Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engels here , as elsewhere , is clearly influenced by the romantic nationalist tradition of nineteenth-century historians , and the praise which he lavishes on these groups , as well as the labelling of them as ‘ German ’ , is probably misplaces . |
| 2 | Under some conditions the determination of a strip number is very sensitive to movement of the test card , and it is possible for the announced approximate edge to lie in either of the two edge strips on either side . |
| 3 | Pursuant to the provisions of the NHS Act 1977 and other enabling powers , the respective Secretary of State regulates on all aspects of financial control of health authorities . |
| 4 | After his speech today , we still do not know where he stands on that matter — not on the draft to which he was referring but on the principle of extended majority voting . |
| 5 | I 'm sure sir you 're you 're not expecting me to make a a major contribution to this particular debate , but I felt that your the , various comments have been made around the table which would make it exactly clear where the Department stands on this issue . |
| 6 | The capital stands on both sides of a river , and has more than eighty thousand houses . |
| 7 | ever stands on both sides of him at once . |
| 8 | Cauterets stands on either side of its Gave , with the older , more villagey quarter on the east bank and the newer , more upstanding parts on the west . |
| 9 | Some modern footgear and small sized chocks would have been better than acid drops on that day ! |
| 10 | The careful exegete , however , will also be troubled by the fact that the Bible hardly majors on this issue , that we do not know the context of Paul 's two references to the subject , and that a strong anti-homosexual line is only possible if one has already assumed that such statements are immediately transferable into our situation straight from the biblical period . |
| 11 | He looked what he was , a veteran soldier , with sun-tanned face , clear eyes , dark doublet and hose , the only concession to fashion being the ornate , thick silver rings on each hand and a gold cross round his neck . |
| 12 | While the Americans have continued to export cathartic , confessional product from the likes of Black Francis , Kristin Hersh , Kurt Cobain and Buffalo Tom 's Bill Janovitz , bands on this side of the Atlantic have seemed to delight in their complete lack of anything to say . |
| 13 | I was asked in the Straight Talking video last December — and I am still amazed at the number of people who believe that he questions on that video were stage managed , which they were n't — when morale would improve . |
| 14 | Because it 's not as simple as it looks on this sheet . |
| 15 | A Great Tightness lies on most pavements unleashing itself round all passing ankles . |
| 16 | The chancel is first pointed , has on each side three wide splayed single lancets . |
| 17 | In the United States this principle has the status of a constitutional principle , and the Supreme Court has on many occasions overturned criminal convictions because the supposed crime was too vaguely defined to give the necessary notice . |
| 18 | These fears have been partly generated by the substantial representation which the DES has on both tiers of NAB . |
| 19 | One gentleman , who has not actually seen the apparition , has on several occasions heard footsteps walking up a stairway in the station . |
| 20 | Insensitive and often racist policing have fused with inner urban decay to create a climate of both despair and rebellion in which black ( and white ) youth 's sense of injustice has on several occasions provoked urban revolt ( Benyon , 1984 ; West Midlands County Council , 1986 ; Gifford , 1986 ) . |
| 21 | From its Midlands grassroots in the Clean-up TV Campaign , the NVALA has grown into an organisation with over 30,000 members , and has on several occasions organised nationwide petitions which have secured a formidable number of signatures . |
| 22 | More important , it has on several occasions presented to the European Commission solutions to technical problems with the Directives which have had the unanimous support of member associations . |
| 23 | The UGT has on several occasions accused the CCOO of calling politically motivated strikes , aimed at disrupting the government 's economic policy . |
| 24 | Colby Simpkins is one of the elect , above familial ties or mundane circumstances , like Harry in The Family Reunion and Celia in The Cocktail Party — although Eliot has on this occasion eschewed the Furies or martyrdom as a way of emphasizing Colby 's difference from those who are content with a secular existence . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal has on this basis refused an interim injunction against " Private Eye " when it published details of convictions which had been " spent " under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act ( see below , p60 ) . |
| 26 | The impact that it has on these people particularly as the Chair said , the retained service , can be quite profound because they , unlike the whole time firemen can be catapulted from being a joiner one minute into being a rescue operator the next minute . |
| 27 | And even though we 've issued ‘ D ’ notices on these events , it 's only a matter of time before we have a panic on our hands . ’ |
| 28 | If you want to know when the centre 's open , and what happens on each day , then just give us a ring and we 'll pass on the details . |
| 29 | The one nearest the knitting , at the beginning of the row , controls what happens on that row . |
| 30 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |