Example sentences of "[vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven projects were funded under this initiative ; three focussed on multilingual education whilst the other four were concerned with the relationship of ethnic minority pupils with their white counterparts , their teachers and the organisational structure of schools . |
| 2 | At 1988/89 rates ( Home Office , 1990b , p. 110 ) , it cost on average £288 per week to keep an offender in custody , compared with £19 per week to supervise an offender on probation ; yet the Home Office acknowledge : ‘ It is hard to show any effect that one type of sentence is more likely than any other to reduce the likelihood of reoffending , which is high for all ’ ( p. 7 ) . |
| 3 | as if this were n't enough , we bounced on oversized ball , wielded staves for posture , learnt national dances and songs , explored the mediaeval charms of Coburg and neighbouring Bamberg or wallowed in the thermal baths of Rodach — and of course consumed enormous and excellent meals at the college , supplemented with German cakes in the town ( not to mention German wine … — . |
| 4 | It bounced on initial impact and came to rest inverted . |
| 5 | Not as good as yesterday evening when I dined on roast chicken , not very well cooked , but certainly much better than this homely fare . |
| 6 | We dined on spicy fish which repeated on me for most of the evening in the Jac , meeting pals , until I drowned it in an ocean of beer . |
| 7 | The houses were meticulously painted and rose on ten-foot stilts above the ground . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Although 1988 was characterised by a freer , more open intellectual atmosphere , it was clear that the Party still held ultimate authority and would not tolerate criticism that bordered on political dissent . |
| 10 | A strange band , they rode a jazzy musical offshoot which often bordered on directionless experimentalism . |
| 11 | stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ The Graces dwelt on ev'ry Limb : |
| 14 | It is so similar to the language that he used on previous timetable motions that I do not know why he does not take a tape and mime to it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | At first TV drew on established reputations in the press ; later , the press wooed contributors from TV . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Marx , too , drew on comparative material in support of his theory of the inevitable march of history from primitive communism , through feudalism and capitalism , to the ultimate stage of post-revolutionary communism . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nevertheless it requires separate assessment , not least because it drew on certain areas of experience not directly dominated by the monarch . |
| 22 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 23 | Eugenists drew on recent research by the German biologist August Weismann to claim that the germ cells which controlled reproduction were distinct and independent of body or somatic cells . |
| 24 | This tradition drew on diverse influences . |
| 25 | She drew on sensible boots and a warm woollen cape and called for the carriage to be brought round to the front . |
| 26 | Mrs Burgwin , headmistress of the Orange Street School in Southwark , told the Royal Commission which reported on elementary school education in 1888 that : |
| 27 | CW reported on successful installation of software on new Admin file server . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | BC reported on continuing discussions with publishers on possible commercial publication of the Edinburgh Journal of Botany . |
| 30 | On the facing page , however , under the headline ‘ Acid Burned a Hole in my Genes ’ , Joe Meltz reported on American research — later discredited — suggesting that LSD caused chromosomal damage , and It followed that up with a two-page ‘ Acid Report ’ . |