Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second kind of data consists of the attributes or properties of the spatial entities shown on the maps . |
| 2 | And er there was very little money spent on the roads at that time , the , the railways had been the great carriers of everything and the motorcars were just coming in . |
| 3 | The intense political debate on whether and how to amend Germany 's liberal asylum law , which had allowed the influx of hundreds of thousands of mainly economic migrants since 1990 , was resolved on Dec. 6 when leaders of the main political parties agreed on the terms of a constitutional amendment [ see also pp. 38544-55 ; 39066 ; 39206 ] , subsequently approved ( on Dec. 15 ) by the parliamentary party of the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) . |
| 4 | The Girls used a combination of numbers five and nine ; a few streaks painted on the cheeks , chin , nose and forehead were blended with the fingertips . |
| 5 | Another writer commented on the implications for staffing , recalling the importance of this contingency in course planning in Figure 1.1 : |
| 6 | In terms of policy , Heads of Departments have been instructed to produce detailed guidance based on the principles contained in the Regional Council 's policy document to be issued to all groups of employees within the Department concerned . |
| 7 | The deckchairs flapped , the youngsters played on the outfield , the old gentlemen put on the caps and began to leave as Arlott summed up one more day of country cricket . |
| 8 | Holdings of unit trusts plainly are not holdings of money , neither are the periodic bonuses accumulated on a with-profits life assurance policy . |
| 9 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 10 | Then he grinned and opened his mouth , as if to list further commodities produced on the premises , when a further member of the household came into the room , this time through the doorway above ground . |
| 11 | Ecclesiastical fashion is slower in its cycles of change , but after the short sleeves and jeans of Vatican II have worn thin , I would not be surprised to see a few fedoras perched on the heads of priests — perhaps even with a drooping moustache . |
| 12 | As we have seen , during the early decades of this century debate in public law focused on the issues arising from the growth in the legislative and judicial powers of the Executive . |
| 13 | The immense amount of detailed experimental and theoretical work done on the equations often allows these new developments to be seen in a fuller context than is possible with newer and less well understood systems . |
| 14 | The reason for the exultation , the explanation of how this sense of craving had been mollified and a sense of sexual peace bestowed on the lyrics was simple : Marianne had come into his arms ; that golden apparition of loveliness , that lithe , sensuous , intelligent being of intuition and sympathy ; a gift of the gods to rank — and outrank — anything so far told in the surrounding mythology of his adopted Greek homeland ! |
| 15 | Okay I 'll put together some ideas based on the areas we 've discussed today and if we can arrange a time for me to come back I can present my recommendations to you . |
| 16 | Adaptation as a concept was perfectly acceptable to the nineteenth-century naturalist — they had , after all , had plenty of opportunity to observe the changes that an English climate wrought on the coats and plumage , as well as the size , of live birds and animals brought from hot countries . |
| 17 | Phylogenetic tree based on the coxI protein from various eukaryotes . |
| 18 | He found Kersey , sitting at the desk in an upstair , borrowed office surrounded by house-to-house reports prepared on the premises . |
| 19 | To the east there was now the great long arm of East Prussia , an area occupied by German settlers planted on the remains of the Baltic Borussian peoples after the civilising work of the Teutonic Knights . |
| 20 | It was next to a postcard-seller , and to get to it you had to go past a row of very strange postcards stuck on the railings : views of Cairo , oleographs of Levantine saints , scenes of the Massacre of the Marmelukes and from the Great War of Independence , portraits of the Madonna and of St Catherine , and , of course , hundreds of indecent photographs , very precise in some respects , strangely vague in others . |
| 21 | The report was published in July 1986 and concluded that apparently there had been little work done on the effects of skill mix on patient services and that " a higher priority should be given by management to achieving the best value for money by the adoption of methods of allocating staffing resources more closely related to the needs of patients and ward objectives . |
| 22 | The blackout extended to news of the war and the German advance on Paris ; newspapers suspended publication temporarily and crowds gathered round the official bulletins pasted on the walls as rumour raced round the city . |
| 23 | ‘ Both voters and candidates in the coming parliamentary elections in Jordan shoulder a grave responsibility and should therefore seek a true democratic rule based on the tenets of the constitution , avoiding rashness and extremism . ’ |
| 24 | individual entries displayed on the terminals may be retrieved from the database , or restored to the database on average within ten seconds |
| 25 | The reversionary or annual bonuses paid on the bonuses already declared on with-profits endowments have been reduced from 7 to 5 per cent — although the bonus on the benefit assured remains at 3 per cent . |
| 26 | While the Dark Elves fought on the beaches another force of High Elves had landed miles away . |
| 27 | ( At one conference delegates were told to talk at the floor because Special Branch had hi-tech microphones trained on the windows to catch the sound-waves . ) |
| 28 | Many women believed that these reforms involved transforming the whole tenor of English public life and creating an ethical and moral climate founded on the teachings of religion . |
| 29 | The electrical information is recovered , and by the process of decoding it he can determine the amount of emotional stress in actual figures based on the levels of the electrical impulses picked up from the subjects . |
| 30 | A half-burned corpse sprawled on the steps , the top of its head gone . |