Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immediate counterattack is simple : Has the building been offered for sale on the open market ? |
| 2 | The usual test applies : Has the freehold building been offered for sale on the open market ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Boeing 's US exports are based in part on the supply of components from Canada , Britain , Japan and elsewhere . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The road signs ( France is the only country I know where drivers are warned about beetroot on the road : BETTERAVES , I once saw in a red warning triangle , with a picture of a car slipping out of control ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This landed wealth of Egypt was , later in the fifth century , exploited by rentier Iranian landowners who screwed all they could out of the local peasants : their demands are preserved in Aramaic on leather documents bought in Egypt in 1943–4 and now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Those words were spoken in Dundee on 3 October 1911 by Winston Churchill . |
| 13 | In April 1989 , hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed to death on the terraces of Sheffield 's Hillsborough Stadium before the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest . |
| 14 | Many schools were established by communities on a self-help basis , with the intention of handing them over to the government . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Following the lifting of martial law and its reporting restrictions on Jan. 11 , 1990 , new regulations for foreign journalists were brought into effect on Jan. 19 . |
| 17 | Daniel Omara Atubu : aged 44 , a member of the Democratic Party ( DP ) and Minister of State for Foreign and Regional Affairs , he and 17 other prominent citizens from northern Uganda were charged with treason on 7 May 1991 . |
| 18 | The Mam I- Sfa NI , Mam I- Sau 3A and Xba I- Pvu II deoP2 fragments were purified by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels after labelling of the 5'-end of the Mam I site with polynucleotide kinase in the presence of γ- 32 P-ATP and the 3'-end of the Xba I site with Klenow fragment in the presence of α- 32 P-dCTP. 0.8 nM of the labelled fragments and various concentrations ( indicated in the Legend in Fig. 3 ) of CytR or CRP were incubated in binding buffer ( 10 mM Tris HCl ( pH 7.8 ) , 50 mM KCl , 1 mM EDTA , 50 µg/ml acetylated bovine serum albumine , 1 mM dithiothreitol , 0.05 % Nonidet-P40 ) containing 20 µg/ml competitor DNA ( pGEM4 obtained from Promega ) for 30 min. at 37°C in a total volume of 10 µl ( 6 ) . |
| 19 | The four ringleaders were sentenced to death on the gibbet and their bodies were hung in chains at various crossroads on the moor . |
| 20 | Female subjects were tested for pregnancy on the morning of the trial . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Although the forecast wind did not materialise to assist in drying out the field , a further six aircraft were ferried to Abbotsinch on April 9 . |
| 23 | A Court ring is rounded for comfort on the inside as well as the outside with across section forming an oval . |
| 24 | SLOA special the West Highlander is caught near Crianlarich on 1 June 1985 . |
| 25 | ENGLISH cricket fans are set to pay the price for political blunders at Lord 's when the crucial vote is taken in February on the venue for the 1995 World Cup . |
| 26 | To record this guide-track , you set the tape to a start-mark and the tape recorder to record-pause ; the video tape is set on play-pause on the first frame of picture . |
| 27 | A 40-minute TV special on the making of the album is broadcast by BBC2 on September 19 at 7.30pm . |
| 28 | BSIA members are actively involved in the BSI standards process ; and the industry is represented in Europe on CEN and CENELEC committees , which are concerned with the development of European standards . |
| 29 | One dreads a future version in which Freud is set to work on the decision of Higgins and Pickering to set up together as two old bachelors . |
| 30 | His concern for religion was shown by service on the commission for the propagation of the gospel in Wales ( where he became a JP ) and by his part in petitions for toleration , which no doubt reinforced contacts with Oliver Cromwell . |