Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It therefore follows that technical personnel are assigned to divisions on the basis of discipline , and for the purpose of accountability , control and maintenance of professional standards . |
| 2 | My Lords whilst thanking the Noble Baroness the Minister for that reply , would she not agree that when they get into hospital the accident case or the emerg emergency case , they 've probably been sent there by a doctor and that there they should th therefore be handled , but what the associations are concerned about , particularly the Royal College of Nursing , the B M A and Unison is that emergency and accident cases are put in corridors on trolleys and this ought not to be th a situation which can be tolerated . |
| 3 | Denials of prejudice and racism are made by politicians on the New Right ( Gordon and Klug , 1986 ; see also , Schoen , 1977 , and Studlar , 1974 , for examples from Enoch Powell 's speeches ) . |
| 4 | In the sciences it is a commonplace , not at first sight disturbing , that physics began by simulating Euclid 's demonstrations in geometry , and that the inverse square law of gravitation became the model for another in electro-magnetism , that ‘ waves ’ of sound or light are suggested by waves on water , and the genetic ‘ code ’ by language . |
| 5 | The word ‘ socialism ’ is expunged from the party manifesto , which instead is decked out with words like ‘ supply side ’ and ‘ investment ’ , but those words are worn like slogans on the T-shirts of Third World peasants , with incomprehension and a vague sense that they confer status . |
| 6 | For that , on Locke 's understanding of how visual sensations are related to impressions on the retina , is the same in the two cases of my seeing the figure as a drawing of a duck and my seeing it as a drawing of a rabbit . |
| 7 | Many schools were established by communities on a self-help basis , with the intention of handing them over to the government . |
| 8 | All items issued to readers were divided into groups on the basis of their date of publication , and the proportion of each group requiring repair ( that is , falling into Categories 3–5 ) was calculated . |
| 9 | The excavation also produced an unusual number of ox-goads and styli and all this may indicate the use of the establishment as a place where animals were brought from farms on the estate and prepared for market . |
| 10 | One would like to know more , for example , of the circumstances in which Sihtric Silkbeard 's son Olaf was killed by Englishmen on his way to Rome in 1034 , and about the death of Caradog , son of Rhydderch ab Iestyn , at the hands of the English in 1035 . |
| 11 | The works of art were recovered when a car was stopped at roadworks on the A19 near Cleveland Tontine , Northallerton , on Thursday . |
| 12 | His car was found with bloodstains on the steering-wheel . |
| 13 | He began to speculate that the ley was marked with hawthorns on the lower ground , pines on the higher ground , and that the double planting around the tumulus was to mark the changeover . |
| 14 | In Rutland at least demand for wage labour was curtailed by restrictions on com growing imposed by the lack of means of shipment , as in Leicestershire , where labourers seem to have been even thinner on the ground ; much effort went into stock rearing , many farmers kept above-average flocks of sheep , and there was abundant fatting pasture in the Vale of Catmose . |
| 15 | In the south of England , the edge of totality was bracketed by observations on either side of the line , south of the village of Cranbrook ( which lies in Kent , just south of latitude 51 degrees 10 minutes l . |
| 16 | Blood was spouting from cuts on my right hand , and my left foot ached a bit and felt strange — no more . |
| 17 | The whole interior walls of the church in this little Istrian village are covered with paintings on such themes as the Dance of Death ( Mrtvački ples ) , the Adoration of the Magi ( Poklonstvo kraljeva ) and Christ on the Mount of Olives ( Krist na maslinovoj gori ) in which the poetic idealism of the painter shines through the simple techniques employed to convey his vision of spiritual truth . |
| 18 | Note that as far as triad chords are concerned , a whole-tone scale comprises only two different chords , as the notes of a chord on the first degree are repeated in chords on the third and fifth degrees , while those of a chord on the second degree are repeated on the fourth and sixth . |
| 19 | As noted earlier , most of the newly created jobs in the service sector are occupied by women on a part-time basis , whereas most of the labour expelled from manufacturing has been in full-time jobs occupied by men . |
| 20 | The county council are negotiating with operators on the provision of this service . |
| 21 | Writers loved the George Best theme and for months afterwards footballing phrases were weaved into articles on the band . |
| 22 | While the Communists were engaged in manoeuvres on the fringe of labour politics , the Independent Labour Party was about to abandon its position within the Labour Party and to give up its effective role as an alternative Left party . |
| 23 | Lifetime gifts such as apprentice premiums or partnership capital or lump sums on marriage were treated as advances on inheritance portions . |
| 24 | One day , West German diplomats from Budapest , Prague or East Berlin will relate how they did business in cafes and restaurants because refugees were crammed like sardines on mattresses in their offices and the corridors . |
| 25 | In the mid-1960s Washington was pressing for decisions on a number of defence issues affecting Nato . |
| 26 | The following day Gary Burn was arrested by police on suspicion of murder . |
| 27 | The fundraising part of the campaign was accompanied by items on television , in magazines , and on radio . |
| 28 | Its contents are classified into chapters on spelling and pronunciation , locative names ( from English , French and other continental languages ) , surnames of relationship , those from native and other personal names , from offices held or occupations followed , compound names and nicknames of all kinds , oaths , colloquial expressions and phrases which have given rise to family names . |
| 29 | Of these , some have quarrelled with his view that individuals are determined by practices on the grounds that , as Lukes puts it , any theory built on such a foundation fails to deal with the central problem of the relation between structure ( i.e. the constraints on actors ) and agency ( i.e. the freedom of agents ) . |
| 30 | Final days were spent in revetments on Kalaikunda airfield , 100 miles west of Calcutta , where they were used as decoys with the propellers sawn off and the tails lifted to look like tri-gear machines . |