Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | McMahon and Greene found that on the pole-vaulter 's pillows , the runner was in contact with the surface far longer than on concrete , and that he deflected the pillows noticeably . |
| 2 | As the investigation progressed , the researchers found that on the two-toed species males outnumbered females 3.1 , and on the more common three-toed sloth it was 7:1 . |
| 3 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 4 | And all that is is a hammer and stamp and er and they have a habit of buckling because we regularly , erm postcode cycles erm , with the introduction of the mountain bike we found that on the weaker frames we were buckling them . |
| 5 | But yesterday a friend who had been telephoning around Tories who are fighting marginal seats reported that on the doorsteps more voters were saying that , although they did not like the Tories , they liked Mr Kinnock even less . |
| 6 | November 1876 , reported that on the previous Thursday evening , he had preached in the little church at Turnham Green , to whence he had walked from Isleworth . |
| 7 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 8 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 9 | The lawyers , too , agreed that on the basis of what was before him , the Sheriff had no alternative . |
| 10 | He also admitted that on the balance of their performances against Brazil , England and Argentina this autumn , his side clearly lacked that extra something . |
| 11 | Under questioning from Philip Aliker , counsel for Mr Reid , Mr Bain admitted that on the day he complained to management he had been brought to account by nursing colleagues , including Mr Reid , for long periods off work . |
| 12 | Cantril argued that on the whole , the less educated were the most gullible . |
| 13 | He sought advice from Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle who advised that on the true construction of the statutes the dismissal was valid and intra vires . |
| 14 | The ostler , whose accent was almost unintelligible , muttered that on the night the murders had been committed , I had been hustled dead drunk out of the tavern and into the hands of strangers waiting in the yard . |
| 15 | Stella moved , and as the light caught her Merrill noticed that on the fine tanned skin there was an etching of small lines at the corners of her mouth and around her eyes , but she was still a very beautiful woman . |
| 16 | Coming into Brindisi Harbour , he noticed that on the roof of a high rise block of flats under the wing float , lay a lovely Latin sunbathing . |
| 17 | Yeah I noticed that on the top of the |
| 18 | right up the stairs , the passage and er I noticed that on the stairs not too bad you know , that hardly gets used , er |
| 19 | Schroeder however does appear to equate unreasonableness with oppression but it is suggested that it was not laying down any principle to that effect : it so happened that on the facts in that case unreasonableness and oppression both existed . |
| 20 | In 1930 the British Legion stated that on the annual poppy day collection depended their ability to assist all ex-servicemen . |
| 21 | Disliking the Tories more than he disliked Labour , he declared that on the defeat of Baldwin 's Government in the new Parliament , the King should ask MacDonald to form an administration , which he and his fellow Liberals would keep in office as long as it avoided extremist policies . |
| 22 | In summary , his research showed that on the whole , supervisors with the best performance were those who concentrated their main efforts on the human aspects of their staff 's problems and attempted to build work groups with high performance standards . |
| 23 | Unilever is not revealing the price but analysts speculated that on the basis of recent transactions in the European branded food business , such as the French BSN 's purchase of HP Sauce and Lea & Perrins from Hanson , a figure of between £30m to £40m may have been paid . |
| 24 | He replied that on the facts as stated it did not appear , at least so far as the testator 's words were concerned , that it was entrusted to Pamphilus that he should make over a hundred . |
| 25 | He replied that on the facts stated it appeared that the testator wanted by trust to release Seius from all liability to that debt . |
| 26 | He replied that on the facts as stated the testator had validly confirmed his wishes by a trust , and had therefore given the same to each so that the nurses should enjoy the income from the land together with the foster-child . |
| 27 | ‘ Then the play opened and on the first Friday it looked set to be the day . |
| 28 | However , in the short time they flourished , they had an enormous impact , not so much on the towns they joined but on the countryside through which they passed . |
| 29 | But their two aims conflicted because on the one hand they 're trying to protect production and to allow erm er capit private enterprise and capitalism to develop but on the other hand they 're erm trying to redistribute all the land er because the May the fourth directive was n't going far enough , they , they needed to be more severe upon landlords |
| 30 | The prosecution alleged that on the day of the murder in September 1991 Bartman had been in a bad mood . |