Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees |
| 2 | Here , in a series of wrecked sheds , men mended cars or sat on old tyres , smoking . |
| 3 | The 1944 Act was amended so that free milk was provided to pupils over the age of 7 only if they attended special schools or qualified on medical grounds . |
| 4 | They can , for example , digitise outline maps , generate percentage distribution maps from point data input , transform co-ordinates , incorporate place-names from gazetteer databases into maps , and print base-maps and overlays on suitable plotters . |
| 5 | It 's the fifth year of a meet that hosts , as usual , over 1,000 entries and goes on non-stop for most of nine hours . |
| 6 | I 've left the question of accessibility of the venue until last , not because it 's less important but because it 's one of the most important considerations and impinges on one of the most difficult tasks any event organiser has to face : getting the right number of the right people to come to it . |
| 7 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 8 | Rather than seeing the children as ‘ deprived ’ she can identify each child 's strengths and build on these . |
| 9 | Graham 's ( 1972 ) analysis of the social processes leading to the US Comprehensive ( sic ) Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act , 1970 , considers how , through tough lobbying tactics and calling on good connections — especially in the House of Representatives — the pharmaceutical manufacturers were able to limit the discussion of amphetamine abuse so that it focused on that small minority of persons who inject it . |
| 10 | Ageing HM clowns with bottle tans and painted on black jeans held court at the wretched bar surrounded by sagging , middle-aged groupies who 'd made themselves up whilst drunk , it appeared . |
| 11 | Bradbury Star won over distances ranging from two miles to 25 furlongs and acts on any going . |
| 12 | He had understudied Hayden Coffin for three months and had on two consecutive nights gone on for him . |
| 13 | This unifying issue can be presented at the beginning of the drama or at a later stage , after the children have taken on roles and started on small group work . |
| 14 | It concentrated on the curriculum and organization of Inner London secondary schools and focused on those pupils who were underachieving , took few or no public examinations and showed their dissatisfaction with school by absenting themselves or by behaving in an uncooperative manner ( ILEA 1984 ) . |
| 15 | Although few people still retained the Great War view that German soldiers wore dead babies on their helmet spikes and lived on human flesh , there was little doubt in many minds that the Fuhrer was related to the devil . |
| 16 | The Government are keen on people exercising choice when buying the weekly groceries , but such choice is removed from people who live in rural areas and depend on public transport . |
| 17 | When I look at these shabby partygoers waving their coffee-cups and leaning on metal-frame chairs , it 's like the plague has settled on them , and they 're twitching out the rest of their time . |
| 18 | It will also pay particular attention to the construction of expertise and the quality of comprehension of policy issues through focussing on the various policy communities and concentrating on three areas : urban air pollution , estuarine and coastal water quality and soil contamination . |
| 19 | Don Bradbury recounts experiences and passes on some tips . |
| 20 | To draw a parabola with an included angle exceeding 140° , draw two straight lines and mark on each a series of equal intervals . |
| 21 | The investigation covered import quotas and bans on some products , restrictive import licensing requirements , special technical standards and China 's refusal to publish regulations governing imports , and also sought to reduce Chinese tariffs of up to 170 per cent and other " unreasonable " fees . |
| 22 | ‘ When I started we used ink pens and sat on high stools — and the only way to add up was in your head , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Five micron serial sections were cut from the tissue blocks and placed on 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane coated slides . |
| 24 | It fits into standard fireplace alcoves and runs on solid fuel . |
| 25 | But that is to ignore the possible effect of indecent displays on the unwary viewer , which may be to invade the realm of the most private emotions and to play on these in an unsettling and intrusive fashion , utterly without permission . |
| 26 | A National Conference of Active Forces of the Nation in February 1990 suspended the 1977 Fundamental Law ( Constitution ) and all existing state institutions and decided on wide-ranging political reforms [ see below ] . |
| 27 | Dementia was recorded as the cause of death for 22 per cent of cases and mentioned on 57 per cent of certificates . |
| 28 | But in fact each sex is acting in good faith , unaware — as one might be with a foreign speaker of one 's own language — that the other is following different rules and acting on different assumptions . |
| 29 | Nearly all the signatures and dates on Cubist paintings executed by Picasso and Braque between 1907 and 1913 have been added much later . |
| 30 | Since they will not be viewing the whole picture comprehensively , since they will perforce be selectively choosing values and acting on limited information , it is all the more important that the reasons why they have chosen a particular course of conduct should be articulated . |