Example sentences of "that [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anodyne solutions are sought through an alchemy of systems that capitalize on consultants and capitulate on common sense . |
| 2 | Romantically associated with the coming of spring , their half-hidden blooms offer a special charm that plays on our inquisitive nature . |
| 3 | The most widely remembered is the pithy and witty exchange that plays on Ben 's alienation from the materialistic world of his parents and their friends . |
| 4 | Francis of Assisi maintains an astonishingly high position of regard in the hearts of many Christians who would comfortably condemn Rose of Lima , despite the fact that as well as chatting to wolves and birds , his own asceticism , and that laid on his followers , was ferocious and absolute . |
| 5 | Standard features can include items such as leather trimmed steering wheel , one-touch electric window controls , exterior temperature indicator , electrically adjustable door mirrors and even a specially-shaped garment case that stows on the underside of the rear parcel shelf . |
| 6 | An error that arose on the consolidation of the capital gains legislation into TCGA 1992 will be corrected in next year 's Finance Bill . |
| 7 | Originating in Scandinavian mythology , elves are capricious sprites that dance on the grass , or sit in the leaves of trees and bask in the light of the full moon . |
| 8 | She has an obsession with the drug that verges on monomania . |
| 9 | How many items were there that centred on curriculum content and administration matters and how many focussed on individuals ? |
| 10 | Certainly after that incident and all the erm the very overly dramatic publicity that centred on the flats . |
| 11 | In the years that followed , the factional conflicts that centred on Louis 's court were coolly observed by Hincmar , the future archbishop , then a young monk at St-Denis , close therefore to Abbot Hilduin , Louis 's archchaplain . |
| 12 | A monologue that centred on hunt balls , riding to hounds , polo and the disgraceful decline of the manners of Guards officers were hardly subjects about which they were often invited to give an opinion . |
| 13 | The industry lost first its export markets and then its domestic market to the Japanese because it was totally unprepared for the challenge from companies that operated on a truly international basis . |
| 14 | Fiegehen and Reddaway concluded : ‘ it is clear that , in total , any disincentive effects that operated on senior managers had a minimal impact on the activities of British industry ’ . |
| 15 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 16 | The less thinking and interpreting that goes on the better . |
| 17 | The duo have been busy recently preparing their first London exhibition ( work in progress shown above , middle picture ) , a display that goes on show this month at the City Racing Gallery . |
| 18 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 19 | ( Very occasionally we have a meeting that goes on later than this and if/when this happens I 'll let you know afterwards . ) |
| 20 | you , you ca n't carry , oh where 's the think that goes on the back ? , oh there , there we are , you ca n't carry the milk pet back because we ca n't put your foot rest up high like we can with the front one , so there 's nothing to balance it on , and if you drop it , the big plastic bottle will burst open , wo n't it ? put this rain hood |
| 21 | Well , one that goes on your shoulder . |
| 22 | He said that stamping on the head of players on the ground was not acceptable to his team . |
| 23 | It 's a car that builds on the 25 's strong points and makes huge advances in refinement , build quality and styling in its own right . |
| 24 | This is a budget Chairman that builds on the achievements of the last four years , the care for our schools and it takes into account that the future will not be as rosy as we would like and allows for contingencies . |
| 25 | W. B. Coley has written that depending on wealthy patrons presented writers of the period with two difficulties : ‘ ideological inconstancy and the threat of the loss of the dependency itself . ’ |
| 26 | We would argue that depending on the concept of accountability ( moral , professional , contractual ) that the procedure seeks to satisfy , and the features of the particular context ( sector of education , local pressures etc. ) , the individual criteria will assume relatively greater or lesser importance . |
| 27 | It should be noted finally that depending on their design , incentive schemes may actually be counter-productive . |
| 28 | Answer guide : The point that needs to be illustrated here is that depending on the valuation basis used the profit changes . |
| 29 | He added , incidentally , ‘ that depending on the sex of your friend , the process can take some time ’ . |
| 30 | we actually ended up with a lot more I P R people and we 'd done all the work and they got most of the money now that 's fine that 's the way life goes sometimes , but I must admit I think that depending on how big an event you want to make it you 're maybe as well to keep it an B A I E event and open it up quietly at the end |