Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Costa Rica and Panama agreed on ecological protection measures for their joint border areas . |
| 2 | ‘ The Graces dwelt on ev'ry Limb : |
| 3 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 4 | Physiologists capitalized on this instrumentation to demonstrate that the electrical activity of the brain and its nerve cells was a function of what the individual was doing , or not doing , or how sensory receptors were stimulated . |
| 5 | CW reported on successful installation of software on new Admin file server . |
| 6 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 7 | She was a very experienced psychiatric nurse and Doctor Volkov 's callousness verged on deliberate cruelty . |
| 8 | Dot woke on that morning that could have been the last morning of her life and knew by the brightness reflected across the ceiling that she was safe , for the roads would still be blocked . |
| 9 | I shared command of the big " V " with two other skippers , Doug Thompson and Denis Mawe , as H.Q. frowned on any policy that kept an officer away from his home port and normal customs duties for too long a period . |
| 10 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 11 | Friendship renewed on sacred soil ! |
| 12 | President Gorbachev claimed on Soviet television to have found many supporters of perestroika in SED . |
| 13 | In the 1960s , an astronomer named Gerald Hawkins worked on another idea . |
| 14 | Bernice munched on another fibreburger , wiping away the unpleasantly spicy taste with more of the pink drink . |
| 15 | Twice in the six weeks before the referendum President Mikhail Gorbachev went on nationwide television and radio to appeal for a " yes " vote . |
| 16 | Again , the relatively popular policy of the privatization of industry fell on stony ground when it was proposed for extension to the electricity supply industry and to water services . |
| 17 | Joseph 's words fell on stony ground . |
| 18 | The mulch went on this year in March ( together with the Growmore , as ever ) , and only the keenest weeds have managed to struggle through . |
| 19 | Even in the first week of June , when potatoes were a foot high and oilseed rape was in glower , snow fell on high ground , and this makes a difference to what you can grow successfully . |
| 20 | Newry club lay on Dutch treat |
| 21 | ‘ We could have sold more of the Palin book , but BBC Books insisted on firm sale . |
| 22 | Irina talked , Bill dozed , my mind went on automatic pilot . |
| 23 | Then followed the war years and members of the Brigade went on active service . |
| 24 | All would be revealed , Mr Gorbachev said on national television , for the Soviet people had a right to know . |
| 25 | A long , thin brunette sat on another bean-bag very close to her , staring down at a focus somewhere near the edge of the blonde 's left thigh . |
| 26 | YESTERDAY 'S Diary explained where the main parties stood on British Rail ( between carriages jammed against the netty door , very likely . ) |
| 27 | But eight years before Roberts sat on that hilltop above the city , there were only 24,000 Jews living in Palestine . |
| 28 | His love of Oscar Wilde and James Dean verged on absolute fanaticism . |
| 29 | Then her groping foot jarred on flatter ground . |
| 30 | Another Epsom first came when Japanese Champion Yokio Okabe scored on Shrewd Partner . |