Example sentences of "[vb past] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cries rose on all sides of her as she filled the dishes , but she worked on steadily oblivious , like some eccentric female St Francis , brooding a little about the image seen in the vicarage garden , which , although it had turned out to be only an old cloth flung over a tree stump , was an indication of the way things might go . |
| 2 | The houses were meticulously painted and rose on ten-foot stilts above the ground . |
| 3 | They walked to the lake where there were two pairs of ducks , mallards with feathers as if painted in iridescent green , and from which a heron rose on gaunt wings , its legs dangling . |
| 4 | There was a blur of activity and the sandwich rose on three pairs of legs . |
| 5 | stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees |
| 6 | And a syllabus which defines its content in functional terms is supposed to account for communicative competence in a way which syllabuses designed on other principles can not . |
| 7 | To instruct any solicitorappointed on all matters relevant to the child 's interests , including the possibilities for appeal , unless the child wishes to give conflicting instructions and has sufficient understanding to do so . |
| 8 | Depreciation should be ( a ) calculated on the same basis as in the audited accounts for the year to 31 December , 1989 , and ( b ) charged on all assets on a monthly basis , with no upward revaluation of assets in the year and with due regard being paid to the carrying value of any assets and the length of the asset 's expected useful economic life to the Business , having due regard to the incidence of obsolescence and future requirements of the Business . |
| 9 | Athelstan cursed in some of the language Cranston used on such occasions . |
| 10 | First , all the evidence that is available shows that the expansion of the social services did not so much rely on the workers made redundant from the industrial sector but rather it drew on new sources of labour — mainly women . |
| 11 | At first TV drew on established reputations in the press ; later , the press wooed contributors from TV . |
| 12 | Post-war architects , amongst whom Frederick Gibberd was soon prominent , popularized a style which drew on many influences . |
| 13 | Her faith in him was severely tested later , especially in 1908 and again in 1913 ; but she drew on deep reservoirs of resilience until the anxieties of his last year as a soldier began to sap her energies as housekeeper , mother , and gardener . |
| 14 | But in fashioning his movement , Baden-Powell skilfully wove together any number of the political questions that preoccupied his contemporaries , and the movement 's spectacular growth drew on deep funds of social anxiety — anxieties which invariably settled around the excessive liberty allowed to young people and the attendant demoralisation which was , in turn , linked to a newly perceived upsurge in crime and violence among the young . |
| 15 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it requires separate assessment , not least because it drew on certain areas of experience not directly dominated by the monarch . |
| 17 | We drew on these aspects in developing our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study . |
| 18 | This tradition drew on diverse influences . |
| 19 | She drew on sensible boots and a warm woollen cape and called for the carriage to be brought round to the front . |
| 20 | He also reported on eight occasions where departments had spent more than the sums authorised by Parliament and had incurred excess votes . |
| 21 | William Brautigan outlined the good progress being made by the church book stall , Peter Fitzmaurice reported on social events and Muriel Brautigan gave details as to the use of a £1,500 charitable donation and outlined arrangements for the next Deanery Pilgrimage , which will be to Bath on May 27th . |
| 22 | BC reported on continuing discussions with publishers on possible commercial publication of the Edinburgh Journal of Botany . |
| 23 | This could be demonstrated explicitly or via an audit report which was exception-based , i.e. it reported on any instances where the law was contravened . |
| 24 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 25 | The pier is small , the cottages few and tidily arranged , the little beaches a delight for pebble collectors , the bay a narrow inlet of Loch Torridon landlocked on three sides by gaunt grey hills , and only the cry of seabirds disturbs the silence . |
| 26 | Comparison of their chemistry with that of magmas erupted on oceanic islands demonstrates the plumes differ chemically from the upper mantle . |
| 27 | The filaments on the underside of barnacles were found to resemble the bird 's feathers , so it was assumed the goose emerged half-grown from the barnacles clustered on floating logs . |
| 28 | In prosecutions for many other crimes , for instance assault , testimony varied more because it built on actual incidents . |
| 29 | Er , we built on those sectors , during the er , past year with the initial uncertainty on the B Sky B situation er , we have been managing erm , our way through the recession , you 've heard from Frank er , about the er , immediate short term measures we 've taken . |
| 30 | A rapist who preyed on blonde women is starting a life sentence for the murder of Austrailian heiress Janie Shepherd 13 years ago . |