Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Suddenly her attention was caught by the sight of a light utility truck parked on the roadside a short distance ahead — and as she drew nearer a man stepped from behind it and held up his hand . |
| 32 | Léonie perched on the cold wet edge of the white bath and leaned forwards . |
| 33 | This is the case at Gotherington in Gloucestershire , where examination of the present stream , in a straight gulley perched on the valleyside , led to the identification of an undocumented , previously unsuspected , water mill site . |
| 34 | The driver objected on the ground that he was averse to needles and that he had once fainted when giving a sample of blood . |
| 35 | If done correctly this should produce the snappy percussive effect heard on the record . |
| 36 | This year our Easter Course will take place from lunch time Tuesday 8th April until after tea on 12th April at Southlands College situated on the outskirts of Wimbledon ; set in pleasant rural surroundings , participants will be accommodated in Queensmere pictured here . |
| 37 | If they have , follow the guidance given on the form . |
| 38 | A woman in the UA baggage claims department checked on the computer , but could find no record of me . |
| 39 | For Adam Smith in 1776 , laying down the philosophical system which was to become the ideological underpinning of the market economy , they were the greatest obstruction placed on the movement of labour for they affected even common labour , while the regulations of guilds and corporations restricted the movement only of artisans . |
| 40 | Any plan for the future depended on the term of the girl 's life now ending , and neither could speak of that . |
| 41 | His mind fastened on the word . |
| 42 | FEARING his rights as a British citizen depended on the whim of government policy , he returned to Britain . |
| 43 | Head up into the wind with most of the weight placed on the back foot and a low crouched position . |
| 44 | It is not obvious , although it may be true , that the ideas that a causal circumstance made its effect happen , and explained it , and that the effect depended on the circumstance , somehow come to no more than these independent conditional claims . |
| 45 | Gustave did n't understand this , could n't see that my talent depended on the swift moment , the sudden feeling , the unexpected meeting : on life , that 's what I 'm saying . |
| 46 | The Science Department situated on the 2nd Floor of a three storey block was supplemented with two additional laboratories , including project and practical areas , by undertaking alterations to the 1st floor accommodation . |
| 47 | The stroke rate is controlled by squeezing the trigger , and a particular stroke rate can be pre-selected by turning a small thumb wheel situated on the trigger . |
| 48 | This is a book of a lifetime 's study undertaken on the Ythan Estuary near Aberdeen of a duck that is , in many respect , unusual . |
| 49 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal decision confirms that late applications can be allowed in notwithstanding the fact that the Applicant relied on the advice of a solicitor . |
| 50 | In the GCHQ case the House of Lords held that there was no general rule that prerogative powers were not subject to judicial review on grounds of reasonableness and fairness : whether any particular exercise of a prerogative power was subject to such review depended on the nature of the power in question and the circumstances in which it was exercised . |
| 51 | Sheets are usually 300mm ( 12in ) square , and are often sold in packs of five or 10 ; the best way of estimating quantities is to work out the area to be covered , and to divide that by the coverage figure given on the pack , which will tell you how many packs to buy . |
| 52 | The amount of delegation depended on the size and staffing of the districts , but there was a clear trend to greater delegation during the 1960s . |
| 53 | All unary operations ( such as negate ) are performed on the top element of the stack , and binary operations are performed on the top two elements of the stack ( after which they are removed ) and the result placed on the top of the stack . |
| 54 | The specific complex formed on the single stranded oligonucleotide was competed by the homologous double stranded species ( WT ) but not by the double stranded AP1 consensus sequence within the PPT promoter . |
| 55 | One of the early residents was a shepherd , who worked for the farmer who owned the farm on the hill behind the building , and the stock grazed on the open fields . |
| 56 | Each team lines up behind tape placed on the floor . |
| 57 | Both Strauss and Feuerbach in effect fastened on the hinge of Hegel 's system — the identification of finite and Infinite Mind — and , having grasped it , turned it upside down . |
| 58 | The research undertaken on the two case studies was highly cost-effective ( £3-4,000 per 50-100 researchers ) in contrast to the co-citation and co-word studies , and resulted in clear demonstrations of the contributions made by the UK , and constituent research centres , to Ocean Currents and Protein Crystallography over time . |
| 59 | Although John 's percentage cut depended on the total amount collected , it was known that he never harassed tax debtors , indeed , anyone with genuine difficulty in paying was likely to be entertained to lunch at Henrietta Villa by the sympathetic Comptroller . |
| 60 | Unable to return to his seat , too scared even to hide in the toilets , he had hovered in the shadows by the door for a long time until he spotted Sweetheart climbing from a car parked on the other side of the street . |