Example sentences of "an [noun] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Co-ordinators were given an update on recently published crime figures and a general briefing with emphasis on the importance of locking outbuildings to prevent the theft of things like power tools , lawn mowers and fishing tackle . |
| 2 | In particular , the movement of workers directly from one job to another has an effect on both the in flow into unemployment and the outflow from it , an effect that seems to have been neglected . |
| 3 | Nothing really — but it will have an effect on how successful you are . |
| 4 | Because that has an effect on how you can use people . |
| 5 | Studies by Aaronson and Schwartz ( 1973 ) and Aaronson ( 1974 ) indicate that , in both the USA and UK , the mix of public goods and tax rates has an effect on how population is distributed among governmental units ( see chapter 5 ) . |
| 6 | The French press was bubbling with stories last week about the Franco-Italian semiconductor maker SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV , with one report saying it was planning an increase by a third the capacity at its test and assembly plant in Muar , Malaysia , and another promising an accord on tomorrow with Mitsubishi Electric Corp on Flash memories . |
| 7 | Telephone Frank turns out to be not only a money expert , or an expert on not having any . |
| 8 | Arieti , an expert on both creativity and schizophrenia — and therefore the most qualified among these contemporary psychiatric writers to comment — is equally disappointing in the light he throws on the issue . |
| 9 | She is an expert on how a low-calorie diet and exercise can beat cellulite and other weight problems . |
| 10 | One might have anticipated an exposition on how this new syntax differed from that of the preceding age and how it could be developed for stylistic purposes . |
| 11 | This focus on kinship had an influence on both Marx and Engels which culminated in their enthusiasm for Lewis Henry Morgan whose two principal books had a decisive effect on their later work . |
| 12 | Your basal metabolic rate ( ie when you are resting ) has an influence on how much energy you expend when you are doing anything that does n't involve very much physical activity . |
| 13 | How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal . |
| 14 | They actually said then that they contr that they had an influence on how on the cost and where they bought it from . |
| 15 | Does the difficulty of the prediction task and the way a prediction is made have an influence on how good predictions are ? |
| 16 | Hardstand number two was so little that we could n't get an airplane on there so we parked the gas trucks there . |
| 17 | The village youths had taken to roaring round and round of an evening on highly powered Japanese motorcycles from which the silencers had been removed ; those distressed by this were invoking the law , the youths laughed , their friends and relations pointed out that they 'd paid their road-tax , had n't they , like anyone else ? |
| 18 | ‘ This was the time when the group should have started to become a real group , but it seemed that everybody had an opinion on how the record should sound and we ended up becoming less of a group . |
| 19 | One point to keep an eye on here is that the page printer has sufficient memory , a full page graphic at 300 dots per inch needs about 1M of RAM . |
| 20 | He has half an eye on where the gun went . |
| 21 | But A&R people do not stay A&R people for very long if they do n't have an eye on both money and art simultaneously . |
| 22 | Once you have decided your policy and put it in place , keep an eye on how well it 's working . |
| 23 | As you wander along the ridge , it 's a long time before you lose sight of its neat white contours , and if you take a strong pair of binoculars on your walk , you can keep an eye on how the housemaid is turning your bed down . |
| 24 | On the contrary , a company that does not keep an eye on how its employees are functioning is probably itself being badly run . |
| 25 | keep an eye on how employees develop , and learn from their mistakes . |
| 26 | The author 's been unable to resist popping down to the set once in a while to keep an eye on how it 's going . |
| 27 | On 24 February 1986 , LAG issued a booklet , Lignite on the Loughshore — the case for community survival , which they circulated among politicians , universities and the media to increase awareness of the issue and to increase pressure on the British Government to hold an inquiry on both the environmental and social impacts of the mining . |
| 28 | Wanted to do an article on how I 'd built the company from nothing . |
| 29 | I wrote it on orange paper in blue ink and it all went horribly wrong when I photocopied it so I 've put an agenda on there right . |
| 30 | He also used his chronicle for an assault on both the Right and the Left : Wigan Pier was as much a political tract as a travelogue , it was an indictment of the Right and an ultimatum to the Left . |