Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food was placed to sizzle on the barbecue , and was turned with the help of long utensils , and as she worked beside Silas , moving rapidly to turn first one piece and then another , Lucy became conscious of a feeling of quiet satisfaction . |
| 2 | Councillor Stevenson is well placed to comment on the carpet as he was once a weaver at Stoddard . |
| 3 | I am writing this letter in a personal capacity , but as Chairman of the Education Committee and a member of the Membership & Recruitment Committee , perhaps I am well placed to comment on the debate on entry requirements . |
| 4 | With a new applicant taking Yorkshire , with Granada strongly entrenched in Lancashire , and with ATV well placed to concentrate on the Midlands and give up its London weekend franchise , Rediffusion could reasonably assume that it would keep the London weekday contract and that ABC would move into the weekend slot vacated by ATV . |
| 5 | He knew the time because they had arranged to meet on the hour but he was a few minutes late and she was waiting . |
| 6 | Two policemen are killed during a break-in at the Presidio ( a San Francisco military base ) and a former military policeman ( Mark Harman ) is assigned to work on the case with his former commanding officer ( Sean Connery ) who he hates . |
| 7 | An area of the playground was allowed for this , though it was forbidden to slide on the pathways leading to the Boys ' Entrance and the Girls ' Entrance . |
| 8 | Hip Belt : A padded and shaped belt designed to sit on the hips and take the load from the shoulders . |
| 9 | Most analysts reckon some sort of reflex reaction is inevitable , although fund managers are expected to remain on the sidelines , perhaps even until the new government 's Budget is unveiled in two or three weeks time . |
| 10 | The main axe is expected to fall on the firm 's back office operations and among administrative staff in an effort to contain expenses . |
| 11 | Aläia was also expected to appear on the runway riding on the shoulders of Jean Paul Goude , but apparently he hid the bag containing his gold evening dress so he did n't have to do it . |
| 12 | The ICL machine , not expected to appear on the market until 1994 , will utilise up to 128 pairs of superscalar Sparc RISC chips — one CPU for the application , the other to drive the network — each with 64Mb memory . |
| 13 | In March 1404 he was nominated to serve on the king 's council , again as proof to sceptics of the king 's intentions to provide competent government . |
| 14 | This was to be repaid from savings of £7.5 million which were expected to accrue on the achievement of the closure . |
| 15 | But workers rejected that offer and the matter has now been referred to the national executive of the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which is expected to rule on the dispute in the next few days . |
| 16 | The cactus finch , for example , has a long beak designed to feed on the flowers of the prickly-pear cactus ; while its remarkable mangrove cousin uses its beak to manipulate twigs to extract insects from deep within the bark of trees . |
| 17 | He was forbidden to play on the grass . |
| 18 | Sergeant Troy had come to help on the farm . |
| 19 | The workload that students were expected to do on the ward , however , was exhausting . |
| 20 | They were expected to leave on the tide late last night and if everything goes according to plan will be back in Whitby by September . |
| 21 | Work is expected to start on the pub next week . |
| 22 | ‘ It is forbidden to fight on the Killing Ground , ’ he said , and paused while he considered the sense of this . |
| 23 | The high loading capacity of the existing warehouse floors meant that little structural alteration was required , and the new steel-framed structure , which is simply and elegantly expressed , was designed to rest on the party walls . |
| 24 | The two are source , but not binary compatible , and Sparc applications will have to be re-compiled to run on the Intel version , indeed to take advantage of Unix SVR4 features , existing SunOS operating system users will have to migrate their applications to Solaris 2.0 via the Transition pack announced recently by SunPro ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 25 | In fact , she was on the point of reining in when she saw that Beador had come to rest on the top of the trunk ; he stood there , poised like a trick rider in a circus . |
| 26 | Certainly no boyfriends were permitted to call on the boarders . |
| 27 | During the past 15 years patients have come to depend on the day hospital service . |
| 28 | The agricultural system was stable but not stagnant : it had come to depend on the cow , maize , and wheat , sensible rotations and no fallow . |
| 29 | Under Felipismo , Spaniards have come to depend on the state again , as they did for so long under Generalissimo Franco 's regime . ’ |
| 30 | For several reasons more people had come to depend on the cash purchase of goods . |