Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 31 | Parish council clerk Herbert Booty said gipsies had knocked down 200 saplings on the county council-owned land by driving through them to get onto the land . |
| 32 | In order to provide an indication of the possible benefits that might be paid under this policy , LAUTRO ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) has made rules which lay down two bases on which future benefits may be illustrated . |
| 33 | In order to provide an indication of the possible benefits that might be paid under this policy , Lautro ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) has made rules which lay down two bases on which future benefits may be illustrated . |
| 34 | In order to provide an indication of possible benefits that might be paid under this policy , Lautro ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) has made rules which lay down two bases on which future benefits may be illustrated . |
| 35 | But he played down new taxes on foreign companies operating in the US , which raised alarm bells in Europe during the election campaign . |
| 36 | Recruits were forced to march along dusty tracks on their knees , packs on their backs , caps held above their heads ; they were woken and made to hop on the spot , half-naked and loaded down with sandbags , for two to three hours . |
| 37 | From that date a National Labour Unity Committee was to organize the campaign within the Labour Party , while the Communists and the ILP would carry on separate agitations on their own . |
| 38 | The Noble Viscount , Lord Whitelaw put it I thought extremely well , extremely persuasively , when he spoke on second reading on this question , not of the Chairman , but of the five Home Office nominees . |
| 39 | As on previous occasions , the talks faltered over Israeli intransigence on the controversial issue of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories . |
| 40 | The firm 's position on this is set out in detail in Chapter 9 of the CFM but , in summary , concerns over possible limitations on the scope of our work and the possible requirement to return material supporting any advice given , it is our preferred policy to use the form of wording set out at 1106.4 . |
| 41 | HIS latest film is one of the funniest he 's ever made , and his training as a stand-up comic and magician stretched over hard years on the tough American nightclub circuit . |
| 42 | The excluded males range over large areas on the outskirts of the little community . |
| 43 | Proposals for spending cuts totalling 9,000 million kronor ( US$1,660 million ) were put forward on Nov. 5 ; a reduction of value added tax ( VAT ) from 25 per cent to 18 per cent on a range of basic goods and services on Nov. 6 ; reductions in the tax on capital income from 30 per cent to 25 per cent and a similar reduction in the tax on share profits on Nov. 8 ; and the privatization of 35 major state-owned companies in stages from early 1992 onwards and the lifting of restrictions on foreign investors buying into or taking over Swedish companies on Nov. 11 . |
| 44 | One might be surprised to find a series of long letters extending over many weeks on Ossian and the Clyde . |
| 45 | For Youth Allyah , who were now sending over more children on transit visas , foster homes , even orthodox foster homes , could not inspire the full-blooded commitment to a pioneering life in Palestine . |
| 46 | 7/JG 26 had left Sicily for Taranto during this period , operating over southern Yugoslavia on 6th. , the day of the invasion of that country . |
| 47 | The Northern Echo was told that solicitors acting for the Grangetown families were now considering an injunction to put before a judge obliging British Steel and ICI to hand over precise information on the contents of their chimney emissions . |
| 48 | But millions of Germans will not forget the voice of Winfried Wolk , a leader of the hitherto tame East German Christian Democrat party , almost breaking as he warned over Western television on Wednesday night that East Germany 's ferment could end like that in China . |
| 49 | He claimed British Steel and ICI were refusing to hand over analytical information on their emissions to solicitors acting for 28 local , asthmatic families a refusal he claimed was ‘ a scandal ’ . |
| 50 | Wires are colour coded and have labelled fitted plugs which slide over libelled pins on the motherboard . |
| 51 | ‘ I heard they were selling off some cottages on the Woburn Estate , ’ said Crawford shortly afterwards ‘ I thought that would be great . |
| 52 | The display on consumption utilises the age-old trick of piling up an adult 's average monthly intake of food ( enormous amounts of chocolate ) and invites the visitor to burn off excess calories on an ‘ Energy Bike ’ ( it does , of course , take a depressingly long time to nullify the effect of just one grape ) . |
| 53 | The government could also help Scottish consumers by agreeing to write off existing debt on water and sewerage to create equal conditions with English and Welsh water and sewerage arrangements . |
| 54 | Finance ministers Theo Waigel of Germany and Michel Sapin of France said after talks in Bonn that close co-operation between their two countries had successfully fended off speculative attacks on the franc . |
| 55 | Carefully nip off older flowers on cyclamen and African violets , leaving no stalks which can rot . |
| 56 | Remove the failed bud , clean off any browning on the stem and paint over with a protective fungicidal paint such as Arbrex . |
| 57 | Najma , who has a degree in chemical engineering , sets off next Saturday on a tour arranged by the Arts Council -funded Asian Music Circle starting at Dundee University . |
| 58 | Welcome back : For hundreds of years people with more money than sense have been putting up strange buildings on their land that seem to have no point whatsoever . |
| 59 | This involves creating a list of categories such as ‘ takes lead ’ or ‘ follows ’ , ‘ gives orders ’ or ‘ obeys orders ’ , ‘ works out of doors ’ or ‘ works indoors ’ , ‘ mends car ’ or ‘ does housework ’ , and counting up each occasion on which the characters in the book do these things . |
| 60 | Vultures may rise up each morning on columns of air called thermals , reaching heights of 2000 metres or more . |