Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , the response based on total ignorance is still alive and well in circumstances in which even the limited attention given to gender discrimination in schools far exceeds its identification as an issue in the provision of educational opportunities for adult women . |
| 2 | This is analogous to the complexity of computers where the signals are essentially noughts and ones but the response depends on previous events . |
| 3 | Before we have had the opportunity to vote on that policy , the autumn statement has informed us that the Government will not promote training or fill the training gap that has developed in recent years . |
| 4 | I usually took the opportunity to teach on those occasions . |
| 5 | Relocation to a new area could , therefore , provide the opportunity to consolidate on one site and to provide sufficient area for future expansion . |
| 6 | The companies will also have the opportunity to build on existing business links and introduce their goods to new markets in the United States . |
| 7 | So on this tour , because I 'm playing so much off stage , I have the opportunity to work on certain things , certain licks here and there , and then the next night I can go out and actually play them live . |
| 8 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on this draft PPG Note . |
| 9 | He has the opportunity to comment on these documents before forwarding them to the Church Commissioners . |
| 10 | It is customary , however , for the Commission to publish drafts of legislation before submission to the Council of Ministers , and Parliament does , therefore , have the opportunity to comment on these drafts before they pass into law . |
| 11 | ‘ It is almost inconceivable that having so rightly stressed the tourist potential of Caernarfon that the Trust should then fail to seize the opportunity to capitalise on that potential . |
| 12 | ‘ All United Kingdom citizens should have the opportunity to select on broad base policy option as opposed to narrow sectarian appeal , ’ he declared . |
| 13 | We know real freedom for the majority depends on economic efficiency and social justice . |
| 14 | Of these , only ninety-five financed school meals out of rates , the remainder calling on voluntary contributions . |
| 15 | If the GP insists on that referral , the health authority will honour it , provided that it is not wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds . |
| 16 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 17 | This ( almost certainly unintended ) result is a consequence of the writer relying on other people to state ideas rather than trying to understand and restate them in her or his own voice . |
| 18 | The defendant was rearraigned and the trial proceeded on both counts . |
| 19 | They were concluded on 13 October 1989 and on 2 November the case was listed for trial in the Crown Court at Isleworth , the trial to commence on 11 December . |
| 20 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 21 | And at floor level the Revue sits on four skid feet . |
| 22 | But , if the wife has been in receipt of the advice of a stranger whom the creditor believes on reasonable grounds to be competent , independent and disinterested , then the circumstances would need to be very exceptional before the creditor could be held bound by any equity which otherwise might arise from the husband 's conduct and his wife 's actual failure to understand the transaction … |
| 23 | On this view pragmatics ( at least in part ) is about how , given a sentence uttered in a context , that context plays a role in specifying what proposition the sentence expresses on this occasion of utterance . |
| 24 | What effect will the measure have on rural electrification , and in particular the mains system for Rathlin ? |
| 25 | Erm how 'd you find it living on the money get on Social Security ? |
| 26 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
| 27 | The money spent on these products could have been used for something else . |
| 28 | The banquet went on all night and ‘ by six in the morning Braque and Derain were dancing with the bones of the lamb ’ . |
| 29 | The parliament opened on 28 April with the usual request for a subsidy . |
| 30 | This phrase is proved as at point 5 , but as the case depends on this point , such evidence is best given by a reliable witness who had a good view of the vehicles concerned . |