Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designed for use by church groups , community centres and parent teacher groups , Parenting in a TV Age is a parent education programme which focusses on issues of children and television . |
| 2 | Research then focusses on access to the public housing sector , in order to reveal whether the role of the state was less direct ( specifically aimed at the Caribbean population through the migration agency ) than indirect ( through the role of employers and the general involvement of the state in housing provision ) . |
| 3 | The work focusses on disability among the elderly , service provision for dependent elderly people and inequalities in health and illness . |
| 4 | There is no fire in the grate ; the King economizes on napkins by tucking the table cloth around his neck . |
| 5 | Today the Victoria and Albert Museum stands on part of the renowned Brompton Nursery run by the talented garden designers George London and Henry Wise . |
| 6 | Two feet of silver Christmas tree , ( stolen from the theatre ) , stands on top of the T.V. surrounded by cards . |
| 7 | And your Mum stands on top of an ice-cream stan , van saying ten P a lick ! |
| 8 | He is thirty-seven years old , with a high forehead , and thin hair that stands on end in the slightest breeze . |
| 9 | This image is completely different to the image that is presented to Mitch , who looks on Blanche as a true ‘ lady ’ : ( Mitch has tried to embrace her — ) |
| 10 | I do n't think anything is as easy as it looks on paper in football . |
| 11 | Consequently , the functionalist approach tends to be built on an organicist conception of society , generally embraces a positive conception of liberty , and looks on democracy as an achievement of great moral as well as evolutionary importance . |
| 12 | In a bare tank ( minimum size 10″ x 6″ x 6″ ) , suspend two spawning mops on pieces of cork or polystyrene and place a clump of Java Moss on the tank base for the female to hide in when she requires a respite from spawning . |
| 13 | The best non-human example that I know has recently been described by P. F. Jenkins in the song of a bird called the saddleback which lives on islands off New Zealand . |
| 14 | So your decode that you miss on Wednesday makes an appearance along with the other decode that normally lives on Thursday in a one and a half hour session from nine to ten forty . |
| 15 | The Greek male lives on average to the age of 79.2 years and the French woman to 84.2 years of age . |
| 16 | Set among gardens and pine trees , the club with its own beach , nestles on cliffs with splendid views across Portinatx Bay . |
| 17 | Over half the remaining grassland lies on Ministry of Defence land in Wiltshire ; most of the rest is on downland across the south of England . |
| 18 | A huge ‘ inverted funnel ’ of painted , coarsely plastered brickwork lies on top of an oak beam which acts as a fascia spanning a very broad fireplace , also lined with white-painted brickwork ( Plate 12 ) . |
| 19 | AN AQUIFER often lies on top of a layer of less permeable rock . |
| 20 | He pushes her on to the floor and lies on top of her , nearly smothering her . |
| 21 | Both the 1431 monument to Bishop Richard Fleming in Lincoln Cathedral and that of 1442 to Sir John Golafre at Fyfield , Buckinghamshire , are of a type known collectively as ‘ cadaver ’ tombs , in which a standard effigy clothed as in life , lies on top of the tomb-chest , with a shrouded , sometimes verminous cadaver visible through the pierced side of the tomb-chest . |
| 22 | In the Trichoptera and some Monotrysian Lepidoptera ( Philpott , 1924 ; 1925 ) , the jugal area is produced into a lobe-like fibula or more elongate jugum which lies on top of the hind wing during flight but may be folded beneath the fore wing at rest . |
| 23 | She lies on top of me , breathing hard , head on my shoulder for a few minutes , then she stirs , pulls herself up so that I flop out of her and her hard little nipples stroke my chest . |
| 24 | This lies on top of a buttress cliff which forms the turning corner of the lake 's south shore , which here swings into a long south-pointing branch , the Urner See . |
| 25 | ( Peg lies on elbow with her back to him , watching Max . ) |
| 26 | It can be seen that these two main goals overlap to a considerable extent , but that emphasis for the end-user lies within a subject area and is therefore closely dependent on subject knowledge , whereas emphasis for the intermediary lies on breadth of knowledge — on the coverage and organization of many databases and the operation of a number of processing systems . |
| 27 | A sunshine-filled adaption of Peter Mayle 's A Year In Provence with John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan is expected to be one of the viewing highlights on BBC1 in the grey months ahead . |
| 28 | Play starts on Thursday with the finals taking place on Saturday . |
| 29 | Referrals to and starts on Training for Work : – total – by long-term claimants and other unemployed – by priority group |
| 30 | Safeway 's New Year sale starts on Monday with bacon , eggs , packet spaghetti and tinned tomatoes all carrying 50 per cent savings . |