Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've heard of love on the rebound , and falling for Fen could prove to be even more disastrous . |
| 2 | The current warm-weather soundtrack of choice for discerning numbskulls is Ugly Kid Joe , a quartet of stoned surfers who 've risen to power on the Young Dumb Fun ticket in a way that critically-defied combos like The Ramones never managed . |
| 3 | The moves , counter moves , rejections , romances and broken hearts are spun together effortlessly through the music and will strike a chord with any teenagers and ex-teenagers who have fallen in love on a Saturday night . |
| 4 | The bonus each policyholder will actually get will depend on the reversionary ( or annual ) bonuses they have received to date on the with-profits element of their policies and will probably be paid out as part of the 1993 bonus distribution in February or March 1994 . |
| 5 | Many manufacturers have come to grief on the belief that technical solutions can be bought pre-packaged . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , I have elaborated at length on the reasons why it is implausible to suggest that the first hunters were the ruling males of what Freud termed the ‘ primal hordes ’ , but rather the unmated , younger males of the all-male groups , Freud 's ‘ sons ’ . |
| 7 | Both the nilgai and the four-horned antelope were originally Indian woodland species that have adapted to life on the plains . |
| 8 | TWELVE Chinese claiming to be fleeing persecution following the Tiananmen Square massacre have arrived by boat on a South Korean island , reportedly seeking to defect to Taiwan . |
| 9 | I have negotiated with government on a number of business issues , so I think I have certain special skills to bring in , but they 're not necessarily the skills of someone used to dealing with huge budgets , because my company is quite small . |
| 10 | An especially important result of the establishment of both the HIDB and the WIIC is that at long last there are professional jobs in the Western Isles for at least some of those who have gone to university on the mainland and have previously had to stay there to work . |
| 11 | The 3 expert systems then developed have remained in use on the shop floor since the end of the trial . |
| 12 | Two airmen have appeared in court on a forty million pound arson charge after a fire destroyed a hangar at an RAF base . |
| 13 | Recent social and feminist historians who have considered the question have bid for explanation on the back of contemporary allegiances . |