Example sentences of "on [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just picking up on Professor Lock 's point earlier on about changes in the nineteen eighties or since the nineteen eighties , erm as in my statement I have suggested that there has been a substantial loss of nature conservation interest and wild life habitats both in this county and throughout the country . |
| 2 | Early morning 's not my best time , specially when I 've spent half the night dreaming terrible dreams and the other half listening to some loon droning on about turtles in Japan — but it was great dawdling along by the river . |
| 3 | What's-His-Name , English lecturer , second year , that course on the Nineteenth Century Novel … remember how he was always wittering on about Incest in Wuthering Heights ? ’ |
| 4 | IT is unfortunate that NASUWT , the career teachers ' organisation , should be banging on about quality in education in a leaflet just issued . |
| 5 | There were a lot of French-Canadian soldiers stationed in the area , together with British and Americans , and a weekly film show was put on for all-comers in the Methodist chapel on Saturday nights . |
| 6 | One can say that Niki continued to drive on for McLaren in 1985 . |
| 7 | Nigel Lawson 's tax cuts will , it seems , be defended to the last ( though the International Monetary Fund is reportedly applying pressure in that regard ) and the search is on for cutbacks in the social side of public spending . |
| 8 | Half time — Malone 0 Greystones 8 Adrian Bush came on for Willis in the second half and made an immediate impact with a 40 second minute penalty and then a splendid forty metre touch clearance . |
| 9 | Sedgley was sent on for Walsh in order to protect the two-goal lead , and Hendry was given a couple of minutes at the end so that Lineker could take a well-earned breather . |
| 10 | According to analysts , Souto had been forced to take responsibility for recent revelations that several high-ranking officers were deeply implicated in a vast network dealing in stolen cars from Brazil and Argentina , most of which were being passed on for sale in Bolivia . |
| 11 | So for one reason or another , people stay on for years in Special Hospitals , sometimes hundreds of miles from their home area , denied the opportunity to develop a normal life for themselves again . |
| 12 | There was traffic along it even at this hour , while across the river an abandoned generation slept on like larvae in their paper cocoons . |
| 13 | Eubank 's promoter Barry Hearn may have different ideas , and is thinking of trying to put Barkley on against Eubank in Britain . |
| 14 | Sixty dead or dying dolphins have been washed on up beaches in southern Italy in July , raising fears of a recurrence of the viral epidemic which killed hundreds of Mediterranean dolphins in 1990 . |
| 15 | As in so many things , the ways of the Victorians , while looked on with horror in late twentieth-century England , have survived in America ; unashamed fervour in holding and expressing religious and patriotic beliefs which easily blend into one another is but one example . |
| 16 | The manager and staff of the pub get on with things in the background , behind screens , during the service . |
| 17 | They get on with it and they get on with life in the colleges and life may not be wonderful but they deal with it , and in some senses they are exercising what power they have , but what they get fed up with is constantly having to exercise it . |
| 18 | Staff Nurse Robins was on with Sister in the Hall . |
| 19 | How in the last twenty six years do you feel that you 've got on with people in general ? |
| 20 | Knitwear suits every mood with a wealth of texture , colour and pattern , layered on with denim in every shape and form — skirts , dresses , jeans and jackets . |
| 21 | is willing to stay on until September in a ‘ handing over ’ mode . |
| 22 | That victory followed on from success in the Dewhurst International in March , where she came through from being a reserve qualifier to reach the semi-finals . |
| 23 | The studies followed on from research in the US ( New England Journal of Medicine , p 689 ) and London ( Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology vol 237 , p 567 ) which suggested that children with more than 12 micrograms of lead per 100 millilitres of blood had IQs which were 5 to 7 points below the expected value . |
| 24 | Meetings were still going on in Manchester in a last-minute attempt to avoid today 's scheduled hearing in the High Court . |
| 25 | In addition , there is a revolution going on in Japan in the financial services sector as it faces deregulation . |
| 26 | However , it is estimated that although there is a lot of work going on in ESs in universities , companies and research departments worldwide , only a few dozen are in regular use in aircraft maintenance . |
| 27 | According to observers the significance of the vote in terms of national politics was that it would increase the likelihood of the minority government seeking to secure the support of the Progress Party for the 1990 budget , which was due to be voted on in parliament in December [ see below ] . |
| 28 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 29 | It is important for us to understand , therefore , that what was going on in schools in the 1920s , '30s , '40s and '50s paled into insignificance by the side of community drama . |
| 30 | With currently available equipment we are not able to discover what goes on in detail in the brain when someone is speaking , though we can make guesses based on evidence such as speech errors ( ‘ slips of the tongue ’ ) and the effects on speech production of different sorts of brain damage . |