Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | University lecturers come out on strike |
| 2 | Artillery shells slammed down on Sarajevo , sometimes at the rate of one a minute , as rebel Serb tanks and infantry attacked Bosnian defenders in the strategic western suburbs of Stup and Azici . |
| 3 | According to the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , British industry risks losing out on the business opportunities opened up by the need for new equipment to assess and control environmental problems . |
| 4 | Mice are not clockwork mice running around on a course which is the predictable inevitable consequence of some internal machinery . |
| 5 | They had no subsistence plots to fall back on , some tried reviving traditional handicrafts but these could not compete with the manufactured goods that had been made available by the market system . |
| 6 | Persian forces crossed the river Araxes in mid-July 1826 and forced Russia 's frontier troops to fall back on the Georgian capital of Tiflis ( Tbilisi ) . |
| 7 | Binoculars revealed a low quay against the dark sand , and off to one side figures standing about on a bare slope with piles of baggage . |
| 8 | She stared at the car lights going by on the ceiling and thought about her Diary and wondered how much they would pay her for it . |
| 9 | brakes pads push out on the brake drum . |
| 10 | FAR RIGHT : A camp inmate lies face down on his bed to show his emaciated body , ribs pushing against his skin |
| 11 | Then the contact became closer as Japanese national and club sides zeroed in on New Zealand as a convenient training area . |
| 12 | They the da the harbour master 's men at the lock gates came out on strike . |
| 13 | Is it possible now , given the huge weight of academic ideology and the interests of the research councils bearing down on it , to inject an educational dimension into the work of the research student ? |
| 14 | Appeal courts emphasise that the discretion is vested in the court of first instance and are reluctant to interfere ; first instance judges fall back on issues such as that of the burden of proof . |
| 15 | By the outbreak of war , with the Boy Scouts riding along on the crest of a wave , the figure stood at 150,000 . |
| 16 | Battle plans sent out on Germany'senigma machine were quickly decoded . |
| 17 | There are a few non-Leeds supporters lurking around on the list I think . |
| 18 | In the match at Manchester , the scorer of one of the Tottenham goals took off on a frenzied high-stepping run , knees and arms pumping like pistons — and he was going backwards . |
| 19 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 20 | They were forestalled , however , by the coup which the king and a group of trusted household servants carried out on 19 October 1330 . |
| 21 | She 'ad t'backbone ti go up on ti t'moor in a blizzard ti find 'im , while you were willing ti let 'im lie up yonder and freeze ti death . ’ |
| 22 | Rumours that the will return to former glories to support Camden pretenders Flowered Up on their forthcoming tour remain unconfirmed . |
| 23 | Rumours that the will return to former glories to support Camden pretenders Flowered Up on their forthcoming tour remain unconfirmed . |
| 24 | Morphological measurements and enzyme activities carried out on intestinal mucosa are another good method of assessing dietary nitrogen quality . |
| 25 | Princess Diana gave birth to a son and things looked like fast returning to normal in Britain as nurses came out on strike , the London tube drivers came out on strike and the NUR threatened a strike . |
| 26 | At Crackington Haven , flanked by the soaring cliffs of Cambeak and Pencannow Point , Atlantic rollers crash in on the tide . |
| 27 | But once record companies went back on the sales offensive the new pop was easily coopted . |
| 28 | Point counts carried out on such rocks under CL may differ significantly from those performed under transmitted light , particularly in the greater proportion of bioclasts detected . |
| 29 | In previous years the banks have been lined with marquees offering hospitality as riverside farmers cash in on the regatta … even though they have virtually nothing to do with it . |
| 30 | Two of London 's top match teams head off on a magic mystery tour this Sunday with the historic London AA Shield as their goal . |