Example sentences of "on [noun] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was on foot going the other way , so I opened the gate for her . |
| 2 | Industrial tribunals were established under s.12 of the Industrial Training Act 1964 with a narrow jurisdiction to consider appeals against the levy on employers to finance the industrial training boards set up under that Act . |
| 3 | Despite Barbarossa 's will and energy , his plans fell apart immediately upon his sudden death ; the tragedy of such an able ruler drowning while on crusade shook the entire system which he strove to uphold . |
| 4 | In the 1980s , the families stepped aside in favour of Shaw , who took square old Mr Cube on an acquisitions binge , bloating its gearing levels to 230 per cent at one point , but setting the business on course to exploit the booming market for low-calorie diet foods . |
| 5 | They were offered the same curriculum as the rest of the unstreamed class , i.e. they were on course to fail the 11 plus . |
| 6 | As for the May local elections , their verdict matched precisely today 's opinion polls : despite a lacklustre performance , Labour was on course to become the largest party in a hung parliament . |
| 7 | The Scottish Office Environment Department on proposals to create the new agency , Scottish Natural Heritage , and the associated need to reconcile development ambitions and conservation duties at a local level ; |
| 8 | The assault on Panama marks the second time in six years that the US has employed its military forces against a country in the hemisphere . |
| 9 | On the other hand , Ceolred 's attack on Ine demonstrated the harsher reality of that desire for military prestige and territorial aggrandizement which is the more constant feature of Anglo-Saxon political history in this period . |
| 10 | ( First Edition ) IRELAND 's Sean Kelly , who finished seventh in the Paris-Tours race on Saturday to win the inaugural World Cup , has criticised the system by which points are allocated in the series . |
| 11 | IRELAND 's Sean Kelly , who finished seventh in the Paris-Tours race on Saturday to win the inaugural World Cup , has criticised the system by which points are allocated in the series . |
| 12 | But because of his private trainer status Sibton Abbey 's win on Saturday marked the first time Murphy 's name had been credited as trainer of a big race winner . |
| 13 | We have won many awards and we co-operate with the Department of Energy on research effecting the retail industry . |
| 14 | Most notable is the observation that the reliance on subjects to express the actual curriculum can be seen as a rationalisation of its present form . |
| 15 | Territorial exceptions are not the only provisions of the Vienna Convention on Succession to undermine the uncompromising tone of Article 16 . |
| 16 | All this , often broadcast by the media too , has had a detrimental effect on religion causing the age-old cry of the heart , " If there is a God why all this suffering ? " to be raised with ever-greater seriousness and urgency . |
| 17 | The resolution on Bosnia-Hercegovina condemned the Serbian leadership in Belgrade and called on the UN Security Council to co-ordinate action by land , sea and air to restore international peace . |
| 18 | On Wednesday , when Ladbrokes ceased to call odds on Rovers lifting the long-awaited championship , he was pulling pints at the Blackie 's . |
| 19 | At the end of the tale , the wife underlines this aspect of the merchant 's lifestyle by suggesting that her spending on clothing serves the same purpose : This understanding provides a fundamentally important gloss to the moot , " must " , of the lines spoken , apparently by a female speaker , very early on in the Shipman 's Tale : Both the merchant and the monk in the tale operate by borrowing money on credit in order to make profitable purchases . |
| 20 | The display on consumption utilises the age-old trick of piling up an adult 's average monthly intake of food ( enormous amounts of chocolate ) and invites the visitor to burn off excess calories on an ‘ Energy Bike ’ ( it does , of course , take a depressingly long time to nullify the effect of just one grape ) . |
| 21 | This failed to meet the demand for the forcible removal of the barricades , as advanced by the 7,000 white residents of the Chateauguay suburb adjacent to the Mercier bridge ( some of whom had regularly assembled during the siege to burn Mohawk effigies , and had participated in attacks on Indians fleeing the adjoining Kahnawake reservation ) . |
| 22 | Not only was the traditional ideal of union between church and state relinquished but also the Council stressed the responsibility of the church to pass moral judgements , even on matters touching the political order , whenever basic personal rights or the salvation of souls make such judgements necessary . |
| 23 | At an average £200 or so for installation , meters do n't come cheap , and it will take a few years of saving on bills to meet the initial cost . |
| 24 | Sheikh Hamed al-Bitawi , a prayer leader at Jerusalem 's al-Aqsa mosque , called on Arabs to quit the Middle East talks because Israel ‘ does not understand the language of peace . ’ |
| 25 | United 's luck changed then as Martin went off with an ankle injury , to be followed a few minutes later by Stoke defender Chris Hemming , a clattering tackle on Derning brought the red card out of the referee 's pocket and boos for Hemming . |
| 26 | the academic literature on professionalism cites the medical profession as a prime example of a highly professionalised body . |
| 27 | However , a report submitted by the Department of Environment to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change the following month , suggested that the UK 's total energy consumption could be cut by as much as 60 per cent over the next 15 years through energy conservation . |
| 28 | Figure 15–4 shows that tax on films makes the gross-of-tax price of films to consumers exceed the net-of-tax price received by producers of films . |
| 29 | So during my three years at University College Swansea I carried on at the shop in the evenings doing the ordering , and on Saturdays running the general book department and the educational department . |
| 30 | Research on Yorkshire suggests the same sort of early arrangements , with the large estates there being called shires ( the equivalent of the maenor in medieval Wales and what Glanville Jones terms the discrete estate or federal manor in England ) . |