Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] on the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be completely safe , he activated his automatic call-signal which would be picked up on the ground . |
| 2 | On 5 July 1991 the Bank of England presented a petition for an order that an authorised bank be wound up on the ground that it was insolvent . |
| 3 | These can be seen on the modern OS maps and the tithe map , and they can be picked out on the ground from changes in level and property boundaries . |
| 4 | You will find that the model can be moved around on the ground in this state and that all the controls are effective . |
| 5 | The method used to spin both types was the same , a short whip of string or leather about eighteen inches in length was wound around the top which was then placed upright on the ground and steadied with one finger . |
| 6 | Guy Nicot , the Louvre ( and Elysée Palace ) architect currently supervising work on the Museum 's Cour Napoléon will leave his offices on the first floor of the west side of the Cour Lefuel ( once the apartments of Napoléon III 's Master of the Horse ) to make way for Dutch and Flemish sculptures ; German pieces will be housed underneath on the ground floor . |
| 7 | One of them was less than an inch away from his eye as he lay buckled up on the ground beneath the tree . |
| 8 | A large white cross has been painted roughly on the ground . |
| 9 | Capricorn applied for the service of the writ to be set aside on the ground that the London address did not consitute a place of business in Great Britain or that if service was good , Capricorn sought a stay on the ground of lis alibi pendens in Ohio . |
| 10 | The board applied for that order to be set aside on the ground that there was no jurisdiction to make it . |
| 11 | In this case the court was concerned with the question whether the transactions between the bank and the wife should be set aside on the ground of undue influence exerted over the wife by the husband . |
| 12 | The debtor obtained an order from the county court that the statutory demand and bankruptcy petition be set aside on the ground that the service of the statutory demand had contravened the provision in section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 that ‘ no action shall be brought ’ to recover any costs due to a solicitor within one month of the bill having been delivered . |
| 13 | The day 's attacks resulted in one Wellington being hit and burnt out on the ground at Luqa , while three Beaufighters were damaged . |
| 14 | Luqa was again hit , one Beaufighter being burnt out on the ground here . |
| 15 | it may be marked out on the ground , but the true circle is that which the magician creates mentally . |
| 16 | They played hopscotch , their favourite , in the ever brightening sunshine , throwing a white pebble into the boxes they had marked out on the ground , and then trying to hop to where the pebble landed without touching any lines . |
| 17 | By using a grid marked out on the ground , each point where a reading is taken can be plotted . |
| 18 | As with resistivity meters , readings are taken at points on a grid marked out on the ground , and the results are usually plotted in the form of computer-drawn diagrams . |
| 19 | A site was chosen ; two townplanners appointed ( one of them a parson ) , the town marked out on the ground : but all in vain . |
| 20 | The long metal tubes , detonators , detonating cord and homemade explosives are laid out on the ground , whilst the Police and the host of other interested parties take photographs . |
| 21 | Laid out on the ground are the dead of the day so far . |
| 22 | But it is unjust that the individual 's right of access to the courts should be restricted solely on the ground that there has been delay in making the application . |
| 23 | The defendants sought to have the claim struck out on the ground that it disclosed no cause of action . |
| 24 | She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself . |
| 25 | A sheet had been spread out on the ground , and around it had been placed a square of long hard bolsters . |
| 26 | Books were spread out on the ground . |
| 27 | In order to reduce costs the mirrors had never been tested together on the ground . |
| 28 | To those of us standing on the sidelines , with our feet planted firmly on the ground , the manner of their going was quite exciting . |