Example sentences of "and [verb] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scuffles broke out everywhere as our officers came out of hiding and pounced on six members of the gang who bolted into the woods and sand dunes around the bay before being rounded up with the assistance of police dogs . |
| 2 | export subsidies on manufactured goods are prohibited , and limited on primary products . |
| 3 | Then he wrote down what he expected would happen in the ensuing month with respect to each key task and what he was going to do about it , asked questions about policy , and commented on long-term opportunities , threats , and needs . |
| 4 | He stressed that community ethics must question a system that marginalises people by monopolising information and communication systems and insist on radical changes in society 's communication structures . |
| 5 | WACC is equally grateful to all those women who keep up the pressure and insist on equal opportunities for women and men . |
| 6 | Mr Gould promised the party would restore ‘ the great utilities ’ to public ownership and insist on higher standards of regulation than those which had prevailed under the Conservatives . |
| 7 | Daly invents new words , breaks them up in provocative , punning ways ( as with the title ; and therapist becomes the-rapist ) and plays on obsolete meanings , as with glamour ( originally ‘ possessed of magical powers ’ ) , haggard ( connected with witchcraft ) and spinster ( one who spins a new thread ) . |
| 8 | Since the press was now free to publish and comment on all aspects of political life , strident debates took place in the columns of the newspapers and even , though more timidly , within the Legislative Body itself . |
| 9 | While the Monk , usually politely addressed as ye , declines the invitation of the Host to " " be myrie of cheere " " as he tells his tale ( VII : 1924 – 5 ) , the Nun 's Priest , familiarly addressed as thou , is ready and able to provide what is wanted : The tale the Nun 's Priest tells is a beast-fable : a form of literature that should observe and comment on human traits and manners in a moral light , presenting those traits and manners in a fictional drama in which the characters are of the animal world . |
| 10 | Any tinkering with conservation measures will be a bad sign , and backsliding on established gains a cause for real alarm . |
| 11 | Nine 3 micron sections ( every fourth section ) were cut from each formalin fixed , wax embedded block and placed on gelatinised slides . |
| 12 | She was given pain relieving drugs and placed on intravenous drips to replace vital blood plasma and fluids . |
| 13 | The committee was appointed to consider powers of delegated legislation and quasi-judicial decision and to report on any safeguards needed ‘ to secure the constitutional principles of the sovereignty of Parliament and the supremacy of the Law ’ . |
| 14 | Keep this simple : walk , trot and canter on both reins , plus halt , will be sufficient . |
| 15 | He worked almost unbelievably long hours and subsisted on occasional cups of tea ( rather as Krishna Menon had done during his long , lonely London years ) . |
| 16 | In Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 an agreement provided that shares in a private company had to be sold back to the plaintiff 's uncle on the plaintiff leaving the business ; the price of the shares was to be the fair value as determined by the company 's auditors , whose valuation acting as experts and not as arbitrators was to be final and binding on all parties . |
| 17 | After a walk and trot on both reins , Jennie told Katharine to make some serpentine loops throughout the whole school to help supple him laterally . |
| 18 | Officials of Czech coalition parties met in Prague on Oct. 13 and agreed on major points of their republic 's future constitution . |
| 19 | She gazed into his face raptly as he described his clinic the day before at St Mary 's and passed on good wishes from Sister Concepta . |
| 20 | A possible taxonomy of deictic elements and terms follows , which modifies and builds on previous attempts by linguists such as Levinson ( 1983 ) . |
| 21 | The line which the law draws is at the very least indistinct , and turns on such imponderables as malum in se , mayhem , degrees of harmfulness , and public policy , and calls for an examination of such unsatisfactory cases as Donovan , Bravery v. |
| 22 | Your only course of action this April seems to be to avoid any further confrontations and concentrate on professional interests or projects specially designed to exploit your creative abilities , as very shortly after the full Moon in Libra on the 10th there should be a beneficial alteration in your work . |
| 23 | With practice this skill becomes instinctive and you do n't have to think about your sailing — you can just switch yourself to ‘ automatic pilot ’ and concentrate on other aspects of the race . |
| 24 | To the extent that we isolate and concentrate on phonic rules we seem to encourage only awareness of the surface features of written language . |
| 25 | But , in general , traditional psychological methods tend to exclude or devalue women and the features associated with them in discourses of femininity , and concentrate on male-identified features like activity , individuality and objectivity instead . |
| 26 | This clearly covers such a vast range of possibilities that it is best to break verbal behaviour down into a number of categories and concentrate on some specifics . |
| 27 | All of these guidelines tend to be narrative and concentrate on qualitative trends and areas of concern but with an accompanying outline of quantitative forecasts . |
| 28 | And concentrate on those points that are in the advocacy criteria guide in making your preparations . |
| 29 | Try and concentrate on those parts of your body that do feel comfortable . |
| 30 | To voters who had lost their party moorings , who focused on political matters only spasmodically and relied on fleeting impressions derived from television , Ronald Reagan proved to have exceptional appeal . |