Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buddie was sitting on a hard chair with one foot resting on an upturned petrol-tin . |
| 2 | In its original form the Bill made provision for a single ballot , the decision resting on a simple majority of those voting . |
| 3 | For stocking stitch knitting on a standard gauge machine , this often means no weights and , for pattern knitting , just the claw weights . |
| 4 | The force acting on a mass m g in a gravitational field g is . |
| 5 | For example , two-dimensional animals living on a one-dimensional earth would have to climb over each other in order to get past each other . |
| 6 | The streets grew narrower , every doorway seemed to offer goods , there were wooden booths in small squares dappled with shade , selling pottery and saddles built on wooden frames , then the cool blue and green tiled courtyard of a mosque , with voices chanting on a high-pitched note . |
| 7 | There are other processes ( or what some might regard as ‘ tricks ’ ) the investigator can use , for instance establishing the effectiveness of wheel braking on a slippery runway by means of the longitudinal acceleration recording . |
| 8 | The dawning knowledge washed over her consciousness like waves breaking on a virgin shore . |
| 9 | ‘ Flydacraft ’ , comes from a wheel running on a horizontal ledge . |
| 10 | Contrary to prediction , we find Ruritania embarking on a hopeless war with a much stronger neighbour . |
| 11 | Lucian Freud embarking on a mammoth artistic task which occupied several months of early morning work . |
| 12 | The fact that any part of a complex theoretical maze might be responsible for an apparent falsification poses a serious problem for the falsificationist relying on an unqualified method of conjectures and refutations . |
| 13 | I remember my wedding ring sitting on a fat burgundy cushion , Oliver leafing through the telephone directory looking for people with silly names , how I felt . |
| 14 | Chestnuts roasting on an open fire , Jack Frost nipping at your nose , Cousin Lizzie Ann , a stalwart of the Band of Hope , incapable as usual on sherry trifle and the seasonal sound of feet running upstairs and passionate sobbing from the bedroom . |
| 15 | Chestnuts roasting on an open fire , Jack Frost nipping at your nose . |
| 16 | ‘ Eejits , ’ he said quietly , as he looked at the bantams roosting on a low perch . |
| 17 | Along with Santa Cruz Operation Inc and IXI Ltd , Unix System Laboratories is said to have been amongst those approached by a gang of users and integrators known as Galileo , who are trying to get the industry working on a common graphical user interface end environment that behaves the same way regardless of which operating system and hardware lies underneath ( UX No 415 ) . |
| 18 | This phenomenon can be used to increase the number of animals mating on a particular day . |
| 19 | In the words of a working-class housewife living on a new council estate : |
| 20 | If a very simple model is taken , representing stream patterns developing on a uniform surface with little or no slope , then no dominant process would control the direction of stream flow . |
| 21 | Growth in gold mining activities during the 1930s continued , and by 1939 , JCI was responsible for the administration of seven major gold mining companies producing on an annual basis , nearly 20 per cent of the total gold output in South Africa at that time . |
| 22 | There were even reports from some respondents of panic buying on an old-fashioned scale . |
| 23 | And this year 's general trade was looking as if it might not equal last year 's , until Monday 21st December , when , with many companies and all the schools having closed , panic buying on an old-fashioned scale happened , ’ reported John Lauder . |
| 24 | K W K Palmer from Norfolk with a portrait of a small tortoiseshell butterfly feeding on an orange marigold . |
| 25 | JUST one minute into the journey from Bolton Street Station , passengers will notice restoration work progressing on a large boiler and locomotive chassis belonging to the Bolton Steam Locomotive Company . |
| 26 | You have the County Council sitting on an absolute goldmine as far as that land 's concerned . |
| 27 | There are always people on this land : a boy sitting on a grazing buffalo , a girl cutting short , dusty grass with a sharp hand-held hoe , filling a basket to take home for the oxen . |
| 28 | In the copy of the Shah Jehan Nama now in Windsor Castle there is a fine miniature painting by Murar illustrating the scene : all the princes are dripping with gems and strings of pearls ; the youthful Dara , a downy moustache now covering his upper lip , leads his brothers into the great audience hall sitting on a black stallion . |
| 29 | With one round to play , she was as many as three shots ahead of Australia 's Nadene Hall , a gifted girl playing on a British links for a first time . |
| 30 | I like the sun setting on a calm sea — ’ His breath hissed through his teeth . |