Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drinking men lay huddled in newspaper on benches , on railways stations , beneath the arches , beneath the Festival Hall . |
| 2 | You 've heard of love on the rebound , and falling for Fen could prove to be even more disastrous . |
| 3 | The current warm-weather soundtrack of choice for discerning numbskulls is Ugly Kid Joe , a quartet of stoned surfers who 've risen to power on the Young Dumb Fun ticket in a way that critically-defied combos like The Ramones never managed . |
| 4 | Customs men raided Timbmet 's yard at Bicester this afternoon … impounding twenty-four tons of Allerce … a Chilean hardwood which they 've had for sale on their books since nineteen ninty . |
| 5 | The moves , counter moves , rejections , romances and broken hearts are spun together effortlessly through the music and will strike a chord with any teenagers and ex-teenagers who have fallen in love on a Saturday night . |
| 6 | The bonus each policyholder will actually get will depend on the reversionary ( or annual ) bonuses they have received to date on the with-profits element of their policies and will probably be paid out as part of the 1993 bonus distribution in February or March 1994 . |
| 7 | The television puppets from Sesame Street have come to life on stage . |
| 8 | Many manufacturers have come to grief on the belief that technical solutions can be bought pre-packaged . |
| 9 | ‘ For some time , independents have argued for intervention on behalf of a British film industry : an initiative based around support for films with low production budgets , which neither copy American styles , nor turn into Euro-puddings . |
| 10 | They , they are entitled , if they elect to do so , to continue to be members of the local government 's evaluation schemes , so they are eligible and have applied for membership on it . |
| 11 | There is clear evidence that the peasantry have risen in rebellion on historic occasions , but how much likelihood is there of their political mobilisation in the changing context of rural Latin America ? |
| 12 | ‘ Aspirations of profit growth have turned into concentration on profit protection , ’ says Mr Lever . |
| 13 | Canada , Sweden and the US have decided against reprocessing on political , environmental and moral grounds . |
| 14 | Elsewhere , I have elaborated at length on the reasons why it is implausible to suggest that the first hunters were the ruling males of what Freud termed the ‘ primal hordes ’ , but rather the unmated , younger males of the all-male groups , Freud 's ‘ sons ’ . |
| 15 | We have agreed in principle on some completely new ideas of co-operation between Britain and the Russian defence ministries and the armed forces , in particular on the handling of military budgets , co-ordination between military and civilians , accountability to Parliaments and such matters . |
| 16 | Both the nilgai and the four-horned antelope were originally Indian woodland species that have adapted to life on the plains . |
| 17 | TWELVE Chinese claiming to be fleeing persecution following the Tiananmen Square massacre have arrived by boat on a South Korean island , reportedly seeking to defect to Taiwan . |
| 18 | I have negotiated with government on a number of business issues , so I think I have certain special skills to bring in , but they 're not necessarily the skills of someone used to dealing with huge budgets , because my company is quite small . |
| 19 | Two huntsmen have gone on trial on cruelty charges . |
| 20 | An especially important result of the establishment of both the HIDB and the WIIC is that at long last there are professional jobs in the Western Isles for at least some of those who have gone to university on the mainland and have previously had to stay there to work . |
| 21 | The 3 expert systems then developed have remained in use on the shop floor since the end of the trial . |
| 22 | Two airmen have appeared in court on a forty million pound arson charge after a fire destroyed a hangar at an RAF base . |
| 23 | TWO men have appeared in court on charges following a gang fight and shooting at the Market Trader pub , Kirkby . |
| 24 | Discussions between the FDA , the Japanese Ministry of Welfare and Health and the EC have led to agreement on proposals to avoid duplication of clinical trials on humans and reduce unnecessary animal testing . |
| 25 | Most of it they have left as moorland on which they keep sheep . |
| 26 | It is impossible to think of Aragorn as irretrievably damned for his ignorance of Christianity ( though it is a view some have tried to foist on Beowulf ) . |
| 27 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |
| 28 | Recent social and feminist historians who have considered the question have bid for explanation on the back of contemporary allegiances . |
| 29 | Children have choked to death on pen-tops , so make sure any tops have air holes . |