Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] on [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tests were based on European Standards , adapted to conditions in the home , and were carried out on Maples ' 100% nylon twist-pile carpet and on tiled flooring . |
| 2 | A MAJOR environmental scheme is to be carried out on Cookstown 's main street — the longest and widest in Ireland . |
| 3 | It was decided to remove the guns with their powder and shot to lighten the ship ; this was carried out on Sunday 's high tide . |
| 4 | Because so little work had been carried out on Hector 's dolphin before Slooten and Dawson began their studies , it is impossible to even guess at the number of dolphins which had been annually killed before 1984 . |
| 5 | GADP co-ordinates all the work being carried out on SCOTVEC 's group awards comprising National Awards ( including Scottish Vocational Qualifications , ( SVQs ) ) and tailored awards devised to meet the needs of particular organisations and employers . |
| 6 | The Third Directorate of the KGB , responsible for defence of the Soviet Constitution , was closed down on Bakatin 's orders on Sept. 24 . |
| 7 | A pilot is currently required to enter the canal and can be called up on VHF Ch16 , but canal director , Seppo Koivupuro , says that this requirement may soon cease . |
| 8 | A year later Frederick I of Prussia ordered that in future deserters should have their nose and one of their ears cut off and be sent to hard labour for life , while after the Seven Years War a chain of military posts was set up on France 's frontiers to prevent the escape abroad of soldiers fleeing from their units . |
| 9 | She had been brought up on Ireland 's suffering under British rule . |
| 10 | When you 're on blankets and you 've been brought up on blankets er you 're used to blankets |
| 11 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
| 12 | Yeah , brought up on Mackintosh 's toffees and |
| 13 | The books from which the children had taken extracts were laid out on Edward 's desk . |
| 14 | Normally kept in the chest of drawers behind the bed , the lace christening robe and petticoat embroidered with pearls is laid out on nanny 's bedcover . |
| 15 | Scotland Yard is lending Mr Porceddu 10 officers to help him to keep tabs on the 100 ooligans whose names have flashed up on Fifa 's ticket computer . |