Example sentences of "on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our survey showed that there were strong partisan influences on switches in economic perceptions over the winter of 1986–7 ( see Miller et al . , |
| 2 | Yes , we 'll have one on mallards , between the d and the s . |
| 3 | Would you be happy for Britain , European partners and the Americans to recognise Lithuania 's independence while at the same time saying look do n't take it out on Russians who are living within your borders , observe human rights and all the rest of it , is , is that our affairs , and our business ? |
| 4 | I 've been to the natural childbirth classes in Muswell Hill , I 've sat on sag-bags and chanted ‘ Ommmmmm ’ with the best of them . |
| 5 | The painters downstairs , skylarking on the fringe of the main action , celebrate ( though they would be surprised to hear it ) the living life which was , I said , merely imposed on Notes from Underground , but which now surrounds both crime and punishment and makes the whole novel responsive like a touched spider 's web . |
| 6 | One involved a man called Raymond Fryer , whose name was shown up by tests on notes of an interview between a detective and Jones . |
| 7 | Ashworth 's analysis uses interesting concepts drawn from sociology and psychology but his data cover everything from the official histories of the war , including divisional and battalion histories , right across to the diaries of ordinary soldiers , some of which were based on notes taken during the war but written up years later . |
| 8 | This article is based on notes kept over the years since the late 1970s . |
| 9 | The new product , based on Notes 3.0 , will enable Unix users to communicate , share information and develop applications with users of OS/2 , Windows and now also Macintosh versions of Lotus Notes . |
| 10 | A new Notes Developers ' Programme is underway to recruit and provide technical services to commercial software developers providing products based on Notes technology . |
| 11 | The new product , based on Notes 3.0 , will let Unix users communicate , share information and develop applications with users of OS/2 , Windows and now also Macintosh versions of Lotus Notes . |
| 12 | A new Notes Developers ' Programme is underway to recruit and provide technical services to commercial software developers providing products based on Notes technology . |
| 13 | Repetition can be visual ; and we advocate this technique in the section on Notes of notes in chapter 4 , and the section on Swot cards in chapter 7 . |
| 14 | Harmony based on notes a perfect fourth apart ( ‘ quartal harmony ’ ) has been used by composers for almost the entire century , as a means of escaping from the old harmony based on thirds , with its complex systematization and expansion into the chromatic field . |
| 15 | Get rid of all those untidy stick on notes and post messages the electronic way ! |
| 16 | The following guideline notes ( based on notes prepared by MC Strategy Services ) are presented below as a guide to how MC carries out an acquisition search . |
| 17 | A partial parasite , mistletoe relies on birds such as thrushes eating its oily berries and dropping the seeds out at the other end on to the branches of trees where they perch . |
| 18 | I thought you might like that , seeing as you 're so keen on birds and that . |
| 19 | This species is known to prey almost exclusively on birds ( Brown , 1976 ) . |
| 20 | Mechanisation itself has , apart from the habitat changes it has induced , had little direct effect on birds in Sussex . |
| 21 | Soon all the grown-up Minpins , excepting Don Mini , had flown away on birds and only the tiny children were left . |
| 22 | It is a nocturnal hunter preying mainly on birds and small mammals . |
| 23 | The jungle cat , which weighs up to 20 lb ( 9 kg ) , preys largely on birds including pheasants and jungle fowl and lives in the drier and more open forest . |
| 24 | In the past , the Falkland sheep farmers looked on birds of prey as their enemies , but more enlightened attitudes are nowadays evident — at least in areas frequented by the few tourists visiting the islands . |
| 25 | Some ‘ improvements ’ to the grazing have meant the draining of small marshes and this , of course , can have a serious effect on birds like snipe and redshank . |
| 26 | Experimental studies on birds and fish have shown that male ornaments can be favoured by female mating preferences . |
| 27 | Crest size did not differ significantly between males and females in this population ( based on birds sexed by behaviour or dissection : median male crest , 38.6mm , n= 32 ; median female crest , 37.3mm ; n=56 ; Mann-Whitney U ; Z=0.7 , P=0.5 ; males were about 1.5% larger in measures of body size than females ) . |
| 28 | Similarly , plants reliant on birds to disperse their seeds have red fruits and berries . |
| 29 | Eagle-spotting was becoming a national pastime and experts on birds of prey suddenly found themselves being quoted in every paper or interviewed on radio and television . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw you had some books on birds . ’ |