Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we meet the couple whose wedding literally started on the rocks . |
| 2 | This is an important matter , particularly as it affects violence , and violence more perpetrated on the woman than on the man . |
| 3 | Labour yesterday put on the biggest gathering of the glitterati in the election campaign so far to underline its claim to be the party most famous people will vote for . |
| 4 | In March Hedilla had talks not only with members of the Comunión Tradicionalista , but also with some of the supporters of the Alphonsine dynasty , whose political future also depended on the outcome of what was becoming a bitter , subterranean confrontation within the main conflict against the Republic . |
| 5 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 6 | DNA sequence recognition is achieved largely by hydrogen-bond contacts between the bases and amino-acid side chains located on a β -ribbon , a mode of recognition previously hypothesized on the basis of modelling of idealized β -strands and DNA , and mutagenesis of the Salmonella phage P22 repressors Arc and Mnt . |
| 7 | It is not surprising that Nizan 's gaze eventually alighted on the French communist party , a source of ideological certainty , a small community defending itself by rigid discipline against the fluidity , compromise and unreliability of centrist politics in Third Republic France . |
| 8 | On the trains no problems , East Midlands Airport say everything 's running to time , in the city centre no huge delays anywhere , on the motorways they 're all okay as well , on the A One there 's major work just started on the roundabout , that 's the er five lanes end roundabout affecting southbound traffic , there are long delays there in peak times , that 's at er five lane ends , the work there on the A One just started , that 's the Roundabout , southbound traffic is being affected , there are long delays there . |
| 9 | In the end , Sutton Council withdrew their support and no work ever started on the Mitcham — Sutton — Belmont route , except for the short stub , Mitcham Light Railway No. 2 . |
| 10 | Then she turned her attention to the tabby cat still spreadeagled on the back of the broom with its eyes screwed tightly shut and its claws gripping on for dear life . |
| 11 | Clouds heaped higher in the west , but the sun still shone on the village . |
| 12 | He looked up with satisfaction at the panelling of the new box-beds — comfort and decency for all three of them , while others in the village still slept on the floor like beasts . |
| 13 | Later that day an Israeli soldier was killed and two others wounded during a clash with Hezbollah near Rashaf , a village also located on the northern edge of the " security zone " . |
| 14 | The committee also called on the government to formulate long-term fuel-pricing objectives in order to encourage industry to invest in energy-saving measures and thereby to reduce emissions . |
| 15 | Staining intensity in the PCNA assay also depended on the length of fixation , before we introduced the Saponin digestion step before application of the PCNA antibody . |
| 16 | Later , under the 1907 provisions for the medical inspection of children , parents ( and again the responsibility usually fell on the mother ) were told what was wrong with their children but were left with the task of seeking and paying for treatment , dependants being excluded from the provisions of the 1911 National Health Insurance Act . |
| 17 | So I returned to the laboratory , where the pieces of the woman monster 's body still lay on the floor . |
| 18 | Conventionalism also failed on the first perspective . |
| 19 | Conference also called on the organisers to investigate strategies and tactics for the economic regeneration of West Belfast and the creation of meaningful jobs locally . |
| 20 | The conference also called on the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) to convene a conference with prospective donor countries to formulate an aid plan which would assist in the social and economic integration of refugees who chose to return to Rwanda and of those seeking naturalized status in their present country of residence . |
| 21 | The ancient and beautiful church of All Saints is the oldest building in the village , newly built in 1318 , although an unendowed building probably stood on the same site from 1086 when the Domesday Book was compiled . |
| 22 | The parallel also held on the side of the defence . |
| 23 | Having made two journeys to India and stayed with Indian friends there , I did not find the quote at all out of order , and to me the emphasis naturally fell on the words ‘ now that their lives have been ruined ’ rather than the five preceding words . |
| 24 | Female danger/power also rested on the fact that women occupied structurally marginal positions ( i.e. neither fully inside nor outside the system , not wholly nature nor culture ) and on the fact that society placed them in interstructural roles ( as wives and daughters ) with respect to alliance-making and linking disparate power groups . |
| 25 | Their dedications are no less assertive ; but like Kypselos , whose name originally stood on the Corinthian treasury at Delphi ( Plut . |
| 26 | Lewes 's group found the track , and on the second night out stumbled on the signal lights placed by the LRDG . |
| 27 | Stewart 's only birdie came at the short fourth , where her ball agonisingly finished on the lip of the hole . |
| 28 | The Commission also focused on the way the UK was measuring lead in tapwater . |
| 29 | The trade also regulated on the matter of pall-bearers ; usually six in number . |
| 30 | The leading masquer then stood on the dais , whilst a herald challenged anyone in the hall to play this strange man at dice . |