Example sentences of "[vb past] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The launch of the project at a sports fair in Southlands focussed on demonstrations , displays and competitions . |
| 2 | A British cyclist , Michael Wainwright , also detained on charges of illegal entry in May , was expected to stand trial shortly . |
| 3 | She never dwelt on thoughts of Guido . |
| 4 | Many purity leagues drew on emblems from the legends of Christian chivalry , appealing to men and boys by a play on protective and gallant manhood . |
| 5 | He drew on socks , a tight pair of Italian jeans , and plimsolls , combed his receding hair before a mirror . |
| 6 | The White Paper drew on studies conducted earlier in the decade in Liverpool , Birmingham , and London which pointed to a debilitating flight of capital and skilled labour from the critical areas of deprivation . |
| 7 | They drew on studies of individual cases , questionnaire surveys , studies of the interactions of parents of people with schizophrenia in small group situations , data from tests of abnormal thought processes of parents , and of abnormalities of their communication and language . |
| 8 | Similarly , A. James Hammerton 's analysis of the Victorian law of matrimonial cruelty also demonstrates the complex and different ways in which men and women drew on ideas of patriarchal and companionate marriage . |
| 9 | They reported on discussions with the Directorate , heads of departments and central services , the Academic Board , the governors and members of the local education authority : ‘ the visiting party believed that the Polytechnic had made real and substantial progress and had felt that there was a different atmosphere from that encountered by the visiting party the previous year . |
| 10 | Erle returned to Dorset a few years later to become a ship-money refuser and to head the poll in the county election of March 1640 ; but he resigned the seat to George Digby , second Earl of Bristol [ q.v. ] , and served for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament , to which he reported on innovations in religion . |
| 11 | The Roslavl' Party also reported on events in Smolensk , where shots were fired on 28 March when factory workers downed tools to protect churches . |
| 12 | There was no meeting of the Defence Committee to discuss the Falklands until 1 April 1982 ; and there was no reference to the Falklands , in Cabinet , even after the New York talks of 26 and 27 February [ with the Argentine government ] , until Lord Carrington reported on events in South Georgia on 25 March , 1982 . |
| 13 | The Bush administration also moved on proposals for tax cuts , designed to appeal to middle-class voters hurt by the recession , and to counter a plan put forward by Senate finance committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen ( Democrat , Texas ) for tax cuts of $72,000 million over five years financed by a 5 per cent cut in defence spending . |
| 14 | Steps 1 to 5 listed on pages 121 and 122 have helped us again and again in moving toward this aim . |
| 15 | These were mainly disposed along the main axis of the monument , with a number clustered on platforms raised on either side . |
| 16 | The discussions ( which the government refused to characterise as " negotiations " ) built on agreements reached in Geneva on April 4 [ see p. 37372 ] . |
| 17 | At a later date I bought the place and built on wings to make the necessary accommodation . |
| 18 | Having said that , however , we can tease out from the textbooks of the sixties an implicit theoretical perspective that bore on groups and was designed to make sense of British politics as a whole . |
| 19 | D. The features of Britain mentioned on pages 4–7 are present in all regions of the country . |
| 20 | The trial of two blackmailers who preyed on homosexuals , by threatening to publicise their activities unless they handed over money , has ended sensationally , with the two accused admitting they carried out the crimes . |
| 21 | A BRITON was behind bars in Florida yesterday after allegedly admitting that he preyed on women estate agents in a trail of crime across the USA . |
| 22 | A savage rapist who preyed on blondes is beginning a life sentence for the murder of Austrailian heiress Janie Shepherd 13 years ago . |
| 23 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 24 | ‘ It keeps it stopped on hills and things ! |
| 25 | Candles flickered on tabletops that bore some resemblance to wine barrels sawn in half . |
| 26 | A Servitor with a tracked , snail-like body and padded hands that secreted fragrant antiseptic polish was buffing the floor of the rib-vaulted passageway where electrocandles flickered on sconces in front of scrimshaw-framed ikons ; and Lexandro must halt , so as not to incommode the two Marines . |
| 27 | At The Hague , still aiming at the illustrated magazine market , he concentrated on figures in action , and in the process would be distracted by other subjects : by shabby house fronts , factories , drying sheds , parks , churches , refuse dumps , freight yards . |
| 28 | Against an opponent who had bitten through his glove in their last fight , causing him to have seven stitches in the fist , he concentrated on punches to Carr 's mouth . |
| 29 | While they all concentrated on paintings , the exhibition ‘ Entartete Bildhauer ’ at the Westfälisches Landesmuseum is exclusively devoted to the sculptors who suffered from this verdict . |
| 30 | ‘ I concentrated on toys for pre-school children because I thought I knew about them . |