Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun sg] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , and I forgot to tell you yes , there 's quite a lot of visual art as well , and one of the really exciting things is our mail art exhibition , and that 's M A I L , where we 've invited people from all over the world , and within the community , to send in art on the theme of the rainforest . |
| 2 | Place a glass of water or beer on your head and lay down flat on the floor and then stand up . |
| 3 | It had been made by in 1906 , at Port Sonachan , and was stamped ‘ DS 1906 ’ , with an upside down horseshoe on the base . |
| 4 | 20 day later , while he was doing some finishing off work on the bungalow , he recklessly made a false statement , i. e. he told the purchaser that the bungalow was covered by the National House Builders Registration Council 's 10 year guarantee . |
| 5 | Do n't use soap , which dries up skin on the face . |
| 6 | I hope people at the back can hear , erm , we obviously took up action on the resolution passed last year , in two or three different ways . |
| 7 | One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone . |
| 8 | Their cottage at Spittalburn , midway between Forfar and Dundee , stands squarely in the path of a new section of dual carriageway and although the Scottish Office held up work on the section for a year , it was decided further delays could cost more than £100,000 a week . |
| 9 | Durham 's Ray Currie , drawn at the dam end , punched a groundbait feeder and maggot 60 yards out taking 16 specimens all of which had chunks missing and fungus growing following their close encounters with the scavenging birds which have taken up residence on the water . |
| 10 | Leopold Gratz , ( Socialist ) Foreign Minister in 1984-86 , was fined 450,000 schillings ( approximately US$40,000 ) after being convicted on Oct. 5 of bearing false witness in connection with the Lucona affair [ for details see pp. 38110 ; 38738 ] ; he had denied covering up evidence on the involvement of his friend Udo Proksch in the scandal , and announced that he would appeal . |
| 11 | Recycle water — for example , put washing up water on the garden . |
| 12 | More policemen took up station on the river walk . |
| 13 | Johnny Come Lately , the man to whom the Home Office refused a work permit in 1984 , was now fast making up ground on the inside . |
| 14 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |
| 15 | The snout is used to stir up mud on the river floor , to expose worms , crustaceans and other small organisms on which the fish feeds . |
| 16 | One farmer/contractor was transferring income from his contracting business to build up capital on the farm for long term family objectives . |
| 17 | This , of course , will use up space on the memory card , but in practice you probably would n't save too many versions of the pattern , as too many stitches between the repeats will lead to long floats on the reverse side of the knitting . |
| 18 | AN MP is keeping up pressure on the Government to improve East Anglia 's coastal defences after last month 's surge tide which resulted in widespread flooding . |
| 19 | Certainly it has kept up pressure on the Government to continue its public commitment to human rights , exemplified by President Fujimori 's directive warning that those securities services responsible for violations would be severely punished ; and the granting of access to Public Ministry prosecutors and representatives of the International Red Cross ( ICRC ) to all centres of detention in the emergency zones , including military bases , to check on the condition of detainees . |
| 20 | In the preceding months the PS had sought to step up pressure on the government ; it had joined with the PCP in tabling a censure motion in parliament in October 1989 attacking the government for its low ethical standards ; although the motion was defeated , attention was again turned to the then Finance Minister , Miguel Ribeiro Cadilhe , following allegations early in the year of his financial misconduct [ see p. 36945 ] . |
| 21 | What counts in cases such as this is ensuring continued pressure and publicity at national level , while also working with a local group , which can keep up pressure on the spot by stirring up the interest of local authorities and the regional branch of the National Trust . |
| 22 | From this time , we began to build up pressure on the Department , first on a weekly then on an almost daily basis , until eventually we heard that ministers had decided to fulfil the undertakings in the guardianship deed . |
| 23 | The defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 had opened up travel on the Continent , and Sewell , fully realising that his visits were cursory , seems nevertheless to have enjoyed them . |
| 24 | ( b ) If the law requires updating this can be done without taking up time on the floor of the House . |
| 25 | Ignore further misfires ( these are misses and cause no casualties ) and work out damage on the target as normal . |
| 26 | Their party will carry out research on the hole in the Ozone layer . |
| 27 | Research projects are concerned with housing for the elderly , the mentally handicapped and mentally ill and it is hoped to carry out research on the housing circumstances of single women , ethnic minority groups and the physically disabled . |
| 28 | Concern for the environment has focused out attention on the world 's ecological problems . |
| 29 | The fraud whose bunk was beside the stove and whose fall had been the hardest and cruellest of any sought out Holly on the perimeter path . |
| 30 | Chiang also sounded out Rhee on the possibility of basing his regime in South Korea in the event of Taiwan falling . |