Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Les Stewart , Senior Manager at Oban , who has responsibility for Scarinish , had perceptively anticipated that I would not be over-extended during my stay on the island . |
| 2 | Baron Grimm , with whom Mozart had finally fallen out , arranged for his departure on a slow , cheap coach , which took 10 days to reach Strasbourg . |
| 3 | Technologically-induced change in these areas is being examined for its impact on employee well-being and performance . |
| 4 | Four weeks ago a girl who worked for him , Diana Travers , was found drowned following a party given for his wife on her birthday , a party at which he was expected to be present . |
| 5 | A side-effect of this is that if your mail starts showing your long address as opposed to the short address given for your name on the list , the dopey list software rejects it . |
| 6 | Jovellanos , in his campaign for technical education and the useful arts as a means of raising living standards , may be forgiven for his attacks on the dead languages . |
| 7 | Great Britain , however , relied for her defence on her naval supremacy , and in 1914 the army consisted wholly of volunteers in the regular and territorial forces . |
| 8 | As in the case of the central government , the new Bihar ministry relied for its survival on the outside support of the two communist parties and the BJP . |
| 9 | On first seeing All Quiet on the Western Front it was as if the whole cast had marched through my life on their way to Wallsend station and the battlefields of Europe . |
| 10 | Christianity , in common with other religions , depended for its spread on several concepts . |
| 11 | The authoritarian paterfamilias presided over the institutionalisation of the double standard , while the pedestalised mother and wife depended for her purity on the degradation of the fallen woman . |
| 12 | Although these depended for their success on voluntary support , the Association went on to lobby for new towns sponsored by the State . |
| 13 | This makes one wonder just how many other kinds of excavations have depended for their chronology on similar evidence . |
| 14 | As yet , however , there was no indication from the accounts available to Gould that these different species of finch depended for their characteristics on their different localities . |
| 15 | But Mansell , still bruised and shaken after his accident on Saturday , had to overcome a poor start , which had resulted in him being passed by team-mate Riccardo Patrese on the opening lap . |
| 16 | But not too many tears should be shed for her loneliness on Christmas Day . |
| 17 | Functionalist theorists have also been attacked for their emphasis on the functional nature of stratification . |
| 18 | The casualties were carried past our position on their way to the First Aid post . |
| 19 | Let me remind the cynics opposite that yours is the only Group on this Council which has voted against our proposals on disability . |
| 20 | The 14 year old girl was attacked near her home on the Grovelands estate in Kidlington . |
| 21 | Perhaps she had been dropped onto his path on purpose . |
| 22 | Occupied in their garden on a June day in 1797 , they looked up to see a figure standing in a gateway at the top of the gentle slope one hundred yards from the mansion . |
| 23 | But the Judge said he was satisfied Brady was unlawfully evicted from his bedsit on Oatlands Road , but he added he was also satisfied that had the landlord gone to court to get him out he would have been successful . |
| 24 | Julio César Turbay Ayala , the president of the Liberal Party ( Partido Liberal — PL ) and President of the Republic in 1978-82 , and Misael Pastrana Borrero , the president of the opposition Social Conservative Party ( Partido Social Conservador — PSC ) , resigned from their posts on Dec. 14 , 1989 , in protest at the indiscipline shown by both parliamentary groups in pressing for referendums on both political reform and on the government 's policy of extraditing drug traffickers to stand trial in the United States . |
| 25 | The First Vice-President of Panama , Ricardo Arias Calderón , resigned from his post on Dec. 17 , declaring at a press conference that the government of President Guillermo Endara Galimany was incapable of dealing with the corruption , unemployment or poverty in Panama . |
| 26 | Thorfinn sent Tuathal to sleep for ten minutes and , when he returned , dropped in his place on the bare earth of an old wattle barn , asleep before he stopped moving . |
| 27 | This work was summarized in his Studies on the Periodicity of Earthquakes ( 1938 ) . |
| 28 | A Spanish parliamentary commission , which had visited El Salvador in November 1990 to investigate the murder of the Jesuits ( five of whom were Spanish ) , reported in its findings on Jan. 29 that the involvement of the Salvadorean armed forces in the murders was evident , and that others apart from the nine soldiers at present accused also bore responsibility . |
| 29 | The Tynes , perched in their multitudes on the hand-carved cart that had lain cherished and unused in their garage . |
| 30 | When I was immersed in my book on Coleridge I used to read you some of his letters . |