Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The danger in utilizing a theory of ‘ mind ’ to solve the problem of grounding the sociology of knowledge is that it depends on concepts that relate to individual and inaccessible behaviour — ‘ thought ’ , ‘ consciousness ’ , etc . |
| 2 | The demand for exports ( X ) , however , is assumed to be an exogenous variable as it depends on incomes and demand conditions overseas . |
| 3 | There are also numerous reports that sailing and other water-based recreational sports can have adverse affects on water-birds that abound on many of Britain 's artificially created reservoirs ( e.g. Tuite 1982 ) . |
| 4 | The Trust has no endowment and relies on donations and grants to undertake its conservation work on the nunnery , the most complete medieval example of its kind in Scotland and Britain . |
| 5 | The building sits on bearings that isolate it from the ground . |
| 6 | A slightly more sophisticated system is to put the names , positions and addresses on stencils or to use an addressograph system . |
| 7 | [ She puts on gloves and picks up her fan . ] |
| 8 | ‘ For example , our journalism training programme focuses on concerns that affect people 's lives such as justice and peace issues . ’ |
| 9 | A STORE chain was fined £23,000 yesterday for putting old price tags on toys but charging the up-to-date cost at its tills . |
| 10 | His intention is the cuddly fish that feeds on acorns and sleeps through the winter when nobody wants to go outside and look in their fishpond anyway . ’ |
| 11 | It was a stupid thing , he thought , three gold baubles on springs that set up a continual motion , banging one against the other , and he kept it on his desk only to please her . |
| 12 | Cocaine , which has replaced heroin as the drug of concern in America , and has thus been extensively researched , works on nerves that use the neurotransmitter dopamine . |
| 13 | Information on mortality was obtained from general practitioner notes , hospital information systems , and family health services authority returns on deaths and departed patients . |