Example sentences of "[vb past] on an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the mid-1970s ( the punk moment ) to 1984 the dominant sensibility was a pop sensibility which had , at its cutting edge , an account of itself which drew on an avant-garde critique of mass culture ; this was the account developed by Paul Morley and the other theorists of the ‘ new pop ’ . |
| 2 | The neo-Romantic poet and painter David Jones drew on an eclectic range of writing styles to create a whole series of semi-private painted inscriptions . |
| 3 | But I do know that England drew on an enormous well of self-belief . |
| 4 | The Morning Advertiser of 24 September reported on an in-depth survey that it had carried out into the effects of the guest beer provision . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , Niki soon built on an overwhelming lead in the championship , though a first crisis came at Long Beach when Audetto suggested that Clay Regazzoni ought to have his day in the sun . |
| 6 | Whitby police are looking for thieves who preyed on an elderly woman living alone and made off with family heirlooms worth £15,000 . |
| 7 | We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ This time we pinpointed the English dangermen and concentrated on an eight-man push at every scrum . |
| 9 | One girl from Harvard 's administration department insisted that one gullible dealer tried on an undersized blazer . |
| 10 | I do n't know that I 've got any ambitions that way although you never know , do you now , what they say there 's many a good tune played on an old fiddle I thought you was going to say old women do n't , older women do n't appeal to me , but what about the one who raped me when I was thirteen ? |
| 11 | Latimer 's voice came on an indrawn breath . |
| 12 | ‘ In a cliff on the edge of the city , about 2,500ft up from the valley floor , we came on an old tomb , full of bones and ceramic pieces . |
| 13 | It happened on an ordinary day , |
| 14 | The crash happened on an acute bend at Hallikeld Corner on the A684 road to Osmotherley . |
| 15 | A teacher at the junior high school in the town of Kizu made them hold negative and positive terminals while he turned on an electric current . |
| 16 | She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies . |
| 17 | It seemed the recently created Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission frowned on an amateur station which undermined the popularity of commercial stations , and M.P . 's were being asked to do something about it . |
| 18 | In New York , UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali informed Alatas that the UN was studying the report of his special envoy , Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako , who arrived on an official visit to Indonesia on Feb. 8 and made a two-day visit to East Timor on Feb. 13-14 . |
| 19 | Meredith followed her line of sight and saw that it rested on an oldish-looking photo . |
| 20 | Jimmy Carter 's presidency , like that of Gerald Ford , began on an optimistic note with commentators deriving satisfaction from the fact that for the first time for eight years president and Congress would be in the hands of the same party . |
| 21 | In the days when tuna were caught by the pole and line method , the dolphins were rarely involved or injured , but when the US introduced the purse seine fishing technique in the late 1950s , the slaughter of dolphins began on an unprecedented scale . |
| 22 | Most branches of the ROK government were now cooperating with ECA ; the exceptions were the defence and police authorities , which spent on an extravagant scale . |
| 23 | It relied on an effective flow of information between agencies ( see below ) and from the community and was undertaken with a view to avoiding crisis intervention and undue reliance on statutory services . |
| 24 | Within months he embarked on an extensive programme of reforms covering the conduct of the clergy , the building of churches and schools , and in 1874 the opening of St Peter 's College , Partickhill , a seminary for the training of local-born priests . |
| 25 | Nothing further was heard from him on that subject but in the meantime Whitbread had made contact with a Bedford surgeon , Samuel Young , who embarked on an extended trial of the remedy over the course of the following three years . |
| 26 | After the war Lucienne Palmer ( Mrs Hill ) embarked on an acting career and thence to playwriting , translation and adaptation from the French , part-time work as a lay psychotherapist in an N.H.S. therapeutic community , and , latish in life , her very first love of all-painting : London exhibition 1988 . |
| 27 | Since previous to the revolution the majority of women had very low levels of education and , therefore , few opportunities open to them , the FMC embarked on an educational program and a rehabilitation scheme for the many women who found themselves in degrading and unrewarding situations . |
| 28 | They renamed it ‘ DJ 's Hotel ’ and embarked on an ambitious plan which would involve the ebullient and talkative Johnstone acting as mine host . |
| 29 | On the strength of this , Tetley embarked on an 18-month factory retooling programme . |
| 30 | He first embarked on an Open University degree in the technology faculty some ten years ago , but gave it a rest for a few years before starting in earnest in 1986 , in his second year at Wedgwood . |