Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the therapist is placing responsibility for change firmly on the client 's shoulders , reinforcing the notion that people help themselves . |
| 2 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
| 3 | Free classes for artists now on offer |
| 4 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 5 | FORMER Middlesbrough goal king John Hickton got stripped for action again on Saturday . |
| 6 | The case of Timothy Evans , however , who had been hanged in 1950 after conviction for murder partly on the evidence of John Christie , also convicted and executed for murder three years later , had convinced him that mistakes could occur . |
| 7 | It is very difficult to muster a cogent argument against the landlord 's request for guarantors either on the grant of a lease or on an assignment of the lease where a corporate tenant or corporate assignee has either recently been established or is a concern of limited substance . |
| 8 | She will be able to give you a great deal too , if you are prepared to open your mind to her memories and experience of life , realising the significance of her ‘ past ’ to your ‘ present ’ ; and when you understand that the old are by no means always on the receiving end of their relationships , then you are ready to assemble the love , time , patience and energy you have to offer , and decide on the best way of presenting them . |
| 9 | After arrival overhead on the initial approach , a turn directly towards the outbound leg of the let-down will only be made when the initial approach direction does not require a turn of more than 60° . |
| 10 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 11 | Not quite knowing what to expect other than that she wanted a new job , Jean turned up for work promptly on a cold , wet , Monday morning but found no one to let her in . |
| 12 | Finally , it is worth dwelling briefly on the role that users play in the innovation process , and on the factors which seem to be associated with successful innovation , since these are considerations which help to determine whether joint R&D activities need to be coupled with joint marketing to be successful . |
| 13 | It might be argued that it is. but it is worth dwelling briefly on the insights which structuralist Marxist accounts contain . |
| 14 | bit of Araldite just on the end of the thread is |
| 15 | I was in the hills north of Achnashellach recently on a day of low cloud and smirry rain . |
| 16 | Fifty thousand pounds extra for the voluntary sector at a time when a recession , when so called but completely un care in the community is putting a tremendous burden of responsibility both on the voluntary sector and on we know what a good job the voluntary sector do in this city thousand pounds is a small proportion of the money that they are actually requesting from us . |
| 17 | A selection of titles currently on offer to Literary Guild members : |
| 18 | I did two rabbit sculptures for an exhibition in Yorkshire made of cow much on a metal frame . |
| 19 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
| 20 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 21 | there 's a row of houses right on , by top |
| 22 | And they 're intervening of course here on the side of a revolt which is going against the grain of erm of certainly for Russia of course of er of of the attitudes of the eighteen erm er eighteen teens early eighteen twenties . |
| 23 | Bar-tailed Godwits are very rare inland in Sussex , but since 1966 there have been six reports of birds inland on spring migration between 12 April and 3 May , usually in small parties , but 200 together flew north over Arlington Reservoir on 3 May 1971 . |
| 24 | The warning came after thieves took the bag from the medic 's car while it was parked in the Moulsham Street area of Chelmsford late on Monday night . |
| 25 | While on the subject of working at a depot we only find out about ‘ offers ’ either through the Journal , press or during shopping time so savings are also possibly lost when staff who work in the stores can take advantage of multi-buys etc on a regular basis . |
| 26 | Cos you see if you put your ace down , ace of clubs right on the top and I put the rest of the clubs , put it down |
| 27 | Our courts have refused to consider the validity of an Act of Parliament either on the ground that Parliament had no power to pass it or on the ground that the statute had been improperly passed . |
| 28 | The variety was so wide that no generalisations can be made , except to note a lack of books explicitly on the description of language . |
| 29 | a couple of sessions purely on the actual , no public speaking that 's right , it was actually public speaking rather than |
| 30 | Health and safety monitor is a monthly newsletter that distils into 8–10 pages the essential facts about the latest statutes , regulations , directives , consultative documents , and codes of practice etc on health and safety issues . |