Example sentences of "[verb] on [adj] " 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 | If we are to compete effectively in world markets and to communicate on equal terms with our European partners we need to increase substantially the numbers of young people leaving school with a good grounding in at least one foreign language . |
| 3 | A recent article in the New Statesman & Society listed some of the current operations at Menwith Hill , including those that involve eavesdropping on Russian and West European telephone calls . |
| 4 | Both these titles were cover-names for the department responsible for eavesdropping on foreign embassies and trade missions in London . |
| 5 | Up to four microphone inputs can be mixed on this unit . |
| 6 | The Laming list , being sorted on three different keys , lends itself to more detailed regional analysis . |
| 7 | He only needed the rudiments , a wooden table and a few chairs ; he was prepared to lay a blanket on the floor and sleep on that . |
| 8 | I 'd slipped out of bed , leaving Margot the launderess and her sister Phoebe gently snoring ( they sleep on either side to keep me warm ) , and crept downstairs to my secret chamber , behind the high table in the Great Hall . |
| 9 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
| 10 | Following Emily in , he found himself surrounded on all sides by sagging shelves bearing rusty paint tins ; jam jars containing stubby brushes ; bottles half full of amber fluid , and oil cans . |
| 11 | The site of Castlerigg stone circle in the Lake District is an example , where the plateau on which it is sited is surrounded on all sides by mountain peaks . |
| 12 | The village of Villedommange is surrounded on all sides by vineyards which are a continuation northwards of the slopes of Écueil and Sacy . |
| 13 | Aquitaine was then surrounded on all sides ( except the sea coast ) by fiefs which stood in a more immediate relationship to the Capetians than ever before . |
| 14 | Here there was a delay , for Fiver — surrounded on all sides by the quiet summer evening — became helpless and almost paralysed with fear . |
| 15 | Historical and geographical facts were intertwined : the country had been ‘ founded in 1821 after fighting between the Zulus and the Boers ’ ; it was surrounded on all sides by South Africa and contained mountain ranges , and so on . |
| 16 | The fact that the country is surrounded on all sides by South Africa is ‘ not a bad thing ’ : it enables 50,000 Lesothan men to work in South African mines , returning with their ‘ pockets bursting with rands ’ . |
| 17 | SEVEN STOPS NORTH-WEST of Baker Street on the Metropolitan Line , Pinner is the quintessence of a certain kind of Englishness , an embattled outpost of suburbia surrounded on all sides by the encroaching urban sprawl . |
| 18 | It is thus characteristic of traditional mytho-history that the real world of experience is surrounded on all sides by another world of the imagination which is inhabited by superhuman gods on the one hand and by sub-human unnatural monsters on the other : dog-headed men , men with tails , Amazonian women , cannibals , giants . |
| 19 | The town , known to have had the status of a vicus , is surrounded on all sides by numerous kiln sites and workshops which are everywhere interspersed with agricultural features and a number of substantial extra-mural houses or villas . |
| 20 | In an interview with France ( Inter ) radio on Oct. 11 Aoun admitted that he was surrounded on all sides , but claimed to be ready for " the last battle " . |
| 21 | In one sense the shock of industrialisation lay precisely in the stark contrast between the black , monotonous , crowded and scarred settlements and the coloured farms and hills immediately adjoining them , as in Sheffield , ‘ noisy , smoky , loathsome ( but ) … surrounded on all sides by some of the most enchanting countryside to be found on this planet ’ . |
| 22 | The woody floras of those forests that are surrounded on all sides by arid woodlands consist of species with wide neotropical distributions and many of them are found elsewhere in a wide range of habitats while few are restricted to montane forest . |
| 23 | Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine . |
| 24 | Below the urethral meatus is the orifice of the vagina , surrounded on each side by small folds of skin called the labia minora . |
| 25 | Located in the heart of the Derbyshire countryside , surrounded on four sides by hills , it was a monument to the backwardness of penal reform . |
| 26 | Although surrounded on three sides by the sea the warming influence of the North Atlantic helps give mild winters and good summers . |
| 27 | Once through its portals you find yourself in a courtyard surrounded on three sides by the relatively undisturbed medieval manor , whose mullioned windows have sometimes been exchanged for sash . |
| 28 | It is the best area in Britain for megalithic sites , and is surrounded on three sides by the sea . |
| 29 | The mere is the large village pond surrounded on three sides by a dense bank of elm and sycamore , and is closely associated visually with the churchyard . |
| 30 | A city of 3.2 million people , Rangoon is surrounded on three sides by water and dominated by the glistening gold stupa of the Shwedagon . |