Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [prep] [noun] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If you 're in this category , turn to our recipes for sponge pudding and porridge in Cooking for comfort on page 168 ) . |
| 2 | Some interest in listening to music on record , or better still in the concert hall , is pre-supposed . |
| 3 | In looking at figures on television audiences we probably accept with little thought that certain programmes are frequently at the top of the list for audience rating , but we seldom ask how that audience has been measured . |
| 4 | The eventual UN resolution passed on Oct. 29 , however , made only a veiled reference to the war crimes issue , in calling for information on breaches of international law . |
| 5 | Since aggressive animals often have higher testosterone levels than normal this might aid a male in persisting in attacks on harem males and thereby in gaining a harem . |
| 6 | I recall a Saturday midday lecture to Oxford undergraduate and graduate students in the 1970s when , after riveting them with a talk about double fluorescent labelling , he asked if they would be interested in hearing about experiments on motor systems ; they said they would and they abandoned lunch to listen . |
| 7 | In the Life , he makes a number of references — to Johnson 's high regard for a man he knew to be in hiding in London on account of having borne arms in the ‘ 45 ; to the curious fact that Johnson wrote almost not at all during the year 1745 — though Boswell , a windblown reed at best where politics were concerned , attributes this to preparation for the great Dictionary , rather than to any politically-induced melancholia . |
| 8 | The Syrians were involved again in fighting with Hezbollah on March 27 when troops at a checkpoint in the southern Beirut suburbs opened fire on a car carrying a Shia leader , Sheikh Sobhi Tofeili , who escaped unharmed . |
| 9 | The emphasis in Working for patients on services to individual patients , and provisions such as ‘ Life-style consultations ’ in connection with the 1990 Contract for GPs , can be viewed as a reinforcement of the individualistic view of health . |