Example sentences of "[vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Seven projects were funded under this initiative ; three focussed on multilingual education whilst the other four were concerned with the relationship of ethnic minority pupils with their white counterparts , their teachers and the organisational structure of schools .
2 At 1988/89 rates ( Home Office , 1990b , p. 110 ) , it cost on average £288 per week to keep an offender in custody , compared with £19 per week to supervise an offender on probation ; yet the Home Office acknowledge : ‘ It is hard to show any effect that one type of sentence is more likely than any other to reduce the likelihood of reoffending , which is high for all ’ ( p. 7 ) .
3 The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact .
4 as if this were n't enough , we bounced on oversized ball , wielded staves for posture , learnt national dances and songs , explored the mediaeval charms of Coburg and neighbouring Bamberg or wallowed in the thermal baths of Rodach — and of course consumed enormous and excellent meals at the college , supplemented with German cakes in the town ( not to mention German wine … — .
5 It bounced on initial impact and came to rest inverted .
6 Not as good as yesterday evening when I dined on roast chicken , not very well cooked , but certainly much better than this homely fare .
7 We dined on spicy fish which repeated on me for most of the evening in the Jac , meeting pals , until I drowned it in an ocean of beer .
8 As the Minister reconsiders the regular-reserve mix of the Royal Navy , as he promised on 10 December , will he ensure that a proper study of task threats is completed and will he create a supplementary list of personnel whom it is planned to axe until that review of task threats is complete ?
9 The garrisons of Spanish Morocco rose on 17 July 1936 , a day earlier than planned .
10 Cries rose on all sides of her as she filled the dishes , but she worked on steadily oblivious , like some eccentric female St Francis , brooding a little about the image seen in the vicarage garden , which , although it had turned out to be only an old cloth flung over a tree stump , was an indication of the way things might go .
11 There were no houses in sight : the wooded mountain rose on one side of the old railway track and fell steeply away on the other .
12 The houses were meticulously painted and rose on ten-foot stilts above the ground .
13 He had a momentary vision of the tall , proud tower blocks that rose on either side of him collapsing in a cloud of dust .
14 Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness .
15 They walked to the lake where there were two pairs of ducks , mallards with feathers as if painted in iridescent green , and from which a heron rose on gaunt wings , its legs dangling .
16 But in the House of Commons , when Mrs Thatcher rose on 6 June to express ‘ revulsion ’ for the massacre , she also restated her government 's intention to proceed with the handover in 1997 .
17 There was a blur of activity and the sandwich rose on three pairs of legs .
18 Although 1988 was characterised by a freer , more open intellectual atmosphere , it was clear that the Party still held ultimate authority and would not tolerate criticism that bordered on political dissent .
19 A strange band , they rode a jazzy musical offshoot which often bordered on directionless experimentalism .
20 Ethel knelt on one knee while Sid stuck his banderillas in her .
21 Next he jumped in the air with his feet together and his knees bent , then he knelt on one knee while she leapt into the air .
22 She knew she did not have the strength to throw her voice through the stillness so she knelt on one knee .
23 stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees
24 He entered on 28 March 1826 , was made deacon in May 1838 and , much too young for priest 's orders , went in December 1839 to the English College , Rome , where he was ordained on 19 March 1842 .
25 And a syllabus which defines its content in functional terms is supposed to account for communicative competence in a way which syllabuses designed on other principles can not .
26 ‘ The Graces dwelt on ev'ry Limb :
27 To instruct any solicitorappointed on all matters relevant to the child 's interests , including the possibilities for appeal , unless the child wishes to give conflicting instructions and has sufficient understanding to do so .
28 Depreciation should be ( a ) calculated on the same basis as in the audited accounts for the year to 31 December , 1989 , and ( b ) charged on all assets on a monthly basis , with no upward revaluation of assets in the year and with due regard being paid to the carrying value of any assets and the length of the asset 's expected useful economic life to the Business , having due regard to the incidence of obsolescence and future requirements of the Business .
29 Athelstan cursed in some of the language Cranston used on such occasions .
30 New enhanced quality assurance ( QA ) procedures for electric submersible pumps ( ESPs ) used on Forties Echo are being implemented in a bid to extend pump run life .
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