Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHELL has lost out on an oil bonanza worth at least £1 billion through a decision to cut its stake in exploration territory west of Shetland . |
| 2 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 3 | Ishida Aerospace has picked up on an Eighties Cold War idea generated by the US military , which has financed the design , construction and flight testing of a propeller-driven VTOL plane , namely the Osprey , whose features were shown in your illustration . |
| 4 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |
| 5 | The Football Supporters Association have set out on a project to democratise the game , taking control of the clubs and institutions that so ruthlessly exploit their support . |
| 6 | There was a girl in charge of the place , a child of perhaps twelve , who told me that her name was Morag , and that her auntie had stepped out on a visit , but had said the young lady from Camus na Dobhrain might be there to use the telephone , and please to go through . |
| 7 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , claimed the council had missed out on a major tourist attraction . |
| 8 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 9 | Great thicknesses of pumice and ash had piled up on the slopes of Vesuvius above Herculaneum , and this loose material very rapidly became saturated by torrential rainstorms which may have been triggered by the eruption cloud itself : the dust particles acting as nuclei on which water vapour could condense to form droplets . |
| 10 | It will only look at the premium status up to the fifteenth of the month , it wo n't take into consideration when so recall 's gone through on the sixteenth of the month . |
| 11 | The club 's Jarrow born manager Jimmy Mullen ( Backtrack , December 10 ) was obliged to send a deputy to last Friday 's manager of the year awards the entire team has shoved off on a sponsored fortnight in Bermuda . |
| 12 | A BODY found washed up on a beach in Kent has been confirmed as that of missing Essex woman Lisa Benner . |
| 13 | Railway enthusiasts , understandably , have let off steam about the matter and say the town has lost out on a major tourist opportunity . |
| 14 | The group has splashed out on a string of new programmes to be shown when it takes over from Thames next month . |
| 15 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Preservation Society , said the town had lost out on a major attraction to the North-East . |
| 16 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 17 | Gran has joined in on the act . |
| 18 | Paul joined FWWG in November 1991 as a trainee instrument designer having already gained a HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Glasgow Polytechnic — a fair achievement having started out on a Youth Training Scheme [ YTS ] course as a trainee computer programmer . |
| 19 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 20 | But the taxi had showed up on the dot , and she had stepped in , resolutely refusing to look back for one last glance at the house . |
| 21 | The Kievs were shrivelled up like lumps of coke , burst open , and all the garlic , herby butter filling had run out on the tray and burned . |
| 22 | This man and my father had joined up on the same day , they went to the same school , played football together , both courted my mother and both fell in love with her — and she ended up marrying them both . |
| 23 | Ace 's finger remained clamped down on the trigger even after all seven bullets had gone and the slide had locked back in the ‘ empty ’ position . |
| 24 | Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme . |
| 25 | OR when a gate has swung back on a horse rapping its knees or trapping its foot . |
| 26 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the minister responsible for home affairs in Scotland , confirmed that the Government had backed down on a proposal to abolish a contributory band for those applicants seeking advice and assistance . |
| 27 | The Baron had been the Prince 's tutor at Oxford and was living proof to Sharpe that most education was a waste of effort , for none of Rebecque 's modest good sense had rubbed off on the Prince . |
| 28 | That privilege , and the airs and presumption that went with it , are still resented ; and some of the resentment has rubbed off on the poet . |
| 29 | Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her . |
| 30 | Fellow student Keith Gregory responded to an advert Gedge had pinned up on a university notice board which sought an ‘ Introverted bass player , influenced by The Fall , The Chameleons , The Velvet Underground and The Sound . ’ |