Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | There was a blur of activity and the sandwich rose on three pairs of legs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was a very experienced psychiatric nurse and Doctor Volkov 's callousness verged on deliberate cruelty . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My mind blanked on alternate minutes , my heartbangs sounded like the 4.30 at Epsom , and my mouth felt like cat-litter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Friendship renewed on sacred soil ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Malawi 's spring began on 8 March , the first Sunday in Lent , when the pastoral letter was read in every Catholic church . |
| 14 | THE SHOOTING STARTED ON 5 MAY . |
| 15 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 16 | Again , the relatively popular policy of the privatization of industry fell on stony ground when it was proposed for extension to the electricity supply industry and to water services . |
| 17 | The mulch went on this year in March ( together with the Growmore , as ever ) , and only the keenest weeds have managed to struggle through . |
| 18 | Even in the first week of June , when potatoes were a foot high and oilseed rape was in glower , snow fell on high ground , and this makes a difference to what you can grow successfully . |
| 19 | The weather was still bitterly cold and snow fell on 28 December . |
| 20 | Newry club lay on Dutch treat |
| 21 | Irina talked , Bill dozed , my mind went on automatic pilot . |
| 22 | Axe fell on overweight F-Type when Ford bought Jaguar |
| 23 | On 7 April , John Major himself spoke out in defence of what Baker had said ; ‘ MAJOR STANDS FIRM AGAINST MIGRANT FLOOD ’ , as the Daily Mail chose on 8 April to headline the story . |
| 24 | Then followed the war years and members of the Brigade went on active service . |
| 25 | It had been observed that when light fell on certain metals . |
| 26 | The programme continued on 5 January 1990 , when Mr G Vincent ( Society Member ) of Wolverhampton and a former Chairman of the Tal-y-Llyn Railway , gave a talk and slide show dealing with the minor railways of Shropshire , of which there were quite a number in the heyday of steam . |
| 27 | Research continued on existing projects with grants totalling £200,000 and new grants totalling £338,000 were won . |
| 28 | As the Financial Times headline said on 6 March , ‘ Bank imposes penal interest to hold line on base lending rate . ’ |
| 29 | A long , thin brunette sat on another bean-bag very close to her , staring down at a focus somewhere near the edge of the blonde 's left thigh . |
| 30 | Is the education department closed on public holidays ? |