Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely had we had the profits last year which would have generated taxable profits then we would n't have needed to have done that , so that 's one reason why it was not disclosed on floatations at the time and floatation was not regarded as an asset . |
| 2 | In 1959–60 intermediate range ballistic missiles were located on sites in Turkey pending the development of reliable American ICBMs . |
| 3 | Retirement relief could not be claimed on disposals before 6 April 1985 unless the individual concerned had reached the age of 60 . |
| 4 | Tokens of this vowel varied on dimensions of height , backness , rounding and length . |
| 5 | We also know that alcohol is the single most important cause of violence , not just directly , but also through the abuse committed on children by violently drunk parents . |
| 6 | It was also agreed that the same card could be used to operate the locks which have already been installed on doors within the foyer , although not so far activated . |
| 7 | The area covered by the old Ordinance Survey Sheet 145 is now included on parts of the new 1:50 000 scale series , Sheets 151 , 152 , 164 and 165 . |
| 8 | The apparent indecision was blamed on difficulties in working out travel arrangements for her to make the return trip to Scotland in one day . |
| 9 | The sharp decline was blamed on fears over the falling yen and over-valued stock prices on the Tokyo stock exchange . |
| 10 | This was counterbalanced by decline in government and defence revenues , and in computing and electronics , blamed on cutbacks by hardware manufacturers . |
| 11 | What is important here is the fact that even shared opposition to council housing ( manifest in petitions ) is usually blamed on incomers to an area . |
| 12 | A lot can be blamed on years of dictatorship and rotten planning — but not all . |
| 13 | When my father arrived there , Addis Ababa consisted of a series of scattered villages grouped on hillsides with open , uncultivated spaces in between . |
| 14 | The lectures in 1871 were from E. J. Reed ( chief constructor of the navy ) on 10 February , on the stability of ironclads following the loss of HMS Captain ; then on 3 March Captain Noble , FRS , late of the Royal Artillery , reported on experiments on the power of gunpowder , some of them carried out with William Armstrong , the armaments manufacturer ; and on 12 May Colonel Drummond Jervois of the Royal Engineers spoke on the defence policy of Great Britain . |
| 15 | So , in this study , the more able children added on steps in addition at 3 to 5 times the speed of the less able children . |
| 16 | Perched on bonnets of cars , smoking and chattering non-stop , they were getting high on tins of diet Coke . |
| 17 | Rozanov and I on another extraordinarily fine autumn morning , perched on stools in a grimy Soho café . |
| 18 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |
| 19 | Wilcox led her up a twisted and worn steel staircase to a prefabricated office perched on stilts in the middle of the building , and introduced her to the general manager , Tom Rigby , who looked her up and down once and then ignored her . |
| 20 | There were other dragons — gold , silver , black , white-flapping across the sun-shafted air on errands of their own or perched on outcrops of rock . |
| 21 | Her joy perched on trees above her head , laughed at her , flew away . |
| 22 | Apparently Ziegfeld spied on rehearsals by watching through a peephole in the wall . |
| 23 | They were all sat on boxes in front of the Family Stand , making sure toddlers did n't stage a mass sit-down protest on the pitch . |
| 24 | He told us terrible tales of people being crushed in crowds , of school finances being wasted on unnecessary floor cleaning bills and of ‘ softies ’ who needed seats when there was a perfectly good floor to sit on ( all the teachers were sat on chairs around the edge of the sports hall at this point , but I do n't think they took it personally ) . |
| 25 | Such pluralism as did occur was excused on grounds of the poverty of one or both livings . |
| 26 | By contrast , wind-dispersed species in a Mexican study normally fruited during the dry season , producing a large amount of seeds , which were simultaneously dispersed on days with low relative humidities . |
| 27 | Immediately outside the ozone-depleted zone is often found a crescent-shaped region of ozone-rich air which accentuates the image of an ozone ‘ hole ’ as depicted on maps of Antarctic ozone concentration ( figure 6.7 ) . |
| 28 | Some are omitted on grounds of scarcity . |
| 29 | Any observant traveller who moves from the snow-tipped Himalayas in the North to the sun-soaked sands of Cape Comorin at India 's southern tip , will encounter — particularly in the rural areas and at sacred centres of pilgrimage wherever Siva , God of both Divine Wisdom and regeneration , is the presiding Deity — the serpent motif sculptured within shrines , impressed on myriads of stone implants in the ground and depicted in art . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |