Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [conj] [noun] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | But I do know that England drew on an enormous well of self-belief . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The two girls totter to the lavatory door , laughing at the funniest thing they 've seen since Grandma sat on her chihuahua . |
| 5 | ( 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |