Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was claimed that money spent on the NHS between 1979 and 1987 had increased in real terms by a third , that more patients were receiving treatment than ever before and that the numbers of doctors , dentists and nurses had increased substantially . |
| 2 | By virtue of section 65(2) , that decision imposed on the council a duty to secure that accommodation became available for the occupation of the plaintiff and his family . |
| 3 | It was thought that this might best be achieved by reconstructing the village , with each building standing on its original site and being used , wherever possible , for its original purpose . |
| 4 | Charities have little money to spend on fees , so nobody wants to be seen looking after them . |
| 5 | Yet the reality is that very little money spent on science is spent on improving social welfare ; as Rose ( 1986 ) has pointed out , 50 per cent of the government 's science and technology budget in 1981–2 went on military research and development . |
| 6 | And er there was very little money spent on the roads at that time , the , the railways had been the great carriers of everything and the motorcars were just coming in . |
| 7 | At present the science curriculum is structured around physical science interests , on which boys are keener ( how motor cars work , atoms and molecules ) ; we were able to recommend that teaching build on the overlapping interests of the two sexes , because girls as well as boys want to know more about human biology and spectacular features of the environment ( animals in the jungle , volcanoes and earthquakes , acids and chemicals ) . |
| 8 | That Parliament relied on the Ministerial statements is shown by the fact that the matter was never raised again after the discussions in Committee , that amendments were consequentially withdrawn and that no relevant amendment was made which could affect the correctness of the minister 's statement . |
| 9 | Because that misidentification insisted on making trade unions the vehicle for it but insisted also on the continuance of their traditional role , the outcome was bound to be primarily about an extension of their power in the performance of that role , the role that implicates trade unionism as the reciprocal to the ownership of the means of production and provision within the total system , Capitalism , as it evolved in Victorian Britain . |
| 10 | But if holism is true and the meaning of each sentence depends on the meanings of others , how did we do it ? |
| 11 | Each case turns on its own facts but once the boundary between protectable secrets and general skill and knowledge is crossed the employer can not , even by way of express covenant , restrict the employee 's ability to use those skills once employment has ended ( Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 ) . |
| 12 | However , whilst the decided cases may offer some guidance as to the general approach , their precedent value is limited because each case turns on its own circumstances . |
| 13 | Each case depends on its own facts . |
| 14 | Each case depends on its facts . |
| 15 | The health of the Institute depends on the commitment and support of its branches , and each branch depends on its individual members , so please make sure that you attend your AGM and , if possible , become involved in branch management . |
| 16 | We assume that our muscles will continue to move normally , that doors which normally open will continue to open , that hair grows on heads , that dogs bark , that towns retain their geographical locations , that the sun will shine , and so on . |
| 17 | That smell sits on my stomach . ’ |
| 18 | The implications for us are that we shall have to find it very hard to ensure that we get a share of that grant to spend on implementation of the Food Safety Act . |
| 19 | If you look at the accounts , you will see that they record a deficit on the general fund of a hundred and twenty-three thousand , but if you deal , if you delve more carefully in the accounts , more closely , you will find , in fact , that the the money we raised on the appeal fund was greater than that deficit shown on the general fund , and so in fact , our income during the year , was greater than our expenditure , and we have achieved a small surplus . |
| 20 | We welcome people from every party , it does n't really matter which party , or even if they belong to no party , who are just committed to seeing a representative representation , seeing more women in there , because women in this country , just as a matter of fact , have a rather different experience from most men , and if you 're making a decision then you want there the people who have had a wide range of experience , who can bring that experience to bear on making the decision . |
| 21 | Where did that pleasure stand on the scale against the misery of a man in the Kitchen whose soup was spilled , whose bread was soggy from the floor 's snow water ? |
| 22 | While it is the task of oppositions to oppose , the veracity of that opposition is dependent on the mass media , just as public judgements about the competence of that opposition rely on information derived from the mass media . |
| 23 | That allegation reflected on each officer at Banbury because that CID office had only 12 members . |
| 24 | Soviet specialists maintained that partnership based on ‘ strategic understanding ’ , in distinction to the blocs and alliances of earlier decades , was offered by Washington in the 1980s to the broadest possible circle of states . |
| 25 | Very little research exists on ethnic elders in Britain . |
| 26 | Little research exists on the difficult task of raising another person 's child in this situation or on the distinctive features and potential problems of step-parenting as opposed to adoption or fostering . |
| 27 | Small firms in services form the great majority of small businesses in Britain but surprisingly little research exists on them . |
| 28 | My penultimate item is that term ends on April 13th , and reports and class lists should be in my office one week before then . |
| 29 | Each cell depends on the ability of others to differentiate and so specialize . |
| 30 | Some of these sound waves reach the ears of the listener and travel down each earhole to press on the stretched membrane of the eardrum . |