Example sentences of "[verb] for [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the compliment I got for putting on red nail varnish . |
| 2 | Besides the planning element of opening up views and vistas — even in the smallest of gardens — and dividing up available space with walls and hedges , pergolas and arches , the book has plenty of ideas on which plants to choose for planting on given colour themes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The council is aiming at money earmarked for spending on rural development , what the European Commission calls Objective 5b , the status which the Highlands and Islands have been the only Scottish region to have had in recent years . |
| 6 | He is well respected and popular , as was shown when Mr Major and the Commons voiced their confidence in him earlier this year when he apologised for singing on Irish TV hours after an IRA atrocity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | According to distance , different eye-movements are required for focusing on different objects . |