Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once level with deserted stone croft down on left , take small gate on left ( the second passed ) down to croft ( d ) , by which turn right on track and follow for 2 miles ( e ) . |
| 2 | I was very bad at gym , and really hated ‘ apparatus ’ , where we hurled ourselves over boxes and horses , or hung upside down on parallel bars . |
| 3 | Halve artichokes lengthways and place cut side down on absorbent paper . |
| 4 | With pie diagrams indicating that the major pop consumers are the staid , over-25s , the development in the ad industry of ‘ psychogeographics ’ ( the science of using pop to home in on specific taste publics — i.e. Springsteen fans are likely to desire different products from Whitney Houston fans ) , and the construction of bands in the studio , pop has never required less urgently a rush of theory from the ‘ left ’ . |
| 5 | But whereas Futurism had been to a large extent aimed at and against Paris and Parisian painting , the Germans were content to remain on the receiving end of things and their work , in the pre-war years at least , had little or no influence back on French art . |
| 6 | Left along road ( ignore signpost after 200 yds for footpath to Glen Coe ( a ) ) for 300 yds , then across road-bridge , then turn left ( no path ) and follow contour of hill round , with stream down on left . |
| 7 | ‘ When it 's really flaming away and it 's the wood burning and not the Paraffin , then you put the lid back on loose , It may be that you 've over-filled , which is fine . |
| 8 | In 1645 , after a brief interval back on parliamentary committees , he was sent to Ireland with his regiment and named governor of county Louth and of Dundalk and a commissioner for Ireland . |
| 9 | Good old Nick , I thought , now I 've got my old job back on direct account of him . |
| 10 | There will also be a 25pc discount on repair and contract work and 20pc cash back on flood-damaged white goods . |
| 11 | ICL has been dallying with the prospect of putting its OfficePower office automation suite up on alien platforms for at least two years . |
| 12 | Dully punching Lucy 's old number , slamming the phone down on unattainable . |
| 13 | Try to imagine , if you will , the ferocity of the reaction in the West if it had been Saddam Hussein who had poured napalm down on Kurdish villages three weeks ago ! |
| 14 | In addition , 88open says that software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 15 | In addition , 88open says software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 16 | Commander Whitehead , a jovial , dashing , red-bearded figure with a Homburg and a briefcase , cheerfully splashing tonic water about on convivial occasions , looked too good to be true . |
| 17 | Clough is also thinking of offering Sheffield Wednesday some of their money back on out-of-favour £800,000 striker Nigel Jemson . |
| 18 | This eventually leads up steps and reaches signpost before bridge down on left ( do not cross ) 3 . |
| 19 | The players of this Hungarian ensemble , formed in 1985 , use period instruments tuned to A=421 , nearly a semitone down on modern concert pitch . |
| 20 | A third alliance with a still unidentified company next month should give it a leg up on high-performance transaction processing and multi-processing . |
| 21 | Just to firm up on final |
| 22 | Borland International Inc has formalised its agreement with Epson Sales , the marketing subsidiary of Seiko Epson Co , for the sale and technology licensing of a Japanese version of InterBase 3.2 — at Borland 's Tokyo announcement of InterBase last December , Epson was already demonstrating InterBase and the first release of InterBase JA3.2 is on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , available from April 12 ; Borland plans to put the Japanese version of the database up on other machines ; the Japanese version supports a number of new functions including distributed databases , active data processing — functions such as triggers and event alerters — language support ( including support for both JIS and EUC codes sets ) and binary large objects ; Borland in conjunction with Epson Sales and its systems integration subsidiary Trans Abel , is to set up a Borland Authorised Support Centre for education and training . |
| 23 | If one is brave enough to try the draft out on critical , expert colleagues , one can be reasonably sure that what emerges at the end will be free of double questions , ambiguities , leading questions , and so on , and the helpful colleagues , in pretending to be informants , will also probably have thought up some difficult-to-classify answers too . |
| 24 | Informix says it 'll have its database software up on Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha AXP next month — the stuff is out now on Solaris 2.1 under Sparc . |
| 25 | If it were true , why am I , as responsible Minister , spending £567 million of taxpayers ' money over the current public expenditure survey round on regional policy ? |
| 26 | In the final essay in On Human Conduct , however , he turns his attention to the question of the place which this ideal character occupies as a practical engagement in history . |
| 27 | And the poor owd boy put his hat back on sheepish like and watched the fly zooming about the smithy , giving us a look as the same time . |