Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repeat eight times on each side , twice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She cut in on a station wagon , forcing the driver to brake heavily , then made fifty yards on the hard shoulder . |
| 5 | The National People 's Assembly had legalized political parties on March 26 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As well as these acute metabolic derangements found in diabetes producing acute effects on platelet function , other factors known to influence platelet function in non-diabetics may be operative in the diabetic population under study , such as the presence of vascular disease , ingestion of aspirin-like substances , exercise , smoking , and the use of the contraceptive pill . |
| 10 | Triplex Lloyd , the steel fabrications and foundries group with enlarged motor and electrical distribution activities as a result of the Christy Hunt acquisition , made solid gains on most fronts in the latest six months . |
| 11 | It will be entering into contracts to both buy and sell specific currencies on or between specific dates . |
| 12 | Picture frames can make striking displays on occasional tables , window sills or other low-level areas . |
| 13 | He did not , as I had feared , ask me to perform covert assassinations on his behalf and nor did he insist on my using my eidetic capabilities to project myself into the noumenal world that he inhabited with such terrifying ease . |
| 14 | But this fog plays strange tricks on a woman 's mind . |
| 15 | Specific problems are resolved , while larger issues are clearly presented and students are given solid strategies on which to build long-term development . |
| 16 | I recently asked eleven experts on RE from widely differing backgrounds what they each saw as the major priority for RE . |
| 17 | Using 256 colours on a VGA display , the graphics show warmth around lamps and fireplaces and muggy dampness out on the smog filled London streets . |
| 18 | They made specific donations on the night in the knowledge that it all the proceeds were going to the cancer day ward and that helped to boost the figure . |
| 19 | US representatives rejected any new " global " talks unless the EC made specific concessions on agriculture . |
| 20 | providing one or more platform faces to enable specific journeys on regular Fife line and Glasgow line services to stop to set down or pick up passengers on match days |
| 21 | Stunned to realize how very far and in how many aspects the West was ahead of Japan , the members of the mission made extensive observations on various aspects of the civilization of the nations of Europe and America . |
| 22 | In education , we have seen campaigns to allow girls to take crafts in school and to be given non-stereotyped jobs on the youth-training schemes . |
| 23 | Studies that have examined parental influences on children 's eating patterns have shown that parents have a significant influence . |
| 24 | National Savings announced lower rates on many other products on 5 August ; again , this is believed to be a move to prevent a rise in mortgage rates . |
| 25 | In many parts of the world , we have developed innovative policies on quality and customer service . |
| 26 | And they used to send orders is n't it It was nothing to see fifty items on an order . |
| 27 | Pateman also says the only democratic element in liberal democracies is the vote and then when representatives make political decisions on their behalf the electorate renounce power . |
| 28 | Essentially the Conservative government said to family doctors , ‘ You want to remain private practitioners on contract with the NHS . |
| 29 | He averages 70 covers on weekdays and doubles that number on weekends . |
| 30 | Ministers also agreed to lift progressively economic sanctions against Serbia in the hope of discouraging Mr Slobodan Milosevic , the Serbian President , from waging further attacks on the new country . |