Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But there are guidelines for women using tampons : Do n't leave a tampon in for too long ( time differs depending on menstrual flow ) . |
2 | An independent Central Bank might provide such a restraint , and so might the constitutional amendment , suggested in Friedman and Friedman ( 1980 ) , which obliges the government to expand the money stock at some fixed rate and which would make cheating on this obligation illegal . |
3 | This involved focusing on medium-sized towns one alter another and blitzing them with publicity . |
4 | The government 's overall aim was to freeze spending on state-owned enterprises , social security and defence for the next four years . |
5 | For example , G above refers only to government consumption expenditure rather than all government expenditure , which would also include spending on fixed assets ; this item is in fact included under gross domestic fixed capital formation . |
6 | According to Pflug , this is for historical reasons — during the 1980s , organisations focussed spending on mission-critical applications to the detriment of the less exciting back-office kit , but ‘ this is now coming back to haunt the industry ’ . |
7 | Whether it will consider lending on converted leasehold flats . |
8 | Even then you may consider relying on outside designers to create the masters while your operators simply fill in the gaps . |
9 | NOTIFICATION RECEIVED FROM NORTH-WEST EUROPE THAT LIEUT L. G. CAIRNS ARMY AIR CORPS WAS REPORTED MISSING ON 17TH June 1944 . |
10 | This may well have been the aircraft seen to crash , and although Kennett and Waghorn were credited posthumously with a Ju88 probably destroyed , this could well have been their victim , no Ju88s being reported missing on this date . |
11 | He phoned his provincial headquarters at Cesena , who called regional headquarters at Bologna , who checked with their opposite numbers in Florence before confirming that no member of the force had been reported missing on either side of the Apennines . |
12 | The U.S. Consul became responsible for our wellbeing but it was fourteen days or more before my parents got word of my survival after being reported missing on 21 May . ’ |
13 | ACCOUNTANCY TV Accountancy TV starts broadcasting on 17 September . |
14 | Here are some of the weekly incomes and budgets of some of the people I met living on social security : One man and woman in their early twenties living in Coventry with one child , mostly unemployed since leaving school , have a total income of £5.25 child benefit . |
15 | Cost saving on this scale is particularly important in videodisc applications because videodiscs and their workstations are costly . |
16 | New figures show spending on social security in Britain will rise by nearly fourteen billion pounds by the turn of the century even if unemployment falls . |
17 | The private decisions are likely to be influenced by the level of parental wealth , which allows spending on private education ( transmission of human wealth in this way may be encouraged by the taxation of material inheritance ) . |
18 | Neighbours , the show she was about to be seen leaving on British TV screens , was voted top TV show and her co-star Jason Donovan carried off four awards too . |
19 | They could often be seen leaning on farm-yard gates , chewing on straws and marvelling at Noddy 's turn of speed as he roared by in the slipstream of anything from a milk marketing board tanker to a Maserati ! |
20 | Now to be fair , the dilemma was there as the whole soft crust thing got going on 10 November 1989 , when the fall of the Berlin Wall gave a prop of plausibility to the caring-Nineties mediaschlock , and to Rifat Ozbek 's baggy Kleenex-vagabond numbers . |
21 | This is a hallowed statement signifying that the terms set out are nothing more than an intention and will not become binding on any party until a formal contract has been negotiated , executed and exchanged . |
22 | Inside we were greeted by the sight of a gaggle of top-heavy Sikhs energetically bopping around the hall to 1970s disco music ; beautiful Hindu ladies lilted delicately from side to side trying to avoid stepping on each other 's saris . |
23 | Foods that do not sustain microbial growth , such as bread , or raw produce which is so heavily contaminated that the bacterial loading on a surface is insignificant , are not likely to require handling on disinfected surfaces . |
24 | Therefore , the assessments which the neighbourhood police give of how much support they obtain from the Catholic community ( or , more accurately , how much support they see the majority of Catholics as feeling able safely to show ) , vary depending on wider circumstances and the time-scale used . |
25 | If children are beaten with a stick by their parents when they transgress , he suggests that they will tend to avoid transgressing on those occasions when their actions are not concealed from their parents . |
26 | Many patients said that they had had to avoid lying on one side ( not always the side of pain ) from the onset of their symptoms . |
27 | For example , if you start your period every 23 to 32 days , you should count forward 11 days and begin testing on that day . |
28 | Instantly the wheels begin turning on this deal , my enthusiasm wanes . |
29 | Cos also , I do n't mind , mind going on public transport as long as I know how to get there . |
30 | Like Geoff Evans at Forward Asset Finance , Mr Fullelove sees leasing on big ticket items as the stronger sector . |