Example sentences of "[vb pp] on a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , in fact , as if the football pools had been won on a massive international scale . |
| 2 | In addition to building the RRS and the Rothera airstrip , BAS replaced its research station Halley , located on a fast moving ice-shelf , and bought a De Vailland Dash 7 aircraft , which was converted for Antarctic operation . |
| 3 | The room had black leather armchairs and couches scattered on a wall-to-wall pink carpet . |
| 4 | The next morning , Buzz sat on a pale blue chair before the window in Elinor 's bedroom . |
| 5 | But again , this is only to be expected on a cheap new instrument ( and not unheard of on new guitars costing ten times as much ) and easily fixed . |
| 6 | His head was growing heavy , he would ask for some coffee when the waiter returned ; it was dark indoors , darker than he would have expected on a showery early summer afternoon , when the sun outside does not dazzle . |
| 7 | It also involved us in playing ‘ When the Saints ’ ( which we 'd resisted up to then ) for the two policemen who caught us parked on a double yellow line . |
| 8 | Well there is a kind of motoring offence and it 's really a parking offence which we 're all familiar with , about which there is no doubt whatever , and it 's when one is parked on a double yellow line . |
| 9 | Figure 6.26 shows a wireframe drawing of a double sheaved , ball bearing pulley block as designed on a conventional three-dimensional CAD system . |
| 10 | It also noted that the Brady plan had been applied on a slow-moving voluntary basis which depended on the goodwill of creditor governments and banks , and claimed that in the absence of such goodwill debtor governments had had no alternative but to declare moratoriums as a means of attracting attention to their situation . |
| 11 | The President had seen the polls forecasting heavy defeat and had decided on a high-profile last-ditch effort to free the Iranian hostages . |
| 12 | She 'd decided on a plain pastoral view of the asylum and its grounds , it was supposed to be routine . |
| 13 | The cylinder itself should be positioned on a flat rigid surface : if the floorboards in the airing cupboard are at all uneven or if you need space for access to pipes , it is a good idea to mount it on a small platform . |
| 14 | The information will be collected on a confidential hot line , called Raceguard , operating on a 24-hour answerphone from next Tuesday . |
| 15 | It had begun in 1878 as a school chapel built on a narrow restricted site in Beamsley Street , Manningham , by Canon Scruton of St Patrick 's , to serve the workers at Manningham Mills , the largest silk spinning and weaving mill in Europe . |
| 16 | Upstairs , Bonjour Vietnam offers a bar built on a 30-foot curved glass fish tank ( above ) , a giant prawn in the window and set meals from £12.50 . |
| 17 | Fribourg is a small town built on a picturesque hilly site on a bend of the river Sarine . |
| 18 | However , the bulk of new housing has been built on a straightforward commercial basis and corresponds to the developments of the 1930s . |
| 19 | Adjacent to Caliban to the west , but separated by a small ravine which prevented direct access from one property to the other , was a house Vertigo built on a similar shaped area of land measuring 2.742 acres also fronting onto the ocean . |
| 20 | In North Yorkshire many barrows were built on a fertile rich brown-earth soil , which only later developed into the poor heathland podsol soil which covers the moors today , and similar changes occurred on other uplands . |
| 21 | Obviously , the LA has to be assured by the applicant that his proposed haulage operations are built on a sound financial foundation . |
| 22 | Models can be useful and have a part to play , if built on a sound theoretical basis . |
| 23 | The quick Prom is built on a single-sided printed circuit board ( p.c.b. ) and the component layout and full size copper foil master pattern is shown in Fig. 4 . |
| 24 | He had released the pressure of his emotions in the only way a society built on a stiff upper lip had left him — but his control over his real feelings had remained even then . |
| 25 | His situation was not unlike Forester 's in that he was cold , sleeping badly and eating out of tins warmed on a small portable stove . |
| 26 | Surgeons operated on a 22-year-old American male who had died from gunshot wounds . |
| 27 | Ambivalence poses the crucial problem of enforcement for regulatory agencies and their field staffs , because their authority is not secured on a perceived moral and political consensus about the ills they seek to control . |
| 28 | First , it is relative to the conditions which are imposed on a particular empirical enquiry . |
| 29 | The results of the project are to be shown on a new full-colour geological and mineral-occurrence map at 1:1 000 000 covering the whole country . |
| 30 | Both the ‘ Fine Rose ’ and the ‘ Superior Rose fully trimmed ’ would have been provided with buttoned rosettes , similar to those shown on a late nineteenth-century shroud in the Castle Museum , York . |