Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of values taken on by the variable is divided into a number of classes before the map is drawn . |
| 2 | There 's a lot of change going on in the game at the moment , which is always a healthy sign . |
| 3 | Some evenings there 'll be a series of sketches laid on by the Club 's Entertainments Team or a folklore show by guest dancers . |
| 4 | Jess kicked out , catching the handle of his tankard so that a puddle of porter slopped on to the counter . |
| 5 | Finally , in the week that the flame of altruism flickered on as the saintly Mother Teresa and her divine holiness the Princess of Wales clasped hands in a gesture of tender solidarity that touched the souls of millions , it was revealed that : |
| 6 | GRAHAM Gooch will have plenty of shoulders to lean on during the tour of India . |
| 7 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 8 | Vision is a response to changing values in the intensity and wavelengths of light reflected on to the retina of our eye and transmitted to our brain by our optic nerves for decoding and interpretation . |
| 9 | Drops of blood fell on to the chicken . |
| 10 | The debate over Matthew Maynard 's appointment as vice-captain of Glamorgan rumbles on in the pubs along the banks for the Taff , Hugh Morris , who was overlooked , remains tactfully silent . |
| 11 | The hard core of party-goers stayed on until the small hours , drinking coffee , sprawled on settees , sinking into morose abuse and gloom , surfacing occasionally to laugh , to chatter , relapsing , rising , sinking again . |
| 12 | Clearly it is easier for a minister to accept this sort of legislation than to develop a policy that effectively changes the direction of a great deal of work going on within the department . |
| 13 | As they passed through the town of Isserre , spots of rain spat on to the windscreen . |
| 14 | Er by effectively where we 've got the er combination of colours joining on to the southern bypass , we looked at moving that in a westerly direction to encourage that movement . |
| 15 | She brought her hands away from her hips , which had hidden them quite well , and let a tin-opener and a tin of Whiskas drop on to the stairs . |
| 16 | This will mean £20bn-worth of sterling coming on to the market to buy foreign currency . |
| 17 | There will thus be an increase in the supply of pounds coming on to the foreign exchange market . |
| 18 | This will therefore lead to an increase in the supply of pounds coming on to the foreign exchange markets . |
| 19 | So d what sort of things go on in the flats ? |
| 20 | Yes I think er people should hear that er er er the royal family 's had a lot of correction in the past with the outside world and er come and go and you know , people know the royal family very well and they attract a lot of business , a lot of things go on behind the scenes whether it 's from glamour point of view . |
| 21 | There were all sorts of things going on with the WTA board , and I took a leadership position there . |
| 22 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 23 | Three men were needed to do the actual fitting of the tyre : two holding the tyre after they had taken it out of the oven , and one with a bucket of water to pour on to the felloes to stop them from taking fire as the tyre was clamped on . |
| 24 | While it makes little sense to talk of criticism of the physical world , it makes every sense to talk of criticism turned on to the theories and concepts which science has produced to explain the external world , for they could certainly be other than they are.8 Unfortunately , we sometimes give the impression in science and technological education that the current models , terms and theories of science are given and have merely to be assimilated by students . |
| 25 | The other programme was the field theory initiated by Faraday , according to which electrical phenomena can be explained in terms of actions going on in the medium surrounding electrified bodies and electric circuits , rather than in terms of the behaviour of a substance within them . |
| 26 | And there , after her warming-up exercises , she leaped like a gazelle , undisturbed by the fact that she was being filmed on video by two pupils and barely noticing that during the session a small group of people tiptoed on to the gallery , and she did her last jump to applause . |
| 27 | Do you think there is an argument for finding natural teachers as opposed to set of people to get on with the job ? |
| 28 | The characters are formed from tiny dots of ink poked on to the paper . |
| 29 | It 's a good sport for women to play in and there 's lots of developments going on in the sport and we would like to go into the under sixteens and the under twelves . |
| 30 | However policy-makers ' overriding concern with inflation and the calculations about likely reactions of financial markets to inflation-risking economic policies ( notably in Britain in 1976 , France in 1982 — 3 , and Australia in 1984 ) have forced advocates of state spending on to the defensive . |