Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour councils tended to spend relatively more and be more committed to spending on social services than Conservative councils which spent a higher proportion of their budgets on education , but the bulk of spending was similar and handled through nationally organized professionals rather than locally based politicians . |
| 2 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 3 | The twisted snakes that acted as ferrules on ceremonial staffs are amongst the less elaborate objects fashioned in this way . |
| 4 | I 'm with you yeah , see Sam 's got some learning , when he comes to spellings to me , again I would , I would print yeah , he only scrawled that down last night , he says I 've got some spellings on sports mum , I said do you know any of 'em ? , he said no , I said when 's you test ? , he says Friday , well I got ta book on all sports and then I read it because sports and you think hockey 's one of them , oh yeah , racket , which is spelt wrong I 've had to , I think it 's got a U in , but again I mean sometimes , I mean I 'm a good speller , I do n't know about you , but I look at them sometimes and I have to go and get the dictionary have to check em |
| 5 | Your love life is hotting up , but beware of embarking on short-lived involvements . |
| 6 | This system will be used in deciding on future allocations of the pool and the DES has already indicated that it would expect NAB to give advice about appropriate courses and rationalization , particularly concerning those which are expensive , those which are so specialist in nature that control of student numbers is required , and those where both university and public sector provision might be unnecessary or where rationalization is desirable for other reasons . |
| 7 | The workshop opened by focusing on particular aspects of social security . |
| 8 | It calls for logging on federal lands to be reduced to 25 per cent of late 1980s levels , with buffer zones to be established along salmon spawning streams . |
| 9 | The individual bourgeois who felt called upon to comment on public matters knew that a letter to The Times or the Neue Freie Presse would not merely reach a large part of his class and the decision makers , but , what was more important , that it would be printed on the strength of his standing as an individual . |
| 10 | The repeated frustration of his attempts to introduce changes led to an impassioned plea in the Sunday Express for more freedom of action at club level : ‘ I appeal to the authorities to release the brake which they seem to delight in jamming on new ideas … as if wisdom is only to be found in the council chamber … |
| 11 | The instruction set for operating on floating-point numbers includes the four arithmetic operations of addition , subtraction , multiplication , and division ( usually without remainder ) ; negate and clear ( set to zero ) operations may also be provided . |
| 12 | The David Cronenberg adaptation of William S Burroughs ' novel was seized after opening on four screens in the Greek capital of Athens . |
| 13 | So if for any reason I feel like adding on some points I will do , and equally I 'll decide to take some points off if I feel like it . |
| 14 | Its ‘ business as usual ’ slogan has helped to get passengers accustomed to flying on bankrupt airlines . |
| 15 | Every theory has to start by drawing on other theories , in order to construct an idea of what its object is . |
| 16 | However , in many cases even this did not take place and the self-appraisal amounted to reflecting on past events and reproducing information for the benefit of advisers . |
| 17 | Leeds attacked the kop-end goal , and looked like scoring on several occasions . |
| 18 | Neamy had been sentenced to death on April 30 , charged with spying on Palestinian refugees in Iraq after allegedly admitting to working for Mossad , the Israeli secret service . |
| 19 | A senior Iraqi diplomat charged with spying on Iraqi refugees , including Kurds , was expelled from Sweden on Nov. 12 . |
| 20 | They may be less likely to be put off enrolling on alternative courses . |
| 21 | There is an interesting difference here between the approach in England and Wales from that in Northern Ireland where a cross-curricular front has been started before embarking on marching orders for the separate subjects . |
| 22 | Encouraged by reflecting on these events , we walked home arm in arm . |
| 23 | In concluding his discussion of corporate crime , Box raises the question of whether it can be justified to send thousands of people to prison each year because they are too poor to pay fines ( in 1981 , 20,000 males were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments ) when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crime . |
| 24 | Of these 20,000 males and 1,100 females ( nearly 25 per cent and about 30 per cent respectively ) were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments . |
| 25 | According to distance , different eye-movements are required for focusing on different objects . |
| 26 | In short , the directors are not legally restrained from appearing on both sides of the bargaining table , but they must observe the necessary processes . |
| 27 | Before presenting the Service 's estimates to Parliament , the department should , in theory , prune its programmes down to the financial target line imposed by the Treasury ; but , in practice , it has been found that the bow-wave tends to dissipate as the actual financial year goes by because there are always delays in most programmes that lead to underspending on individual projects . |