Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] on [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This becomes technically possible for Cabinet government , a private practice carried on between appointed adults , only when the Cabinet Office archive has become available under the thirty-year rule . |
| 2 | It has been reported that spontaneous cell mediated cytotoxicity brought on by mononuclear cells can be inhibited by SASP but not by corticosteroid , and that ADCC is not influenced by SASP or corticosteroid . |
| 3 | Antoinette slept with her mouth open , head dropped on to steep pillows . |
| 4 | The next type of planned town includes those which are reasonably well dated to the tenth to thirteenth centuries and which were clearly new planned urban centres added on to existing villages by their owners as attempts to encourage trade . |
| 5 | In 1839 , the Chinese decided to end the lucrative opium trade carried on by British merchants . |
| 6 | Like the reverential preservation of every scrap of paper written on by secondrate men of letters , it is an example of a flight from discrimination . |
| 7 | of patients operated on within three months of their names appearing on the register ? |
| 8 | From the early 1890s Marxism caught on among young radicals with remarkable speed . |
| 9 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the Dutch East India Company , for example , still sent representatives of its own to negotiate with European powers ; but by its end any diplomatic activity in Europe carried on by non-sovereign entities was a curiosity without practical significance . |
| 10 | Studios were built and additional stages added on to old complexes . |
| 11 | If the effect of use and disuse is to alter the nature of the proteins in the body , and if the replicable information passed on to future generations is carried by DNA , then Weismann has to be right if the central dogma is right . |
| 12 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 13 | The distinction here is between two very distinct schools of harpsichord-making ; a tradition carried on by native craftsmen who flourished during the first 25 years of the 18th century and an imported tradition initiated by Hermann Tabel that displaced its native rival as effectively as a cuckoo might take charge in a sparrow 's nest . |
| 14 | A number of squat triangular doors opened on to other rooms and tunnels . |