Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | How to crack down on increasing levels of vandalism and the emergence of street gangs in the area will be decided today at a special meeting of the council 's Police Liaison Committee . |
| 2 | In an effort to cut down on unnecessary distribution of papers , I do not propose to circulate this list to all members . |
| 3 | There have been many memorable moments : watching a gyr falcon trying to out-manoeuvre puffins in flight off the headland of Tjörnes ; finding purple sandpipers , dunlin , redshank and Arctic terns all breeding together near Núpscatla ; the spectacular east coast road which in places cuts across forty-five degree mountain slopes where you can look down on vast flocks of moulting eider drakes on the sea below . |
| 4 | It is not the looming tyranny of prefab structures , square and scowling down on treeless roads of cracked cement , strangled shrubberies and dull-hued minis all in a row . |
| 5 | He spent his time putting down on odd scraps of vellum his different thoughts on what he had learnt over the past few weeks . |
| 6 | With its current penchant for clamping down on perceived violations of its copyright , AT&T 's Unix System Laboratories Inc is now coming down on Unix Solutions for its use of the Unix logo in its company name . |
| 7 | At some police stations , when a suspect is in custody , his name may be written down on different pieces of paper on sixteen separate occasions . |
| 8 | I think it reflects all the hard work put in on convincing people of our case . ’ |
| 9 | I dropped in on long sessions of talk , putting the world to rights — after all that was supposed to be one of the main aspects of college education was n't it ? |
| 10 | Presented by Michaela Strachan , the programme has been homing in on different varieties of animals and conservation projects in countries all around the world . |
| 11 | Sometimes even junior Libyan officials dug their heels in on particular points of practical application of rules , and rejected all attempts by their colleagues and superiors to persuade , cajole , order , bully them into expediting business . |
| 12 | The British ambassador in Washington was consulted on a number of occasions by Kennedy , and sat in on top-level sessions of the US National Security Council . |
| 13 | Now let it rub off on greedy directors of other companies , especially those recently privatised , who have been giving themselves huge rises while keeping down workers ' pay . |
| 14 | He also claimed that there was " no independent constitutional authority for Congress to go off on investigatory frolics of its own " . |
| 15 | Check up on possible sales of raffle tickets . |
| 16 | The advance party has now returned to base camp to spend a few days feeding up on military rations of sausage and beans and chocolate and pear ready for the final push . |
| 17 | The nurse had n't been round yet to close the curtains and Charles Paris and Harry Chiltern looked out on galvanized frames of blackness . |
| 18 | Take breakfast at the Hotel Concordia and you look out on unrivalled views of Venice . |
| 19 | Bets would be made out on odd scraps of paper with all the formula of doubles , ups and downs , trebles , box ups , each way bets , in fact any means of winning a few shillings and saving their stake money that could be found . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd love to splash out on lovely bits of lacy stuff , but I 'd do better spending my money on a deep-fat fryer for all the notice my other half would take . |
| 21 | EMSAs were carried out on nuclear extracts of non transfected Hep3B cells ( END ) in the presence ( + ) or absence ( - ) of IL-6 , and on nuclear extracts of uninduced Hep3B cells transfected with C/EBPδ . |
| 22 | The reason given for the ban was that Professor Saburo Ienaga , a noted historian , had refused to strike out a reference in his book to bacteriological and other experiments carried out on Chinese prisoners of war by the now-defunct Imperial Army . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , there is a computation that can be carried out on local areas of the image that will do the same job . |
| 24 | When this computation is carried out on local areas of the image , the product of the computation goes from positive to negative at the sites of maximal change . |
| 25 | Good old Nick , I thought , now I 've got my old job back on direct account of him . |
| 26 | A single eruption may not only last for months , but it may also consist of a series of separate , different phases , and in many cases different things may be going on on different parts of the same volcano at the same time . |