Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who actually sits in on these video meetings . |
| 2 | Old time pro Brad Bowman drops in on this year 's comp and shows good stylish skating , unlike Davross who amazed visiting US skaters Lance Mountain , John Lucero , Steve Keenan and Spidey with his unstylish but entertaining hang-ups ( yeah Jase ) . |
| 3 | Redhead , however , is also a great country-lover and he writes eloquently on this theme for the magazine Country Living . |
| 4 | In spite of her misadventure , Diana looks back on that trip to Val Claret as one of the most enjoyable and carefree holidays of her life . |
| 5 | Diana now looks back on those days at Coleherne Court as the happiest time of her life . |
| 6 | The almost ceaseless trade winds of the central Pacific propel the Ocean 's surface waters westward on both sides of the equator , forming the basis of the two enormous — but essentially very simple — circulatory systems of currents that dominate the Ocean . |
| 7 | Your mother looks well on these photographs though . |
| 8 | He lives here on that hill behind the village . |
| 9 | The same logic will work in any situation where one set of real parameters depends smoothly on another set . |
| 10 | And before I even started , he called me over and he was the sort of person who , when he signalled you over , you tended to go over there , and he said here , it says here on this programme that we 're finishing at four thirty . |
| 11 | but a decrease that bears equally on all producers , whatever their size or location ; |
| 12 | This problem does not affect all third parties to the same extent since the problem of " wasted votes " bears heavily on those parties whose support is spread across the country as opposed to those whose support is regionally concentrated . |
| 13 | The SNR shell shows clearly on all images in the west but is too faint to follow to the eastern half . |
| 14 | NO CANDLES TONIGHTS : Acts well on this track and is taken to gain third success here this term . |
| 15 | Whilst it is hoped that this text as a whole will contribute to the development of the personal qualities necessary for successful salesmanship , this chapter concentrates specifically on those aspects of international selling with which a firm either exporting or contemplating the same should be familiar . |
| 16 | I expect SHe hardly gets off on this stuff . |
| 17 | He walks through there and he gets up on that shed at the bottom of the garden next door but one . |
| 18 | Ali hands me his briefcase , gets up on this toes and dances to his left . |
| 19 | " The amount the young can do nowadays — now when I was carrying Dan I was not able to get up for days together , me ankles swoll so , and I 'ad dizzy spells , something terrible , but she still gets around on that bike , perky as Punch . |
| 20 | True enough but , as I shall argue below , AI is not an experimental science but an engineering technique or , if you want something more dignified , a practical task in the alchemical tradition , and what I have to say about its suggestiveness for investigating the nature of consciousness rests entirely on that fact . |
| 21 | His chief fame rests not on any achievement of his own , but on that of his protege , Sir Joseph Paxton . |
| 22 | The purchaser who relies solely on this mortgage report takes on the risk of unexpected building defects . |
| 23 | The pilot light burns continuously on most boilers , and lights the main burners when the programmer switches on the main gas supply . |
| 24 | At least if a guy from a local station gets a prominent network job , it reflects well on that station . ’ |
| 25 | You have certain formatted sections that are the news , straight stuff , or running tabular matter or whatever , but then somebody weighs in on each section , at El Sol we have a graphics person on each desk , but they 're divided into work groups so different work groups do different pages . |
| 26 | Place this on the very top of the roof so that it bends over on each side . |
| 27 | ‘ The points collation system is very detailed and focuses individually on each TNT principle . |
| 28 | ICL , now 80% owned by Fujitsu Ltd , says margins on its hardware sales have shrunk as much in the last 18 months as in all the five years preceding , and it aims to drive revenues from its services business even higher as it focuses more on that market , through organic growth , joint ventures , marketing agreements and by acquisition . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Galerie St Etienne follows up on this year 's National Gallery retrospective with ‘ Käthe Kollwitz in celebration of 125th anniversary of the artist 's birth ’ with working drawings and proof states of prints . |
| 30 | At ridges in the mid-oceans molten rock rises from the mantle below the crust and spreads out on either side to form new ocean floor . |