Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 2 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 3 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 4 | It was discreetly positioned and bore the letters ‘ NR ’ painted on with white paint : NR for ‘ Nature Reserve ’ . |
| 5 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 6 | The conditions of the fifties meant that it was natural " for praise to be heaped on to democratic politics since it seemed to be doing the job very nicely . |
| 7 | But there has been an additional image barrier : the CAB as a generalist advice agency was often labelled a ‘ signposting ’ service whereby clients will simply be referred on to other organisations . |
| 8 | Pickers were diverted on to another plot after the theft was discovered . |
| 9 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 10 | For this reason they are not so popular with knitters who have standard gauge machines and they do n't seem to have caught on for chunky machines , possibly because they are too thick for the former and not thick enough for the latter . |
| 11 | As the media caught on to this aspect of the cult , it caused some skins to leave the movement and more violent people to join it . |
| 12 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 13 | From the early 1890s Marxism caught on among young radicals with remarkable speed . |
| 14 | The development strategy adopted in the Greater York study never envisaged that the settlement , or the district that got the new settlement would therefore get a corresponding reduction in the amount of land it had to provide to meet the needs of the Greater York area , the strategy we use to identify sites within the Greater York area that could be developed without compromising greenbelt objectives , and that the new settlement would be added on outside that area without a reduction in that that figure . |
| 15 | The next type of planned town includes those which are reasonably well dated to the tenth to thirteenth centuries and which were clearly new planned urban centres added on to existing villages by their owners as attempts to encourage trade . |
| 16 | Hall ( 1987 ) argues that most regulation is simply added on to existing frameworks ( often as the result of specific frauds or crises ) rather than building up new systems , and that the efficiency of regulation suffers as a result and costs escalate . |
| 17 | Studios were built and additional stages added on to old complexes . |
| 18 | Siddhis are the powers which can be added on to basic TM such as levitation , extra-sensory perception , telepathy , telekinesis , spiritual healing and control of mind over body . |
| 19 | For example , maintenance payments and child and one parent benefit can be added on to any earnings from employment to increase lone parents ' incomes . |
| 20 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 21 | So the delicate gilded furniture and the rococo mirrors had gone from his office ; and in their place were desks and chairs that renaissance princes might have sat on in perfect safety , even if they had weighed three hundredweight . |
| 22 | All about running for trains they could n't catch or being sat on by scaly monsters , and they got hold of books that told you that it meant Sex . |
| 23 | Meanwhile my cotton body was wound on to great bolts , each one five metres long . |
| 24 | But how did Charlie feel kissing and making love to one of the pop world 's latest idol , especially , as some on-set mischief makers suggested the two had got on so well , their celluloid games carried on into real life . |
| 25 | For example , what if Mr Heath had won the February 1974 general election , as he nearly did , and carried on as Prime Minister ? |
| 26 | It is only in the states of Western Europe , in the countries of the British Commonwealth , in the United States of America , and in a few Latin-American states that government is carried on with due regard to the limitations imposed by a Constitution ; it is only in these states that truly ‘ constitutional government ’ can be said to exist … |
| 27 | Joanne had carried on with normal life as best she could , even going to discos at seven months pregnant , and all-night parties . |
| 28 | Or the quarry would have carried on with this slate mine . |
| 29 | No doubt he himself would have difficulties : but he thought that the Conservatives , without entering into any general undertaking , would support his Government , which would not embark upon any extravagant legislation ; and in this way the King 's Government might be carried on for another Session or even longer . |
| 30 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |