Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [verb] on [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wheelwright at marriage , he had subsequently made a successful career in the building trade , and by the 1830s was rated on no fewer than six houses in Gore Hedge — almost a third of the street . |
| 2 | The second is based on a latter day philanthropy , which like its nineteenth-century antecedent , muffles the iron fist of control in the velvet glove of sentiment . |
| 3 | The main disadvantage is that there is a possibility , with large customers in particular , that several different representatives from the organization will each be calling on the same customer . |
| 4 | Growth from 1851 to 1911 was concentrated on the few urban industrial regions in which an increasing proportion of the population lived ; these experienced both net immigration and natural increase . |
| 5 | That 's based on the same number of colour photographs that we had in last year 's annual report . |
| 6 | Both are based on the same belief : that ancient people throughout the world set out their mounds , standing stones and stone circles in a particular relationship to each other and to the natural features of the landscape such as hilltops and notches , so that lines were set up to mark significant dates of astronomical events In the annual and other cycles . |
| 7 | This supposition has the form of a ‘ regulative hope ’ — both are adopted on the same basis that a card player bases his play on the hope of an improbable distribution of the cards if no other possible distribution gives him any chance of winning at all . |
| 8 | With the latter some confusion can arise , between ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ products , so packaging and direction for use are important , if both are found on the same premises , to avoid use of the solvent on hot surfaces . |