Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] [noun] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tension mounts as temperatures soar on one of the hottest days of the year . |
| 2 | Pound sags as fears grow on October trade figures . |
| 3 | The week-long truce began after Sfeir threatened on March 2 to excommunicate all Christians who refused to lay down their arms and stop inter-Christian fighting in Beirut . |
| 4 | Looking after three young children , being involved in various groups as well as doing part-time evening work means that Faith depends on food that 's quick and convenient to prepare . |
| 5 | United States-mediated talks held in London on May 27-28 , attended by representatives of the effectively defunct Ethiopian government , the EPRDF , the EPLF and the Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) , had provided a crucial political dimension to EPRDF and EPLF advances on the ground . |
| 6 | In the last a frontal foot shows that Hermes stood on the right above the head of the emerging monster , like Athena in fig. 121 ; and the placing of the hero is very similar though the movement ( straight across the field as in the other ) is pulling instead of pushing . |
| 7 | A great desire to stand and cry descended on her . |
| 8 | The group suggests that assays based on polymerase chain amplification of highly specific DNA sequences from these insertional elements , and recombinant and synthetic peptides from their predicted proteins , will revolutionise the detection and characterisation of these agents . |
| 9 | Vron lying with back arched and legs raised on a tousled white carpet . |
| 10 | Simple oak settles and tables stood on an uncompromisingly bare floor of white stone flags . |
| 11 | For this reason the definition requires that rights to participate on a winding up are taken into account only where , at the date the limitation is introduced , it was likely that it would have a commercial effect in practice . |
| 12 | Woman dies after police raid on her home . |
| 13 | The Vets were not evacuated when the hurricane struck and Hemingway reports on the wind and the tidal wave that killed hundreds of them . |
| 14 | When demand is high or prices increase there is a tendency to cultivate marginal areas , but when the economic situation reverses the opposite trend occurs and cultivation focuses on the most productive land . |
| 15 | Above it an old man fished while others sat on benches , tankards in hand . |
| 16 | Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that results depend on factors other than staff efficiency . |
| 17 | Did n't I mean the same , same sort of thing happened when Wentworth put on the twenty fifth of May , that a week before Sheila said er oh you 're not having this . |
| 18 | The requirement of leave is designed to weed out frivolous , vexatious , or hopeless cases ; but there is no reason to think that claims based on private law rights will not sometimes be frivolous , vexatious , or hopeless or that claims based on public law rights are particularly prone to be frivolous , vexatious or hopeless . |
| 19 | Nor is there any reason to think that claims based on private law rights will not sometimes hold up public programmes if they are allowed to be brought after the short time-limit in Order 53 ; or that claims based on public law rights will necessarily cause trouble if brought after that time limit has expired . |
| 20 | The MOH estimates that donor spending on recurrent costs rose from five to twenty four million dollars ( nine to fifty seven percent of the total ) between 1983 and 1989 ( Ibid . ) . |
| 21 | Metropolitan Area Networks could form a market worth $2,000m worldwide by the end of the century , Siemens AG reckons : the company believes that hardware spending on the systems could soar , while customers using the systems could generate a further $10,000m of business : the remarks were made at a conference to announce a £3m order won by GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd , in which Siemens owns 40% , to supply metropolitan area equipment to British Telecommunications Plc , Reuter reports . |
| 22 | A woman with a toy poodle grumbled as Oliver trod on it . |
| 23 | And to reiterate the essentially active role of the artist in the whole process , Yass ' shadowy figure appears within the somewhat heightened colours of each portrait 's background , arm raised and hand poised on the shutter-release , a pose that recalls all those mirrored images of artists at their easel . |