Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb pp] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school . |
| 2 | An inexpensive sweet Muscat which is from the Mediterranean coast of Spain , boasting sultana and honey notes tagged on to the familiar medley of citrus fruits . |
| 3 | In principle , a non-UK firm needs to be authorised under the FSA for investment business carried on in the UK . |
| 4 | THE Phoenix Players stepped on to the Rialto stage last night with their presentation of O'Casey 's ‘ Juno and the Paycock ’ . |
| 5 | Beyond the tree-fringed mouth of Bull Pot of the Witches , the path to Ease Gill cuts left on to the fell 's edge and passes close by a trap door covering a shaft that leads into Lancaster Hole , the first route into the main cave system of Leck Fell . |
| 6 | By mid and late Devonian times , the new mountains of Europe had been worn down and shallow shelf seas spread on to the continental margins . |
| 7 | On landing , the Ashdown mob spilled on to the apron and surrounded Kinnock 's plane , still singing and trying to persuade the party leaders to shake hands like opposing troops on the Western Front at Christmas . |
| 8 | Peter Cazalet 's travelling head lad rushed on to the course to lead the horse away as a bemused jockey was taken back to the weighing room . |
| 9 | ‘ Debt ’ , with its overtones of fault and defaulting , embarrassment and mismanagement , gradually changed into the more significant ‘ overindebtedness ’ — though , of course , newspaper subs hung on to the monosyllabic short word which fitted more easily into headlines and made for more racy reading in the copy . |
| 10 | It was night , and as the wind gusted down the iron chimney pipe , a shower of metal flakes spattered on to the wooden floor . |
| 11 | Yes , and an astute decision by Milton 's manager , Keith Stocks , saw substitute Brian Marlan brought on in the sixty eighth minute and two minutes later he was all smiles as he headed home Nigel Mott 's cross to break the deadlock . |
| 12 | The programme started as d1 with dance on a painted floor cloth ; d2 extended into the air in a later development ; and in Glasgow , entitled 3d , it will be made ‘ fully three-dimensional ’ , with a metal bridge structure built on to the stage . |
| 13 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 14 | But a doctor did n't arrive for another hour and a half , by which time Mrs Johansen had died from a heart attack brought on by the fracture . |
| 15 | York skyline painted on to the car by artist Paula MacArthur . |
| 16 | [ what is ] apparent during this period is the bewilderment and confusion of many sections of the liberal intelligentsia in grappling with the immigration issue at the same time as they had difficulties in understanding the new elements of youth culture brought on by the emergence of what was in popular parlance being termed an ‘ affluent society ’ . |
| 17 | It is argued that although cattle stealing was affected by administrative arrangements , particularly in the twentieth century , it was more sensitive to economic influences , especially changes in land use brought on by the expansion of plantations . |