Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past year , for instance , doctoral candidates have successfully completed theses on the acquisition of English as a foreign language by speakers of German , the teaching of advanced writing skills in English for specific purposes , and the stylistics of narrative fiction . |
| 2 | On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 . |
| 3 | Please make sure that you only have one clear circled point on the scale for every person . ’ |
| 4 | What a wonderful and thrilling finale there was to that match , as McEnroe held and then lost three match points , saved three against him , and then eventually claimed victory on his sixth match point . |
| 5 | However , properly targeted research on young males , particularly those from disadvantaged ethnic groups , which considers both the meaning and duration of unemployment … has yet to be done ’ . |
| 6 | Save as provided in regulation 36 of these regulations , no person , being a motor trader and the holder of a trade vehicle , shall use any mechanically propelled vehicle on a public road by virtue of that licence unless it is a vehicle which is temporarily in his possession in the course of his business as a motor trader or a recovery vehicle kept by him for the purpose of dealing with disabled vehicles in the course of that business . |
| 7 | Save as provided in the said regulation 36 and without derogation from the provisions of the last preceding paragraph of this regulation , no person , being a motor trader and the holder of a trade licence , shall use any mechanically propelled vehicle on a public road by virtue of that licence for a purpose other than a business purpose and other than one of the following purposes : |
| 8 | But their ideas had only limited influence on the way games were played and understood by the mass of manual workers . |
| 9 | Compared with lifestyle and environment health services have only limited impact on life expectancy and health |
| 10 | In fact , it was an ‘ A ’ team player who helped them towards a good victory over highly placed Malshanger on Wednesday last week . |
| 11 | He lied about his address and so received methadone on a maintenance basis . |
| 12 | Churchmen had long admonished monarchs on their duties to God and people , and some kings had made church aims their own . |
| 13 | The swan was once a highly regarded delicacy on the Christmas table . |
| 14 | the Secretary of State still had to announce his long awaited decision on the Brynhenllys Inquiry and he rejected British Coal 's appeal for a large site at Pwll Du . |
| 15 | The annual General Household Survey has only included questions on cohabitation since 1979 and estimates suggest that the proportion of women aged 18 to 49 years cohabiting has doubled from 3 per cent in 1979 to 6 per cent in 1987 . |
| 16 | The majority only attended sessions on one occasion . |
| 17 | Collective security necessarily imposed obligations on all nation states , powerful and weak alike , to respect each other 's separate identity and autonomy , and to sanction any member who failed to respect such obligations . |
| 18 | Companies that set up their regional headquarters in Singapore are only taxed 10% on income from approved services , including trading in foreign exchange and offshore investments . |
| 19 | A ‘ classic approach ’ implies a static , long-established , well-recognised and highly valued approach on which particular policies in the future may be based . |
| 20 | ‘ I naturally believe that the financial profits of the drug-suppliers are offensive , ’ Ellen said , ‘ which is why I 've only used cocaine on a handful of occasions . |
| 21 | We 've all got money on it , ’ said Dancer . |
| 22 | We had to hire a dress , and I was the only one who was pale ; they had all got tans on a sunbed . |
| 23 | And Gharr grinned his gleaming , toothy grin , and took Mala and the Gharrgoyles off to a suddenly vacated table on the far side of the place . |
| 24 | The following month , with the broad constitutional position of the RAC settled , Jacques and Hickson swiftly reached agreement on the outstanding administrative and procedural details . |
| 25 | This action is , of course , in direct contravention of the BMC 's much vaunted policy on where and how bolts may be placed , which places an absolute ban on bolting on any gritstone crag . |
| 26 | General Hawley had only reached Edinburgh on 6 January , and having built up his strength , wrote optimistically of ‘ driving the rascally scum out of Stirling ’ . |
| 27 | This was to be my first climb on ‘ real rock , ’ as I had only experienced exercises on short problems in an old gritstone quarry during the previous winter . |
| 28 | Bishop 's Castle Railway employees were able to travel at a much reduced rate on all railways in the British Isles . |
| 29 | The revised Defence plan , with its greatly reduced demands on manpower and its emphasis on highly trained mobile forces , now makes it possible to contemplate putting the Services on to an all-regular basis ; and the Government will endeavour to bring about this change as soon as practicable . |
| 30 | The much praised reduction on inflation only brought Britain back into line with the OECD average and in 1989 was again above it . |