Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 2 | Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts . |
| 3 | On an SE/30 — a 68030 machine with a maths coprocessor — myoglobin ( 2658 atoms ) approached the upper limit for interactive manipulation and a monochrome drawing on the screen required about 20 sec ( wireframe ) , 1–3/4 min ( ball and stick ) and three min ( shaded space-filling ) ; the times tripled on a smaller SE system . |
| 4 | In the eighth minute Leicester drew level as Wright pounced on a loose ball after Gee 's shot had been blocked , to score his 15th goal of the season . |
| 5 | Alison Walker 's mouth quivered on a tearful smile . |
| 6 | Research summary To investigate , through a case study centered on a major commercial company , the organisational transformations taking place in commercial software development . |
| 7 | THREE members of the same family were injured when two cars crashed on a busy Northumberland road . |
| 8 | A team at the University of Dundee reported on a neural computer that checks cervical smears containing up to 200,000 cells and decides whether they are abnormal or not with 96 per cent accuracy . |
| 9 | Every nerve smouldered on a short fuse . |
| 10 | For an instant its bright light glistened on a thousand shades of wet green leaves . |
| 11 | The words came on a husky out-breath . |
| 12 | She gazed again at the peaceful scene in front of her until her eyes rested on an old Severn Punt lying high and dry on the foreshore . |
| 13 | The words arrived on a long feather of smoke . |
| 14 | Never was a labour more arduous , and it was without his former youthful enthusiasm that Picasso began on a great canvas that was to be the first result of his researches . ’ |
| 15 | A Landsat TM image of Leicestershire recorded on a cloud-free day in July 1984 constitutes the basic data source . |
| 16 | If recognition proceeded on a word-by-word basis we would know the beginning and end points of each word , and recognition could indeed take place entirely within the lexicon as these earlier models seem to assume . |
| 17 | On the other side , faithful to the spirit of the UDC 's liberal internationalism , Labour insisted on an early return to unrestricted free trade . |
| 18 | The hammer fell on an empty chamber . |
| 19 | In 1975 , Branson went on an exploratory trip to Jamaica with his lawyer and friend Charles Levison . |
| 20 | At the end of a shaft of light streaming down an alley which led to the river , a scorpion dozed on a broken brick , though at Huy 's approach the little brown statue bristled , pincers and sting instantly alert . |
| 21 | Like a lot of the greats of that era , Ivan won on a wide variety of venues , the Severn , the Trent , all of the Fenland rivers , not small matches either . |
| 22 | In particular , I studied for some while a figure chalked on a great blackboard which stood close to the bench bearing the sheeted body . |
| 23 | Full-back Irwin left on a free transfer to Oldham — who sold him on to Manchester United for £750,000 . |
| 24 | The industry continued on a large but declining scale until the 1960s , by which time most of the big rorquals had been hunted beyond economic levels . |
| 25 | The association ran on a tight budget funded from various sources . |
| 26 | The flat figure stood on a small base as if ready to be moved round a board like a chessman . |
| 27 | By 1235 , the whole question of forgery stood on a new moral and legal footing , and the corporate ambitions of the monks fell to the ground in a blaze of scandal . |
| 28 | Ah , here we are , " Mrs Geary pounced on a stout little package , a thick blue paper bag , its mouth folded as securely as a glued envelope . |
| 29 | One of the first he had received from Sloane reported on a new hothouse at Chelsea and listed the exotics already growing there . |
| 30 | But I do know that England drew on an enormous well of self-belief . |