Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 2 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 3 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 4 | On 12 June , after a feint in the direction of Tours , Richard and Philip suddenly swooped on Le Mans itself . |
| 5 | We only realised on Monday Sunderland were likely to bring 6,000 fans with them . |
| 6 | The ground has only one entrance , so long queues developed , and although the players all arrived on time , one of the staff was stranded at the back of the queue . |
| 7 | There are sixty-five resident members , who all arrived on Thursday evening . |
| 8 | It was only noticed yesterday , although the explosion apparently happened on Saturday afternoon . |
| 9 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 10 | But the Red Army was larger than Western forces in Europe , war could break out ‘ by accident ’ ( through the failure to manage a diplomatic crisis properly ) and a US guarantee — even if it only existed on paper — could provide a major psychological boost to West European morale . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought you only went on weekends . ’ |
| 12 | On the morning of Saturday 12 November 1715 he suddenly advanced on Preston with six regiments of cavalry and one of foot . |
| 13 | She felt intimidated ; these men were the most powerful in the land , men you only saw on television or in the press . |
| 14 | Previously it only ran on VAX/VMS and DOS-based LAN environments . |
| 15 | Juan Atkins is in electro moonscape mode , Eddie Fowlkes hits the deep garage button , and the much-loved Open House team , who so impressed on Carl Craig 's now-defunct Retroactive label , display their lush aural waterbed . |
| 16 | One interesting case nevertheless arose on Tehran radio , in an excerpt from Communique No 47 of 25 September 1980 . |
| 17 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
| 18 | So , ’ he added with a slightly twisted smile , ‘ I just concentrated on business , and became even more of a workaholic than ever ! ’ |
| 19 | Except in winter , when heavy snow sometimes delayed us and another engine had to come to the rescue , we generally arrived on time at Parma. just occasionally a tram car went off the rails ; perhaps Camera was overcome by the thrill of speed . |
| 20 | There is a hint that the older people generally frowned on meetings between Edward and Helen similar to their innocent day at Horsmonden . |
| 21 | Do n't change your pattern of prayer merely because someone mentions the latest method just arrived on view . |
| 22 | Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively . |
| 23 | That division already existed on grounds of harsh military logic . |
| 24 | Admiral Habib Olahi and some others finally escaped on foot across the mountains into Turkey . |
| 25 | I did n't go in June with being full of cold , I just knocked on door and that got him out . |
| 26 | When delivered ready to start running on I August 1913 , the ten ‘ SoutherN ’ buses were integrated with the L.G.O.C. fleet and allocated to Streatham Garage , from which they normally worked on route 59 , ( Oxford Circus and South Croydon ) which competed directly with Croydon Corporation trams , emphasising Croydon 's weakness in not having through running powers to work to London . |
| 27 | I finally focused on Ben Slack who was 15 — a year younger than me . |
| 28 | They finally settled on Dillons in Trafalgar Square … |
| 29 | Journalists treated her with such awe and respect that she soon thrived on interviews , developed her eccentricities and refined the mythical aspect of the success . |
| 30 | We used to treat our coral cuts with iodine , unaware that the coral polyps which had entered the wounds normally thrived on iodine which they extracted from seawater — and were now extracting from our blood . |