Example sentences of "[verb] on [pers pn] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SALMAN RUSHDIE made a dramatic television appeal yesterday for a meeting with the Prime Minister to fortify his campaign to end the fatwa sentence of death imposed on him by Iranian fundamentalists . |
| 2 | The timber producing companies , the announcement says , would prefer to be respected for their integrity in the exercise of self-control without conditions imposed on them by other countries . |
| 3 | The other thing , I think , erm I do appreciate that Phyllis has got a terrible problem running the Council with the constraints imposed on her by Central Government , and by and large I think they do it very well , as I have said . |
| 4 | In this country , which has no serious experience of genuine fascism , the word ‘ fascist ’ is beginning to be applied to anyone who does not accept the statutory myth of the ‘ multi-racial society ’ , imposed on us by successive governments who have even contrived to make any open , honest discussion of it illegal . |
| 5 | It gives credibility to the particular choice we as a self-defining ‘ human ’ group have made , and reinforces the validity of that choice by obscuring the fact that we make it voluntarily , rather than have it imposed on us by scientific laws which are unquestionable and necessary . |
| 6 | As regards the visual interpretation of each array considered in isolation , Ullman relies on the work of David Marr , who studied the information picked up from the ambient light by the retina , and the image-forming computations performed on it by peripheral levels of the visual system ( Marr 1976 , 1978 , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | In defence of their position , local authorities pointed out that much of the upsurge in their expenditure occurred because of statutory demands for new or expanded services placed on them by central government . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) Evidence of negotiations leading to the agreement and of the interpretations placed on it by individual partners will generally be inadmissible . |
| 9 | It was as long ago as 1863 that Lister pointed out , ‘ the real cause of the coagulation of blood is the influence exerted on it by ordinary matter … the contact of which effects a disposition to coagulate ’ . |
| 10 | It is likely that a good many protestant loyalists oscillate between the two and still have to come to their moment of decision , one that is likely to be forced on them by future events . |
| 11 | They said one MP was in tears , such was the pressure put on him by Tory whips . |
| 12 | One problem is whether companies will be able to bear the debt burdens heaped on them by leveraged buy-outs , particularly in the United States . |
| 13 | We should be able to see the files held on us by public authorities — to check that they are accurate and fair . |