Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got caught on that . |
| 2 | Paige was glad of her strong boots , but she would gladly have thrown her bag away , for it either kept falling off or got caught on stray branches . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 4 | This resort has developed on either side of an old fishing town , along two stretches of gently shelving beach . |
| 5 | No visitor can claim to have had a totally Swiss experience until he or she has travelled on one of the many cogwheel railways that whisk the traveller from ground level to the heights . |
| 6 | Harry Judge has commented on programmed learning that it : |
| 7 | Frank Mort has commented on this kind of separation between the new intellectuals who are happy and confident to mix genre and ignore qualitative and semantic difference ‘ because they already know the map of Western culture ’ and are distinct from those ‘ who do not carry with them those levels of cultural capital . ’ |
| 8 | Paul has commented on this in several places . |
| 9 | The Commission has commented on this ‘ problem ’ in a way which is rather surprising given the stated free-market aims of the EEC : |
| 10 | Nobody has commented on any possible biological advantage of such a reaction on the part of tom-cats , or why the males should want to eliminate their own genetic progeny . |
| 11 | ‘ Follies are in their way heroic , ’ William Feaver has commented on these grand narratives , aligning them with the epic paintings by the vainglorious diarist , Benjamin Robert Haydon . |
| 12 | A GRIEVING family 's plea to have a symbolic teddy bear carved on their seven-week-old daughter 's grave has fallen on deaf ears . |
| 13 | If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground . |
| 14 | It will be a matter for consideration whether the fact that the plaintiff has passed on the tax or levy so that the burden has fallen on another should provide a defence to his claim . |
| 15 | As more and more is understood of the way in which interactions between the child and the environment create privileged opportunities for language learning , so it may be possible to reduce the burden of explanation which has fallen on innate factors . |
| 16 | The survival of the Honours of Scotland over the centuries has depended on many loyal Scots , some known but just as many unknown . |
| 17 | PETER Rice , the Irish structural engineer who has collaborated on some of the most notable buildings of modern times , has been chosen as the RIBA 's nomination for the 1992 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture . |
| 18 | They now feel that the Foundation has reneged on that agreement . |
| 19 | By nationalising the right to use land for a new purpose — in this case , to build houses on it — the Act has placed on all building land a value which is both high ( because monopolistic ) and arbitrary ( because determined not by the market but by the individual , unappealable decisions of the Central Land Board in assessing ‘ development charge ’ ) . |
| 20 | Instead , he has relied on great fitness and stamina to enable him to keep sprinting in at full pace , and speed of arm and perfect balance to capitalize on the momentum ; combined with an unrelenting desire to keep on taking more and more wickets , it has all proved irresistible . |
| 21 | As the educated urban elite abandon Mr Collor , following a series of media exposes of his political record , he has relied on continued support from rural voters at rallies of up to 70,000 . |
| 22 | Initially supported in its early stages by a grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust ( the first Getty grant to be awarded to an art journal ) , Print Quarterly has relied on generous benefactors and advertising revenue since that date . |
| 23 | More frequently , the MMC has relied on informal assurances that criticized behaviour will be discontinued . |
| 24 | Our Harry has trodden on some Very Important Toes , she thought . |
| 25 | Water has frozen on cold nights in the cracks or joints of rocks and this has split them apart . |
| 26 | The press 's current output has built on existing strengths : its increased concentration on anthropology , social sciences and politics stands alongside established topics such as Islamic studies , history , linguistics and biological science . |
| 27 | Unlike previous education secretaries , he has built on recent changes and amassed a far wider range of powers before setting his plans in motion . |
| 28 | The table he has built on this plan — only a mock-up as yet — is in two halves , each with a half circle cut out . |
| 29 | I think it is important to concede that what we can loosely call the anti-antiracist position associated with sections of the new right and with populist politics has fed on crucial ambiguities in antiracist and multicultural initiatives . |
| 30 | The Working Party has met on several occasions and a research project is under way to provide all relevant background information . |