Example sentences of "[verb] on a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because wives are looked on a surrogates for their husbands while the latter are at Westminster , their attitudes to constituency work and their appearance are considered important . |
| 2 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 3 | The Canadian Parliament from 1980 on has discussed and voted on an estimates figure ( an ‘ envelope ’ ) that includes both tax expenditures and traditional spending authorisation . |
| 4 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
| 5 | Now what I want us to do is to look at these questions er because we 're being tape recorded , I am not going to give you time to work on a questions |
| 6 | These are decided on a points system and the judgements of the commissaires ( referees ) who guide the race in conjunction with its parent body , the Société du Tour de France . |
| 7 | The two central characters played by Hopper and Fonda are Wyatt , nicknamed Captain America , and Billy — Billy the Kid — who embark on a drugs deal , selling cocaine in California , to provide the finance to purchase a pair of magnificent Harley Davidsons for a journey across America and to the Mardi Gras at New Orleans . |
| 8 | Counting on us all , either to celebrate or drown our sorrows , are the big brewers as they embark on a results reporting season . |
| 9 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 10 | It attributes the speedy exit to having its reorganisation plan in order and the cooperation of its creditors who are apparently agreed on a collections moratorium . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to make it absolutely clear , ’ said Angalo slowly , as a great feathery head nabbled in the water a few inches away , ‘ that if you 're suggesting that we ride on a geese — ‘ |
| 12 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6″ by 9″ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |
| 13 | Teachers can even search on a skills basis , to produce material that would target change and continuity , or cause and consequence . |
| 14 | in the event that a purchaser is persuaded to purchase a property based on a surveyors valuation , the level of damages will be based on the correct market value allowing for the true condition of the property , and not the cost of repairs which need to be carried out . |
| 15 | The Namutamba Rural Education Project started in 1967 , is based on a teachers ' college and involves fifteen primary schools near the town of Mityana , some fifty miles from Kampala . |
| 16 | As Bruce Kent 's contribution ( in Chapter 8 of this volume ) suggests , however , this does not mean that we have to reject all approaches based on a rights theory , or even on natural law . |
| 17 | For instance , Ritchie Blackmore was a very fast player , but it was always based on a blues thing , never on ‘ How many notes can I get in the scale ? ’ |
| 18 | There is also a beauty package based on a 7-days treatment . |
| 19 | Her programme included electoral reform , housing allocation according to need and based on a points system , the extension of the Race Relations Act to Northern Ireland , and the provision of employment through state investment . |
| 20 | The design and cost evaluation will be based on a facilities brief derived from the market analysis appropriate for the site , a contract strategy and overall programme with defined roles for the technical professionals , a view of how easy the project would be to build and life cycle costs and elemental costing . |
| 21 | Perhaps you 'd like to reminisce and say was he one of the greatest players ever to put on a Spurs jersey . |
| 22 | One of the greatest players ever to put on a Spurs ' jersey I would think . |
| 23 | Malcolm Beavers , a former inspector , has now retired on a police pension after contracting an infection when he dived into a polluted stretch of the River Aire at Selby , North Yorkshire . |
| 24 | With these facilities the way is open for customer database files to automatically be retrieved and displayed on an operators ' screen before the phone is answered — the kind of time saving integration between phone and workstation that telesales operations dream about . |
| 25 | Spending on a skills training fund of up to £300m is planned . |
| 26 | But it is no secret that the Government 's hopes rested on a thumbs down for the DUP and Sinn Fein , both considered formidable obstacles on the road to a political accommodation . |
| 27 | Later that evening both men were invited to sit on a Questions Panel . |
| 28 | It means that if you are placed on a YTS programme through Compact , you have a real job . |
| 29 | Greenalls goes on a hotels buying spree |
| 30 | Well , erm , Adrian goes on a Mondays and Tuesdays to nursery , and on a Wednesdays and Fridays to his dad , and Tiffany goes on a Tuesday and Thursday and Friday to nursery . |