Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three methods were being tried : A benign substance called Hot Foot Gel painted on the top of transformers and similar equipment to produce a ‘ sinking ’ feeling for the Hoodies when they try to land ; Plastic strips with irregular plastic spikes fixed to the top of equipment to discourage the birds from landing in the first place ; Non-working poles incorporating ‘ alternative nesting pans ’ were erected at selected sites to encourage the crows to use them instead . |
| 2 | The ceasefire broke down within hours , however , and the Croatian Defence Ministry called on the population to mobilize for a " very long defensive campaign " . |
| 3 | Sheets are usually 300mm ( 12in ) square , and are often sold in packs of five or 10 ; the best way of estimating quantities is to work out the area to be covered , and to divide that by the coverage figure given on the pack , which will tell you how many packs to buy . |
| 4 | Milk advert based on the premise that hostile drinking straws were out to steal your milk . |
| 5 | Not until 1918 was universal manhood suffrage introduced on the basis of ( six months ' ) residence . |
| 6 | a powdering effect left on the surface of the paper after the ink has failed to dry satisfactorily due to a fault in printing . |
| 7 | With a Top 30 single — featuring a gross-out gum shot on the sleeve — in the bag , and America ready for the taking , STEVE LAMACQ jumps aboard their tour bus and tries to convince them everything is n't really a big , strange dream . |
| 8 | Billy resignedly followed his friend up the gently rising slope of the car park situated on the left hand side of the building . |
| 9 | The programme focuses upon the development of research capability based on the candidate 's own normally specialist background . |
| 10 | The labour force/retirement research focused on the 60–70 age-group , indeed sometimes drawing in those in their fifties , while the social research was more often concerned with those who were older and more dependent . |
| 11 | The Tyne Tees Television weekly current affairs programme Briefing reported on the desperate shortage of long-term foster parents throughout the North-East . |
| 12 | The only control on the single speed machine is the on/off rocker switch mounted on the top of the machine , towards the front of the green plastic casing . |
| 13 | The weight percentage retained on the coarsest sieve is plotted at the appropriate grain diameter , the sum of weight percentages retained in the two coarsest sieves is plotted at the next finer mesh , the cumulative contents of the first three sieves at the next finer mesh and so on until the entire sediment has been accounted for at 100% . |
| 14 | A short drive to the West is Clovelly , an extraordinary , quaint fishing village built on the steepest of cobbled streets running down to a tiny harbour . |
| 15 | It is a small fishing village built on the side of a cliff with one narrow cobbled street running from the clifftop to the harbour , each side crammed with idyllic stone cottages , unchanged for hundreds of years . |
| 16 | Pressures towards manpower production meant in effect , that demands from higher levels of the education system fed down towards the primary curriculum and there was a certain rather questionable pyramid philosophy built on the premise that ‘ many are called but few are chosen ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 18 | A silver lamp burned on the altar . |
| 19 | a stock valuation based on the FIFO basis |
| 20 | a stock valuation based on the LIFO basis |
| 21 | a stock valuation based on the FIFO basis |
| 22 | a stock valuation based on the LIFO basis |
| 23 | He became enormously excited and , as the rest of the party started back towards us with a huge mound of lavatory paper balanced on the ravioli , he hopped from foot to foot , clutching my arm . |
| 24 | The closing date for the Croner 's Practical Hygiene offer made on the insert in this edition of Hospitality has been extended to May 31 . |
| 25 | A broker advised Mrs Harris to take what she thought was a short term loan secured on the house . |
| 26 | Councillors , who had grown up and learnt their politics in a labour movement founded on the dominance of Sheffield 's skilled workers in the steel and engineering industries , now had to formulate a response as this dominance quite literally crumbled to the ground . |
| 27 | New advice on ‘ fast-track ’ assessments was issued last week by LGDF , and SCODA has produced a practice guide based on the lessons of the national survey . |
| 28 | 20001 had been grounded due to stress cracks and skin detachment in flight which resulted in a Mach 2.5 speed limit put on the airframe . |
| 29 | there was one currant bun left on the tray |
| 30 | Over the next few years , the coalition government worked on the framing of a federal law that laid the foundations of a much larger system of higher education — and opened the door to far more state control over the universities . |