Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are guidelines for women using tampons : Do n't leave a tampon in for too long ( time differs depending on menstrual flow ) . |
| 2 | An independent Central Bank might provide such a restraint , and so might the constitutional amendment , suggested in Friedman and Friedman ( 1980 ) , which obliges the government to expand the money stock at some fixed rate and which would make cheating on this obligation illegal . |
| 3 | Differences were also reported centring on Soviet and Chinese fears that an immediate arms reduction plan for the Middle East would imply a freeze of Israeli weapons superiority over Arab states . |
| 4 | A recent article in the New Statesman & Society listed some of the current operations at Menwith Hill , including those that involve eavesdropping on Russian and West European telephone calls . |
| 5 | Some stock , such as technical reports and back issues of periodicals , will be housed away from Aviation House , and the CAA suggest telephoning on 0293 573725 to check for availability before making a journey to Gatwick . |
| 6 | This involved focusing on medium-sized towns one alter another and blitzing them with publicity . |
| 7 | The government 's overall aim was to freeze spending on state-owned enterprises , social security and defence for the next four years . |
| 8 | For example , G above refers only to government consumption expenditure rather than all government expenditure , which would also include spending on fixed assets ; this item is in fact included under gross domestic fixed capital formation . |
| 9 | According to Pflug , this is for historical reasons — during the 1980s , organisations focussed spending on mission-critical applications to the detriment of the less exciting back-office kit , but ‘ this is now coming back to haunt the industry ’ . |
| 10 | Whether it will consider lending on converted leasehold flats . |
| 11 | Even then you may consider relying on outside designers to create the masters while your operators simply fill in the gaps . |
| 12 | NOTIFICATION RECEIVED FROM NORTH-WEST EUROPE THAT LIEUT L. G. CAIRNS ARMY AIR CORPS WAS REPORTED MISSING ON 17TH June 1944 . |
| 13 | This may well have been the aircraft seen to crash , and although Kennett and Waghorn were credited posthumously with a Ju88 probably destroyed , this could well have been their victim , no Ju88s being reported missing on this date . |
| 14 | He phoned his provincial headquarters at Cesena , who called regional headquarters at Bologna , who checked with their opposite numbers in Florence before confirming that no member of the force had been reported missing on either side of the Apennines . |
| 15 | The U.S. Consul became responsible for our wellbeing but it was fourteen days or more before my parents got word of my survival after being reported missing on 21 May . ’ |
| 16 | ACCOUNTANCY TV Accountancy TV starts broadcasting on 17 September . |
| 17 | Here are some of the weekly incomes and budgets of some of the people I met living on social security : One man and woman in their early twenties living in Coventry with one child , mostly unemployed since leaving school , have a total income of £5.25 child benefit . |
| 18 | And so when you 're pushing pressing on that squashing it and making it flow into sheets the pulling on it and seeing whether it will stretch or whether it . |
| 19 | Cost saving on this scale is particularly important in videodisc applications because videodiscs and their workstations are costly . |
| 20 | New figures show spending on social security in Britain will rise by nearly fourteen billion pounds by the turn of the century even if unemployment falls . |
| 21 | The private decisions are likely to be influenced by the level of parental wealth , which allows spending on private education ( transmission of human wealth in this way may be encouraged by the taxation of material inheritance ) . |
| 22 | Turkey vultures are common on Kidney Island and are usually to be seen soaring on two-tone black and translucent wings , peering down at visitors with a calculating look in their beady eye set in a head of bare red skin . |
| 23 | Neighbours , the show she was about to be seen leaving on British TV screens , was voted top TV show and her co-star Jason Donovan carried off four awards too . |
| 24 | They could often be seen leaning on farm-yard gates , chewing on straws and marvelling at Noddy 's turn of speed as he roared by in the slipstream of anything from a milk marketing board tanker to a Maserati ! |
| 25 | Dad was a regular churchgoer himself , a sidesman , so it just would not do for him to be seen working on such a special day in the Church Calendar . |
| 26 | Now to be fair , the dilemma was there as the whole soft crust thing got going on 10 November 1989 , when the fall of the Berlin Wall gave a prop of plausibility to the caring-Nineties mediaschlock , and to Rifat Ozbek 's baggy Kleenex-vagabond numbers . |
| 27 | It was one thing to have mastered cooking on two electric rings when the boulangerie , charcuterie and épicerie were five minutes distant , quite another to keep a range alight , bake bread and manage slow-cooking food . |
| 28 | This is a hallowed statement signifying that the terms set out are nothing more than an intention and will not become binding on any party until a formal contract has been negotiated , executed and exchanged . |
| 29 | Inside we were greeted by the sight of a gaggle of top-heavy Sikhs energetically bopping around the hall to 1970s disco music ; beautiful Hindu ladies lilted delicately from side to side trying to avoid stepping on each other 's saris . |
| 30 | Foods that do not sustain microbial growth , such as bread , or raw produce which is so heavily contaminated that the bacterial loading on a surface is insignificant , are not likely to require handling on disinfected surfaces . |