Example sentences of "[vb base] on the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sleep on the floor without mattress or bedcover . |
| 2 | However they do desecrate the holiest places with their flash-bulbs and hand-held video cameras ; they invade peaceful monasteries and sleep on the outskirts of towns in their evil-smelling ‘ campers ’ . |
| 3 | We fly on the wings of mutual allure , but I 'm not sure whether we 've reached the heavy confidence stage yet . ’ |
| 4 | Larval dragonflies hunt on the bottom of ponds , grabbing worms and other small creatures with long protrusible mouth-parts . |
| 5 | Seabirds which hunt on the surface of the water use red oil droplets to cut out blue scattered light . |
| 6 | Water striders and pondskaters , which hunt on the surface of the water , have their eyes polarised in a similar way to reduce the glare in their aquatic home . |
| 7 | As Britain 's major ports teeter on the brink of a national dock strike , one of the smallest ports in the land has stopped work . |
| 8 | We er teeter on the edge of er a crisis virtually at the end of every day and if action is , and strong action is not taken very very quickly , er we have no doubt whatsoever , that the already serious level of , of er incidents within the prison system will escalate totally out of control . |
| 9 | The responsibility and duties of the family proceedings court cease on the making of the care order , subject to the provisions of section 34 which make provision for contact orders being made by the court . |
| 10 | The powers of the directors cease on the appointment of a liquidator . |
| 11 | To play you must deduce where 36 different images appear on the grid by studying a series of clues . |
| 12 | As he ran he saw two dots appear on the lip of the entrance . |
| 13 | As Harvey Wilson , says , ‘ Nobody puts their name to a business they 're not proud of and , by the same token , it gives the customer confidence to know that somebody is accountable at the end of the day … that they are dealing with a company that is owned and run by the people whose names appear on the top of letterhead . ’ |
| 14 | In Islington strange creatures appear on the streets at midday . |
| 15 | The other species do not have the same critical hatching requirements as N. battus and so the L3 appear on the pasture within 2-3 months of the eggs being excreted in the faeces . |
| 16 | These splendid and intricate bronze castings are enigmatic : they appear on the scene without apparent precursors and with no obvious descendants . |
| 17 | And , finally , , and appear on the road to the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 18 | Claire Hunt , for instance , noted in 1988 of North Western brewers Robinsons that they ‘ appear on the whole to be fairly oblivious to the individual merits of their historic pubs . ’ |
| 19 | And did n't a significant number of these artists appear on the bill at the Mandela birthday party ? |
| 20 | The strata are now much folded and appear on the surface as a series of concentric circles . |
| 21 | These are latent growing points which appear on the rootstocks of mature plants , sometimes appearing as young shoots and buds , at other times as rounded nodules . |
| 22 | Basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas appear predominantly on exposed areas of the head and neck , while in Caucasians , malignant melanomas frequently appear on the back in both men and women and also on the legs in women . |
| 23 | The five lines above the signature , which appear on the facsimile of the whole page ( p. 58 ) , have defied attempts to decipher them , but Unver , beneath the facsimile on p. 50 , adds what is apparently a summary of these lines : that is , " Above is a note of Molla Yegan 's recommending this person [ presumably Molla Gurani ] as Fatih 's Hoca . " |
| 24 | Startle eye-spots appear on the hood of the rearing cobra ( right ) , and even on the back of the head of the pearl-spotted owlet ( above ) . |
| 25 | Though the 500 subscribers to this volume were chiefly local , members of the nobility , as well as better-known poets , including Elizabeth Carter and Alexander Pope [ qq.v. ] , also appear on the list of them . |
| 26 | Seldom do so many and varied examples of the mapmaker 's skills appear on the market at the same time . |
| 27 | In addition to review for jurisdictional error , the courts have maintained control over errors of law within jurisdiction if they appear on the face of the record . |
| 28 | In the best years four extra plants appear on the book for every 10 grown . |
| 29 | Then allow your goal or Dream to take on a symbolic form , and appear on the grass in front of you . |
| 30 | Consumer goals which were never contemplated by the peasantry in the past , now appear on the screen in their own homes and villages . |