Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just as well that the tax price index , introduced by Nigel Lawson in an attempt to distract attention away from the inflationary impact of switching taxation from direct to indirect taxes , has never caught on as an indicator . |
| 2 | The naive inductivist account of science , which I will outline in the following sections , can be looked on as an attempt to formalize this popular picture of science . |
| 3 | For this reason , it should not be looked on as an end user language . |
| 4 | But he wanted to make it clear that he was there to be called on in an emergency . |
| 5 | But , in the end , Steven did n't mind at all when discerning folk puked up all over the loathsome Lost Boys and complained of dangerous levels of heartwarming brought on by an excess of Robin Williams . |
| 6 | She would have hurried on after an exchange of greetings and comments on the splendour of the morning but he moved forward to take a snip at a dandelion growing on the grass verge and contrived to block her path . |
| 7 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 8 | But the attitude of the civic authorities towards the public display of freaks was becoming increasingly severe , and Merrick was passed on to an Austrian or Italian manager , who took him on tour in Europe . |
| 9 | This is remarked on in an exchange between Zapp and Luke Hogan , chairman of the Plotinus English Department , before Swallow arrives : |
| 10 | ‘ I understand people associating me with bands I 've worked on as an engineer , but I do n't understand why I am the only engineer in the world who 's expected to be discriminating about the bands he 's worked with … ’ |
| 11 | The Labour Party 's ‘ Irish unity ’ excuse is a logical nonsense and it is usually tagged on as an afterthought to the comradely talk about the SDLP . |
| 12 | People like EMF and Jesus Jones have had a go , but they 've always gone more for the rock aspect , with the technology just tagged on as an afterthought . |
| 13 | Miss Brunton 's home backed on to an alleyway at the rear of their house . |