Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No embolic signals were seen on recording from the right middle cerebral artery . |
| 2 | But he swore at a spectator who had provoked him during a game against Essex at Ilford and again on Sunday when he was racially abused on returning to the pavilion after scoring a half century which helped Middlesex clinch the Sunday League crown . |
| 3 | Anglo-Saxon battle based on drawing in the Canterbury Hexateuch . |
| 4 | This common bond can be based on living in the same area , or working in the same factory , or attending the same church , or being members of the same club . |
| 5 | Making Belfast Work , suggested one participant , only came about because of conflict research ; it was based on buying off the nationalist community . |
| 6 | Few spots in a country that is bent on careening into the future so effortlessly preserve the past in clapboard churches , colonial custom houses and a sailing tradition that stretches back 350 years . |
| 7 | The second is the smaller group of interviews with 55 grandparents carried out specifically for this book , and intentionally focused on ageing through the generations . |
| 8 | Governments and cities have seized on recycling as the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish going to landfills or being incinerated . |
| 9 | The railway companies did not initially appreciate their potential as a means of mass cheap travel and concentrated on providing for the better-off . |
| 10 | His senses were fading as his whole existence concentrated on taking in the next breath . |
| 11 | Ben hailed them , then concentrated on manoeuvring between the moored fishing boats . |
| 12 | To our relief , she missed out on all the formalities except for a perfunctory cry of ‘ GamBei ’ ( ‘ Down the hatch ’ ) and ‘ Greetings to our British friends ’ , and concentrated on tucking into the excellent meal — she gave the impression that she had come for the food and drink and nothing else . |
| 13 | Then , at an after-dinner speech in the town hall of Stockholm , Eliot said that he had experienced on learning of the award , … all the normal emotions of exaltation and vanity … with enjoyment of the flattery , and exasperation at the inconvenience of being turned overnight into a public figure " . |
| 14 | the hours spent on teaching during the normal school week , including religious education , but excluding the statutory daily act of collective worship , registration and breaks ; |
| 15 | In 1979 the state constitution was amended and a ceiling placed on spending by the state and in local jurisdictions within its borders . |
| 16 | The assumption is that Rizzo 's appointment to the finance post is a short-term measure and that his key function will be to work out a new pricing strategy , which means that anything we have heard on pricing on the new ES/9000s and AS/400s due next month will be overtaken by events . |
| 17 | He remained at home from work on various days through terror of being waylaid on emerging from the factory . |
| 18 | Waving to one side the 15–20- per cent changes in protein synthesis rates and enzyme activity I had reported , Francis Crick was explicit on this point at a Royal Society discussion meeting in London in 1977 when I presented the results we had by then obtained on imprinting in the chick and the effects of first exposure to light in the rat . |
| 19 | Or would have been had Gemma not insisted on remaining in the very centre of so much decay and corruption and " horridness ' , in Frizingley . |
| 20 | He told us unsettling stories of Chinese merchants who had insisted on travelling aboard the prahus to keep an eye on their cargo , and had somehow been lost overboard while their merchandise appeared for sale in harbours far from their intended destination . |
| 21 | Before her conversion , she would doubtless have insisted on waiting for the results of a number of studies being conducted by an international panel on climatic change set up by the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environmental Programme . |
| 22 | There was even a story , not necessarily apocryphal , that when a message arrived to tell one of the teachers that his father had died , Clive had insisted on waiting until the lunch break before passing it on . |
| 23 | A 10% deposit is usually required on ordering with the balance on completion . |
| 24 | While the co-operative , long-range , chain motion which is released on passing from the glass to the rubber-like state is not possible at , other relaxations can take place . |