Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 2 | These apartments situated right on the water have been awarded the highest possible classification by the English Tourist Board 2–5 Keys and Highly Commended . |
| 3 | Situated right on the beach and in the lively ‘ Golden Zone ’ , a wide variety of boutiques , restaurants , bars and discos lie practically at your doorstep ! |
| 4 | The ideal Family hotel , the Sandbanks is one of the only hotels in the area situated right on the beach , one of the very few in the UK to hold the coveted EEC Blue Flag Award for clean beaches . |
| 5 | Yep , well each station in those days had one of the war-time sirens on , on , situated right on the top of the tower of these fire stations , enormous great sirens with a very piercing , loud sound , erm so that was the audible warning , to tell them that they were wanted in the fire station . |
| 6 | The Metropole is the only hotel in Bellagio situated right on the lakeside , as well as being in the village centre , it is in fact one of the finest locations in Bellagio . |
| 7 | Situated right on the lakeside and next to the picturesque harbour in the centre of Menaggio , is the Hotel Bellavista . |
| 8 | Having consulted widely on the subject , we have decided to extend the criminal law dealing with squatting . |
| 9 | After a few days of the Novotel , I was able to move to the Trianon , a magnificent Edwardian building , well placed right on the edge of the park . |
| 10 | I suggested that they had more than likely received a stern lecture in lieu of a death sentence ; in the world of Arabs , blame for unsanctioned sex is placed wholly on the shoulders of the female . |
| 11 | Where prices were once held constant for five year periods , from 1976 onwards they have been revised annually on the basis of a five-year moving average of world market prices . |
| 12 | As you will have heard perhaps on the radio or TV the Royal Bank of Scotland is to reduce its staff by 3,500 over about three years , mostly by natural wastage . |
| 13 | Cowley leafed through the file that Bodie had gathered together on the girl . |
| 14 | The young wheat is streaked by silver lines of water running between the ridges , the sheep are gathered together on the slopes . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I think it would have been easier just to take his word for it that I 'd boobed , fallen down on the job . |
| 16 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 17 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 18 | Dr Nathanson said that a reply had been received only on the eve of the press conference and did not alleviate all its concerns . |
| 19 | In the end , de Gaulle could only secure peace at the expense of a series of humiliating concessions to the FLN — concessions which could be justified only on the grounds that they averted the yet higher costs of not making them . |
| 20 | I speak with e some experience in the situation where two sites that will be within half a mile of that which was erm supported by the inspector , were dismissed basically on the basis that if I read the quotes for you . |
| 21 | In each case there can be no doubt that the advantages offered by the trust over the civil-law method were significant : performance in specie was a real possibility in each case ; that this was so depended entirely on the fact that trusts were subject to a different procedural order . |
| 22 | We were a long way from Orange , isolated in the farmhouse , and we knew how unpleasant the next month was going to be depended entirely on the whims of the staff . |
| 23 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 24 | Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side . |
| 25 | Gran has joined in on the act . |
| 26 | Naturally , such allegations will rarely be made , although the defence of " justification " requires them to be proven only on the balance of probabilities , and not on the higher criminal standard , " beyond reasonable doubt " . |
| 27 | It is unfortunate that the verse saga ascribed to Llywarch Hen , which celebrates Cynddylan 's defence of the River Tern in Shropshire on the Powys border and laments the destruction of his residence at Pengwern , situated perhaps on the Wrekin or at nearby Wrockwardine , is essentially unhistorical , but the statement , ‘ I saw armies on the ground of the field of Cogwy [ Maes Cogwy ] and the battle full of affliction : Cynddylan was an ally ’ , may possess value as an independent fragment . |
| 28 | A major supermarket has just unveiled four new Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle pizzas and Dr Mumby says the way the foodmakers have jumped in on the Turtle band-wagon is wrong . |
| 29 | Clara , perched nervously on the edge of her easy chair , was almost too overwrought to continue the conversation , but she managed to say , " You mean you really think I might be able to go ? " |
| 30 | No one 's temper was improved when they learned that the Land Rover had parked right on the patch of ground they were going to plant things in . |