Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Devlin expanded on this in the lorry accident case in 1969 : |
| 2 | Subtle lamps gleamed on pink-clothed tables , each with its own vase of flowers . |
| 3 | In November Moscow agreed on United Nations monitoring on both sides of the Afghan border . |
| 4 | Costa Rica and Panama agreed on ecological protection measures for their joint border areas . |
| 5 | On 9 January 1872 the Minute Book kept by the clerk now called Registrar , recorded the commitment of Richard Piper sued by Henry Pierpoint for 5s ( money lent on 14 November 1871 ) . |
| 6 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ The Graces dwelt on ev'ry Limb : |
| 8 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 9 | Moreover recent racialist attacks are worsening and spreading to West Germany , as The Times reported on 7 October 1991 . |
| 10 | Physiologists capitalized on this instrumentation to demonstrate that the electrical activity of the brain and its nerve cells was a function of what the individual was doing , or not doing , or how sensory receptors were stimulated . |
| 11 | Keynes agreed on 13 February 1946 that overseas commitments would be the main casualty without the American loan . |
| 12 | Concurrent with the arrest of Guiding Lights , a combined police and customs task force swooped on twenty five addresses in London to unearth a further cache of over two tons of cannabis in a garage . |
| 13 | At various times Keynes operated on all three levels , and moved easily from one to another . |
| 14 | You 've noticed that Healthmaster does not have erm , just smoker , non-smoker rates , because if we actually just simply mention dwelled on that perhaps we should 've little bit longer . |
| 15 | BUNGLING police looking for a Mafia drugs ring swooped on four ‘ suspects ’ … a British holiday couple and their two children . |
| 16 | Anyone wanting to make an offer for the size 12 suit can contact Dennis Read on 0502 512843 . |
| 17 | There was a blur of activity and the sandwich rose on three pairs of legs . |
| 18 | Both Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Archbishop of Canterbury were opposed to the marriage and rather than give up his proposed marriage , Edward abdicated on 11th . |
| 19 | CW reported on successful installation of software on new Admin file server . |
| 20 | After sporadic violence there from the beginning of the month , full scale rioting erupted on 8 July and in the early hours of 9th two men were shot dead by the army . |
| 21 | At the furthermost end of Short Street a dark oblong rose on hundreds of tiny legs , and started to run . |
| 22 | They walked to the lake where there were two pairs of ducks , mallards with feathers as if painted in iridescent green , and from which a heron rose on gaunt wings , its legs dangling . |
| 23 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 24 | Apart from the four tRNAs , which constitute unique entities on the mitochondrial genome , deletion bore on two respiratory complexes : complex III with cytochrome b , and complex I. This latter was particularly affected , 5 subunits being either totally absent ( ND6 , ND4 and ND4L ) or severely truncated ( ND1 and ND5 ) . |
| 25 | She was a very experienced psychiatric nurse and Doctor Volkov 's callousness verged on deliberate cruelty . |
| 26 | Dot woke on that morning that could have been the last morning of her life and knew by the brightness reflected across the ceiling that she was safe , for the roads would still be blocked . |
| 27 | The research will be conducted on the basis of data collated on national laws and practice , interviews and field visits to for example the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation , the International Oceanographic Commission and United Nations in New York , and the maritime centres of universities overseas . |
| 28 | One of Reagan 's most spellbinding TV performances came on 27 July , two days before both houses were to vote on his tax cut proposal . |
| 29 | Real fear came on those who thought they were abandoned . |
| 30 | My mind blanked on alternate minutes , my heartbangs sounded like the 4.30 at Epsom , and my mouth felt like cat-litter . |