Example sentences of "as [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | While thirteen out of twenty middle-class women ( sixty-five per cent ) ‘ mind ’ describing themselves as housewives on a form , only eight out of twenty working-class women ( forty per cent ) state this objection . |
| 2 | The Sinhalese were however generally unwilling to work as labourers on large estates . |
| 3 | The field of immortality is discussed at length by all those who have been largely accepted as authorities on the subject . |
| 4 | In 1983 , in order to extend the international scope of our work , a survey questionnaire that had been pre-tested with social work educators from Australia , India , Israel , and the United States was mailed to all member colleges , universities , and national affiliate associations of the International Association of Schools of Social Work and to a list of individuals who had been identified as experts on paraprofessional social welfare personnel in their own countries or internationally . |
| 5 | Celestial omens began to be used as portents on a considerable scale in the first Babylonian dynasty ( eighteenth to fifteenth centuries BC ) , although lunar eclipses may have been regarded as ominous previously . |
| 6 | So they 'll all get icons now , they 'll appear as icons on your er applications . |
| 7 | By selectively applying pesticides to , say , the outer part of a crop canopy , much lower dosages will control exposed pests , such as aphids on cereals . |
| 8 | Great thicknesses of pumice and ash had piled up on the slopes of Vesuvius above Herculaneum , and this loose material very rapidly became saturated by torrential rainstorms which may have been triggered by the eruption cloud itself : the dust particles acting as nuclei on which water vapour could condense to form droplets . |
| 9 | Both brothers were educated in the Glasgow Institution , and both were employed as artists on the Glasgow Weekly Mail . |
| 10 | None the less there is a need to consider three countervailing social control forces , which appear to have some effect on persons contemplating ‘ conventional ’ crimes , to see if they act as brakes on persons contemplating corporate crime . |
| 11 | Post-war development of parachutes acting as brakes on jet aircraft are also covered in this rarely written about subject . |
| 12 | Limitations of time ( and money ) act as brakes on the enjoyment of cooking . |
| 13 | This chapter will argue instead that deviance and sexism act as brakes on each other , and interact in a myriad of fascinating ways to make schools very complex and unpredictable places in which to work out pupil ( and teacher ) identities . |
| 14 | Except for minor modifications after they branched off the main line , all living species could be treated as steps on the way towards the human form . |
| 15 | But it seems more likely that ninth-century landlords , still using ( why not ? ) the old terminology of the Roman fiscal system , were exacting on their own account dues that had once been owed to the state , rather than acting as tax-collectors on the state 's behalf . |
| 16 | I include them for their interest as sidelights on history , because a number , for the benefit of the collector , have been faithfully printed in facsimile , and as a reminder that , despite the plethora of them in our daily newspapers , printer 's blunders are not the prerogative of our own day . |
| 17 | From the beginning it was appreciated that local deaf organisations would object to home-to-home visits as intrusions on their pitch , rivalling their own money-raising efforts . |
| 18 | The idea was that particles like the proton and the neutron could be regarded as waves on a string . |
| 19 | Instead of being seen as fighters on behalf of those who struggle with the system , we are seen as architects and defenders of it . |
| 20 | It was also used to aid selecting cosmid clones which were to be used as probes on the cosmid filters . |
| 21 | Digital maps and related products , such as block diagrams , can be displayed either as images on a graphics terminal or in hard-copy form . |
| 22 | The doctors ' knowledge , health beliefs , and personality have all been postulated as influences on control , while there is an implicit assumption in the teaching of consultation skills that doctor behaviours affect outcomes such as glycaemic control . |
| 23 | The US administration wants to add a clause however , clarifying what it views as ambiguities on intellectual property and financing mechanisms . |
| 24 | In turn , Bedyngham 's own songs served as models on which other composers based Mass cycles , including three on ‘ O rosa bella ’ . |
| 25 | To overcome many of the above problems , governments in the past , and particularly in the late 1960s , have resorted to various forms of credit rationing , such as ceilings on bank lending , requests to banks to discriminate between customers , and hire purchase controls . |
| 26 | Seve , Nick , Jose-Maria and Woosie are all superstars although Josie-Maria and Ian have n't proved it yet it terms of Majors and I looked upon them as bankers on the first two days . |
| 27 | Increasingly GATT rules have been breached either in spirit or rule by states , not least in the EC , by resorting to protectionist measures such as quotas on textiles or Voluntary Restraint Agreements on Japanese car imports . |
| 28 | Names of those prepared to act as stewards on the day should be given to Bridget Ewing ( 01.302.9021 ) . |
| 29 | Their evenings were frequently marred by rows , started by Constance in response to what she saw as slights on Nicky 's part . |
| 30 | However , the change in safety regulations and the harder line taken is not sufficient compensation for the curtailing and running down of health and safety inspections , nor the differences in health and safety regulations which exist between companies operating on land , and those , such as contractors on off-shore oil rigs who are at sea . |