Example sentences of "[vb base] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sleep on a firm mattress — or , better still , a plank under the mattress .
2 Those having no money were forced to give up their clothes and sleep on the bare floor , often with fatal results .
3 MAX : I sleep on the right-hand side of my particular bed .
4 OSF on the other hand contends that the complex software is on schedule for the next phase , its Distributed Services Release due in September .
5 ‘ I only fly on the Russian Front .
6 His thoughts border on the day-at-a-time religion of the reformed alcoholic .
7 I slip on the red shoes and have a look in the mirror .
8 A typical domestic system has a central control unit with ( in Britain ) a 13A plug on a trailing lead .
9 SUEDE , CARTER USM , BABES IN TOYLAND and TEENAGE FANCLUB appear on a new Beechwood compilation LP .
10 The updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost .
11 It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern : too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 ; the updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost .
12 ‘ Partly because they appear on the individual pages - and partly because , if I do n't acknowledge authorship in some way or other , I shall be inundated with enquiries .
13 Members of the House of Lords appear on the Electoral Register for local and European electoral purposes only : they are allowed neither to vote in parliamentary elections nor to serve as Members of Parliament .
14 The signatures of Mark Rainsford and Arthur Guinness as they appear on the famous lease of 1759 .
15 None of these appear on the inexhaustive list published by Lars Gunnar Andersson and Peter Trudgill .
16 The television department in an advertising agency is responsible for the process of turning the creative team 's ideas , scripts and storyboards into finished TV or radio commercials and ensuring these appear on the right channel at the right time on the right day .
17 What Personal Computer can not take any responsibility for money sent to authors whose programs appear on the Mega Disk .
18 What Personal Computer can not take any responsibility for money sent to authors whose programs appear on the Mega Disk .
19 Opera and symphony concerts , cabaret and musicals , discos and night clubs , plays and experimental theatre all appear on the weekly list .
20 Five of the eight appear on the royal books for 1661 as members of the ensemble known as the Hautbois et musettes de Poitou .
21 Faint white spots next appear on the top surfaces of leaves , but turn the leaves over , and more prevalent patches will be found .
22 First , through registration , the terms and conditions of the asset sale agreement and all related agreements can be inspected by a third party as they appear on the public register .
23 Finally , after a long time , the bar is pushed so far inland that the marsh is completely eroded and the remains of the bar with associated sand dunes appear on the original coastline ( Fig. 8.18E ) .
24 Translucent , irregular , greyish-green to brownish spots appear on the mature leaves .
25 Two animated skeletons appear on an unusual wall monument of c.1710 by Francis Bird to Mrs Elizabeth Benson in St Leonard 's , Shoreditch .
26 Lt.-Col. Hoffman von Waldau , the Chief-of-Staff of X Corps , which now formed the spearhead on the Right Bank , opened with a thoroughly gloomy report .
27 Alec , played by Roy Barraclough , will get his dream job next month when he becomes entertainments boss on a luxury liner .
28 Here , we report on the combined use of preparative pulsed-field gel electrophoresis ( PFGE ) and interspersed repetitive sequence ( IRS ) polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) amplification to isolate two DNA markers from a 660 kb Sfi I fragment that contains locus DXS14 and maps to a region between disease-specific incontinentia pigmenti type 1 ( IP1 ) chromosome translocation breakpoints ( 1 ) .
29 A Scottish Homes report on the preliminary findings says the survey found that 20.8 per cent of Scotland 's houses , or 423,000 , showed evidence of damp , serious condensation or mould either singly or in any combination .
30 Then they walk up the drive and knock on the front door .
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