Example sentences of "[vb past] on [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … — . |
| 4 | It bounced on initial impact and came to rest inverted . |
| 5 | Not as good as yesterday evening when I dined on roast chicken , not very well cooked , but certainly much better than this homely fare . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had a momentary vision of the tall , proud tower blocks that rose on either side of him collapsing in a cloud of dust . |
| 8 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A strange band , they rode a jazzy musical offshoot which often bordered on directionless experimentalism . |
| 11 | Ethel knelt on one knee while Sid stuck his banderillas in her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She knew she did not have the strength to throw her voice through the stillness so she knelt on one knee . |
| 14 | ‘ The Graces dwelt on ev'ry Limb : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is so similar to the language that he used on previous timetable motions that I do not know why he does not take a tape and mime to it . |
| 17 | Wilson self-consciously capitalized on that supremacy in his ‘ First Hundred Days ’ of dynamic action , a deliberate imitation of the Kennedy style in early 1960 . |
| 18 | Medics in particular capitalized on this state of affairs , mobilizing the results of scientific research as part of their broader push for increased representation with the state . |
| 19 | Worsley capitalized on this opportunity by making the saltpetre project the centre-piece of a programme for revitalization of the British economy and the development of an integrated manufacturing and trading system embracing an expanding colonial empire . |
| 20 | Physiologists capitalized on this instrumentation to demonstrate that the electrical activity of the brain and its nerve cells was a function of what the individual was doing , or not doing , or how sensory receptors were stimulated . |
| 21 | ‘ So the folk of the village capitalized on this gift from the gods , that had come to them in their darkest hour . |
| 22 | The Sunday afternoon walk along the lanes was always interesting , even to very young children , for the high banks towered on either side of us , covered in wild flowers — campions , hemp agrimony , foxgloves , honeysuckle and many , many more . |
| 23 | Think I 've learnt it and just keep making the sa yes cos she 'd crossed out divorced on that passport form |
| 24 | Marx , too , drew on comparative material in support of his theory of the inevitable march of history from primitive communism , through feudalism and capitalism , to the ultimate stage of post-revolutionary communism . |
| 25 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 26 | Eugenists drew on recent research by the German biologist August Weismann to claim that the germ cells which controlled reproduction were distinct and independent of body or somatic cells . |
| 27 | It has successfully developed and operated a port at Sheerness in Kent and drew on this experience in deciding to develop a commercial port in the easternmost portion of the old dockyard . |
| 28 | We drew on this analysis to explain the performances of HWIM and HARPY . |
| 29 | Mrs Burgwin , headmistress of the Orange Street School in Southwark , told the Royal Commission which reported on elementary school education in 1888 that : |
| 30 | CW reported on successful installation of software on new Admin file server . |