Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this Virtual Target Capability application code can be developed without a target , as the code can be run on the host processor or switched to run on an emulation of the target node . |
| 2 | Due to the fact that the sub-contractor when paid on a piecework basis achieves a relatively high hourly rate , most sub-contractors either negotiate an equivalent daywork rate per hour or resist working on daywork and agree rates or lump sums for the particular work involved . |
| 3 | This finding corresponds with research that has concentrated on early retirement ( McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ; Parker 1980 ; and in France , Cribier 1981 ; Gaullier 1982 ) and withdrawal from the labour market through the job release scheme ( Makeham and Morgan 1980 : 14 ) , but we do not know how many of those older workers with poor health would have been fit enough to continue working if the plant had not closed . |
| 4 | The wind surged around the little car , streaking past across the expanse of long brown grass still flattened from the snow that had lain on it over the winter . |
| 5 | But the term that has caught on most widely to describe such zealots is ‘ hacker ’ and what they do , constantly , is known as ‘ hacking ’ . |
| 6 | I want continuous ventilation in a bedroom and have decided on a trickle ventilator . |
| 7 | The President had seen the polls forecasting heavy defeat and had decided on a high-profile last-ditch effort to free the Iranian hostages . |
| 8 | She pushed her inner chaos to the back of her mind and tried to concentrate on the coming day . |
| 9 | Once he jumped from a roof and managed to land on the soft top of a passing van . |
| 10 | In the arousal condition the same beginning and ending to the sequence was used , but in the middle the boy was hit by a car and shown lying on the car bonnet bleeding heavily before being transported to hospital . |
| 11 | The chairman of Wyre has his own boat and goes fishing on a regular basis . |
| 12 | Bob Reid hired a boat and went exploring on Cara , off the west coast of Kintyre |
| 13 | Only after he finished in his world 's best time of 4 minutes 12¾ seconds did George learn that the tenacious Scot had collapsed sixty yards from the tape and had fallen on the grass . |
| 14 | But it needs to be borne in mind that such connections are not an automatic or necessary consequence of the formal structure of the poetry ; they are the result of the reader 's bringing his own sensibility and experience to bear on the text , and interpreting it in the light of his own conscious or unconscious idea of the nature and function of literature . |
| 15 | Add the Yorkshire pudding batter to the tin and leave to cook on the highest shelf for 25–30 minutes until golden brown and crisp . |
| 16 | Pathologist Dr Chris Johnson told the court that the father-of-four grown-up children had at least seven pints of alcohol in his blood and had overdosed on 30 anti-depressant tablets . |
| 17 | Even if you can not reach any gardens or nurseries to see roses in action and have to rely on catalogues and lists , there is a great deal of enjoyment to be derived from weighing up the pros and cons and in the anticipation of the pleasures to come , just like choosing a holiday from the glossy brochures . |
| 18 | Jessamy pushed them irritably to one side and began to work on one of the dragons , filling in some of the more intricate details . |
| 19 | The text that follows expands on the details of each of the ten steps . |
| 20 | And if you also look the most the the the clearest change that 's happened on the outside of this building , if you look at that window , if you if you follow the edge of the window the original window came all the way down to this point , and then across and up , and this has been all blocked up . |
| 21 | I shouted to Steve ‘ Hey Steve , would n't you rather have failed on this route than have succeeded on the Japanese Route ? ’ |
| 22 | It 's a Sunday-school hymn , hardly the kind that gets requested on Songs of Praise , I should have thought . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't agree with the amount of money that 's spent on the royal family . |
| 24 | erm and the amount of money that 's spent on twinning is in fact extremely small . |
| 25 | Another major capacity that CFS have on site at Hal Safi is the overhaul of propellers . |
| 26 | The senators smile faded and he leaned over the rail to let the ash that had formed on his cigar fall into the muddy river . |
| 27 | ‘ You never know , Sid , ’ I replied as I swatted a mosquito that had landed on my wrist , and watched the blood splatter from it . |
| 28 | At the same time remove any excess debris that has accumulated on the pond bottom . |
| 29 | At that lunch in the Oxford and Cambridge he was in the sombre mood that had descended on him with the signing of the Munich Agreement . |
| 30 | Phoebe could remember no details , could recall only with an effort that was profitless , the numbing passivity that had fallen on her . |