Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 2 | Across the border in North Ossetia ( an autonomous republic within Russia ) , a group of Russian " volunteers " had arrived in late February in the regional capital , Vladikavkaz , according to the Georgian daily Sakartvelos Respublika of Feb. 27 , ostensibly to " protect Russia 's southern borders " , and a small number of these " volunteers " , apparently unarmed , had travelled on by helicopter to Tskhinvali , the South Ossetian capital . |
| 3 | According to observers the significance of the vote in terms of national politics was that it would increase the likelihood of the minority government seeking to secure the support of the Progress Party for the 1990 budget , which was due to be voted on in parliament in December [ see below ] . |
| 4 | His work on Linear B was carried on with flair by John Chadwick ( b.1920 ) . |
| 5 | Moved on at dawn to Athens or Antibes or somewhere or other . |
| 6 | Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science . |
| 7 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
| 8 | We 've now moved on in part of question your question five B and erm in my response to that I 'm suggesting , and I hope it 's not just semantics , picking up the point made just before we broke for coffee , is that there 's all sorts of things called the countryside , and this policy is is directed at the open countryside . |
| 9 | The user currently logged on to LIFESPAN via PI is not an assessor of the DC , therefore access is denied . |
| 10 | The user currently logged on to LIFESPAN via PI is not the associated user of the DCs listed , therefore they can not be activated via the package . |
| 11 | The user currently logged on to LIFESPAN via PI is not the associated user of the DC , therefore access is denied . |
| 12 | Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’ |
| 13 | Gavin was called on to act as press liaison officer . |
| 14 | I make no secret of my gratitude for being a member of a fortunate generation who have not been called on to fight in Europe . |
| 15 | Fellow-feeling between Athens and Corinth , occasioned by Megara , is traceable as far back as the time of the Cypselid tyrant of Corinth , Periander : called on to arbitrate between Athens and Lesbos over the possession of Sigeion on the Hellespont , he awarded it to Athens . |
| 16 | The point is that Humpage was brought on to bowl before lunch on the first morning of the match , and one wonders whether a selected wicketkeeper has ever been introduced into the attack to early a stage of a first-class match , especially since so far as I am aware Warwickshire suffered no injuries that morning . |
| 17 | It 's something the Gloucestershire Social Services Department recognise … but insist was brought on by lack of support and funding . |
| 18 | It 's believed the problems were brought on by wear on tear . |
| 19 | Cars had been laid on in advance by Tom Warner 's telegram , and we were soon settled in our respective suites or rooms in the C.P.R. 's palatial Hotel Saskatchewan . |
| 20 | The research data were entered on to computer for analysis with the SPSS package and the management of each patient was compared with published recommended guidelines for adults or children . |
| 21 | For years , the Tory Government has gone on about freedom of choice in education but it has only been those with money who have had any real choice . |
| 22 | Though earlier I criticised Dale Spender for confusing two different things , in fact it is not always easy to make a clear-cut distinction between sexism in language and sexism projected on to language by systems of linguistic analysis . |
| 23 | According to analysts , Souto had been forced to take responsibility for recent revelations that several high-ranking officers were deeply implicated in a vast network dealing in stolen cars from Brazil and Argentina , most of which were being passed on for sale in Bolivia . |
| 24 | The routine for rigging and de-rigging is usually passed on by word of mouth , or is self-taught . |
| 25 | After the death and resurrection of Jesus , the stories about his life were passed on by word of mouth for some thirty years before the first Gospel was written . |
| 26 | For instance , the stores of Abraham were probably passed on by word of mouth for several generations before being incorporated in a written source later used by the author of Genesis . |
| 27 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 28 | Staff at Slimbridge say their 7,000 waterfowl are unlikely to be affected by the outbreak , which ca n't be passed on from bird to bird . |
| 29 | The specific components of chromosomes in turn are called genes , that familiar word describing how detailed information about the whole organism is passed on from generation to generation . |
| 30 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |