Example sentences of "[vb pp] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conventional artwork for presentation graphics will be made up using typesetting , instant lettering or any of the other methods that allow text and graphics to be mixed on a page . |
| 2 | A Christmas stocking — no , a pair of red tights , actually — filled up to here with pound notes that we 'd won on a strawberry roan named Cordelia . |
| 3 | However , the Irishman countered well and with the scores at eight each the Dubliner eventually won on a count back of 30–28 . |
| 4 | On 28 September , debate was reopened on a Declaration on the Jews , a topic postponed at the end of the second session and , between times , distinctly watered down by the Theological Commission . |
| 5 | BEER tipped on a member of the audience is not everyone 's idea of art , let alone a joke . |
| 6 | He was saddened by the degeneration of soccer , a sport he genuinely loved , suffering first-hand when he was attacked on a train at Leamington Spa . |
| 7 | The climbers dined on a cornucopia of fresh fruits , meat , cream , cake and ale , cooked by the enormous basecamp staff . |
| 8 | Any retrospective rule change would place a question mark over the reselections of Mr George Galloway in Glasgow Hillhead and Mr Ron Brown in Edinburgh Leith , who were both nominated on a majority of trade union votes . |
| 9 | A good example of a large multi-national company organised on a matrix structure is UNILEVER , best known in the UK for its subsidiary Lever Bros , the soap and detergent manufacturer . |
| 10 | Similarly , Italian unions have never been organised on a craft or occupational basis ( apart from a few exceptional cases ) . |
| 11 | Centralised systems of education are organised on a system of ‘ top-down management ’ . |
| 12 | adaptation to change ( development of new products and new markets , or meeting environmental ‘ threats ’ ) should be organised on a task basis ; |
| 13 | In-house Assessment and Financial Management Training has been organised on a District basis for February , March ( 2.5 days and 2 days respectively per District ) . |
| 14 | The Centre 's research is organised on a team and cross-team basis to ensure high levels of integration in the design and operational stages of the research project . |
| 15 | The power stations may be cooled by an open circuit , when located on a river or by the sea , or by a closed circuit with a cooling tower , or again , as at Chinon , to meet environmental conditions , by forced draught . |
| 16 | Built in the revivalist Gothic style , popular in the Victorian period as a Board school , they are located on a rise in the manner of the medieval churches the architecture celebrates . |
| 17 | The centre is located on a cliff top above Widemouth Bay in grounds of ten acres . |
| 18 | Nisbet maintains that these five strategies represent the range of possibilities and that they can each be located on a spectrum , the poles of which can be described as ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ . |
| 19 | PAGE is always located on a page boundary ( every 256 bytes ) . |
| 20 | The site is located on a peat bog which needed to be compressed and filled before construction could begin . |
| 21 | Strictly speaking I 'm not occupied on a case at the moment , and this is quite unofficial . |
| 22 | Clearly , the mill must have been rebuilt on a number of occasions , becoming known from the 1850s as Severn Mill . |
| 23 | She lives in a house owned on a mortgage with four bedrooms and a large garden . |
| 24 | Her home — owned on a mortgage — is still in the process of being ‘ done up ’ : some rooms gleam with newly stripped floorboards and pristine white walls , while others have barely been touched . |
| 25 | The concho-spiral is a logarithmic spiral wound on a cone . |
| 26 | The foil was wound on a supply spool from which it was fed over a flat surface on to a take-up spool at a speed proportional to time . |
| 27 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 28 | Tenant farmers with a year 's rent arrears might be evicted on a fortnight 's notice . |
| 29 | As a rough approximation the Earth 's present magnetic field can be represented by a regular dipolar pattern ( similar to that produced when a bar magnet is held beneath iron filings scattered on a sheet of paper ) . |
| 30 | There are similar pieces of paving stone scattered on a portion of your boatyard property . ’ |