Example sentences of "on [subord] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 2 | ‘ The semiconductor market also is being helped by the gradual global economic recovery that began in the US in the fourth quarter of 1992 ’ — remark that seems to ignore the fact that continental Europe is plunging into ever deeper recession while the jury is out on whether recession has bottomed in Japan.The North American market should reach $23,600m in shipments in 1993 for a growth rate of 28.1% . |
| 3 | Two main types were developed , depending on whether water flowed out of or into a graduated vessel . |
| 4 | The appeal turns on whether evidence obtained by the operation should have been admitted by the trial judge . |
| 5 | I write on your article today on whether television affects children 's behaviour . |
| 6 | This was on the basis that the act of the plaintiff relied on as consent preceded , and licensed in advance , a possible subsequent act of negligence . |