Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 2 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 3 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 4 | The ground has only one entrance , so long queues developed , and although the players all arrived on time , one of the staff was stranded at the back of the queue . |
| 5 | But the Red Army was larger than Western forces in Europe , war could break out ‘ by accident ’ ( through the failure to manage a diplomatic crisis properly ) and a US guarantee — even if it only existed on paper — could provide a major psychological boost to West European morale . |
| 6 | She felt intimidated ; these men were the most powerful in the land , men you only saw on television or in the press . |
| 7 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
| 8 | So , ’ he added with a slightly twisted smile , ‘ I just concentrated on business , and became even more of a workaholic than ever ! ’ |
| 9 | Except in winter , when heavy snow sometimes delayed us and another engine had to come to the rescue , we generally arrived on time at Parma. just occasionally a tram car went off the rails ; perhaps Camera was overcome by the thrill of speed . |
| 10 | Do n't change your pattern of prayer merely because someone mentions the latest method just arrived on view . |
| 11 | Admiral Habib Olahi and some others finally escaped on foot across the mountains into Turkey . |
| 12 | I did n't go in June with being full of cold , I just knocked on door and that got him out . |
| 13 | When delivered ready to start running on I August 1913 , the ten ‘ SoutherN ’ buses were integrated with the L.G.O.C. fleet and allocated to Streatham Garage , from which they normally worked on route 59 , ( Oxford Circus and South Croydon ) which competed directly with Croydon Corporation trams , emphasising Croydon 's weakness in not having through running powers to work to London . |
| 14 | We used to treat our coral cuts with iodine , unaware that the coral polyps which had entered the wounds normally thrived on iodine which they extracted from seawater — and were now extracting from our blood . |
| 15 | THE TEXT of the Maastricht Treaty , which finally went on sale at Her Majesty 's Stationery Office ( HMSO ) in London last month , has been withdrawn , apparently because of a row over the spelling of ‘ ecu ’ , the European currency unit . |
| 16 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |
| 17 | A period of seven years was set as the publication cycle for new editions ; the sixteenth edition thus appeared on time in 1958 . |
| 18 | After overhearing comments surrounding Toni 's gender and nationality — by fellow Americans , I was relieved when she finally appeared on stage at 9.15pm . |
| 19 | yeah , yeah , I did n't know what they were like at seventy two it just said on window on one of them shops on Baldwin Lane |
| 20 | I ca n't remember what that bit was , I think he just stood on top |
| 21 | Although he now had the potential earning power of any major movie star , he nevertheless remained on unemployment benefit while waiting for his agent to find the right new vehicle for him . |
| 22 | Tony applauded loudly with the rest and the applause continued until the young man once more strolled on stage , this time dressed as a policeman . |
| 23 | One young woman claimed to have wept her way into a degree but once started on work and a career , never used such tricks again . |
| 24 | The fulling mills still survived on site , although Stratford Mill 's involvement in the cloth trade drew to a close around 1738 , the first on the Painswick Stream to do so . |
| 25 | Although many people suspected them to be lovers , Adam still insisted on secrecy . |
| 26 | When the Surrey militia descended on Rye and Winchelsea in 1793 , the local publicans promptly went on strike and the only answer was the construction of special barracks . |
| 27 | The police always looked on top in an eventful first half and translated their superiority into goals just before half-time . |
| 28 | Ooh they sometimes used to get books or er they used to get some nice prizes you know , and books and er and that and er and when I was little I once went on stage for a in a skipping competition . |
| 29 | Less dramatic but equally puzzling would be the problem posed by the patient who deliberately went on hunger-strike in order to end his suffering . |
| 30 | The foolscap sheets of Croxley Script ( ‘ the all purpose paper ’ ) were by now beginning to look like an inventive infant 's representation of woodland scenery illicitly sketched on top of pages already thick with words . |