Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to elucidate some of the methods by which entrepreneurial decisions are reached and entrepreneurial activities carried out on a day to day basis . |
| 2 | It was a large room , totally silent save for the voice of one Sister perched up on a pulpit in the end wall , reading portions of the scriptures . |
| 3 | The optimum bucket size to minimize the time taken by operations carried out on a file depends on the nature of the operation . |
| 4 | Some people prefer to hold the script ; others like to read off a lectern , which can be simply a tray propped up on a couple of books . |
| 5 | I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education . |
| 6 | The taut legs standing out from the body at all angles , some hideously broken like twigs thrown carelessly on a bonfire , others still moving feebly . |
| 7 | The almost blue water tumbled over myriad falls and drops like pearls strung together on a necklace , each one challenging but nowhere desperate . |
| 8 | ‘ You have an inoperable cancer of the right lung , ’ said the great man , and he pointed to a large X-ray photograph blown up on a screen in front of us . |
| 9 | There is a gem in the Heraklion Museum showing two rampant lions with their forepaws perched up on an altar : at the centre , in place of a pillar or some other representation of the deity , is an unmistakable rayed sun which , as we have already seen , is one of the manifestations of Poteidan ( Figure 44 ) . |
| 10 | Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring . |
| 11 | I had some notes jotted down on a card somewhere , but I quickly went off them and chatted about whatever seemed interesting . |
| 12 | The following is issued for the guidance of persons attending to a weighing carried out on a weighbridge made available for use by the public and for which a charge is made : — |
| 13 | Thus the animal locates itself in space by use of environmental reference points ( this is of course more or less what a psychologically untutored lay person might have guessed would happen , but it was not what psychologists brought up on a diet of Skinner would have theorized ) . |
| 14 | Neo-Malthusianism was further attacked in ways already discussed in Chapter 2 , but also drew what in the authors ' opinion was a misplaced and utopian analysis from the Marxist literature based solely on a critique of bourgeois ideology , without serious attention being given to the effects of rapid population growth in any social formation , transitional to socialism or towards any other social order . |
| 15 | When I had reached the front , the first thing I saw was Granpa lying on the pavement , his head propped up on a box of apples and his face as white as a sheet . |
| 16 | But Vinnie 's man with his head staved in on a patch of waste ground near Deptford Station does not get mentioned . |
| 17 | The medium-rise deck access maisonettes and flats built here on a slum clearance site in the 1960s were very unpopular and by the late 1970s had become difficult to let . |
| 18 | Seeing the young woman hunched up on a crate , covered in chalk dust and weeping her eyes out , Biff Thacker was rather at a loss what to do . |
| 19 | Would buyers not assume that a valuation based partly on an expert test implied endorsement of that test by the surveyor ? |
| 20 | They were principally used on board ship to measure its speed by counting the number of knots paid out on a line tied to a log floating astern , while the sand-glass measured a given time that was usually half a minute . |
| 21 | Then below it you would have da da , year and somehow the subject fitted in on a line across , below it ? |
| 22 | The lower house of parliament ( House of Commons ) comprises 650 members elected directly on a constituency basis at intervals of not more than five years . |
| 23 | The lower house of parliament ( House of Commons ) comprises 650 members elected directly on a constituency basis at intervals of not more than five years . |
| 24 | Children brought up on a diet of TV and video are no longer as tractable and easy to control , as they once used to be , even in the younger classes of the junior school . |
| 25 | Aunt Tossie 's dressing-table was a picture of proper arrangement , quite unlike her tumbled bed , or the pink satin corset playing fast and loose with the long slit drawers thrown together on a tapestry chair — a chair covered in great beaded roses , laughing at the fun , over one arm black lace stockings trailed negligent as if there was no tomorrow . |
| 26 | Charity stared , stunned , at the open , upside-down jewellery box on her bathroom floor , and at the necklace that winked up at her , looking like a dozen teardrops strung together on a web of silver . |
| 27 | He found that hyperactive children improved dramatically on a diet which excluded all artificially flavoured and coloured foods . |
| 28 | The statistics are among the findings of a health and lifestyles survey carried out on a sample of 10,000 people from throughout Cheshire and Wirral . |
| 29 | The statistics are among the findings of a health and lifestyles survey carried out on a sample of 10,000 people from throughout Cheshire and Wirral . |
| 30 | At the beginning of 1990 , for example , there was a much publicised case of heart surgery carried out on an infant still in the womb . |