Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered for a moment about this strange near-miss , and what a trout might be doing crossing the road , until I saw a fisherman standing aside , who can only have dropped his slippery catch on the roadway and was waiting to recapture it . |
| 2 | Shildon had excused his initial omissions on the grounds that he had concealed that he was engaged in work which was not for the business section . |
| 3 | It would be clearly better for the UK , given its dismal failure on the inflation front , to be exposed to the discipline of the ERM irrespective of developments further to the East . |
| 4 | Ellis , all placed their central emphasis on the quality of staff , and the higher the grade , the more the quality counted . |
| 5 | 2 Most socialists have become increasingly critical of the monopolistic and authoritarian role of Communist parties in one-party systems in a way that has made them cast doubt on the desirability of insurrection . |
| 6 | In treating the subject in this way , I have necessarily imposed my own interpretation on the material . |
| 7 | With the changes in the political environment and the climate globally and continentally , some companies which have grown and built their considerable business on the production of arms now find themselves in a changed situation ; many have moved very rapidly to the formulation of new products and services quite distinct from their original product base . |
| 8 | The Clutha River-Buses operated their 12-strong fleet on the run between Stockwell Street Bridge and Whiteinch , all for the standard charge of one penny . |
| 9 | Fur has seen its best days on the clothing front , although seriously rockin' on the footwear front right now is leopard skin . |
| 10 | We 've seen her golden smile on the cover of Tatler and her figure in dozens of fashion glossies . |
| 11 | This need not involve rejection of traditional Christianity ; Newman had written his famous essay on the development of doctrine in 1845 , long before the Origin of Species ; and the idea was reworked in the Darwinian light of 1889 in Lux Mundi , a collection of articles edited by the prominent high-churchman Charles Gore . |
| 12 | In Stan Davies , who has written his own booklet on the wildlife of the River Exe , we had an excellent guide . |
| 13 | When I spoke to his assistant she told he had said his last word on the subject and did not want to hear of it again . |
| 14 | Such optimism may still prove to be justified : but the bets are much riskier , now that China 's leadership has shown its continued reliance on the mailed fist and its continued vulnerability to factional disputes . |
| 15 | It has plans for an industrial policy the Tories do n't appear to have one and has modelled its industrial manifesto on the demands of the CBI , the Tories traditional bedfellows . |
| 16 | The Agii Theodhori shipyard and port may have served Knossos or Mallia , or it may have had its own hinterland on the boundary of the two major territories . |
| 17 | But Schopenhauer could not have had his potent influence on the young scholar without an additional aesthetic quality which , in Nietzschean eyes , made him virtually a one-man cultural ideal . |
| 18 | Duvall had used his last shell on the thing downstairs without realising . |
| 19 | Drives a red Escort , you 've got yourself ten pounds on the sticker drive . |
| 20 | Well we 've we only went to the if you like the training session of the er erm participants yesterday and we 've got our next meeting on the 22nd February that I 've invited you to at . |
| 21 | Representing as they have done the interests of a high-seas trading nation ( Britain still exports more per head of population than does Japan ) , British post-war leaders of all political persuasions , from Nye Bevan to Margaret Thatcher , have largely based their economic policies on the need to expand trade . |
| 22 | I 'd called him Chinless Wonder on the same basis that regular enlisted men in the Army call Sandhurst graduates ‘ Ruperts ’ . |
| 23 | He had based his electoral platform on the need for better relations with the United States . |
| 24 | But Guy would have staked his own soul on the fact that Isabel had never lain with a man . |
| 25 | In different degrees , both the earlier tsars had devoted their first years on the throne to improving the condition of the empire , but one of them had been distracted by Napoleon and the other by foreign war and a rebellion in Poland . |
| 26 | Organized interests not surprisingly have increasingly turned away from legislatures and have concentrated their political pressures on the bureaucracy and the executive . |
| 27 | Although the argument appeared innocuous , in a country which had spent its entire existence on the alert against a possible attack from communist North Korea , and which had erected a National Security Law prohibiting communist activity on pain of death or long-term imprisonment , the suggestion generated a deluge of criticism . |
| 28 | She had spent her last sixpence on the tea . |
| 29 | After he 'd found the half-burned counterfoil slips from the railway tickets stuffed down the back of the apartment 's disused fireplace , his next move had been to return to his Militia post and report that an anonymous source had given him some information on the whereabouts of Alina Petrovna , escapee from the prison hospital and probable murderer of the psychiatrist Belov . |
| 30 | The girl had struck her three times on the right thigh , just where the once-broken bone was , and had taken care to stay out of the field of her optic burner . |