Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A practised smile was on her lips but his eyes had moved rapidly , assessingly over her figure until their appreciation eventually showed on his face . |
| 2 | And we meet the couple whose wedding literally started on the rocks . |
| 3 | The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) reported at the end of September 1989 that seasonal ozone depletion over Antarctica ( believed to be caused primarily by chlorofluorocarbons — CFCs — see p. 36785 ) was increasing at the rate of 1.5 per cent a day ; the depletion largely occurred on a seasonal basis , with the ozone being replenished during summer months . |
| 4 | The government had dissociated itself from the coalition , but the Islamic and leftist opposition nevertheless capitalized on widespread anti-war feeling . |
| 5 | This is an important matter , particularly as it affects violence , and violence more perpetrated on the woman than on the man . |
| 6 | Labour yesterday put on the biggest gathering of the glitterati in the election campaign so far to underline its claim to be the party most famous people will vote for . |
| 7 | Oh it was a hard working night for all the women and the dances went on t four o'clock in the morning and a wedding nearly went on all night . |
| 8 | The Bush administration also moved on proposals for tax cuts , designed to appeal to middle-class voters hurt by the recession , and to counter a plan put forward by Senate finance committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen ( Democrat , Texas ) for tax cuts of $72,000 million over five years financed by a 5 per cent cut in defence spending . |
| 9 | In March Hedilla had talks not only with members of the Comunión Tradicionalista , but also with some of the supporters of the Alphonsine dynasty , whose political future also depended on the outcome of what was becoming a bitter , subterranean confrontation within the main conflict against the Republic . |
| 10 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 11 | DNA sequence recognition is achieved largely by hydrogen-bond contacts between the bases and amino-acid side chains located on a β -ribbon , a mode of recognition previously hypothesized on the basis of modelling of idealized β -strands and DNA , and mutagenesis of the Salmonella phage P22 repressors Arc and Mnt . |
| 12 | That division already existed on grounds of harsh military logic . |
| 13 | Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively . |
| 14 | One interesting case nevertheless arose on Tehran radio , in an excerpt from Communique No 47 of 25 September 1980 . |
| 15 | It is not surprising that Nizan 's gaze eventually alighted on the French communist party , a source of ideological certainty , a small community defending itself by rigid discipline against the fluidity , compromise and unreliability of centrist politics in Third Republic France . |
| 16 | All the work eventually fell on Gavin shoulders . |
| 17 | It seemed that the caretaker only came on fine days , so they were alone in the house . |
| 18 | Some light from the window above fell on her wispy hair and deeply lined face : even her closed eyelids were creased . |
| 19 | On the trains no problems , East Midlands Airport say everything 's running to time , in the city centre no huge delays anywhere , on the motorways they 're all okay as well , on the A One there 's major work just started on the roundabout , that 's the er five lanes end roundabout affecting southbound traffic , there are long delays there in peak times , that 's at er five lane ends , the work there on the A One just started , that 's the Roundabout , southbound traffic is being affected , there are long delays there . |
| 20 | At first , his mind dulled with sleep and wine , Cranston dared blankly but the significance of the friar 's discovery gradually dawned on him . |
| 21 | In the end , Sutton Council withdrew their support and no work ever started on the Mitcham — Sutton — Belmont route , except for the short stub , Mitcham Light Railway No. 2 . |
| 22 | Then she turned her attention to the tabby cat still spreadeagled on the back of the broom with its eyes screwed tightly shut and its claws gripping on for dear life . |
| 23 | Paulie always slept on his front and he 's alive to tell the tale unfortunately . |
| 24 | Clouds heaped higher in the west , but the sun still shone on the village . |
| 25 | He looked up with satisfaction at the panelling of the new box-beds — comfort and decency for all three of them , while others in the village still slept on the floor like beasts . |
| 26 | Later that day an Israeli soldier was killed and two others wounded during a clash with Hezbollah near Rashaf , a village also located on the northern edge of the " security zone " . |
| 27 | The one-off posters featuring slogans that became familiar parts of the electoral joust also appeared on a single billboard in south London for photo-opportunity launches . |
| 28 | Moreover , in Klerksdorp , some 150 km south-west of Johannesburg in the heart of rural Afrikanerdom , the council also voted on Jan. 30 to abolish racial trading barriers . |
| 29 | The committee also called on the government to formulate long-term fuel-pricing objectives in order to encourage industry to invest in energy-saving measures and thereby to reduce emissions . |
| 30 | ( BH ) RIGHT : Churchend Mill formerly stood on a site in use since at least the 14th century . |