Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] on [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule against prior restraint is secure in libel cases " because of the value the court has placed on freedom of speech and freedom of the press when balancing it against the reputation of a single individual who , if wronged , can be compensated in damages " . |
| 2 | If he is to succeed , Simpson might have to rely heavily on his father , Gordon Simpson , a former finance director of Shell who has come on board as deputy chairman . |
| 3 | Art offers ‘ substitutive satisfactions for the oldest and still most deeply felt cultural renunciations , and for that reason it serves as nothing else does to reconcile a man to the sacrifices he has made on behalf of civilization ’ . |
| 4 | The private antiques collection of Arthur Negus has gone on sale at auction . |
| 5 | When Tormey cites the art of acting as an example of representational behaviour , he was really talking about the style of acting first attributed to the famous English eighteenth-century actor David Garrick , acting which demanded not the expression of emotion but an accomplished technique by which ‘ natural ’ expressions of real life became distilled on stage by artifice . |
| 6 | There was expansion of the tax based levied on production per household assessed on the basis of nominal annual y yield . |
| 7 | Obviously you will save on heating bills , petrol , and if you book in all-inclusive holiday , on what you would otherwise have spent on food at home . |
| 8 | Keep left on path along wall on reaching River Wharfe. 9 Follow riverside path . |
| 9 | Read out aloud , it seemed to bear out word for word what Alfred Wells had recalled on oath in court . |
| 10 | Early nineteenth-century environmentalism had focused on sexuality as part of a general concern with the habits and morals of the urban working-class . |
| 11 | Life by that time had appeared on land above sea level , and there were the first plants and terrestrial invertebrates . |
| 12 | We 've worked on building up handwriting . |
| 13 | The decree came only days after Defence Minister Marshal Dmitry Yazov had complained on television about disrespect shown towards the Soviet armed forces by " leaders of certain republics " . |
| 14 | For example where he used production of ammonia , we have relied on production of CO 2 as the measurement of glutamine metabolism . |
| 15 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 16 | The Soviet maritime declaration of health is an equally laudable document which asks the yacht 's skipper to state any cases which have occurred on board of plague , cholera , yellow fever , small-pox , typhus or relapsing fever . |
| 17 | Some of Britain 's leading scientists have gone on strike over pay . |
| 18 | Two huntsmen have gone on trial on cruelty charges . |
| 19 | Three people have gone on trial in connection with the discovery of a multi-million pound drugs factory . |
| 20 | A number of principles have emerged on remoteness of damage . |
| 21 | I am pleased to report that we have achieved on increase in profit in the year . |
| 22 | First there are infective larvae which developed during the previous grazing season and have survived on pasture over winter . |
| 23 | Relational database companies will survive the onslaught of object-oriented technologies , just as hierarchical models have lived on side by side with the relational players , believes House . |