Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [noun] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Product Safety Directive ( 92/59/EEC ) is designed to ensure that products placed on the market in member states are safe for consumers to use . |
| 2 | A study by Dublin 's Trinity College has established that yeasts found on tree leaves are pollution-sensitive and can provide an inexpensive method of monitoring air pollution . |
| 3 | For a start , they argue , America has already told Jordan that it wants to be friends again ( watch to see if America leans on Israel to be more accommodating to Jordan 's need for water ) . |
| 4 | Instead , they are likely to use the ‘ just-in-time ’ ( JIT ) system where complex market relations with component subcontractors are used to ensure that supplies arrive on the premises where they are needed at the appropriate time . |
| 5 | A big crowd started to gather as Greg got on a real head of steam . |
| 6 | But I do know that England drew on an enormous well of self-belief . |
| 7 | I am encouraged to have seen that submissions based on such discussion are increasingly made by counsel and entertained by the courts and your Lordships have in the present appeal benefited from counsel 's industry in this respect . |
| 8 | A crowd estimated at 10,000 overturned cars and smashed shop windows , and at least one student was known to have died as police fired on the crowd ; 50 students and 20 police were reported injured . |
| 9 | UK local authorities should be encouraged to require that buses used on tendered routes should offer high standards of accessibility through low-floor design or equipping them with lifts or ramps . |
| 10 | Well , they each seem to do one thing well enough , but fail to realise that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time . |
| 11 | The two girls totter to the lavatory door , laughing at the funniest thing they 've seen since Grandma sat on her chihuahua . |
| 12 | Absent also was Leofwine , who had taken Thorfinn for King as Cormac had , or so it seemed , on the glorious journey to and from Rome , and who had stood trembling as Cormac had on the steps of St Peter 's , one of a brotherhood that had seemed to promise a future none of them had so far dreamed of . |
| 13 | In 1875 Caton , the professor of physiology at Liverpool , had shown that electrodes placed on the exposed brain of a rabbit could record electrical pulses , but Berger 's records came through the skull and could easily be dismissed as artefacts until his results were systematically vindicated by the Cambridge neurophysiologists Adrian and Matthews in the mid-1930s . |
| 14 | Indications of a change in Russian defence perspectives had emerged after Yeltsin announced on Jan. 26 that Russia would stop targeting US cities with nuclear missiles ; on Jan. 30 Yeltsin announced in London , where he held talks with the UK Prime Minister , John Major , that Russia had also decided to retarget nuclear weapons away from British cities . |
| 15 | In particular , it fails to guide the choice between amending and discarding theories which are in trouble with the facts , and it fails to acknowledge that facts depend on theory to identify them . |
| 16 | ( 1983 ) have argued that maps based on the European Air Chemistry Network may be misleading in several respects , such as in failing adequately to show the pattern of time variations over the years or the large degree of uncertainty attaching to individual contours , and assuming a geographical homogeneity which is not borne out by detailed calculations with data taken from adjacent sites . |
| 17 | Halloun and Hestenes ( 1985b ) have found that students embarking on physics degree courses in American universities had quite mistaken notions of the meaning of terms such as ‘ force ’ , ‘ velocity ’ and ‘ mass ’ . |
| 18 | It is not appropriate here to analyse , nor even to state , the many reasons for this difficulty , but after scrutinising the research findings I have to say that LEAs have on the whole not seen the implications of the 1981 Act for social services departments or district health authorities . |