Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Runswick Bay , a multi-million pound investment by Yorkshire Television , is due to go out on the network five days a week next year . |
| 2 | It was pleasant to stroll around on an evening such as this , thinking productively about the work which would make his name ( and his fortune ) and restore to him the sense of achievement he had so greatly enjoyed as an undergraduate journalist and Union wit . |
| 3 | Back in the Company 's suite after debriefing — ‘ You 've proved , ’ said Nils without praise — Jezrael was free to go out on the town . |
| 4 | If he 's done anything really wicked I do n't think HMG would be prepared to go out on a limb on his behalf . |
| 5 | Bills accepted by banks designated as ‘ eligible ’ banks by the Bank of England become first-class bills which the Bank of England is willing to deal in on the market . |
| 6 | According to sources at the highest level , the Santa Cruz Operation Inc has ‘ bitten the ideological bullet , ’ and is prepared to step out on the Unix SVR4 road — if it can cut the deal it wants with Unix owner USL . |
| 7 | It was exciting to travel up on the night train and to find Granny waiting beside the fire in the hall , as exhilarated by the festivities as any of her grandchildren . |
| 8 | I told them , as I tell alumni wherever I meet them , that the best thing you can do for the University is to remember its strengths , and in your normal professional and daily lives to be prepared to speak up on the University 's behalf when you think it is appropriate . |
| 9 | Even long-drained regions , such as Longdon Marsh in Worcestershire , are easy to pick out on the Ordnance Survey as ‘ holes ’ on the map . |
| 10 | I imagine it would be virtually impossible to sneak up on an owl . |
| 11 | 3 STEVE BULL scored twice as England finished their European Championship Under-21 qualifying campaign with a flourish in Jastrzebie Zdruj , but they are still likely to miss out on a quarter-final place for the first time since the competition began 13 years ago . |
| 12 | And that , in turn , is likely to feed back on the Government in the form of pressures from the most irresistible of all Tory constituencies , the City . |
| 13 | If it 's a simple puncture , your tubeless repair kit may get you back on the road again , but if it 's a major rip , or any other sort of fault , the machine 's likely to end up on a trailer . |
| 14 | A little unsporting maybe but then none are likely to end up on the dinnerplate or as a fisherman 's trophy . |
| 15 | When the hot tub craze swept through California in the late 1970s middle-aged Wesley Laroya and his wife Helen were quick to get in on the action . |
| 16 | Like a flan with potatoes and cheese in , mind you you 're supposed to cut down on the cheese |
| 17 | Even so it was just great to get back on a road race bike again in February . |
| 18 | it is also helpful to note down on the card idiomatic phrases using the lexical item in question , or illustrative sentences to show its range of meaning . |
| 19 | And life 's too short to miss out on the chance of it for the wrong kinds of reasons . ’ |
| 20 | And … a Fish called Zander : Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the water … here comes Jaws ' little brother . |
| 21 | This Thursday evening at Exeter Hall in Kidlington , visitors will be able to go out on a demonstration with top traffic patrol drivers , and have their driving skills assessed by an advanced instructor . |
| 22 | think there has to be a er family planning centres have to more on the street , I think family planning clinics have got the people there who are able to go out on the street . |
| 23 | I was able to try out on the author of The Rise of the Meritocracy some local antidotes to the disease he had diagnosed a decade before . |
| 24 | At first you will only be able to crouch down on the board , but as you get used to pulling down on the booms to pull yourself up again , you will be able to get lower . |
| 25 | I wonder if you 'd be able to get in on the day without tickets . |
| 26 | They 're telling you like how much ho how to ge gauge how much money you 're gon na be able to take out on a mortgage |
| 27 | At first it was pleasant to lie back on the straw mattress and relax . |
| 28 | In addition to checking the canopy lock for security , it is essential to push up on the perspex itself to confirm that the hinges or pins are secure . |
| 29 | The Late Show , challenged by David Hare to decide whether Keats was more important than Dylan , now seems inclined to come down on the side of Keats . |
| 30 | However , despite an apparent dictum to the contrary , the Torquay Hotel principle does not , it is submitted , extend to imposing liability in a case where A has , without any unlawful act , done no more than persuade B to exercise an option open to him under his contract with C , for example , to terminate it by proper notice , for so to hold would be to draw an indefensible distinction between existing , but terminable , relationships and those which are merely prospective , and render it necessary to fall back on the defence of justification in order , for example , lawfully to persuade an employee to change his employment for higher pay . |