Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 2 | As it became apparent that considerable variations in training were to be found , the ( now ) British Library Research and Development Group for Research into Public Libraries felt that more information was needed about current practice , and in September 1982 , British Library Research and Development and The Library Association agreed to liaise on the development of an exploratory survey . |
| 3 | Srnicek , in for injured Tommy Wright , asked to go on the list last season because his family were desperately unhappy in England . |
| 4 | Youds , 22 , of Lavenham Road , Ipswich , admitted speeding on the A45 at Kentford , near Newmarket , on November 8 last year . |
| 5 | Ca n't do the ship cos it wi , got to go on the bench in the garage . |
| 6 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 7 | Some 171 full members and 107 alternate members ( with 300 other sundry officials looking on ) met to agree on the new ‘ proposals for the ten-year programme ( 1991–2000 ) and eighth five-year plan ( 1991–95 ) ’ . |
| 8 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 9 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 10 | When they got out they were taken inside a building and made to sit on a stone floor that was gritty and unswept . |
| 11 | We were ordered into the service area off the kitchen and made to sit on the floor . |
| 12 | They failed to agree on a design , but the ‘ modern ’ image of electric cooking , particularly among young housewives , led to a gradual expansion of cooker sales . |
| 13 | Prices plunged in October to their lowest level for more than 14 years ( taking the price of beans in London to £655 a tonne ) after the 74-country International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) failed to agree on a new price stabilization agreement favoured by the USA , the largest consumer , based on a greater allocation of the export market to some coffee producers , notably Colombia , at the expense of Brazil and the African countries . |
| 14 | A breakthrough to end the 11-year civil war in El Salvador seemed unlikely , as representatives of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas and the government failed to agree on a common plan covering reform of the US-backed armed forces , arrangements for a ceasefire , and constitutional changes to enable the FMLN to disarm and participate in democratic politics [ see p. 38231 ; for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37449 ; 37770-71 ; 37850 ] . |
| 15 | Former Queensland Premier and National Party leader Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen walked free from the Brisbane District Court on Oct. 19 after a jury failed to agree on a verdict in his trial for perjury . |
| 16 | The congress failed to agree on a new name for the party . |
| 17 | Experts met in Spain in September to discuss the problem but delegates failed to agree on a possible cause . |
| 18 | Following talks in Moscow on Sept. 9-10 representatives from member nations of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) failed to agree on the division of assets by Sept. 28 as scheduled [ see p. 38315 ] ; however , it was agreed in early October that this deadline should be extended to the end of November . |
| 19 | Despite the apparent progress at the UN , the Jakarta meeting ( JIM 3 ) ended early after the Cambodian factions failed to agree on the wording of a final communiqué . |
| 20 | The 26th International Conference , due to have been held in Budapest on Nov. 29-Dec. 6 , was postponed after members failed to agree on the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) . |
| 21 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 22 | Vietnam owed the Soviet Union some 10,000 million roubles ( 6,000 million roubles due by 1995 ) , but the two sides failed to agree on an exchange rate for converting the debt into hard currency . |
| 23 | It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve . |
| 24 | Debate in Curry Rivel became heated on the issue ; so much so , that a committee of villagers , including Benjamin James Titford himself , was appointed to decide what to do . |
| 25 | MK Trafford Holdings failed in a takeover bid for Manchester United , which failed to float on the stock market as well as the pitch . |
| 26 | For some reason Gadfly failed to appear on the invitation list . |
| 27 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 28 | They agreed to concentrate on the under-age international sides and to the inauguration of a development squad . |
| 29 | Last year we got caught on the break too many times … this year we have the pace/organisation to deal with that … and Lukic is nt bad at 1 on 1 's … |
| 30 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |