Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 2 | The Inland Revenue has commented further on the tax treatment of ex gratia payments made on the termination of an office or employment , as set out in Statement of Practice SP 13/91 . |
| 3 | During 1912 , when numbers had reached 172 , it was decided that entry would have to be restricted for the next year , as " the Board of Education has commented adversely on the size of several of our classes and has refused to countenance it " . |
| 4 | Gran has joined in on the act . |
| 5 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 6 | In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company . |
| 7 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 8 | Right if you have a look at what has come up on the screen , on the screen . |
| 9 | I was asked to refit some buttons which has come apart on a settee cushion . |
| 10 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 11 | The 27-year-old Spaniard , who has won twice on the US Tour in the past , added : ‘ The rough is still too high for my liking , but is not set up as difficult as I 've seen US Open courses . |
| 12 | Other than the exemptions described above , tax has to be paid on any capital gain that has built up on an asset you give away during your lifetime . |
| 13 | Dick Allan 's charge , a useful hurdler rated in the mid 120s , has crept in on a mark of 86 over fences after an unenterprisingly-ridden second at Catterick . |
| 14 | Since its inception in 1980 , the superfund has moved slowly on the country 's 11 000 dangerous dumps . |
| 15 | A former Car of the Year winner , it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here . |
| 16 | In the last couple of years , Paul Merton has emerged from a tidal wave of British comic talent , that swelled at the beginning of the Eighties and continues to rain all around us , and has done so on a laugh raft all of his own . |
| 17 | The experts claim it 's not a vintage year , so the spotlight has shone firmly on the models . |
| 18 | All of which tends to confirm a belief that General Holomisa has advanced far on a scheme to forge an informal alliance with Mr Mandela and his organisation , the African National Congress . |
| 19 | It has performed superbly on the Swanage Railway where it is ideally suited to the kind of work undertaken at that location . |
| 20 | The new enlightenment 's assault on social democracy has focused particularly on the concept of ‘ dependency ’ . |
| 21 | During the 1980s the discussion about disparities of prosperity between different regions in the UK has focused increasingly on the issue of the North-South divide . |
| 22 | In view of the educational importance of explanation , it is surprising that so little research has focused directly on the development of children 's ability to give and understand explanations ; or on how children actually cope with explanations in the classroom . |
| 23 | To date the analysis of this has focused mainly on the roles played by these units in the MNEs ' approach to global strategy , and the administrative procedures adopted to use them effectively . |
| 24 | Since the second world war , US foreign policy has rested largely on the identification of ‘ goodies ’ and ‘ baddies ’ , in the context of global superpower . |
| 25 | The work of the CLE to date has concentrated mainly on the problems of unemployment and inflation , and the CLE has developed a widely accepted framework for looking at those subjects . |
| 26 | Moreover , conventional medicine has concentrated mainly on the treatment of chronic and acute illness , and until recent years the role of preventive medicine has suffered comparative neglect . |
| 27 | It has touched briefly on a number of activities which all contribute to better staff utilisation . |
| 28 | Violence has erupted again on an estate which has been plagued by joyriders . |
| 29 | This section has paused long on the views held by some librarians on the nature of their role , and that of their collections , in the educational process because it was felt that such views were not as widely known among educators as perhaps they should be . |
| 30 | This remedy may come up after a Belladonna sore throat has gone down on the chest . |