Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | In 1589 he was nominated by Lord Burghley for a position of a Judge , an office he humbly declined , giving as his reason failing eye sight which hampered his work , a condition brought on by continuous study of old documents . |
| 4 | It so happened that the local station was still waiting on the True Brit for recognition of a tidbit passed on to that paper six months ago about a rural dean and a lady elephant-tamer . |
| 5 | Students from states of the European Community accepted on to full-time undergraduate courses ( excluding foundation certificates and higher national certificates ) may apply for a mandatory award . |
| 6 | He flips way off the handle , often too ridiculous for his own good , but his unfaltering sincerity and self-belief is steadying and dispels any giddy embarrassment brought on by such behaviour . |
| 7 | Antoinette slept with her mouth open , head dropped on to steep pillows . |
| 8 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 9 | The accountants carried on until 21 February 1990 . |
| 10 | Obviously you can have photocopies or laser prints copied on to this material , but I have here some pens and a box of blank acetates which you will have the opportunity later to use if you so wish . |
| 11 | The N A S U W T says about a quarter of its teachers face problems brought on by poor pay and extra responsibilities . |
| 12 | Indeed the poverty of the police resources put on to this kind of case is one of the lasting issues it raises . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As the media caught on to this aspect of the cult , it caused some skins to leave the movement and more violent people to join it . |
| 15 | In 1839 , the Chinese decided to end the lucrative opium trade carried on by British merchants . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Epidemiological studies have shown that , apart from an increased risk of developing gastric cancer , patients with pernicious anaemia , as well as patients operated on with gastric resection more than 20 years ago , have an increased risk of developing cancer in other digestive organs , including the pancreas . |
| 18 | of patients operated on within three months of their names appearing on the register ? |
| 19 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
| 20 | He thought about his family , far away in Mali 's dusty savannah , eating the evening meal with the television switched on in one corner . |
| 21 | From the early 1890s Marxism caught on among young radicals with remarkable speed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Studios were built and additional stages added on to old complexes . |
| 24 | But how did Charlie feel kissing and making love to one of the pop world 's latest idol , especially , as some on-set mischief makers suggested the two had got on so well , their celluloid games carried on into real life . |
| 25 | An inquest has heard that former Oxford United footballer Tommy Caton died from a massive heart attack brought on by chronic alcohol abuse . |
| 26 | In just one year , 1986 , over 88,000 children and 63,000 adults in the Romanian town of Giurgiu were treated for lung diseases brought on by rampant air pollution . |
| 27 | Dreadnought held on to third place about a second or so behind Strega and Rare Bear . |
| 28 | There appeared to have been cross-party complicity in dividing up funds from " commissions " taken by party officials ( and in some cases passed on to national party headquarters ) , amounting to 5-10 per cent of the total cost of projects . |
| 29 | In every case taken on by this Firm we appoint a Supervisor who has overall responsibility to the client for the way the claim is handled . |
| 30 | It seemed that she should say something , for Isabel would let the meal run on in total silence , as every meal now ran , until Kathleen feared that she might scream . |