Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television and radio carried brief reports , while the the story squeezed on to the front page of the national evening newspaper Izvestia , between larger accounts of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's row with Ukraine and an explosion at an Armenian arms depot . |
| 2 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 3 | This paper presents results for eighteen clients accepted on to the Special Development Team caseload , who were living in NHS mental handicap hospitals at the time of referral , eleven of whom had moved to staffed houses in the community . |
| 4 | Rachel , who had already been battling with unpredictable sensations brought on by the close proximity of David clad only in his brief black swimming-trunks , felt her cheeks flame and could n't bring herself to look at him . |
| 5 | Or maybe she was experiencing a sort of nightmare or hallucination — some kind of unfortunate delusion brought on by the overwhelming stress and strain of her job … ? |
| 6 | On the London stage , the great roles will be plucked like plums , in the Welsh valleys his fame will swell like the fortissimo of a chapel organ and his acts of generosity , recklessness , coarseness and excellent manners tossed on to the fiery legend like dry logs . |
| 7 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 8 | You 'll be jostled , pushed , elbowed and have your feet stamped on by the seething hordes that are just going about their daily business in the city . |
| 9 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 10 | Example 2:13 Right to display advertisement permitted by regulations The right to display in and on the demised property any advertisement permitted to be displayed without the express consent of the local planning authority by virtue of the Town and Country Planning ( Control of Advertisements ) Regulations 1992 or any modification or replacement thereof Example 2:14 Right to display advertisement in prescribed form The right to display on the front door of the demised property a name plate not exceeding in area and advertising the business carried on in the demised property and to display the name or style of that business on the name board situated in the entrance hall of the building of which the demised property forms part with letters provided by the landlord |
| 11 | The effect of the section is to make the principal responsible to investors for the business carried on by the appointed representative . |
| 12 | Five years The tenant 's right to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , may be excluded or modified by agreement unless : ( 1 ) during the whole of the five years immediately preceding the date on which the tenant , under a tenancy to which the Act applies is to quit the holding , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if , during those five years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was a successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 , s38(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 13 | Fourteen years The tenant will be entitled ( in certain circumstances ) to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , equal to the production of the appropriate multiplier and twice the rateable value of the holding if : ( 1 ) during the whole of the fourteen years immediately preceding the termination of his tenancy , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if during those fourteen years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was the successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 14 | In part , McKenna sees this as a natural reaction to the ecological crisis brought on by the modern era . |
| 15 | The creature is often seen on the Idwal Slabs in North Wales and Stanage and Laddow Rocks in the South Pennines but has of recent years migrated on to the Craven limestone . |
| 16 | The boarding annexe at Burleigh was an unlovely square built on to the main house in the nineteen-twenties-it was the cause , in fact , of the original owner going bankrupt and being forced to forsake the licensed trade . |
| 17 | It will be replaced either by Trafalgar Day in October or an extra day tacked on to the existing August Bank Holiday . |
| 18 | The scene was illuminated by large floodlamps bolted on to the striated walls of the huge cavern which enclosed the whole place . |
| 19 | This drably official account of the matter was not welcomed by the media of the day , who looked for more exciting explanations , such as a double suicide brought on by the well-known English affliction of ‘ spleen ’ , or a murder of Mrs Pattison by Mr following his discovery that she was pregnant by a young ‘ Milord ’ . |
| 20 | Sin , pain and death were linked together ; all three belonged inescapably to our transitory existence in an imperfect world , and each link in the chain led on to the next one . |
| 21 | It was night , and as the wind gusted down the iron chimney pipe , a shower of metal flakes spattered on to the wooden floor . |
| 22 | These procedures carried on until the 1939–45 war . |
| 23 | ‘ Debt ’ , with its overtones of fault and defaulting , embarrassment and mismanagement , gradually changed into the more significant ‘ overindebtedness ’ — though , of course , newspaper subs hung on to the monosyllabic short word which fitted more easily into headlines and made for more racy reading in the copy . |
| 24 | This onslaught from Bush , together with intensifying questioning of Perot 's attitude to , and respect for , civil liberties , saw the would-be independent candidate driven on to the defensive towards the end of the month . |
| 25 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 26 | Yes , and an astute decision by Milton 's manager , Keith Stocks , saw substitute Brian Marlan brought on in the sixty eighth minute and two minutes later he was all smiles as he headed home Nigel Mott 's cross to break the deadlock . |
| 27 | He stared down at his body , and large tears splashed on to the brilliant tattoos of light . |
| 28 | [ 2 ] The outcome was compared in babies operated on with the traditional light general anaesthesia and in those who received analgesics before , during and after the operation . |
| 29 | At the time of division , the two halves of the city were very different ; the Soviet east hung on to the imperial Prussian centre , the West acquired the western shopping and residential areas . |
| 30 | The Founders moved on to the next question . |