Example sentences of "[verb] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these are arranged through a voluntary organisation called Crossroads ( address on page 143 ) which takes its name from the television series because of the attention it focussed on the needs of disabled people . |
| 2 | The sun shone equally on them both : their shadows , enormous and jagged , covered the ground between the table and the eating-house , and waves of heat beat on the tonsures of the Alban priests . |
| 3 | We had to pick the bind out by hand , er the coal was all er sorted on the screens and er er a u u us lads , we used to stand at the side of the belts that were travelling round and tipping the coal into the wagons down below you see ? |
| 4 | However they do desecrate the holiest places with their flash-bulbs and hand-held video cameras ; they invade peaceful monasteries and sleep on the outskirts of towns in their evil-smelling ‘ campers ’ . |
| 5 | In the ‘ twenties the list of protected birds was small and this gentleman , Mr. Thomas , did quite a trade in song-birds which he used to catch on the downs around the city . |
| 6 | The Greek and Turkish members of the Commission were not delegates of their respective States who could act on the instructions of the member States , but members of an administrative body . |
| 7 | The parliamentary reserve is lifted , and the Government can act on the proposals in the Council without further reference to the House . |
| 8 | ‘ We must act on the complaints , ’ said a spokesman for the council . |
| 9 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 10 | Visitors were allowed entry only in batches of 200 ; no sketches or notes were permitted on the premises ; future directors were obliged by her will to live in situ , on the fourth floor ( a rule which has been broken only by the present director ) . |
| 11 | He 's just won on the houses ai n't he ? |
| 12 | What is won on the swings is lost on the roundabouts . |
| 13 | I lay in the bath daydreaming of putters that never missed and that were made of priceless and perfect metals unknown to man , of millions of pounds won on the fairways of the world , and of even more millions made off the course . |
| 14 | Many major lessons were learnt and Lord Mountbatten has written ‘ the successful landing in Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe ’ . |
| 15 | While copyright cases have been won on the grounds that manuals , and other documents that go with software , have been copied , no one has yet been able to claim copyright on the syntax of a computer language . |
| 16 | For a party whose left wing has long complained that French price stability was won on the backs of the poor , this is a tricky moment . |
| 17 | By 1916 it had become obvious that the war was not likely to be over for some time and the government round that it was necessary to introduce military conscription in place of voluntary conscription , in order to ensure replacement of the thousands of soldiers being killed and wounded on the battlefields . |
| 18 | Is that not the best discouragement to crime and an encouragement to those elderly people who fear being attacked on the streets ? |
| 19 | It has been attacked on the grounds that it attempts to relate particular skills to different levels of management , or that it sectionalises/parochialises management thinking . |
| 20 | This view , as we shall see , has been attacked on the grounds that it rests on the false assumption that the distinction between adults and children is identical with the distinction between rational and non-rational beings . |
| 21 | I always was attacked on the grounds that the world I wrote about did n't exist and it 's only in the last five to ten years here in Ireland , that my work is seen to be actually true . |
| 22 | We fly on the wings of mutual allure , but I 'm not sure whether we 've reached the heavy confidence stage yet . ’ |
| 23 | I believed that a murrain would fall on the hens that he kept on his house-top , a wasting illness on the sheep that he kept by his door . |
| 24 | In the winter , snow or , more usually , hail can fall on the tops of the highest mountains and yet one hour 's drive down in Funchal people are swimming and sunbathing . |
| 25 | It seems that the case for elaboration , and thus for the Withington-Barton Farm-Woodchester order of development , must stand or fall on the implications of the stylistic inter-relationships of the pavements themselves . |
| 26 | The spotlight may also fall on the managements of quoted agencies . |
| 27 | Lloyd 's is insisting underwriters must join the market association for the class of business they undertake , but quality policing will fall on the shoulders of managing agents . |
| 28 | Lloyd 's is insisting underwriters must join the market association for the class of business they undertake , but quality policing will fall on the shoulders of managing agents . |
| 29 | The vapour might condense and fall on the slopes as a new sort of lubricant snow . |
| 30 | Although the local authority has powers to adopt private roads , it may be reluctant to apply them as the cost of the road construction will fall on the landowners proportionate to their road frontage . |