Example sentences of "[verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eggs are usually bright orange , red or brown and the fry apparently browse on al ; gae . |
| 2 | Good examples are angelfish species which browse on sponges in the wild and butterflyfish which feed on coral polyps . |
| 3 | Where they spend winter has hitherto been uncertain ; there is now strong evidence that most of the stock moves south in autumn and winter immediately under pack ice ( Marschall 1988 ) , where they browse on algae . |
| 4 | Wreck On The Highway and Fade Away were bleak and enduring vignettes , while Independence Day and the title song were nothing less than monumental . |
| 5 | Already the Fists were disembarking on the double . |
| 6 | Yes , his victory at Doral was awesome , but he admits he did it with a suspect putter , wielded by a 49-year-old puttee , and a mind that focussed on golf to block out the loss in a fire of his $2,000,000 Florida mansion . |
| 7 | Furious with myself for these creeping insidious thoughts I focussed on lengthening my stride and levitating the rucksack . |
| 8 | Many of these are arranged through a voluntary organisation called Crossroads ( address on page 143 ) which takes its name from the television series because of the attention it focussed on the needs of disabled people . |
| 9 | It focussed on a number of different client groups and 28 projects set out to move about 900 people from hospital settings to community settings . |
| 10 | you focussed on yourself enough to cry |
| 11 | I 'm glad to say it was a business-like meeting which focussed on clarifying what action should be taken by the European Community on furthering Coastal Zone Management , particularly in the context of its 5th Action Programme . |
| 12 | Seven projects were funded under this initiative ; three focussed on multilingual education whilst the other four were concerned with the relationship of ethnic minority pupils with their white counterparts , their teachers and the organisational structure of schools . |
| 13 | The launch of the project at a sports fair in Southlands focussed on demonstrations , displays and competitions . |
| 14 | It requires a depth of human understanding , an ability to communicate on a one-to-one basis with different characters , and I do not believe that Frank can do this very well . |
| 15 | It was here they learnt to communicate on a more civilised basis than they were used to , |
| 16 | The machine adds the capability to communicate on the Bi-Bop Telepoint network to the basic PowerBook , with the Bi-Bop modem supplied to Apple by the state phone company . |
| 17 | If we are to compete effectively in world markets and to communicate on equal terms with our European partners we need to increase substantially the numbers of young people leaving school with a good grounding in at least one foreign language . |
| 18 | Thus deadlock can occur if and only if the environment offers to communicate on a set of channels disjoint from one of the sets represented by the |
| 19 | While non-verbal communication of the kinds described above have a powerful role in underlining , reinforcing or betraying our feelings and aspirations , the moment we try to communicate on a wider scale than inter-personal , we must look at other sign systems to convey meaning . |
| 20 | Until recently , only the dedicated enthusiasts would identify the components as a B.R. Standard Class 5MT , but since the completion of volunteer Dave Clark 's expert temporary lining and numbering on the exposed cab side , 73156 is now brought to the attention of all train-board visitors . |
| 21 | President Mengistu Haile Mariam , who misruled his country for 14 years , fled on May 21st to Zimbabwe , where his retreat was prepared . |
| 22 | Residents fled on foot through the wooded hills . |
| 23 | Both these titles were cover-names for the department responsible for eavesdropping on foreign embassies and trade missions in London . |
| 24 | A recent article in the New Statesman & Society listed some of the current operations at Menwith Hill , including those that involve eavesdropping on Russian and West European telephone calls . |
| 25 | For a start Claridges Hotel , in London 's Mayfair , where the Russians would be staying , was fully bugged by MI5 on a permanent basis ( because so many ‘ interesting ’ foreign guests stayed there ) and it was certainly not going to miss the opportunity of eavesdropping on the two leaders . |
| 26 | Detectives launched the massive operation after eavesdropping on the conversation between a mystery woman and the playboy yachtsman accused of murdering his parents . |
| 27 | SNOOP Cyril Reenan was branded a prying sneak yesterday for eavesdropping on the intimate phone conversation . |
| 28 | PLANS TO PREVENT EAVESDROPPING ON US GOVERNMENT |
| 29 | At times she could imagine she was in an adjoining room at Jackdaw Cottage , eavesdropping on what they said . |
| 30 | Over the next few days , Syrian George taped an assortment of Arab cab-drivers in Tel Aviv broadcasting on taxi frequencies with r bits and pieces of low-level intelligence picked up from observations while driving around town and from eavesdropping on their fares ' back-seat conversations . |