Example sentences of "[vb past] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The houses were meticulously painted and rose on ten-foot stilts above the ground . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | At first TV drew on established reputations in the press ; later , the press wooed contributors from TV . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Nevertheless it requires separate assessment , not least because it drew on certain areas of experience not directly dominated by the monarch . |
11 | This tradition drew on diverse influences . |
12 | She drew on sensible boots and a warm woollen cape and called for the carriage to be brought round to the front . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | BC reported on continuing discussions with publishers on possible commercial publication of the Edinburgh Journal of Botany . |
15 | 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 ’ . |
16 | Comparison of their chemistry with that of magmas erupted on oceanic islands demonstrates the plumes differ chemically from the upper mantle . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | In prosecutions for many other crimes , for instance assault , testimony varied more because it built on actual incidents . |
19 | A rapist who preyed on blonde women is starting a life sentence for the murder of Austrailian heiress Janie Shepherd 13 years ago . |
20 | We were slowing down for lunch and lack of fitness , and after traversing 200 feet of horizontal ridge and tricky gendarmes , we found a terrace in the sun below the final flawless tower and sucked on soggy oranges . |
21 | E-selectin is up regulated on endothelial cells over a period of hours after stimulation by inflammatory mediators . |
22 | He concentrated on economic issues , especially on American colonial affairs . |
23 | While his journalism concentrated on international questions , Wolf also became an amateur historian of much distinction , mainly in the field of Anglo-Jewish history . |
24 | Those studies which concentrated on local-central relations ignored local politics because they saw local authorities as mere receptacles for central policy . |
25 | White House Chief of Staff John Sununu , to whom the President delegated much domestic policy responsibility while he concentrated on foreign affairs , came under strong conservative criticism . |
26 | Claudia reluctantly took her place while Myra concentrated on last-minute adjustments . |
27 | Nor could these problems be predicted from studies of the inherent confusability of the lexicon which concentrated on isolated words . |
28 | When the Japanese returned to investing in the 1960s , they first concentrated on Asian markets that had largely been ignored by earlier investors . |
29 | Leslie Henry concentrated on secondary sources that would give a bookseller the insight he or she might need on current and potential buyers . |
30 | The work for this group had been arranged on a large but highly specialised farm , which concentrated on growing bulbs , flowers and potatoes . |