Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subtle lamps gleamed on pink-clothed tables , each with its own vase of flowers . |
| 2 | In November Moscow agreed on United Nations monitoring on both sides of the Afghan border . |
| 3 | Costa Rica and Panama agreed on ecological protection measures for their joint border areas . |
| 4 | On 9 January 1872 the Minute Book kept by the clerk now called Registrar , recorded the commitment of Richard Piper sued by Henry Pierpoint for 5s ( money lent on 14 November 1871 ) . |
| 5 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ The Graces dwelt on ev'ry Limb : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Moreover recent racialist attacks are worsening and spreading to West Germany , as The Times reported on 7 October 1991 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Keynes agreed on 13 February 1946 that overseas commitments would be the main casualty without the American loan . |
| 11 | There was a blur of activity and the sandwich rose on three pairs of legs . |
| 12 | CW reported on successful installation of software on new Admin file server . |
| 13 | After sporadic violence there from the beginning of the month , full scale rioting erupted on 8 July and in the early hours of 9th two men were shot dead by the army . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 16 | She was a very experienced psychiatric nurse and Doctor Volkov 's callousness verged on deliberate cruelty . |
| 17 | Dot woke on that morning that could have been the last morning of her life and knew by the brightness reflected across the ceiling that she was safe , for the roads would still be blocked . |
| 18 | The research will be conducted on the basis of data collated on national laws and practice , interviews and field visits to for example the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation , the International Oceanographic Commission and United Nations in New York , and the maritime centres of universities overseas . |
| 19 | One of Reagan 's most spellbinding TV performances came on 27 July , two days before both houses were to vote on his tax cut proposal . |
| 20 | My mind blanked on alternate minutes , my heartbangs sounded like the 4.30 at Epsom , and my mouth felt like cat-litter . |
| 21 | I shared command of the big " V " with two other skippers , Doug Thompson and Denis Mawe , as H.Q. frowned on any policy that kept an officer away from his home port and normal customs duties for too long a period . |
| 22 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 23 | Then , from the late 1960s , most LEAs reorganized on comprehensive lines . |
| 24 | Friendship renewed on sacred soil ! |
| 25 | President Gorbachev claimed on Soviet television to have found many supporters of perestroika in SED . |
| 26 | The movie opened on 19 December 1973 to less-than-glowing reviews , although it made over $22.5 million , becoming one of the year 's top moneymakers . |
| 27 | [ A critical article by Volker Gebhardt appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 4 March . ] |
| 28 | A week of action began on 13 June with a mass picket , at which 84 people were arrested and there was large scale police violence . |
| 29 | Malawi 's spring began on 8 March , the first Sunday in Lent , when the pastoral letter was read in every Catholic church . |
| 30 | Thus in February 1977 the opposition to Raybestos developed on two fronts : in Ovens against the factory , in Ringaskiddy against the dump . |