Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of values taken on by the variable is divided into a number of classes before the map is drawn . |
| 2 | Some evenings there 'll be a series of sketches laid on by the Club 's Entertainments Team or a folklore show by guest dancers . |
| 3 | GRAHAM Gooch will have plenty of shoulders to lean on during the tour of India . |
| 4 | The hard core of party-goers stayed on until the small hours , drinking coffee , sprawled on settees , sinking into morose abuse and gloom , surfacing occasionally to laugh , to chatter , relapsing , rising , sinking again . |
| 5 | Er by effectively where we 've got the er combination of colours joining on to the southern bypass , we looked at moving that in a westerly direction to encourage that movement . |
| 6 | There will thus be an increase in the supply of pounds coming on to the foreign exchange market . |
| 7 | This will therefore lead to an increase in the supply of pounds coming on to the foreign exchange markets . |
| 8 | So d what sort of things go on in the flats ? |
| 9 | Yes I think er people should hear that er er er the royal family 's had a lot of correction in the past with the outside world and er come and go and you know , people know the royal family very well and they attract a lot of business , a lot of things go on behind the scenes whether it 's from glamour point of view . |
| 10 | There were all sorts of things going on with the WTA board , and I took a leadership position there . |
| 11 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 12 | The other programme was the field theory initiated by Faraday , according to which electrical phenomena can be explained in terms of actions going on in the medium surrounding electrified bodies and electric circuits , rather than in terms of the behaviour of a substance within them . |
| 13 | It 's a good sport for women to play in and there 's lots of developments going on in the sport and we would like to go into the under sixteens and the under twelves . |
| 14 | It was another one of the tower rooms , with a semi-circle of windows giving on to the mountains , and for a moment they all halted on the threshold , too stunned to move by the sight of the magnificent blaze of the setting sun throwing the snow-covered peaks into relief . |
| 15 | All the increases that he has just quoted — in the number of pupils staying on to the fifth and sixth years and in the number of social workers — are down to the fact that all the regional authorities in Scotland are controlled by the Labour party and they see as their spending priorities the need to create educational opportunities for young people and to provide home helps for old people . |
| 16 | Most of the specifics , particularly tariffs , are the subject of talks going on in the company 's ATM Customer Advisory Council . |
| 17 | The hard core of helpers worked on through the week of almost continuous sunshine and good fortune , and were supported by the essential ‘ reliefs ’ who came whenever they could to sell and to carry . |