Example sentences of "[verb] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also has three heated public glasshouses and a small propagation unit which concentrates mainly but not exclusively on bringing on plants for amenity planting . |
| 2 | Aye , the auld plumbing is desperate for bringing on migraines . |
| 3 | Despite the tour results , with only two wins and two draws to set against four defeats , Sole cited the tour as a success in bringing on newcomers . |
| 4 | I am in favour of that , but that is different from setting up international agencies whose legislation and ideas may have devastating effects on industries in western countries while leaving eastern countries to carry on processes over which the rest of us have no control . |
| 5 | She is trying for a Fleet Street career — but vowed to carry on actions against the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail . |
| 6 | In Walford v Miles the House of Lords maintained the long established principle that a mere agreement to negotiate is unenforceable because it lacks the certainty necessary for a binding contract and held that any concept of a duty to carry on negotiations in good faith is inherently repugnant to the adversarial position of the parties when involved in negotiations . |
| 7 | With both Queen and loader in shot , hanging on wires not seen , the number of control crew during the five-day shoot of this sequence alone was obviously large but no accidents occurred . |
| 8 | Looking recently at some vintage notes on the early nineteenth century , I was struck by how many were classified as ‘ useless ’ , one ‘ the worst possible ’ and another ‘ so bad that proprietors in desperation left grapes hanging on vines ’ . |
| 9 | There are 20 cloaks and robes hanging on pegs here , made of various materials but none identified by any visible insignia . |
| 10 | There were rows of them hanging on hooks , and stacks of them leaning against one another on the floor . |
| 11 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
| 12 | With just a few basic materials , I now have paintings hanging on walls in relatives homes . |
| 13 | It was vaulted and this vault was carried on columns which in turn were supported on the backs of animals — lions or oxen . |
| 14 | We are carried on feathers . |
| 15 | Few people nowadays prefer to walk to their objective if they can be carried on wheels , and Fell End Clouds is so remote from centres of population that visitors invariably arrive by car . |
| 16 | The floor was carried on joists and under this was space for storage , scenery , gladiators and animals . |
| 17 | This drop was overcome by means of an inclined plane , up and down which the loaded barges were carried on trolleys . |
| 18 | Forty per cent of American trade with the Pacific is carried on ships that arrive in the pod of San Francisco . |
| 19 | Processions were headed by fife and drum , banners proclaimed " bread or blood " , loaves were carried on pikes . |
| 20 | Inside , the nave vaults are octagonal domical shape and the central dome is carried on pseudo-pendentives rather like squinches . |
| 21 | The domes are carried on pendentives and below are rectangular piers without capitals . |
| 22 | These domes are carried on pendentives and are each 40 feet in diameter . |
| 23 | All these have several domes carried on pendentives and were built between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries . |
| 24 | Great opportunity to pass on genes effortlessly , though the female has a limited number of eggs which has specific requirements for survival and therefore temporar temporarily stalls her reproductive success . |
| 25 | Kerry Packer has launched a complex , lowly valued and hostile bid for Bond 's media interests whilst efforts to pass on stakes in British Satellite Broadcasting and Airship Industries have so far failed . |
| 26 | Part of her role was to pass on instructions to driver for malt deliveries and the collection of raw materials for animal and feed production at ( return loads ) . |
| 27 | Charles explained that he 'd come round in answer to a complaint and rather thankfully began to pass on apologies on behalf of the Regiment for transmission to Lord Southdown later , but the butler shook his head regretfully once more , indicated that Lady Charity was at home , and felt certain that she would deal with the matter . |
| 28 | This came about because entrepreneurs realised that they could maintain higher profits by not indulging in fierce competition which forced them to pass on benefits to consumers . |
| 29 | And after Mass , accompanied by great hand shaking I was asked to pass on thanks to the Christians in Salford for their support but mostly great thanks for sharing our priest with them . |
| 30 | And she blasts supermarkets for failing to pass on profits to customers by cutting prices . |