Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hope seems to be that nurses will be better prepared and better enthused to address the nursing needs of society without the shackles placed on them by an outmoded system of training . |
| 2 | Martha shook her head , feeling tiredness descend on her like the low cloud on the mountains , muffling all her emotions . |
| 3 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 4 | The fact that subjects used a range of numbers may of course only reflect the demands placed on them by the experiment . |
| 5 | As a result , by 1956/7 , although there remained a cumulative backlog of nearly 1800MW of uncompleted power station capacity , the system was capable of meeting the demands placed on it in a mild winter , and power cuts had by then become a rare occurrence . |
| 6 | The best trainees and established dealers had little beyond brief academic demands made on them in the early days . |
| 7 | But already by the time of Pope Gregory I ( d. 604 ) the monastic movement , widely diversified as it was , was being integrated into the life of the church at large and open to the demands made on it by the church 's interests and needs . |
| 8 | The effect of the Commercial Court 's decision is that whether Names will be permitted to withdraw these funds depends on which of the different legal documents they have entered into . |
| 9 | For some teachers not only was this difficult to plan and implement as an organizational strategy per se , but the increased demands imposed on them by the strategy meant that their opportunities for systematic and sustained monitoring of children 's progress were further reduced , while at the same time the increased levels of movement and disturbance in the classroom might adversely affect children 's concentration and time on task . |
| 10 | He smiled slowly , his eyes dwelling on her in a way which sent the warm blood pouring into her face . |
| 11 | I was also on the receiving end of some pranks played on me by the cameramen . |
| 12 | Disappointed at the constable 's absence , since he and Richard had prepared a verbal message for their mother , Edward remarked on it to the servant , a stranger , who brought their supper . |
| 13 | Chantal hissed , her eyes locked on his in a battle of wills . |
| 14 | Now she let her eyes dwell on them for a moment — Sally glowing with pride , Edward with a slightly dazed expression on his handsome face . |
| 15 | Her tremulous voice was stopped by his mouth closing on hers in a deep , sensual kiss which rocked her off her feet until she felt there were no bones in her body at all . |
| 16 | It is almost too virtuous and optimistic to believe , but the Fifties readers seized on it as a model . |
| 17 | Then his face became more serious and his dark eyes fixed on hers with a new intensity . |
| 18 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 19 | That beautiful , hard mouth descending on hers in a kiss that held passion and tenderness , excitement and safety . |
| 20 | We had sergeants and inspectors jumping on us for the least little thing and very often trying to get us into trouble , whereas young fellows learning the job , what we needed was assistance . |
| 21 | Her passion leapt to meet his , and she clung to him , her mouth dragging on his in a meeting so inflamed that she almost lost consciousness as dizziness swept through her brain . |
| 22 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 23 | His mouth descended on hers in a kiss that reached to the depths of her being . |
| 24 | The brevity forced on her by a pay telephone might possibly be quite useful . |
| 25 | Jean pondered on it for a day while we held our breath . |
| 26 | In his philosophy reality is the spiritual world contemplated by reason , the material world being a mere receptacle for the ideal forms imposed on it by the world-soul . |
| 27 | Shamji , who was also ordered to pay £28,960 costs , had asked the Appeal Court to reduce the sentence imposed on him at the Old Bailey on October 30 . |
| 28 | The pace of Norman McGladdery , eligible to play having appealed a seven-game ban imposed on him by the Ulster Branch , Colin Allister and Lee Tumilty caused problems throughout whereas the skills of Jimmy Kirkwood and Daniel Clarke at the other end were stifled by a resolute defence . |
| 29 | The rules were introduced in a memorandum from the Institute explaining to banks the duties imposed on them by the law on drug trafficking passed by parliament in July 1989 . |
| 30 | The whole campaign dragged on him with a dead weight at this moment . |