Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St. Albans average two-and-a-half goals a game away from Clarence Park and ex-Dragons Steve Clark and Jimmy King are having excellent seasons , but they did lose 2–1 at home to Harrow Borough on Saturday and let Chesham go nine clear at the top . |
| 2 | He refused to sit in a wheelchair , crippled by his disability and others ' prejudice and he taught himself to walk again , built up his stamina by playing football on crutches and progressed to the walking sticks he uses today . |
| 3 | He built up his stamina by playing football on crutches and progressed to using walking sticks . |
| 4 | Still keeping to the ridge descend a little and then curve around west to reach Trum y Ddysgl and go south-west on grass and descend again to reach the summit of Mynydd Tal-y-mignedd . |
| 5 | Deep ploughing puts subsoil on top and buries the living topsoil below the optimum depth . |
| 6 | Neil Edwards , the 27-year-old Harlequins lock forward who broke his nose and had stitches inserted in a gashed lip in the 1810 win over the Irish , did not play for his club on Saturday but hopes to be fit to face Bristol this weekend . |
| 7 | Four weeks later at Avus he was back behind the controls , even through he hobbled to his car on crutches and had to be lifted into the cockpit and the pedals had to be modified because he could use only one foot . |
| 8 | The court heard that he had not meant to set the car on fire but had lit a cigarette and thrown the match on to the vehicle . |
| 9 | How wonderful it was to be able to stop a car on impulse and bathe in a pool of crystal-clear water ! |
| 10 | When Jesus says to his disciples , ‘ You are not to set your mind on food or drink ; you are not to worry ’ ( Luke 12:29 — the only New Testament use of the word ) , he is saying that God 's care for us as Father means that food and drink are not to be a hang-up , an occasion for doubt and anxiety which constantly keeps us up in the air . |
| 11 | In contrast , the collection of chapters edited by Twigg aims to provide an overview of research on carers and pull out the implications for service planning and practice developments . |
| 12 | The collection 's great strength was its concentration on drawings and works on paper , both Cubist and otherwise , by Cooper 's favoured masters . |
| 13 | Murphy ( 1978 ) reports a simple study on effectiveness where interpreted information to deaf people was compared with oral lectures to hearing people . |
| 14 | 5 April 1993 : A talk on Cut and Sew techniques at a venue in Par , South Cornwall . |
| 15 | Using a rolling pin with more flour dusted on to it , roll the dough out until it is approximately 5–8mm thick and you can place the template on top and see dough all around its edges . |
| 16 | He could have sat down with only one of them and achieved the same guidance on weight and machining capability , but three of them came to the meeting , which he thought typical of engineers . |
| 17 | Now , having already risked a considerable outlay on refitting and storing the ship , he was faced with the possibility of having to sail from Polruan with several hands short of a full complement . |
| 18 | Graham ( whose chapter on budgeting and allocating is essential reading ) reports a survey of 23 university libraries he carried out in 1985 , in which 14 of the library grants covered only non-staffing costs ( books , periodicals , binding and operational money ) , whilst the other nine included staffing , though usually with severe limitations on virement between staffing and other sub-heads . |
| 19 | According to some scholars , parents education in general has a greater effect on survival than do income and access to health facilities combined . |
| 20 | Wealth to those who deem it important has a destructive effect on happiness because thinking about money is demoralising . |
| 21 | I crushed some of the flowers and rubbed them on my forehead as I 'm told it has an invigorating effect on cabbages and thought it might do the same for me . |
| 22 | Similarly both the Rathenau Advisory Group in the Netherlands and the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research in Stockholm , carried out simulations which indicated that slow introduction of microelectronic technology would have a worse effect on employment than keeping up with other countries . |
| 23 | This romantic view of the Germanic commune had an unconscious effect on Marx and led him to follow those German historians who were trying to reconstruct an old system which they say as smothered by a newer one . |
| 24 | Objectors claimed the development would destroy the foreshore , spoil scenic views , have an adverse effect on wildlife and result in the loss of moorings and slipways . |
| 25 | Overall , they show that treatment with subcutaneous heparin in addition to aspirin and thrombolysis has no significant effect on mortality but does result in an excess of major bleeding necessitating transfusions , as well as cerebral haemorrhage . |
| 26 | This book sheds some light on events that deserve to be better known as for many the months that elapsed proved fatal . |
| 27 | John Major 's fate is now in the balance and if he loses the vote on Europe and resigns , dealers reckon we could see shares in freefall with at least £15bn to £20bn wiped off . |
| 28 | The Code of Professional Practice on Engineers and Risk Issues ( the Code ) , which became effective from 1 March 1993 , applies to the 290,000 registrants of The Engineering Council . |
| 29 | The Code of Professional Practice on Engineers and Risk Issues is one such Code of Practice . |
| 30 | At the same time , he must avoid putting too much automation on board and turning the astronauts into bored passengers . |