Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So NEVER SQUEEZE ROUND THE BARRIERS IF THEY ARE CLOSED , and DO N'T CROSS IF THE WARNING LIGHTS ARE ON , whether you are walking or on a bike . |
| 2 | and then when it 's got that and it 's got end on the bottom here , at the end of the stopping zone , you 've got to know that on a motorway |
| 3 | Researchers found that on a day when an ‘ insular ’ mother reported having an argument with another adult before she was observed at home with her child , she was more likely to behave unpleasantly towards her child ( Wahler and Graves 1983 ) . |
| 4 | But why do n't the rules stipulate that on a grey you have to wear brown breeches for the same reason ? |
| 5 | You could paint that on a board , and underneath we could have a rhyming couplet . |
| 6 | It may impose conditions on the person in whose favour the order is made or on a parent or person with whom the child is living . |
| 7 | Fume cupboards may be manually operated or on a time clock control . |
| 8 | The user documentation quotes that on a SUN 3/160 machine running Kyoto Common Lisp ( KCL ) , the time required to look up a large word ( excluding garbage collection ) is 11.8 seconds of CPU . |
| 9 | He slapped the conductor hard over the head for the bother he was causing and on a scrap of paper laboriously took down my name , age , passport number and nationality . |
| 10 | You and unemployed used to go and on a course there for unemployed do , and do that as well . |
| 11 | She could be totally paralysed and on a ventilator in Intensive Care , in which case it could be months before she recovers . |
| 12 | To talk about transcription , and we will run that on a workshop basis , I hope . |
| 13 | We were told that on a taxation on the indemnity basis the result is usually a recovery of a high percentage of the costs actually incurred but that some percentage is always taxed off . |
| 14 | ( 1980 ) point out that statistical classification methods are by their very nature exploratory data-analysis techniques , dependent on the methods used and on a number of arbitrary definitions , and it is therefore inevitable that the results should be seen as a pioneering first attempt , rather than as a polished final product based on the application of well established proven methods . |
| 15 | Recent studies of sulphate absorption in man indicate that on a diet of 16.6 mmol/d about 12 mmol would be expected to reach the colon . |
| 16 | Preference shares normally carry no rights to vote except on a resolution for the winding up of the company , or to modify the rights attaching to the shares . |
| 17 | And having confided in her , she discussed her troubles with Don Burrell , the Canadian with whom she had stayed when on a school exchange to the States and who had been like a second father since the death of her own . |
| 18 | Brightly lit as on a stage , she saw the bodies still , more garish , more brightly lit than when they had first met her horrified eyes . |
| 19 | Note that on a hive-down of assets to Target , the vendor 's surplus franked investment income and ACT are not " inherited " by Target , so for these to be preserved for Newco 's benefit a direct purchase of shares in the vendor company would be required . |
| 20 | In experiments using British schoolchildren of the same age as Barron 's , selected according to similar criteria for being classified as " good " or " poor " readers , we have found that on a variety of tasks the poorer readers do show an ability to use the phonological codes for printed words ( Briggs and Underwood , 1982 ; Underwood and Briggs , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | a dangerous dog , as defined by section 1 of the dangerous dogs act 1991 , in a private car which was on a public highway was in a public place , within the meaning of section 10(2) of the act and was therefore required to be muzzled and on a lead as prescribed by section 1(2) ( d ) of the act . |
| 22 | Later John Frith , a Cambridge graduate , became not only his collaborator but his dearest friend ; but Frith was seized whilst on a visit to England and committed to the Tower . |
| 23 | It is only valid if it is pressed while on a field which is used by the LIFESPAN cache facility ( see below ) . |
| 24 | Simon Dunne , Claire Langley and Rachel Walker , all 16 , and Dean Sayer , 17 , died while on a course at the St Albans Centre in Lyme Regis , Dorset , in March . |
| 25 | THREE hundred Liverpool football fans are expected to gather to pay tribute to supporter Dennis Corbett , who died while on a trip to watch his team play in Moscow . |
| 26 | After consultations in chambers , the court determined that on a technicality , it was not competent to hear the case . |
| 27 | For perpetual FRNs , ( 5.62 ) becomes and on a coupon payment date if , as is expected on a coupon payment date , P= 100 . |
| 28 | He was killed whilst on a course with the Fighter Leader 's School at Millfield . |
| 29 | Spoken messages can be stored in electronic mailboxes and retrieved by telephone , and by several people at the same time — because the messages are not recorded as on a tape recorder , but on electronic pulses in the computer 's memory . |
| 30 | Share salesmen are regarded as on a level with hard sell futures salesmen . |