Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] on " in BNC.

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1 MOTOROLA SIGNS CHORUS FOR MICROKERNEL ON POWERPC …
2 He said the management at the site had n't given permission for welding on the oil tank .
3 Hercule Poirot did not spring fully-formed into life on Page 34 of his first adventure , The Mysterious Affair at Styles .
4 Indeed , restaurants , cafes and licensed premises which sell liquor for consumption on the premises ( e.g. pubs and wine bars ) were for the first time was the 1987 Use Classes Order brought within a stated class .
5 At the moment , the gloves and hat were placed side by side on the gleaming wood of the table before her and her hands were folded in an attitude of prayer — although her humour was anything but reverent .
6 These two tasks completed , the exposed pith was cut into narrow strips like ribbons , which were then placed side by side on a large , perfectly-flat slab of limestone which was kept permanently damp by boys scattering water on it , ever-moving fingers flicking across from earthenware pots .
7 They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column .
8 English Nature , the government 's official watchdog on nature conservation , was criticized at the time by environmental groups for entering into the deal with Fisons , and for allowing extraction of peat on a site of special scientific interest [ see ED 57 ] .
9 A pair of Jacobean Dersinghams , husband and wife in about half life-size , kneeling side by side on a plinth , looked stolidly into eternity .
10 So , although we can show that deprivation produces loss of function on certain tasks , these studies do not indicate how the loss may be combatted , if at all and , from a psychological point of view , they do not give any idea of how this changed processing affects other aspects of function .
11 We lay side by side on the floor all over the house — there must have been a dozen or more of us , including nice old Ma Mi who was delighted to see us .
12 In 1989 , the World Association of Nuclear Operators was established to encourage exchange of information on operational safety and to initiate technical exchange visits between nuclear engineers to help improve safety standards .
13 For Shirley , who has battle with asthma on a daily basis , the genetic research has no direct bearings yet , but for her children 's children , it could make better treatment , perhaps even a cure , a reality .
14 The certificate is now framed along with the collar , and has pride of place on my wall .
15 Barbara 's advice : ‘ Susan 's skin needs foundation with concealer on top .
16 It focusses week after week on the same seven characters , all of whom have reached that certain stage in life — they 're having children , their marriages are foundering , they 're wondering what on earth they 're doing in their work , or their parents are dying .
17 Follow this , keeping edge of wood on left and take next left fork which runs up on to a shoulder where another path joins from left and then ascends shoulder steeply ( f ) .
18 One method of representing motion in 4-space on a plane is by representing a point in 4-space by a line on the plane , where each end of the line represents a pair of coordinates [ 17 ] : this is used in Fig. 2.19 to illustrate the strange attractor of Fig. 2.16 .
19 To relate Leapor to Goldsmith on the issue of enclosure , especially in light of Sambrook 's extensive claims , requires caution .
20 In almost all cases an obstructive landlord will be able to find some subsisting breach of covenant on the tenant 's part and thereby defeat the option .
21 Since last May many of these same passers-by have come face to face on their TV screens with the agony , desolation and despair of the people of Ethiopia and the Sudan .
22 The NSF Council had issued a decree guaranteeing freedom of assembly on Jan. 3 , although organizers of public meetings were required by law to give at least 48 hours ' notice to the authorities .
23 Since the legal rules about the control of water pollution are expressed through the discretion of field officers it is important to understand their working definitions of pollution in terms of the kinds of events , activities , or social settings which could give rise to action on their part , whatever its ultimate conclusion .
24 Also present was the Georgian love of rococo and foliate work as decoration on the sauce-boat 's rim .
25 Customs had tried to use a ‘ first supply ’ argument that the exempt supply prevented recovery of VAT on all construction and development costs but , following the High Court ruling , apportionment is allowable .
26 The controlled trial compared duration of remission on an elimination diet ( n=10 ) with that on an unrefined carbohydrate , fibre rich diet ( n=10 ) .
27 Recent Rosat observations do show evidence for substructure on some scales — and this is important because it indicates that larger-scale cosmological structures built up hierarchically — but not the smaller-scale clumping required to remove the baryon catastrophe .
28 Study will show impact of VAT on power users
29 I say to John Smith , Neil Kinnock , Gordon Brown and the rest , the ones who put signature to paper on one member , one vote , remember all the elections in the past , remember Sheffield .
30 Had they conceded the truth of Mrs. Morgan 's amply corroborated testimony instead of challenging it and simply argued belief in consent on the basis of her husband 's assertions as to her sexual proclivities , they might have been believed .
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