Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er so that 's er I stopped on six months , being an orderly , because I could n't go back into tailoring , obviously , because er it might have aggravated it all again . |
| 2 | ‘ Have I stumbled on some dark and desperate secret ? ’ |
| 3 | What I done on that night was no more than any other police officer does or would do in the same situation . |
| 4 | Or so I believe , and thus have I argued on numerous occasions in the past . |
| 5 | Nairn , as a holiday resort , has the name ‘ the Rye of the North ’ , and along the shore and near the golf clubs — one of them built on that land donated by David Thomson 's great-uncle — people park caravans hoping for mildness from the Moray Firth . |
| 6 | Following Emily in , he found himself surrounded on all sides by sagging shelves bearing rusty paint tins ; jam jars containing stubby brushes ; bottles half full of amber fluid , and oil cans . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a humiliating thought , but true , ’ wrote one of them , the educational reformer J. H. Pestalozzi , ‘ that any advance in the good leadership of people must proceed from the cabinets of monarchs ’ ; and he himself acted on this thought by offering his services to the Habsburg emperors Joseph II and Leopold II . |
| 8 | Nevertheless it is an utterance of the Amis who has made himself known on other occasions , and it can be none the worse for being read by those who are able and disposed to pay intelligent attention to this range of information — which is not to imply that the information may not be disastrously misunderstood . |
| 9 | The radicalism of his campaign for state investment owed nothing to latent dissent over economic theory , for neo-classical economics could accommodate public works and Keynes himself remained on orthodox disciple of Marshall . |
| 10 | ( However , Marchais himself declared on French television on April 10 , 1990 , that he and his party had been " duped " over the years by communist leaders in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe . ) |
| 11 | Planning teams developing materials in a local area can have them produced on high quality equipment , and the materials can be available to others who may find them useful at minimal cost . |
| 12 | Oh she got any , what has she got on that trolley ? |
| 13 | ‘ How much have you got on that chip , Marco ? ’ |
| 14 | In a year , how much have you spent on philatelic magazines ? |
| 15 | ‘ Have you put on some weight ? ’ |
| 16 | The boys obviously like you so perhaps you could show your wife that a relationship with them based on mutual love and respect is far more likely to give better results . |
| 17 | An alternative to making yield calculations based on average life is to make them based on equivalent life . |
| 18 | Had we relied on public sector finance , it would have been another century before we had such an opportunity for British industry , with all the infrastructure back-up that will flow from it . |
| 19 | so what had , so what had we got on this morning |
| 20 | After dinner we all sat in the lounge , the camp supplied wine and Jerry supplied Scotch so we had a few drinks and said our farewells for the night and then back to our cabins were we slept on good mattresses . |
| 21 | This is , of course , symptomatic of the rapid move over the past few years away from a consensus-based approach to education policy making towards one based on central autonomy . |
| 22 | The LAFS system , for example , transforms a tree of phonemic descriptions into one based on spectral representations of diphones . |
| 23 | It is hard to see what Britain would have to gain by exchanging her political system for one based on Continental theory and philosophy . |
| 24 | This is closer to the optimality theory than to one based on straightforward mutation accumulation . |
| 25 | One based on lower interest rates is the best hope . |
| 26 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of the time necessary to switch from the current system for collecting national insurance to one based on annual assessment . |
| 27 | In either case the human intervention must be a very high level one based on complex diagnosis and innovative design-type thinking about how best to cope so as to avoid a catastrophe . |
| 28 | there 's one based at County Hall and if you 're from the Nottingham Arnold area there 's one based on Front Street at Arnold . |
| 29 | The process of managing the transition from a conventional manufacturing operation to one based on high-performance system concepts was critical to the success of the approach . |
| 30 | Because the social structure in the villages was one based on patriarchal families , where the daughter is invariably given away in marriage , and where , because a woman 's chief economic role is as a producer of labour power ( her sons ) she is not considered of any real economic value before she is married . |