Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] on [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it is known that ripening tomatoes ripen faster when placed together on a window ledge , because they produce ethylene gas which stimulates their neighbours to faster and synchronous ripening . |
| 2 | These she later filled in on an assessment form , She also contacted and talked to the client 's nearest relatives or other informal carers . |
| 3 | Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side . |
| 4 | A major supermarket has just unveiled four new Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle pizzas and Dr Mumby says the way the foodmakers have jumped in on the Turtle band-wagon is wrong . |
| 5 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 6 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 7 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 8 | Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings . |
| 9 | The defeat of the Labour Party for the second time in 1983 had been blamed largely on the media campaign which had glorified the Falklands , hammered Foot , and unleashed a campaign of unprecedented vitriol against Livingstone 's GLC and the ‘ Loony Left ’ . |
| 10 | The third one : once the buzz bombs started to come over it was at last realised that it was n't a very good idea to have children evacuated directly on the flight path between Germany and London , and we were all shipped off to other locations , myself to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 11 | Three young swallows , palely coloured yet , perched precariously on a telegraph wire , wobbling , teetering , losing their grip , clutching again frantically . |
| 12 | The ashtray by the bed was crammed with cigarette butts , and two mugs of cold , scummy tea perched precariously on the bed-side table . |
| 13 | It was picked up on a £300 scanner near Andrew 's naval base at Portland , Dorset . |
| 14 | The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target . |
| 15 | AMAN jailed for 12 years for robbery after he was picked out on an identity parade because of his ‘ frightening , evil , and sadistic eyes ’ , was cleared by the Court of Appeal in London yesterday . |
| 16 | It was carried back on the blowing sand , but it moved unhurriedly forward . |
| 17 | Inspection is usually carried out on a sampling basis but 100% inspection is also common . |
| 18 | Validation may be carried out on a LIFESPAN system at any time . |
| 19 | This is the first test we have carried out on a garden blower vac . |
| 20 | This is carried out on a package basis . |
| 21 | But video films of fires carried out on the test rig suggest that alarms will sound too late . |
| 22 | Similarly , Protagon have had tests carried out on the performance significance of being able to adjust string tensions . |
| 23 | In 1985 a land-drainage scheme was carried out on the river Erewash near Eastwood in Nottinghamshire . |
| 24 | Thanks to the volume of work carried out on the Enron project , UK turnover last year was ahead of budget , with net profit being more or less on budget . |
| 25 | Tests carried out on the prototype car 208 , showed that the car should accelerate to a speed of 30.5 m.p.h. in 17 seconds , against 23 seconds for a bus . |
| 26 | The diversity of messages in an alarm pheromone is suggested by a chemical analysis carried out on the weaver ant Oecophylla longinoda . |
| 27 | The procedure was carried out on an outpatient basis without analgesics or sedatives . |
| 28 | These completely non-invasive techniques have the advantage of being carried out on an outpatient basis but the treatment may take up to two years . |
| 29 | The main reason that CISCs are still in more use today than CISCs are that commonly used commercial operating systems such as MS-DOS for the IBM PC can not be emulated well on a RISC computer . |
| 30 | 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 . |