Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both these titles were cover-names for the department responsible for eavesdropping on foreign embassies and trade missions in London . |
| 2 | A new computer system for checking on chemical reactions deep below the ground could dramatically improve monitoring of the build-up of explosive gasses . |
| 3 | The Virbram sole unit could do with a little more rigidity for scrambling , but provides good adhesion for walking on all surfaces . |
| 4 | They have been updated and supplemented by local authorities ' own guidelines , covering procedures , training and pupil-teacher ratios , ranging in Strathclyde 's case from 10-1 for easy hillwalking to 5-1 for walking on difficult ridges . |
| 5 | The David Cronenberg adaptation of William S Burroughs ' novel was seized after opening on four screens in the Greek capital of Athens . |
| 6 | After serving on various eyres and assizes , he became chief justice of the King 's Bench in 1274 and remained so until 1290 ; in the last ten years of the reign he was chief justice of the Common Bench . |
| 7 | Naji Robert Nahas , the speculator who provoked the collapse in share prices after defaulting on extensive debts , was arrested in Sao Paulo on Oct. 30 and charged with fraud . |
| 8 | Home ownership in America is falling for the first time since the Depression , just as the savings-and-loan collapse has made the government the largest single owner of property after foreclosing on bankrupt thrifts . |
| 9 | But in the morning , after sleeping on those terms of the ‘ contract ’ , I decided to have no part of it . |
| 10 | AFTER working on opposite sides in the American presidential election , James Corville and his wife Mary Matalin have taken a romantic trip on the Orient Express from Paris to Venice . |
| 11 | A former dockyard fitter who contracted leukaemia after working on nuclear submarines , has been awarded more than a hundred and sixty-seven thousand pounds in damages against the Ministry of Defence . |
| 12 | The boy , who ca n't be named for legal reasons , appeared before Swindon Youth Court for sentencing on twenty-one offences ranging from shoplifting to assaulting police . |
| 13 | He appeared at Swindon Youth Court today for sentencing on 21 charges , ranging from shoplifting to assaulting police . |
| 14 | However , we have just had the third record increase in the amount of money that the Government have given to the Arts Council of Great Britain , which is directly responsible for passing on such moneys to the Royal Opera House , the Birmingham Royal Ballet and other companies . |
| 15 | The instruction set for operating on floating-point numbers includes the four arithmetic operations of addition , subtraction , multiplication , and division ( usually without remainder ) ; negate and clear ( set to zero ) operations may also be provided . |
| 16 | In short the level of cooperation between banks and their more important customers is much more extensive in Japan , thus mitigating the problems of depending on external loans . |
| 17 | Our behaviour plan can then be built around the ‘ bits ’ instead of depending on vague intentions . |
| 18 | Now , for the first time , the Library has the opportunity to mount imaginative , multi-media displays , individually tailored to their subject matter and capable of competing on equal terms with exhibitions in other major venues . |
| 19 | There is n't a chance of competing on level terms with black guys . |
| 20 | But later , from the end of the Triassic onwards , certain species within the genus began to drop down on all fours , although this does not mean that the quadrupedal forms descended from bipedal forms — or merely got tired of walking on two legs . |
| 21 | The outcry over declining profit margins seems to show that British commercial enterprise had been sapped by decades of trading on advantageous terms as the only great exporter of manufactured goods . |
| 22 | Both bodies publish application forms recommended for use when applying to them for the appointment of experts or arbitrators : copies of the forms are reproduced in Appendices G and H. The Law Society has also published its requested procedure : see [ 1986 ] Law Society 's Gazette 2542 , reprinted in Appendix B. It is important that applicants follow the procedure of applying on prescribed forms . |
| 23 | The issue called for a great deal of understanding on both sides , which inevitably in many cases could not be guaranteed . |
| 24 | Any pause in progress towards the objective is a matter of reneging on electoral promises . |
| 25 | Tenders have also been called for 7,500 hp Co-Co two-voltage Railfreight locomotives capable of operating on both sides of the Channel , and BREL ( 1988 ) Ltd has already submitted initial designs . |
| 26 | Some critics point out that it is difficult to see how it could benefit larger multi-celled animals , because of the problem of passing on good genes via sperm cells , or the egg . |
| 27 | That will give me an opportunity of passing on any messages — of a verbal nature only , I regret to say ! |
| 28 | What can be added , however , is that structural aspects of the world capitalist economy make for the dependency of developing on developed countries — a fact which tends to perpetuate inequalities . |
| 29 | As our first example of deciding on hedonistic grounds we took a choice between two dishes . |
| 30 | A useful way of deciding on Non-conformance headings is to ask four questions about the performance of your part of the business : |