Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talks , held on 23–30 October in Montreal , produced total agreement on the need for an international authority to administer civil aviation , or , if that was not possible , a regional operators ' conference . |
| 2 | By this time the newspapers had lost interest , and the route that Mr Wolski had carefully traced each day on his atlas on the basis of news reports ended near Galashiels in the Southern Uplands of Scotland , where a British Trust for Ornithology report gave a good account of a ‘ vagrant ’ juvenile eagle being seen feeding . |
| 3 | They have developed the pleasant habit of touching each other on the shoulder in time of trouble , as a sort of physical sympathy . |
| 4 | All the players gave this exhibition free of charge and , with the resulting revenue , the trust was able to set up a fund with which to promote junior golf on Jersey . |
| 5 | Repeat eight times on each side , twice . |
| 6 | With this foundation a student usually has a choice of two , or maybe three , subjects to pursue to degree standard , and can make that choice on the basis of experience . |
| 7 | He proved that he could make that journey on a primitive craft . |
| 8 | I mean , come on , but I do understand that some of you were briefed or , or Do n't worry about this now , but we would like this briefing questionnaire back before you leave on Wednesday , er , if you were a late replacement , could you just make that plain on there , er , if you were n't briefed , you 've got the shortest questionnaire in the world to fill in . |
| 9 | Stooping down and keeping a very sharp lookout from under my hat , I coughed several times , splashed the water about , and then , moving very slowly and gathering dry sticks on the way ( as the local Indians might do ) , I went to the foot of the steep rock . |
| 10 | Judging by how well labels sell in the shops — and they do — the world and his wife must be using sticky labels on everything , including the kids . |
| 11 | She cut in on a station wagon , forcing the driver to brake heavily , then made fifty yards on the hard shoulder . |
| 12 | The National People 's Assembly had legalized political parties on March 26 . |
| 13 | Er the other fire fighters would enable us to hit that target on a regular basis and in fact we will also the target during those periods when . |
| 14 | Brooktree Corp , San Diego and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have settled all pending litigation and agreed not to sue each other on patents related to colour palette chips : the settlement provides for payment to Brooktree of $26.8m from an earlier award of cash damages for patent and mask work infringement and dismissal of all other litigation pending between them . |
| 15 | They laid little emphasis on the message of the prophets . |
| 16 | One can see the publishers emerging from that smoke-filled room , slapping each other on the back : ‘ Baby , we not only have a trilogy here , we have a thesaurus . ’ |
| 17 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 18 | He preferred to keep acquaintances as such , rarely divulged his feelings and placed little reliance on others . |
| 19 | Gresham himself , however , placed little reliance on ‘ vulgar astrologie ’ , and was one of the earliest English champions of a reformed astrological science . |
| 20 | Whilst in practice day to day supervision may rest with a single partner or small committee of partners , the rule imposes professional responsibility on every member of a firm to see that each one of its offices is properly supervised . |
| 21 | Despite having dispensed with sundry items deemed essential to sustain European stomachs on their World Cup visit in 1987 — doctor , diet sheets , microwave oven and Tesco-sponsored tuck-boxes all left them flushed , as it were , with lack of success — England have been here almost a week , practising every day in sauna-bath temperatures for their opening match against Sri Lanka on Sunday . |
| 22 | Sitting close , they threw back their heads and swayed ecstatically , a performance that precedes each shuffle on — or off — the egg . |
| 23 | Their intention was to treat each case on its merits rather than reproduce the traditional left-right divide in British politics . |
| 24 | ( Tiger ) to signify complete surprise on the target . |
| 25 | The majority in favour of allowing sole practice on the traditional model to continue without restriction might have been expected to be larger given the preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole . |
| 26 | The CEN Technical Committees 116 and 117 which have been working on the creation of European Standards for bituminous sheeting and single-ply membranes have recently been disbanded to be replaced by a new Technical Committee , CEN TC 254 , which will prepare European Standards on waterproofing sheeting used in building and civil engineering works . |
| 27 | The whole of Holland , for example , was to be covered by SO 2 sensors at different heights , feeding into a computerized system drawing iso-concentration lines on a map of the country . |
| 28 | I must congratulate that authority on doing what so many other Labour authorities refused to do . |
| 29 | Ashi Nadirpur laid out the clothes that she was going to wear that day on the bed . |
| 30 | So if some 500 million years ago , an astronaut , from some other planet passed near the earth , he could easily have noticed in the blue seas , a few new and mysterious turquoise shapes ; and from them he might have guessed that life on earth had really started . |