Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | times He 'll have good times Goin' oot on the randan But |
| 2 | Providing authorities/hospitals would be paid for cases treated either on the basis of actual cost per case , or on some laid-down or agreed cost per case , and there seems little to prevent them behaving in the same manner as hospitals elsewhere where either ‘ Retrospective full cost reimbursement ’ or ‘ Prospective reimbursement ’ systems are in operation . |
| 3 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 4 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 5 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 6 | After some initial successes , the authorities cracked down on the protesters . |
| 7 | The small birds clustered tightly on the swinging coconut were fighting for a firm grip . |
| 8 | Also , news bulletins concentrated heavily on the speeches and activities of leading politicians , particularly the president . |
| 9 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 10 | The aim is to elucidate some of the methods by which entrepreneurial decisions are reached and entrepreneurial activities carried out on a day to day basis . |
| 11 | The rarity of artefacts found during excavations of such farms not only affects the archaeologist 's ability to date the buildings , but also makes it extremely difficult to understand the details of the activities carried out on the farm . |
| 12 | High fences around Admiralty installations gave good views as the birds perched briefly on the wires , taking their bearings . |
| 13 | But if researchers home in on the record as the first level of access , ignoring the surrounding administrative context and archival structure which forms part of its meaning , will understanding be fostered or impaired ? |
| 14 | Ducks swam about on the lake , beside which we would sometimes sit of a summer evening after supper , before going back on duty . |
| 15 | The optimum bucket size to minimize the time taken by operations carried out on a file depends on the nature of the operation . |
| 16 | Goodenough 's group confirmed that the emotional content of dreams could be affected by pre-sleep stimulation ( in this case , a film entitled subcision — explicitly showing a series of operations carried out on the penis as part of a tribal aboriginal initiation rite ) . |
| 17 | They inevitably knock on the door on the one evening of the month when you 're dolled up in your glad rags to go out on the town . |
| 18 | In a unique demonstration they left their schools to sit in on a county council meeting discussing the cuts.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 19 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 20 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 21 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 22 | As I walked round the lake , a flotilla of ducks paddled furiously after me , hoping to be fed , while fieldfares fluttered about on the lawns . |
| 23 | The town was grey and empty in the dull afternoon light ; cars swished through on the road going north , some with their headlights on , making everything else seem even dimmer . |
| 24 | The berths were practically dry at low water and vessels lay aground on the mud bottom whilst loading and discharging their cargoes . |
| 25 | He was lounging on the sofa when she returned to the house , his long legs propped up on a low onyx table , while he flicked his way desultorily through the pages of a paperback . |
| 26 | Hurst nodded and started to pin the team-sheets back up on the board . |
| 27 | Think of rock concerts where they have those banks of giant speakers grouped together on the stage . |
| 28 | Afterwards , we clung to the rail , listening to the wind howling ; watching vast , angry waves crowding in on every side . |
| 29 | The task was designed to minimize feelings of risk and thus prevent attention focusing , however , it is possible that actually feeling risk is not necessary for drivers to concentrate exclusively on the risky aspects of the stimuli . |
| 30 | From inside the house the scratchy gramophone burble of " Muskrat Ramble " was providing an incongruous counterpoint to the screech of the wild birds wakening unseen in the roof of the surrounding jungle , and Duclos sighed and closed his eyes to concentrate better on the music . |