Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun] [verb] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of items on pupils ' knowledge of shapes suggest that pupils judge shape on general appearance rather than on the geometrical properties which define them . |
| 2 | Equally , her study was the first to find that chimpanzees wage war on each other , hunt and eat other animals , and even turn murderously on their own kind . |
| 3 | In general , they found that parents regarded care on a voluntary basis as helpful and positive — a service to families in times of difficulty that should be more readily offered , not treated as a last resort . |
| 4 | The six-furlong pole approached and Kelly heard Shine On moving closer to her . |
| 5 | MacArthur remained sceptical and told Gascoigne he doubted whether Washington meant business on the treaty : in his opinion it was a ‘ smokescreen ’ intended to mollify those allied countries who had made representations . |
| 6 | But it was a luxury few could afford and the intentions of the Bolsheviks to free women from domestic slavery were conveniently forgotten as Stalin put emphasis on heavy industry rather than consumer goods . |
| 7 | If the NTBs mean that firms face restriction on exports , they can be constrained from reaping economies of scale because they can not expand their output beyond the limits imposed by their domestic market . |
| 8 | 15 villagers including three minors were killed and 19 others , including several children , wounded when soldiers opened fire on a crowd of unarmed people on 2/12/90 . |
| 9 | The government stated that Baquerizo faced trial on charges of " acting against the state 's legal order " and therefore could not be released . |
| 10 | A more interesting survey is the one by Durex , which reveals that Lancastrians have sex on average 77 times a year — which astonishingly makes them top of the league . |
| 11 | I truly do n't believe if Hitler offered peace on any terms he would accept , he could n't ! |
| 12 | Our concern is not the actual refusal rate but to ensure that families have choice on the basis of informed consent . |
| 13 | On Saturday , four people died as gunmen opened fire on a wine society 's Christmas dinner at a King William 's Town golf club in the east of Cape Province . |
| 14 | Karen Reilly ( 18 ) and her friend Martin Peake ( 17 ) died when soldiers opened fire on the stolen car they were in at Upper Glen Road . |
| 15 | Karen Reilly ( 18 ) and Martin Peake ( 17 ) died when soldiers opened fire on the stolen car they were in at Upper Glen Road . |
| 16 | Four died when gunmen opened fire on a pick-up truck loaded with people near Port Shepstone in southern Natal . |
| 17 | This material had a retention time typical of platelet activating factor during HPLC analysis using phosphatidylcholine , lysophosphatidylcholine , and synthetic platelet activating factor as standards and was further characterised as platelet activating factor on the basis of the following criteria : ( a ) its aggregating activity was suppressed in the presence of 0.1 mM BN 52021 , a specific platelet activating factor receptor antagonist ; ( b ) and after incubation of the samples with 10 µg/ml phospholipase A 2 from hog pancreas ; lipase A1 from R arrhizus 100 µg/ml was without effect . |
| 18 | Pandemonium ensued as discussion took place on the onus of responsibility . |
| 19 | NOT A CARE IN THE WORLD : The Duchess relaxes as Johnny seems intent on sharing a sunbed . |
| 20 | Cailliet and Bédé focused attention on the Symbolist poets and Lévy-Bruhl , a connection familiar to Eliot who at Harvard had read these poets and the anthropologist . |
| 21 | ZAIRE : At least 19 people were killed when soldiers opened fire on a peaceful religious demonstration in the capital , Kinshasa , on 16 February . |