Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 2 | Lee Harpin ODs on a long weekend of TV football |
| 3 | In the eighth minute Leicester drew level as Wright pounced on a loose ball after Gee 's shot had been blocked , to score his 15th goal of the season . |
| 4 | The Eibenstein stands on a small hill in its own lovely park and garden , yet it is right in the middle of this bustling resort . |
| 5 | A team at the University of Dundee reported on a neural computer that checks cervical smears containing up to 200,000 cells and decides whether they are abnormal or not with 96 per cent accuracy . |
| 6 | Never was a labour more arduous , and it was without his former youthful enthusiasm that Picasso began on a great canvas that was to be the first result of his researches . ’ |
| 7 | A Landsat TM image of Leicestershire recorded on a cloud-free day in July 1984 constitutes the basic data source . |
| 8 | In 1975 , Branson went on an exploratory trip to Jamaica with his lawyer and friend Charles Levison . |
| 9 | Contrary to prediction , we find Ruritania embarking on a hopeless war with a much stronger neighbour . |
| 10 | Like a lot of the greats of that era , Ivan won on a wide variety of venues , the Severn , the Trent , all of the Fenland rivers , not small matches either . |
| 11 | Lucian Freud embarking on a mammoth artistic task which occupied several months of early morning work . |
| 12 | Full-back Irwin left on a free transfer to Oldham — who sold him on to Manchester United for £750,000 . |
| 13 | Richard Barnett reports on a remarkable comeback . |
| 14 | Curry Rivel sits on a low ridge nearly two hundred and seventy feet above sea level ; not high ground , to be sure , but high enough to afford panoramic views all around over the low-lying Somerset Wetlands . |
| 15 | Ah , here we are , " Mrs Geary pounced on a stout little package , a thick blue paper bag , its mouth folded as securely as a glued envelope . |
| 16 | One of the first he had received from Sloane reported on a new hothouse at Chelsea and listed the exotics already growing there . |
| 17 | But I do know that England drew on an enormous well of self-belief . |
| 18 | South Vaagsö lies on a narrow strip of shoreline beneath a sheer rock face several hundred feet high , the town 's unpainted wooden buildings straggling along the three-quarters of a mile of main road running parallel to and some 50 yards from the shoreline . |
| 19 | George Wheeler lives on a remote farm in Worcestershire . |
| 20 | Mr Biffen 's plea at the monthly meeting of Aberdeen and Kincardine NFU area executive followed on from an Ellon branch resolution urging the NFU to detail on a regular basis . |
| 21 | There may even be an emblematic quality in the image which Fowles records as the inspiration for The French Lieutenant 's Woman ; of Sarah Woodruff poised on an extreme , southerly edge of England , staring across the Channel towards an imaginary lover . |
| 22 | Lindford CC and Lindford & Bordon Youth CC embarked on a major fund-raising campaign and most of the £5,400 has now been collected . |
| 23 | Jane pulled on a dry smile , making the skin crinkle round the margins of her eyes . |
| 24 | After 14 years working in the post room , post messenger Tom Chandler departed on a high note on March 4 . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's a legal matter , it will all arrange itself presently , ’ Colberg answered on a light note of reassurance . |
| 26 | Carrefour sat on a low wall that stretched out from the side of a building , leaning his back against the building 's wall and tootling to himself on a child 's flute . |
| 27 | Niall McDiarmid reports on a worrying trend . |
| 28 | As you said in London , Maggie works on a wide scope . |
| 29 | Maurice Paterson concluded on an optimistic note with references to the many new faces at the sales support conference . |
| 30 | Ruth sat on an upright bentwood chair in front of the wash stand in her bedroom , and stared at her reflection in the looking-glass . |