Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard-faced , eclectic and distinctly dance-friendly , DF 118 are Pop Will Eat Itself on bad drugs , Big Audio Dynamite with a ring of low-rent authenticity and much more besides . |
| 2 | The white-bearded campaigner prided himself on blunt , outspoken views . |
| 3 | High-speed lifts land you on manicured pistes after well-disciplined and good-tempered queueing : ‘ After you . |
| 4 | To begin with Gyggle tried me on sensory deprivation . |
| 5 | In some cases , again , his links with the local gentry can be inferred only from his readiness to use them on sensitive business after 1483 . |
| 6 | In some cases , again , his links with the local gentry can be inferred only from his readiness to use them on sensitive business after 1483 . |
| 7 | Yakovlev observed that state publications for 1922 from Gosizdat and Krasnaia Nov' included nothing on agricultural and rural affairs . |
| 8 | if you record your check lists keep them on separate tapes and correctly labelled , so that you can easily find what you want . |
| 9 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 10 | This may lead those who would otherwise oppose the practice to defend it on cultural grounds . |
| 11 | However , when the researchers reached the shop floor they discovered that robots were far too expensive for management to waste them on unskilled jobs . |
| 12 | Ways of maintaining and improving communications include : a ) establishing a management structure within the Partnership , with clear lines of communication into the schools and into employment ; b ) circulating minutes of management meetings to schools and employers so they know what is being discussed and what is being decided ; c ) bringing teachers and employers together at both Partnership and school level to plan , discuss and review the progress of the Compact ; d ) establishing School Compact Teams with regular meetings ; e ) circulating Compact documents , including such things as pupils ' Work Experience reports widely ; f ) holding Open Evenings for parents to brief them on Compact developments ; g ) producing a regular Compact Newsletter . |
| 13 | Daniel wanted Elisabeth to accompany him on medieval instruments when he had his repertoire of early songs ready to perform . |
| 14 | In summer these are carried inland in sea spray ; in winter impregnated snow from the sea ice deposits them on coastal rocks and snowdrifts . |
| 15 | Both the men in expensive suits meet me on big-suited territory . |
| 16 | Finally , another academic justified it on motivational and cognitive grounds : |
| 17 | Martin takes them on unamplified , and after about an hour 's struggle , wins the day handsomely . |
| 18 | Evidence for this comes from the fact that the ambivalent expression does not seem to be confined to a limited range of situations , in which individuals find themselves on public display , especially to an audience from a higher social class or more advanced educational attainment . |
| 19 | In April 1988 the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales appointed a Working Group to advise them on appropriate attainment targets and programmes of study for English . |
| 20 | ensure that all telephone messages reach you on proper telephone message pads and ensure that your message takers are trained |
| 21 | But it was n't easy to lose puppy fat when Mum fed her on stodgy good home cooking — stews with dumplings and meat pies with pastry crusts and steamed sponge puddings , and there was no money to spare for proper hairdressing salons . |
| 22 | It would be a chance to see her on neutral ground , maybe even a chance to explain that it was n't his bloody fault that Laura had shown up at the door only seconds before she herself had . |
| 23 | They would also remove any personal belongings which were removable and next day place them on prominent display , according to Polperro 's Quiller Couch , ‘ … to disclose the disgraceful want of vigilance supposed to characterise the owner ’ . |
| 24 | Villagers have fallen into the role of waiting for the nurse to cure their sicknesses , the agricultural extension worker to apply the latest gardening technique and government officers to inform them on political developments . |
| 25 | De Gaulle wanted first for the Commission to end the pretence that it was a potential European government , and also its efforts to impose itself on national governments ; and second that if the Treaty of Rome requirements about majority voting were to apply , they should not be permitted to do so in situations where a member state deemed its vital interests to be at risk . |
| 26 | Only one person managed it on public transport . |
| 27 | I 'm positively not the person to advise anyone on cut-price marine systems or to encourage the idea that it is possible not to compromise such principles by going down market . |
| 28 | One of Reith 's first actions as Minister of Works was to appoint a panel of consultants to advise him on post-war planning . |
| 29 | He led a march of several hundred miners and their supporters through Barnsley in South Yorkshire , and urged other trade unionists to join them on other days of action to defend coal , as well as jobs in other industries . |
| 30 | HAMISH BOWLES met her on Long Island |