Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees |
| 2 | Having given away all her money in Rome , she begged her food , or existed on charitable donations . |
| 3 | Both parties have invited this court to proceed on the basis that the validity of the appointment is not and can not be disputed or decided on this application . |
| 4 | I I think these are fellows that were either killed or died on active service . |
| 5 | Perhaps they called for stoups of ale or goblets of Rhenish , or supped on plain fare , my masters . |
| 6 | Here , in a series of wrecked sheds , men mended cars or sat on old tyres , smoking . |
| 7 | Fiegehen and Reddaway concluded : ‘ it is clear that , in total , any disincentive effects that operated on senior managers had a minimal impact on the activities of British industry ’ . |
| 8 | And it turned out that there was a big goblin that lived on this island and he just ate fairies . |
| 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 | He had a momentary vision of the tall , proud tower blocks that rose on either side of him collapsing in a cloud of dust . |
| 11 | He reckoned that if any angler ever worked out how to hit all of the bites that came on that method they would win a lot of money . |
| 12 | The dark tenement block loomed up on her left and through the broken windows she could see the reflection of the naked gas jets that burned on each landing . |
| 13 | During the five-day application period that began on 1 December , only 5,700 young people applied for 8,600 postgraduate places available in Beijing . |
| 14 | The first major piece of sociological work that relied on personal documents was Thomas and Znaniecki 's The Polish Peasant in Europe and America ( 1919 ) . |
| 15 | Upon checking our records , we were disappointed to note that you have not renewed your standing entry that finished on 2nd June 1990 . |
| 16 | Under the transitional provisions , where , on 9 March 1992 , employer-related investments that existed on 17 February 1992 exceeded the 5% limit , the fund in question may be required to reduce its net investment in the lease to a level not exceeding 5% of its resources on the earliest date on which payment can be enforced ( assuming the agreement was effected prior to 17 February 1992 ) . |
| 17 | Klein argues that the remarkable political consensus that existed on these principles in 1948 was accompanied by an even more profound consensus about the benefits of medicine and what it could achieve . |
| 18 | This tome concentrated on the operational side of the type 's history , not just during World War Two , where the aircraft was undoubtedly the best long range fighting aircraft that served on all sides of the war , but through all the other conflicts in which the P-51 participated . |
| 19 | Swamp-flies , dung-flies , offal-flies , sand-flies , flies that liked to sip from the eyeballs of crocodiles , corpse-flies , rotting-vegetation-flies , pseudo-flies that fed on magnetic fields . |
| 20 | Corman 's Little Shop of Horrors became a cult classic largely through its star — not Nicholson , but a plant that thrived on human flesh . |
| 21 | The idea of seed lying in the dust is further more likely to arouse memory of the parable ( Matthew xiii , 18–23 ) of the seed that fell on stony ground . |
| 22 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 23 | And that was something that went on all year |
| 24 | The tangled hedgerows that grew on either side had almost strangled it into being permanently closed . |
| 25 | He checked himself just in time , went down flat on his stomach , peering through the tough grass that grew on these dunes . |
| 26 | Under a 1985 accord between the United States and other steel-producing countries that lapsed on 30 September , EC firms are limited to 6.74 per cent of the US market . |
| 27 | Mala and I stared at the enlarging disc that appeared on other screens after Posi revolved the ship to bring the lateral ceptors to bear . |
| 28 | There were still places to go to ; not the best theatres , but the down-at-heel , the halls , the ones that put on low comedy . |
| 29 | The answer is that the advice that should have been given in the circumstances that prevailed on that date was , that if the plaintiffs wished to ignore the contract then they were entitled to serve a completion notice which because the vendor was unable to obtain that would have meant that the vendor would be unable to comply with the completion notice and accordingly the contract would have come to an end . |
| 30 | This was an argument between them of which she had no knowledge , but it was clearly a bitter one that rankled on both sides . |