Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're still here , two extensions later , and very happy not to have jumped on the house-moving bandwagon . |
| 2 | Nevertheless taxation does not seem to have fallen on the whole population . |
| 3 | In R. v. Monopolies and Mergers Commission , ex parte Argyll Group plc Lord Donaldson MR said that courts must show ‘ a proper awareness of the needs of public administration ’ : a court should be wary of striking down a decision if it is clear that the same decision would have been made even if the decision-maker had not acted unlawfully ; or if doing so would unduly delay the conduct of government business ; or if members of the public are likely already to have relied on the challenged decision ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's motivation in making the application was improper or vexatious or frivolous . |
| 4 | At first sight , Holly Aylett appears to have stumbled on the ideal Arena subject with her A Spanish Odyssey — A Portrait of Javier Mariscal ( BBC2 on Friday : 9.30–10.30 pm ) . |
| 5 | The number of journalists who claim to have sat on the same sofa and had private speech with His Majesty is legion . |
| 6 | To get accepted on the first training course is difficult enough . |
| 7 | I 'm Major Paul Richmann , and you seem to have got on the wrong side of General Froebe somehow . |
| 8 | I mean frankly David , if you look at the number of games we 've had so far this season , it would be totally impractical for both teams to have played on the same pitch . |
| 9 | In general , however , the father appears to have concentrated on the civil engineering works and the son on the more purely architectural . |
| 10 | Lake sediment records in Ecuador suggest that there was regional flooding of western Amazonia 1300–800 BP , i.e. major hydrological disturbance , which raised the water level as far east as Manaus , while savanna regions seem to have persisted on the northern edge of the basin throughout the late Quaternary . |
| 11 | If Raskolnikov was to have mounted an assault of something like Grand Inquisitor proportions , if he was to have expatiated on the whole God business not being worth the pain of one misused child , then the time was n't ripe ; we must wait for Ivan Karamazov . |