Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It stands or falls on the quality of its detail , ’ says Winston . |
| 2 | Another ‘ subcultural ’ -type theory that stresses deprivation and develops and draws on the work of Merton and Cohen is that of Cloward and Ohlin . |
| 3 | It 's pretty good knowing someone who lives and works on a big Highland estate if you want to sort out your attitude to the big debate on stalking and access . |
| 4 | Harris , who lives and works on a farm , pleaded guilty to speeding at 62 mph in a 30 mph zone . |
| 5 | All other working pages are text pages which contain material that reinforces and expands on the handouts . |
| 6 | It says that based on the cost reduction it has achieved in transferring 75% of assembly and test to Bangkok , Thailand , it would transfer the rest of its production to Bangkok over the next six months , enabling further cost reductions and facility consolidations at its San Jose site . |
| 7 | Mervyn Gowell was a fitter at the plant and says that working on the Meteor was a labour of love . |
| 8 | They started drinking before the parson ever arrived and , when he did , fell upon the beer kegs that came on the same cart as though they were men dying of thirst . |
| 9 | The article was not a news report , however , but one of those background features that appear on the women 's pages of quality newspapers after some well-publicized court case . |
| 10 | The study complements and builds on the work , mainly on urban and industrial populations that has been conducted in the course of the Scottish Social Structure project developed in the Department of Sociology and the Research Centre for Social Sciences since 1980 . |
| 11 | Everyone laughs and bangs on the table . |
| 12 | ( He goes and sits on the floor to one side . ) |
| 13 | The cat er likes it there , it goes and sits on the top of it . |
| 14 | I would n't mind , but it 's normally me that goes and sleeps on the settee and I do n't see why I should . |
| 15 | Despite their manifest differences , all five views that I have just sketched out are united in that none of them hangs or falls on the notion of critical abilities . |
| 16 | Then the grub grows and feeds on the living ladybird and eats its way out , tying the ladybird 's legs together . |
| 17 | Bees learn colour only in the final three seconds as they land : the colour visible to the bee before the landing sequence , the colours it sees while standing on the flower to feed and while circling the blossom before flying off , simply never register . |
| 18 | This alternative model moves away from the conventional idea of a child with learning difficulties to one which recognises and builds on the child 's learning achievements . |
| 19 | The " wrap around " recognises and acts on the following events : An escape condition ( the |
| 20 | He remembers that work on the new school building had to be completed by the end of August since the hop kilns were needed in September . |
| 21 | It looks extraordinarily like the bristle worms that abound on the reef . |
| 22 | It seems that work on the use of relevance feedback can not help but include an element of research in the design of adaptive systems . |
| 23 | As argued for above , a denial of re-hearing based on a ‘ last opportunity ’ rationale only convinces if premised on the foregoing of an opportunity which would have been afforded . |
| 24 | I stand listening for a moment — crying could ruin everything — but there 's only the rhythmic suck-suck , suck-suck , suck-suck as it breathes and sucks on the medicine . |
| 25 | An investigation is underway into how six year old Keri Blair suffered acid burns while playing on a chute . |
| 26 | GRAHAM TAYLOR yesterday vowed not to quit as England manager — but admitted he feels as hounded on the back pages as the Royal Family are on the front . |
| 27 | If we restrict ourselves to puts and calls on a single security there are 4 simple types of investment strategy to look at : |
| 28 | the ‘ straddle ’ , consisting of an equal number of puts and calls on the same share , either bought or written ; |
| 29 | The Shipman 's portrait in the General Prologue is a case , like that of the Yeoman , where a distance and unfamiliarity between " Chaucer " and the pilgrim is conveyed by a naive curiosity with which " Chaucer 's " description focuses and lingers on the sharp and pointed or menacing aspects of the pilgrim 's accoutrements . |
| 30 | Investors contribute funds in order to obtain a share of the stream of dividends and any capital gains that accrue on the portfolio of assets . |