Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 2 | Rather than seeing the children as ‘ deprived ’ she can identify each child 's strengths and build on these . |
| 3 | Stren Withel hesitated hallway to the door as several very large trolls ducked under the doorway and stood on either side of the fat man , blinking in the light . |
| 4 | They are allotted by tender each Friday and issued on each working day by the Bank of England . |
| 5 | Research and writing on this subject has concentrated almost exclusively on abuse by family members and most of it occurs in the domestic setting . |
| 6 | We adjusted our course to move off the reef and hover on this line . |
| 7 | ‘ I bought it as a deposit on another car and went on this journey for a reason , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Bradbury Star won over distances ranging from two miles to 25 furlongs and acts on any going . |
| 9 | The breeze dropped and the little valley lay completely still , held in long beams of light and enclosed on either side by the lines of the woods . |
| 10 | ‘ Champagne , hot scented baths , Sibelius , tiny kittens , very , very , very expensive underwear that you hardly know you 're wearing , and skiing at night and going into the big stores on fifth Avenue and trying on all the three-hundred-dollar dresses and shoes and then saying that I do n't like any of them — I do that quite often — and … ’ |
| 11 | This Australian CD is a class introduction to Parsons and his time , from his homespun days with The Shilos , through to the genesis of country rock and closing on some hard-to-get live takes , plus a few epics from ‘ Grievous Angel ’ — his final , whacked-out testimony . |
| 12 | It concentrated on the curriculum and organization of Inner London secondary schools and focused on those pupils who were underachieving , took few or no public examinations and showed their dissatisfaction with school by absenting themselves or by behaving in an uncooperative manner ( ILEA 1984 ) . |
| 13 | Nicky had ( and for all I know still has ) the reputation of being the best criminal defence lawyer at the Scottish bar and had on several occasions persuaded juries to acquit those whom he had every reason to believe were guilty . |
| 14 | Who said and on which occasion : ‘ In church on Sunday it was lovely , and the sun was coming through the stained glass window and falling on some flowers . |
| 15 | ‘ So , go into my hut and meditate on that ’ , said the guru . |
| 16 | Don Bradbury recounts experiences and passes on some tips . |
| 17 | Inevitably , containerized , multi-modal shipments require that the goods be unloaded from one mode of conveyance and reloaded on another . |
| 18 | To draw a parabola with an included angle exceeding 140° , draw two straight lines and mark on each a series of equal intervals . |
| 19 | The chamfered heel , the shock-absorbing device of the first K-SB3s and used on many other early boots , has now been rejected by many hillwalkers . |
| 20 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
| 21 | Keep this simple : walk , trot and canter on both reins , plus halt , will be sufficient . |
| 22 | The investigation covered import quotas and bans on some products , restrictive import licensing requirements , special technical standards and China 's refusal to publish regulations governing imports , and also sought to reduce Chinese tariffs of up to 170 per cent and other " unreasonable " fees . |
| 23 | Where a defendant makes against any other party in the same action a like claim , he may without leave issue and serve on such other party a notice making such a claim ( Ord 12 , r 5 ) . |
| 24 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 25 | He was prepared to concede non-essential points of terminology , such as referring to ‘ priests ’ as ‘ presbyters ’ ; his hope was ‘ to see controversies end with concord and love on all sides , . |
| 26 | But that is to ignore the possible effect of indecent displays on the unwary viewer , which may be to invade the realm of the most private emotions and to play on these in an unsettling and intrusive fashion , utterly without permission . |
| 27 | He rose from the desk and turned on another light in the room . |
| 28 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 29 | But as modern warships are built in modular form , the solution was to cut off the damaged part and weld on another . |
| 30 | ‘ in a zebra controlled area proceeding towards the limits of an uncontrolled zebra crossing ’ 'Zebra controlled area' means in relation to a zebra crossing , the area of the carriageway in the vicinity of the crossing and lying on both sides of the crossing or only one side of the crossing , being an area the presence and limits of which are indicated in accordance with schedule 3 ( i.e. the general layout of the zig-zag lines , terminal lines where the zig-zag lines begin and give-way lines where the zig-zag lines end next to the crossing ) . |