Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes elites succeed in confining the struggle ; sometimes , as in China after the death of Mao Zedong , the masses may play a role by becoming mobilized on behalf of this or that elite faction . |
| 2 | Well , this was a turn-up , getting lectured on morality by a South London hood . |
| 3 | This is particularly important given that the explanation of the data given in Chapter 4 in terms of attention focusing relied on assumptions about memory being enhanced for some aspects of the stimuli and impaired for other aspects . |
| 4 | As soon as she returned from Cornwall , having called on Liza at Four Winds , she rang up Freddie and suggested a date . |
| 5 | Roy Jenkins in 1965 was an exception , having gone on record in a book written for the 1959 general election with his personal , and unauthorized , programme for ‘ the wholesale reform of which the Home Office is still in urgent need ’ . |
| 6 | As the Maastricht treaty gets ready to be flushed down the toilet , bands have already jumped the gun and gone Euro bonkers , the 12-starred flag having appeared on sleeves by The Divine Comedy , Simply Red , The Manics ( who , natch , could n't resist giving it a spot of slash ‘ n ’ burn ! ) and , most notably , Carter . |
| 7 | Blake pleaded guilty to the five charges against him under the Official Secrets Act which referred to him having passed on information since November 1951 . |
| 8 | Several hundred thousand Spaniards and non-Spaniards had died on the battlefields of Spain between 1936 and 1939 ; at least 200,000 more were to be executed during the next few years , 2,000,000 would suffer imprisonment or forced labour , and millions more again faced a lifetime of discrimination for having fought on behalf of the Republic . |
| 9 | Having worked on deprivation at the Home Office , he became head of the Family Policy Studies Centre . |
| 10 | The content was precisely the same sort of thing as the play 's having begun on Saturn with Helen of Troy in the audience , which never happened . |
| 11 | ( 4 ) Political resources , such as the access to decision making bestowed on politicians by their election into office . |
| 12 | Through various tactics such as postponing , returning reports for further clarification , and stalling based on excuses like ‘ bad timing , ’ the change efforts were effectively squashed . |