again , a normal collar should be removed before these are used . |
| 21 | No. 46521 normally operates on the Severn Valley Railway , it is one of the two such locomotives which regularly operate on the railway and from time to time are loaned out to operate in other parts of the country . |
| 22 | Over the past few years , many companies have set up contracted-out money purchase schemes — or COMPS , as they are known for short — which operate on a different principle from final salary schemes . |
| 23 | Even in Rowbotham 's account , conflicting ideas about identity are contained within an individual subject who decides rationally what roles to adopt in particular contexts , and historically determined learning processes operate on an original , ultimately biological , subject . |
| 24 | All British criminal courts operate on the adversary system . |
| 25 | All mandatory cockpit voice recording systems operate on a continuous loop with a duration of thirty minutes , so the investigator can only hear what was said during the last thirty minutes of flight . |
| 26 | Most hotels operate on the basis that unless previously notified by the guest that they will be a late arrival , the accommodation will be released for reletting if the guest fails to arrive by 6 p.m . |
| 27 | Credit card companies operate on a commission basis . |
| 28 | Our Guest Houses operate on a bed and breakfast basis . |
| 29 | Where the lower orders of life have to make do with conditioned reflexes which so operate on behaviour as to limit conflict to levels that do not threaten the species , man — blessed as he is with free will — must institutionalise or die . |
| 30 | Here it is proposed that in acquiring the meanings of words , children operate on the basis of two fundamental principles — the Principle of Conventionality , and the Principle of Contrast . |