Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was extremely cheap , saving an awful lot of dynamite ; and extremely safe , both inherently and because the fuel and oxidant were only mixed on site just before use . |
| 2 | There 's a full-size hovercraft held tipped on wires directly above us ; a virtually circular thing with a tiny cabin and a huge fluted central air-intake . |
| 3 | It follows that the defendant will be entitled to the interest it has earned on deposit up to the point of acceptance . |
| 4 | Most tied cottages are located on farms rather than in the village itself , so within the village the most important housing mix is usually that between privately owned and local authority housing . |
| 5 | In December 1886 the Home Office received a memorial from the Clapham Vigilance Association , complaining that Clapham Common was ‘ infested ’ with prostitutes of the lowest type and that actual fornication was shamelessly committed on benches close to the public roadway . |
| 6 | Interviewed on LBC yesterday , he said all members of the Cabinet would have to recognise it was important to keep control of public spending . |
| 7 | Erm , I got interviewed on radio once , on , on television once with a friend and they asked , they asked us what we did , and this friend of mine said we were radio mime artists . |
| 8 | An audit office analysis of 2,300 forest areas revealed that 49 per cent of trees were being felled on average more than five years before , or after , their age of theoretical maximum economic return . |
| 9 | The administrative arrangements and rules adopted for the experiment have been endorsed by the House for the permanent coverage , and so , for the time being , the House is televised and reported on television today in much the same way as during the experiment . |
| 10 | I have come on board alone . |
| 11 | Patshull Park Lake was ice free on Saturday but completely frozen on Sunday so two motor boats were used to break up the half inch thick ice for two hours . |
| 12 | As a precaution to the tour being cancelled , the Wallabies were booked on flights back to Australia via London . |
| 13 | Only 1.5 per cent of the actual enforcement decisions constituted prosecution , and of these cases all pleaded guilty and were fined on average only £50 . |
| 14 | They are depicted on coins particularly of the period of the Roman empire , and especially for the two hundred years between AD 50 and 250 . |
| 15 | He 'd been smashed on booze once or twice , but this was different . |
| 16 | To halt the decline the Hereford Herd Book Society is planning to label beef from the breed in butchers shops.It says Hereford beef tastes better than meat from Continental breeds.And it 's cheaper to produce , because Herefords are fattened on grass rather than on expensive cereals . |
| 17 | It holds a regular series of seminars at which reports are presented on research currently in progress . |
| 18 | Group sex — turned on men more than anything else , but was less of a turn-on for women . |
| 19 | In the long term there must be improvement as Russia industrializes , but in the short term erm presumably we see the development of , of a , of a sort of Stalinist totalitarianism precisely because the screws are really being turned on people as much work is being got out of them as possible in order to accumulate capital and to build up basic industries and , and , and to divert , I mean not just into heavy industries , but to divert er resources into arms production as well . |
| 20 | Board results of the strongest club match played this year : GM Hubner 1–0 GM Christiansen ; GM Yusupov 1–0 GM Lutz ; GM Ribli DRAW GM Hort ; GM Hertneck DRAW GM Vaganian ; GM Bonsch 0–1 GM Hickl ; GM Bischoff 1–0 GM Knaak ; IM Stangl 0–1 GM Vogt ; IM Schlosser DRAW IM Jackelen ; 4.5–3.5 England 's strongest league , the London League , was effectively decided on Tuesday when King 's Head , based at the pub of the same name in Moscow Road , Bayswater , achieved a 5–2 lead in the first session of play against Wood Green . |
| 21 | COMMUTERS on the platforms of Ipswich station will be serenaded on Thursday when top orchestral musicians from around the country take part in a ‘ mass busk ’ . |
| 22 | The 31-year old may well be named on Thursday when Taylor reveals his squad for next month 's World Cup qualifier against Norway . |
| 23 | For example , given a suitable calibrated river basin simulation program a sequence of 100 or 200 years of daily observation can be generated and estimates made of the flow level that is exceeded on average once every 10 , 50 or 100 years . |
| 24 | Six bungalows look set to be built on land off at Dean Gardens , Shildon , after Sedgefield District Council development committee approved the planning application yesterday . |
| 25 | Elsewhere , however , Britain 's imitation of Hollywood was proving to be built on ground more insecure than the area around the San Andreas fault . |
| 26 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
| 27 | There may be a basis of fact in the legend of Semer Water in that the lake is known to be the site of an Iron Age lake village built on piles out from the shore . |
| 28 | But mass movements can not be built on denunciation alone , and few people believed that ‘ worker 's power ’ was on the immediate agenda . |
| 29 | You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that . |
| 30 | A Fed on assignment overseas with the ranking of Assistant Legal Attaché must always work through local law-enforcement agencies . |