Example sentences of "[verb] an [noun sg] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The construction of models independent of any external reality seems to encourage an emphasis on this sort of linguistic reflexivity and it will be encountered again in other structuralist writings . |
| 2 | December 's page from the RAF Museum 's find 1992 calendar — a Hurricane of 615 Squadron keeping an eye on two Stirlings of 15 Squadron , from the canvas of John Young . |
| 3 | I 've got a position in soya , so I 'm keeping an eye on that as well . ’ |
| 4 | No it 's alright I 've I 'm keeping an eye on that out there . |
| 5 | Besides monitoring the EC proposals , Mr Eggar is also keeping an eye on other government departments which he said had the tendency to introduce measures which , however well intentioned , could have the effect of strangling small businesses . |
| 6 | After keeping an eye on several possible candidates who were working in local shops , I finally selected a young man who was an assistant at a fruiterer 's in Kensington . |
| 7 | Further , the statue has an inscription on one leg mentioning a specific family and once again only much later was this name encountered on Roman pottery as an important family firm of merchants in that region . |
| 8 | The church is octagonal and has an apse on one face , opposite to the entrance . |
| 9 | I am going to be very interested to see whether this exhibition has an influence on contemporary painting . |
| 10 | The scholar who completes such a work thus has an edge on other writers , so a preface can be read with the respect due to a first-hand account of the works concerned and a considered piece of reflective criticism . |
| 11 | The moth , moreover , can tell whether the bat is to the right or left ( because it has an ear on each side ) and whether it is approaching or moving away . |
| 12 | The harmonization of laws affecting domestic transactions in member States has an effect on international transactions in that within the field covered by the harmonizing measures these obviate the need to resort to conflict of laws rules and thus achieve one of the objectives of a Convention regulating international transactions . |
| 13 | Interestingly , under these conditions A has an effect on certain quantum-mechanical phenomena.t It would be unfair both to the vector potential and to quantum mechanics to say that none of those formulations have engineering applications ( in fact the most sensitive magnetometer built to date is based on that kind of theory ) , but by and large engineers would n't lose much sleep if the use of A were banned with immediate effect . |
| 14 | Loss of fish , of course , has an effect on fish-eating birds and in Scandinavia and North America ospreys and divers are declining due to lack of food . |
| 15 | Our data suggest that it also has an effect on colorectal tissue . |
| 16 | These constructs constrain the individual 's view of the world , and whereas everyone is potentially able to make their own choices and decisions , they are restricted by the knowledge that to do so has an impact on other members of their family . |
| 17 | Peter feels that CCG 's training policy has played a major role in staff attitude and professionalism : it has an impact on existing businesses and is viewed favourably by potential clients when visiting our operations . |
| 18 | Responsibility for children also has an impact on parental health and use of health services . |
| 19 | ADD then tested the hypothesis that it is only unpredictable money growth that has an impact on real output by inserting actual money growth into the output equation in ( 6.14 ) for the periods t , t - 1 , t - 2 and t - 3 , and comparing the likelihood from this model with the model in equation ( 6.16 ) . |
| 20 | AD then test the prediction that it is only the unpredictable component of DM that has an impact on real output in the way described in section 6.2 . |
| 21 | It is necessary to identify a subpopulation of patients with CLO who are at especially high risk of developing adenocarcinoma so that a screening protocol that is cost effective and has an impact on patient survival can be developed . |
| 22 | The task set was to write an essay on Reflex Actions and , as a rider , to include an account of the reflex pathway followed when a person puts a hand on a pin . |
| 23 | Now what essentially , what you 're doing , is that you 're writing an essay in very , very condensed form , so it 's just , I mean you still , still must have the same recipe in there when you write a short answer , right , but you just have to be very , very brief , so you know , para paragraph on definition , you know , paragraph of examples , right , erm , paragraph on some sort of explanation or erm , how it 's , how it 's measured erm , has it been a contentious issue erm , what are the problems with this er , with this concept erm , right , you 've got to get those sort of things in there , like you would in an essay , if you were asked to write an essay on reciprocal dumping you 'd , you 'd have all those things in there , right , but you only need to write a sentence , a sentence about them . |
| 24 | In other words , Kundera 's novel isolates certain tendencies in the behaviour of poets ( and others ) in order to prosecute an attack on Stalinist Czechoslovakia . |
| 25 | ISRAEL and the PLO will seal a deal on mutual recognition within 24 hours , clearing the way for signing an agreement on Palestinian self-rule by September 13 , a PLO official in Tunis said today . |
| 26 | The country 's failure to ban such fishing methods led to the US adopting an embargo on Mexican tuna in 1991 , followed by other European and Asian nations [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 27 | The Guangming Daily had carried an article on 4 June , stating that , ‘ a gang of ruffians violently beat a Beijing University postgraduate to death . ’ |
| 28 | Business courses place an importance on creative thought because it is new ideas which keep a business ahead of its competition . |
| 29 | In so far as the auditor in the public sector is expressing an opinion on financial statements , then the Auditing Standards and Guidelines that apply in the private sector also apply in the public sector , absent specific statements to the contrary ( Auditing Guideline 416 , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | When his battalion moved south to take part in the battle of Loos , Sorley commanded an attack on two trenches known as the Hairpin , south of the Hohenzollern redoubt , and was killed by a sniper 13 October 1915 . |