Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public attention to literacy often focusses on either ‘ illiteracy ’ — the problems many adults encounter with the requirements of reading and writing in the modern world — or with professional — often literary — writing . |
| 2 | Where at any stage of proceedings by assignment , transmission , or devolution the interest or liability of any party devolves on some other person , the court may order ex parte that other person to be made a party " to carry on " the proceedings ( Ord 5 , r 11 ) . |
| 3 | Engels here , as elsewhere , is clearly influenced by the romantic nationalist tradition of nineteenth-century historians , and the praise which he lavishes on these groups , as well as the labelling of them as ‘ German ’ , is probably misplaces . |
| 4 | Under some conditions the determination of a strip number is very sensitive to movement of the test card , and it is possible for the announced approximate edge to lie in either of the two edge strips on either side . |
| 5 | Pursuant to the provisions of the NHS Act 1977 and other enabling powers , the respective Secretary of State regulates on all aspects of financial control of health authorities . |
| 6 | It 's cash on the nail as soon as the arbitrators reach a settlement — the Lloyd 's reputation stands on that . ’ |
| 7 | After his speech today , we still do not know where he stands on that matter — not on the draft to which he was referring but on the principle of extended majority voting . |
| 8 | I 'm sure sir you 're you 're not expecting me to make a a major contribution to this particular debate , but I felt that your the , various comments have been made around the table which would make it exactly clear where the Department stands on this issue . |
| 9 | The capital stands on both sides of a river , and has more than eighty thousand houses . |
| 10 | ever stands on both sides of him at once . |
| 11 | Cauterets stands on either side of its Gave , with the older , more villagey quarter on the east bank and the newer , more upstanding parts on the west . |
| 12 | Some modern footgear and small sized chocks would have been better than acid drops on that day ! |
| 13 | The careful exegete , however , will also be troubled by the fact that the Bible hardly majors on this issue , that we do not know the context of Paul 's two references to the subject , and that a strong anti-homosexual line is only possible if one has already assumed that such statements are immediately transferable into our situation straight from the biblical period . |
| 14 | He looked what he was , a veteran soldier , with sun-tanned face , clear eyes , dark doublet and hose , the only concession to fashion being the ornate , thick silver rings on each hand and a gold cross round his neck . |
| 15 | I remember my mother having erm pieces of wood with apples rings on that used to be dried in the oven . |
| 16 | While the Americans have continued to export cathartic , confessional product from the likes of Black Francis , Kristin Hersh , Kurt Cobain and Buffalo Tom 's Bill Janovitz , bands on this side of the Atlantic have seemed to delight in their complete lack of anything to say . |
| 17 | I was asked in the Straight Talking video last December — and I am still amazed at the number of people who believe that he questions on that video were stage managed , which they were n't — when morale would improve . |
| 18 | Because it 's not as simple as it looks on this sheet . |
| 19 | A Great Tightness lies on most pavements unleashing itself round all passing ankles . |
| 20 | The onus , one would have thought , lies on those who would show that it is not the case that the fact that God , whether in the form of the Father or of Christ , has been seen as ‘ male ’ , is an underlying factor in western culture , distorting human relations . |
| 21 | Yeah , and then his next go starts on that . |
| 22 | no idea what so ever because erm he starts on this on Monday . |
| 23 | Fold or clip some blank paper over the white card so that the pupil writes on that , and the card can be re-used . |
| 24 | The entire package pivots on this . |
| 25 | When one considers the huge cost overruns the West has on each new fighter , tank and warship , it is hard to believe that the same does not happen in Russia . |
| 26 | The chancel is first pointed , has on each side three wide splayed single lancets . |
| 27 | This latter comparison and its continuing memory in the culture unquestionably has had the same tranquillising effect on the American underclass as it has on that in Europe . |
| 28 | In the United States this principle has the status of a constitutional principle , and the Supreme Court has on many occasions overturned criminal convictions because the supposed crime was too vaguely defined to give the necessary notice . |
| 29 | The mixing of geographical information from different map scales and sources is a key aspect of GIS functionality , but it does raise the question as to what effects the combination of different levels of data uncertainty has on both the output maps and on the data derived from spatial query and analysis . |
| 30 | These fears have been partly generated by the substantial representation which the DES has on both tiers of NAB . |