Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to avoid making instant decisions ; instead , go home and draw the proposed piece to scale on some card . |
| 2 | Membership of this club entails attending an annual dinner at which some 400 of Edinburgh 's most prominent citizens assemble to celebrate Scott 's memory , at which an admiral or general and a judge respond to toasts to the Armed Forces and the Law , and the president speaks on some aspect of the author of the Waverley novels . |
| 3 | He was staring at her as though he was piecing together bits of her personality like a mathematician working on some equation . |
| 4 | Of course this is not an absolute distinction , as historical descriptions depend on some kind of theoretical orientation , and theory depends on systematic observation and description of linguistic forms ( otherwise there is nothing to have a theory about ) . |
| 5 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 6 | Your uncle must be years and years older than she is , and anyway , I rather gathered she 'd got her sights set on some fellow whose name she would n't tell me . |
| 7 | Both of these problems depend on some clarification of what can be legitimately called censorship , and the question of what is censorship will be examined later . |
| 8 | A print by Stockdale , in the year 1810 , of the rear of the Church certainly shows two figures engaged on some work , possibly carpentry . |
| 9 | The new measures , announced in September and October , included the floating of the currency and the lifting of price controls on some petroleum products . |
| 10 | Five years ago she 'd have got the woman sacked on some pretext , rendering her harmless if she alleged anything against a reputable doctor in a famous clinic . |
| 11 | But as he goes , he passes a village where the villagers insist on some music from him . |
| 12 | These changes meant that they needed to form a new covenant based on some understanding of their mutual fears , their tendency to split their feelings between them , and their need to respect each other 's yearnings and protests , now more readily experienced by each of them . |
| 13 | It has also been proposed that stimuli where accurate detection rests on some form of visuo-spatial ability are better perceived when projected to the right hemisphere . |
| 14 | It has also been proposed that stimuli where accurate detection rests on some form of visuo-spatial ability are better perceived when projected to the right hemisphere . |
| 15 | It is immaterial that the accused uses force on some person other than the one from whom he takes the item . |
| 16 | A hybrid form of non-contingent cost based fee arrangement is to quote on a time basis for all work on the basis that the fee is payable whether or not the transaction completes in addition to arranging for a ‘ success fee ’ to be payable eg. a fixed amount on any completion and/or a sliding scale based on some monitor of performance . |
| 17 | If I can use erm an analogy of my own rather than of his , to produce erm a detailed adaptation of an organism to a specific way of life , if only large steps , large mutational changes were possible , would be a little like trying a surgeon trying to remove erm an appendix with a scalpel mounted on some kind of trolley clamp with the rule that he could n't move it less than a foot at a time . |
| 18 | ( 7 ) If the Panel 's decision touches on some novel or important issue it will often publish its findings to serve as guidance to third parties . |
| 19 | Yeah I got some work and me boys got on some post putting up , he said , but mind you , it might er dry up I do n't know , it looks a bit er , thick does n't it ? |
| 20 | Steve and Gillian out of New Order live on some kind of smallholding . |
| 21 | This is not to deny that plan-making is a very valuable function of our local authorities ; it is rather to point out that the existing powers to implement their plans are restricted by the price that the market puts on some land , and by the fact that the planners ' resource is in the hands of private owners rather than at the disposal of the community . |
| 22 | A pattern recogniser working on some form of segmentation relies on the fact that the input script contains all the necessary characters correctly formed . |