Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason I have made a suggestion for eating on each journey . |
| 2 | They they come down there but they have n't got enough oxygen to get up and so they got ta stay on this thing with this creature . |
| 3 | He is well respected and popular , as was shown when Mr Major and the Commons voiced their confidence in him earlier this year when he apologised for singing on Irish TV hours after an IRA atrocity . |
| 4 | However , it is worth reflecting on another dimension of the law and order forces . |
| 5 | The pans are specially designed for more efficient cooking with a unique Thermocopper base — a ‘ sandwich ’ of stainless steel , aluminium and copper — and are ideal for cooking on all heat sources ( except induction ) . |
| 6 | They went on to consider whether the return during trading on one market leads the return during trading on the other markets . |
| 7 | Thus , the returns during trading on each market are likely to lead the closed market returns for the other markets , and this is what Becker , Finnerty and Tucker found , except that the Nikkei Stock Average did not lead the FT-SE 100 . |
| 8 | Describing a map with words and symbols , such as appear on this page , is not very easy ; but you can imagine that each entry on the map is recorded as a fact of the form here-found ( x , y , thing ) where x and y are coordinates , longitude and latitude , and thing is any feature such as a mountain or river or city . |
| 9 | Both these titles were cover-names for the department responsible for eavesdropping on foreign embassies and trade missions in London . |
| 10 | A new computer system for checking on chemical reactions deep below the ground could dramatically improve monitoring of the build-up of explosive gasses . |
| 11 | They would continue to open on Mondays , Fridays and Saturdays but discussions about opening on another day probably Thursday had started . |
| 12 | The Virbram sole unit could do with a little more rigidity for scrambling , but provides good adhesion for walking on all surfaces . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
| 15 | The David Cronenberg adaptation of William S Burroughs ' novel was seized after opening on four screens in the Greek capital of Athens . |
| 16 | But after appearing on Central Television the sanctuary has been inundated with calls from people offering the animals a home . |
| 17 | April 9 : DHC–2 Beaver N9028 written-off when broke through ice after landing on frozen lake at Oak Island , Minnesota . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Seven people needed hospital treatment — and one teenager broke his hip — after falling on rock-hard ground while trying to catch a cheese . |
| 23 | But in the morning , after sleeping on those terms of the ‘ contract ’ , I decided to have no part of it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Indeed , after lecturing on this work for twenty-five years , and though I could write out most of it from visual memory , it still sounds elusive . ) |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He appeared at Swindon Youth Court today for sentencing on 21 charges , ranging from shoplifting to assaulting police . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Stephen 's solicitor , Dennis Dudley , told Wolverhampton magistrates : ‘ I would like to thank the Daily Mirror for passing on this information . ’ |