Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some theorize that income distribution is mainly a result of government action ( wage policy , taxation , etc. ) while per capita income is mainly a result of transnational forces ( for example , the price that exports bring on the world market ) . |
| 2 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 3 | There was a dining-room , its vast table formed of two carved stone pillars supporting a smoked-glass top , and there was a bedroom with a display of silver-topped toilet jars , and a fragile lacy négligé hanging on the door . |
| 4 | Suddenly the memory of the négligé hanging on the door in Luke 's house and Elise 's painting in the corridor outside his room struck a chill . |
| 5 | Sometimes it is possible to decide what particular activities bring on an attack of giddiness . |
| 6 | Both the bid for Channel Five and plans for the new Teleport to be operated at South Gyle , carrying signals for both Television and Telecommunications via satellite , cable and fibre optic lines , are well advanced and require the continued integration of technologies to carry on the task of promoting Edinburgh as a centre of excellence in the new media . |
| 7 | ‘ To this end we are pursuing NAMAS accreditation with all due speed and determination and expect to have the certificate hanging on the way by August 1993 . ’ |
| 8 | I am not sure about the precise details , but I do believe than when Great-Grandfather Tallentire became old and decided to retire he refused to allow his sons to carry on the licence . |
| 9 | She hesitated momentarily before she said , ‘ I hope it will be someone with sons to carry on the property . |
| 10 | The benefit of planning permission to carry on a business from premises is normally lost by a subsequent change of use of those premises . |
| 11 | ‘ He heard there was someone senior in the neighbourhood and saw it as a golden opportunity to pass on the responsibility . ’ |
| 12 | From the top drawer of her chest-of-drawers she took a pad and went to fetch her biro from the handbag hanging on the back of the door . |
| 13 | Leave a crust of blood hanging on the nails |
| 14 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 15 | ARSENAL manager George Graham has been given the green light to go on a Christmas spending spree . |
| 16 | The scene is before me as I write , the garden with its sun-warmed walls , the last of the black cherries hanging on the tree , the sky webbed with long pink clouds . |
| 17 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 18 | You start , as I said , with the claw weight hanging on the edge of the knitting . |
| 19 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 20 | Margaret Llewelyn Davies was adamant that in no circumstances would the Guild surrender its independence and the branches raised sufficient funds to carry on the Guild 's work until a compromise was reached four years later . |
| 21 | Glen resigned from Annan in November 1816 ; his discouragement was partly caused by the friction created in trying to raise sufficient funds to carry on the work of the congregation . |
| 22 | Mr Patten played Cinderella last night and cancelled a private engagement to carry on the polishing while Margaret went to the Blue Ball . |
| 23 | And how are the weights carried on the weight cloth ? |
| 24 | A great deal hung on the relationship participants were able to establish , and in this any status differential could prove problematic . |
| 25 | All readers hang on a minute Careto Profaine good stuff . |
| 26 | The sun has warmed the walls of the garden , the cherries hang on the tree . |
| 27 | The report comes as the Department of Trade and Industry takes on the tasks of the now defunct Department of Energy . |
| 28 | In a leather purse hung on the handle of the loft door were eight bright shillings . |
| 29 | I do remember seeing two — maybe three — cars pass on the Silcaster road , but I did n't notice anything shown up in their headlights . ’ |
| 30 | Over the sink at the other end there was a shelf with cups , saucers , and plates ; a saucepan hung on a hook and there was a kettle on the oil stove . |