Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 2 | There was a blur of activity and the sandwich rose on three pairs of legs . |
| 3 | My mind blanked on alternate minutes , my heartbangs sounded like the 4.30 at Epsom , and my mouth felt like cat-litter . |
| 4 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 5 | It had been observed that when light fell on certain metals . |
| 6 | Research continued on existing projects with grants totalling £200,000 and new grants totalling £338,000 were won . |
| 7 | Is the education department closed on public holidays ? |
| 8 | The idea was they were after the records which the college held on all students . |
| 9 | One July morning the sun shone on two figures climbing the hill leading out of the fine city of Wintoncester . |
| 10 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 11 | General de Gaulle 's plan foundered on Dutch fears that the new body would threaten Community institutions . |
| 12 | Work continued on direct-application fertilisers and soil conditioners . |
| 13 | In fact , whereas the parallel protestant movement of evangelical revival was for all people , and the issue tended to be decisive , catholic spirituality diverged on both points . |
| 14 | The room — dark with small windows — was only half-furnished and half-painted Armchairs , little dining-table , Stephanie 's old , good mahogany desk stood on uncarpeted boards , splashed with paint . |
| 15 | ‘ A terrible cannonading began on both sides , accompanied with a dreadful discharge of musquetry ’ … |
| 16 | Most of the cash went on new clothes for both adults and children . |
| 17 | With the outbreak of war , the shop fell on harder times . |
| 18 | The college team spoke on Mad Dogs and Englishmen to win a place at the finals in Glasgow on April 23 . |
| 19 | The township had on previous occasions been the scene of faction fighting between ANC and Inkatha supporters . |
| 20 | Wolfgang and his sister Nannerl remained on close terms throughout his life : his early letters to her and to a Salzburg cousin , Anna Maria Thekla ( ‘ the Bäsle ’ , as he called her ) are full of juvenile high spirits , spiced with an earthy , often indelicate sense of humour , while his later letters to his sister show a touching solicitude for the state of her health and spirits . |
| 21 | In 999 he speaks of delay in getting the fleet into action , and suggests that delay occurred on other occasions , but without explaining why . |
| 22 | A lone pair of gad wall preened on shrinking tussocks . |
| 23 | But his clothes were young men 's clothes — a very dark jacket buttoned on four buttons , revealing a triangle of dark tan shirt with a strip of black suede tie , and an inch and a half of tan cuff at each wrist . |
| 24 | Here every grace of hospitality would be offered to all who came , only warmth waited on further exchanges . |
| 25 | Beethoven 's Missa solemnis came on 11 records , with seven soloists , the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bruno Kittel Choir under Bruno Kittel . |
| 26 | As the week went on these tensions disappeared and there was a wonderful sense of relaxation and peace . |
| 27 | It seemed to be full of alcoves and angles and small grouped areas of being , though the room itself was a plain rectangle : fish swam in a high globe , a monstrously enlarged goldfish bowl on top of a bookcase , and flowers and foliage stood on small pedestals here and there . |
| 28 | The new tax in kind fell on all areas of Russia and on all types of peasant in 1922 except for the completely destitute . |
| 29 | Our cottage lay on stubby cliffs close by the sea . |
| 30 | The government for its part insisted on all-party negotiations to draw up the constitution , with elections to follow . |