Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good entry expected with pegging on a new stretch of the River Shannon and Lough Bran . |
| 2 | Though most report makers were not initially committed to reporting on an annual basis , nearly two thirds now feel that an annual report is appropriate . |
| 3 | It is likely that we will have to add £200 million to the billions of pounds we are already committed to spending on a genocidal weapon , which even from a purely military point of view is regarded as redundant . |
| 4 | The analysis can be simplified by concentrating on the d.c. and fundamental components of voltage and current . |
| 5 | This core can then be supplemented by relying on the open labour market to provide temporary or seasonal workers but also by increasing the share of orders given to subcontractors . |
| 6 | He had been sentenced after going on a two-month crime spree . |
| 7 | The Home Affairs Select Committee report , when the Committee looked at sick leave , for example , found that some progress could be made in improving on the sick absence record of police officers . |
| 8 | SHANNEN Doherty has confessed to going on a six-month drink and drugs binge after running away at 18 to live with her 31-year-old boyfriend . |
| 9 | I dare say a good many rabbits would have kept quiet and thought about keeping on the right side of the Chief , but I 'm afraid I 'm not much good at that . |
| 10 | It 's got ta go on a special one ? |
| 11 | When volunteers were called for to drop on a remote Yugoslavian mountain , their packs laden with gelignite to blow up bridges , I carefully avoided the challenging eye and the demanding notice board . |
| 12 | Having discussed planning , state of service and efficiency of the service , the team were then challenged with standing on the highest ‘ High Street ’ in the UK . |
| 13 | Until now I have abstained from commenting on the possible effects of the Human Genome Project on society in future . |
| 14 | How often are they raised by adding on a small , discrete area to existing topics ( for example , ‘ Women in … ’ ) — thereby leaving the rest untouched — rather than acknowledging that feminism has generated a challenge to the whole field ? ( see BSA , 1986 , for a discussion of teaching in higher education ) . |
| 15 | The area proposed for housing on the western slope rises to over 190m above sea level . ’ |
| 16 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 17 | The population is now reduced to living on the lower slopes of the western highlands which is one of the most beautiful areas of China . |
| 18 | Large numbers of people in Britain are reduced to subsisting on a low income once they are unable to work . |
| 19 | Paxford was a ‘ character ’ , given to looking on the black side of every passing scene , and to lugubrious murmurings of ‘ Abide with Me ’ and other hymns while he toiled . |
| 20 | The assumption is that Rizzo 's appointment to the finance post is a short-term measure and that his key function will be to work out a new pricing strategy , which means that anything we have heard on pricing on the new ES/9000s and AS/400s due next month will be overtaken by events . |
| 21 | It maintains that a merger will do more harm than good because the merged group would lose orders from German car firms worried about depending on a single supplier . |
| 22 | If the temperature drops below 5°C , the hamster will hibernate and can be revived by placing on a thick towel wrapped around a hot-water bottle . |
| 23 | Damp rising through solid floors can usually be cured by brushing on a double coat of liquid bitumen-based damp-proofing compound . |
| 24 | It scuttles out of office doorways with a desperateness that is quickly dispelled by sucking on a white , smoking cylinder . |
| 25 | His first steps are taken by standing on the hemiplegic leg and moving the normal leg sideways . |
| 26 | Another Orkney councillor , Ian MacDonald , believed he was barred from serving on the Social Work Committee because of his continued support for Mrs Kemp . |
| 27 | The long extract , which is printed in the Critical Survey , p. 134 , should be studied before embarking on the vivid descriptions of the first two books of The Prelude ; it explains why the childhood memories are to be treasured . |
| 28 | And indeed , there are many lineages in nature that seem to show this steady improvement in adaptation ; modern horses are more beautifully fitted to running on the open plain than ancient ones ; modern monkeys more agile than their predecessors . |
| 29 | Although the allocation of time between the rival parties was fair , it was achieved by concentrating on the daily speech-making tours of the party leaders , and presenting timed extracts from their performances . |
| 30 | It is a quality which is clearly necessary for communication and therefore for foreign language learning , but which can not be explained by concentrating on the internal grammar of sentences . |