Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was extremely cheap , saving an awful lot of dynamite ; and extremely safe , both inherently and because the fuel and oxidant were only mixed on site just before use . |
| 2 | There 's a full-size hovercraft held tipped on wires directly above us ; a virtually circular thing with a tiny cabin and a huge fluted central air-intake . |
| 3 | In December 1886 the Home Office received a memorial from the Clapham Vigilance Association , complaining that Clapham Common was ‘ infested ’ with prostitutes of the lowest type and that actual fornication was shamelessly committed on benches close to the public roadway . |
| 4 | The administrative arrangements and rules adopted for the experiment have been endorsed by the House for the permanent coverage , and so , for the time being , the House is televised and reported on television today in much the same way as during the experiment . |
| 5 | They are depicted on coins particularly of the period of the Roman empire , and especially for the two hundred years between AD 50 and 250 . |
| 6 | It holds a regular series of seminars at which reports are presented on research currently in progress . |
| 7 | A Fed on assignment overseas with the ranking of Assistant Legal Attaché must always work through local law-enforcement agencies . |
| 8 | These include work with the IASC on reducing flexibility in international accounting standards , a project with the International Federation of Accountants ' Ethics Committee on international ethics rules , as well as the work done on ISAs jointly with the International Auditing Practices Committee . |
| 9 | The bombing of Shanghai , widely shown on newsreels early in 1932 , helped to trigger the fears of civilian bombing which played such a large part in popular thinking about war and peace during the 1930s . |
| 10 | The firms were briefed on COSE shortly after the COSE announcement and are said to have been encouraged to make their voices heard . |
| 11 | The firms were briefed on COSE shortly after the COSE announcement and reportedly encouraged to make their voices heard . |
| 12 | Feedback is usually produced on results ie on the outputs of the system . |
| 13 | Carbide lamps hissed on the walls ; a few had been mounted on poles close to the plank circle . |
| 14 | Cameras were already being mounted on cars for action scenes and cameras were mounted on cars again in the 1960s onwards , sometimes even for dialogue scenes ( they could be rerecorded later , if necessary ) . |
| 15 | His younger brother Thomas , who had stayed in Marston , was assessed on goods only in spite of having inherited 3 acres called ‘ Dauers ’ . |
| 16 | Huge photographs of Ken Palmer 's run-out blunder involving Graham Gooch at Headingley have been displayed on buses all over Pakistan . |
| 17 | ABWOR covers certain civil litigation , but is administered on arrangements more like Green Form than civil legal aid . |
| 18 | Editors have naturally concentrated on sources closest to Bach , but there is in the more peripheral ones a wealth of information about the origin and reworking of pieces , as well as performance practice ( notably fingerings and ornaments ) for which musical sources can shed light on specific details in a way more generalized literary documents rarely can ; and on the estimation of Bach 's music by his contemporaries and immediate successors . |
| 19 | The image weighed on Mozart even during his lifetime . |
| 20 | Stage : The Council envisages a Pre Draft Deposit consultation being held ‘ within the next 12/18 months to enable the Plan to be placed on deposit early in 1994 ’ . |
| 21 | Karl Radek , who , only five months earlier , had himself written in L'Humanite of the need to eradicate Trotskyite subversion and anti-Soviet activities , was placed on trial together with his " accomplices " , accused of espionage , terrorism and collaboration with Hitler and Trotsky in an attempt to overthrow the Soviet state . |
| 22 | In these circumstances the columns are placed on pedestals instead of just bases — a further breakaway from Greek tradition . |
| 23 | Since the information stored is likely to differ from one employee to another , several relational database management systems for personnel records have been developed on micros exclusively for use in personnel applications . |
| 24 | The present writer has gone on record elsewhere with the view that most of the ‘ new ’ powers in the Single European Act represented treaty recognition of developments which had already taken place under general treaty powers , in particular Articles 100 and 235 , in areas such as environmental law . |
| 25 | Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined . |
| 26 | Bear left on road beyond for 400 yds , until reaching minor road on left at house called The Old Turnpike . |
| 27 | Germany has taken on board much of the Social Charter but it is its economy we are all trying to match . ’ |
| 28 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 29 | It developed a special affinity after its co-ordinator , police sergeant Harry Lawrie , was killed on Ben More in 1987 when a Wessex from the base crashed on a rescue mission . |
| 30 | The Governor , who was released on bail immediately after the indictment , dismissed the charges as " shocking , outrageous falsehoods " . |