Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite two late goals by MBS , the BNFL side hung on to win 4–3 in a thrilling encounter in the Midlands . |
| 2 | A 79-year-old woman who was attacked and robbed of her handbag as she walked near Gateshead town centre has been admitted to hospital for observation after suffering a heart flutter brought on by stress . |
| 3 | With the building boom brought on by suburbanization , land for a chapel could now be bought in prominent locations : the days of buildings tucked into a court of back lane had passed . |
| 4 | The process which had begun with Lavoisier 's study of respiration and continued with Prout 's work on digestion led on to studies of proteins and fats . |
| 5 | This tension led on to attempts to fuse the government parties in 1920 , to the failure of almost every government policy , and to complete deadlock by 1921 . |
| 6 | Rafaelo Falah , a Libyan-born Jew who lives in Rome , was downing his houmous alongside Israel 's tourist minister in the ceremony put on to welcome the Libyans to Israel . |
| 7 | Almost all women were in practice put on to piece-work as soon as they had " learnt the case " ( that is they followed the pattern of the male apprentice Chalmers ) . |
| 8 | Indeed , it is interesting to speculate what sort of state the region and the rest of the country would have been in now had James Callaghan 's moribund administration held on to power in 1979 . |
| 9 | Yes Chairman , the figure of a hundred thousand as we said did , was erm a figure quoted on by account chief 's executive of the purchasing consortium erm , that was spoken at a public meeting held here in Harlow last week erm the issue of the the transport around the area erm , was accepted by the the chief executive of the health authority erm or of that of the consortium erm , and the and the view that it would be much more difficult with the lack of public transport to get to the more relo , remote areas of Essex the the reason that the erm reduced use of London was put into this report was also erm , clearly stated by the chief executive , i it 's their clear aim to provide more of , to purchase more of the services from within the north Essex area , and that was stated in a major part of the conta , of of their erm achievements and that automatically means a reduced amount of choice for those people who would otherwise for , to London . |
| 10 | We were there in early December , and the work carried on after dark very often , lit only by the exterior lights of the melin , which were scarcely adequate illumination . |
| 11 | Eleanor 's cold green gaze locked on to Jessamy 's face . |
| 12 | Possible Lower Palaeozoic sources will only be of interest where they have escaped premature maturation brought on by burial under thick Devonian cover , a factor very difficult to assess ahead of analytical work in areas where the Devonian has itself suffered erosion . |
| 13 | Have heater switched on in cockpit for a prescribed period . |
| 14 | They have seen their work taken on by people with different motivations and agendas. and fear that such disparity must weaken both impact and cohesion of purpose . |
| 15 | British viewers already have one answer available to them : the first episode has been released here on video by Warners , with a strange , abrupt ending tacked on to offer one solution to the mystery . |
| 16 | A " customer " is a person with or for whom a firm carries on , or merely intends to carry on , " regulated business " or other business carried on in connection with that regulated business ; the reference to " other business " does not make someone a customer if he would not otherwise be but seems merely to extend the scope of the activities covered by the COB Rules . |
| 17 | Thus the structure of the section presupposes that the profits of a business carried on in Hong Kong may accrue from different sources , some located within Hong Kong , others overseas . |
| 18 | On the commissioner 's submission the requirement of condition ( 3 ) would be otiose , since it would be sufficient to show that profits were earned by a business carried on in Hong Kong to make them taxable . |
| 19 | The relevant business of the taxpayer was the exploitation of film rights exercisable overseas and it was a business carried on in Hong Kong . |
| 20 | It is important to realise that the complexity of the business carried on by solicitors in partnership is such as to make the adoption of a standard draft risky and unsatisfactory . |
| 21 | On 15 October the Chief Executive of Lautro notified Norwich of Lautro 's intention to conduct a full investigation into the business carried on by Winchester . |
| 22 | ‘ On 15 October 1990 the Chief Executive of Lautro notified Norwich of Lautro 's intention to conduct a full investigation into the business carried on by Winchester . |
| 23 | It 's a formidable task in a Western European market wracked by a crisis brought on by overcapacity , the dumping of products from Eastern Europe and falling demand for fertilizers in general . |
| 24 | Though earlier I criticised Dale Spender for confusing two different things , in fact it is not always easy to make a clear-cut distinction between sexism in language and sexism projected on to language by systems of linguistic analysis . |
| 25 | Then he and his three uninjured crew scrambled on to life-rafts — and were themselves rescued by helicopter . |
| 26 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 27 | During the fever brought on by wounds , forced marches , wet and cold he had dreamed many odd and discomforting things , but never anything like this . |
| 28 | Angina is a severe pain in the chest brought on by exertion and relieved by rest . |
| 29 | They wiped out the buffalo , more or less wiped out the Indians and , eventually , were driven away themselves by loneliness , extreme weather , drought , and the loss of topsoil brought on by over-farming . |
| 30 | The argument relied on to support that submission is set out in the judgment in the following passage : ‘ The argument there is that on their arrival there is no home and there is no financial support forthcoming from the plaintiff who himself lives on state benefits . |