Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum flush permitted on new wcs in the UK was reduced from 9 litres to 7.5 litres from 1989 , and this is likely to be further reduced to 6 litres . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the value of a given site is increased not only by the development permitted on that site , but also by the development not permitted on other sites . |
| 3 | Commercial battles are not always won on technical merit , and at present X Windows is probably winning . |
| 4 | US-Mexican trade pact attacked on environmental grounds |
| 5 | In the United States of America , ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ legislation has been unsuccessfully attacked on constitutional grounds including the vagueness of the terms of the statutes , the absence of procedural due process safeguards and the infringement of the first amendment rights of free speech . |
| 6 | The possibility of being attacked on public transport is still low , especially if you avoid the more notorious stations , such as those in Central London and at the southern end of the Northern Line . |
| 7 | Most bonds have fixed or variable interest rates and are listed/quoted on major stock exchanges . |
| 8 | In the six months to 31 December , the total return earned on net assets was 16.6 per cent — ahead of both the 14.7 per cent rise in the FT-A All-Share Index and the Kleinwort Benson Topsi 100 , up 12.9 per cent . |
| 9 | In 1980 , women earned on average 81% of men 's wages in manufacturing . |
| 10 | According to government statistics women earned on average one-third less than men in 1989 , and less than 4 per cent of top business jobs were held by women . |
| 11 | Royal Bank of Scotland now brings interest earned on doubtful advances into the p&l account as it accrues , provided that its collectability is not subject to significant doubt . |
| 12 | This reduction reflects lower rates of interest earned on short term investment . |
| 13 | The small money value of profits earned on minor sales can be so quickly absorbed by overheads that the whole exercise is hardly worthwhile . |
| 14 | The presence of officers at groups of councillors organised on political lines raises in an acute form question of the correct relationship that should exist between them . |
| 15 | Contemporary political struggles organised on religious lines clearly need social and economic explanations . |
| 16 | The company explains this by saying that a co-operative-server database hides the complexity of a computer network by enabling applications to access data located on multiple computers as if all the data were stored on a single computer , thus simplifying application building and — it is hoped — improving decisions by making access to information easier . |
| 17 | Its 135 year-old Gasworks are located on Irish Quarter West , near the centre of the town . |
| 18 | These receptors are normally located on modified portions of the endoplasmic reticulum ( ER ) . |
| 19 | Therefore ZNF25 also forms part of cluster A , but has no counterpart in cluster B. Surprisingly , the KOX ZNF gene clusters are located on opposite sides of the centromere : cluster A maps to 10p11.2 , while cluster B is in 10q11.2 . |
| 20 | Two ZNF11 loci , which both hybridise to a cDNA probe KOX2 ( 9 ) , are located on opposite sides of a translocation breakpoint in 10q11.2 ( 5 ) . |
| 21 | The two related KOX ZNF loci are located on opposite sides of the chromosome 10 centromere |
| 22 | Yet he has an instinct that this synthetic world is more in tune with the way things are going in the hierarchy of ideas , than the Parisian world of half-wild ducks cooked in their own jus and ideas located on different niveaux . |
| 23 | Baker & Devaney ( 1981 ) consider O. rosea to be a species of Ophioprium because the oral papillae are of two sizes which are located on different parts of the jaw and the tentacle pores are large armed with large tentacle scales . |
| 24 | Because NMDA receptors are assumed to be located on dendritic spines , it is believed that spines may act to localize the Ca 2+ signal . |
| 25 | The δ-endotoxin genes are usually located on large plasmids . |
| 26 | On the other hand the Kingdom might appear like a blaze of lights from a city located on high ground which can be seen from miles around ( Matt. |
| 27 | It can also be used to cool thermal power stations , so far located on valuable coastal land near cooling water . |
| 28 | The largest number of settlements is found on light soils such as rendzinas and stagnogleys and fewer are located on heavy soil-types |
| 29 | Work was interrupted by a fire in the palace in 1298 and little seems to have been done until 1320 , but Michael was occupied on other works for the Crown , being sent to Winchester Castle in 1306 . |
| 30 | Meanwhile some men were kept occupied on poor veins in the Keswick area . |