Example sentences of "[adj] be [vb pp] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flint tools are not very easily recognised and relatively few are found on the sites , perhaps the odd scraper here and there . |
| 2 | This is situated on the Backs , with only a short walk across to King 's College and its great chapel . |
| 3 | This was based on the antics of a crew chief John C Ford — Jack to his friends — who had some knuckled dentistry and lost a tooth during a bar-room brawl en route to England . |
| 4 | This was justified on the grounds that , since lifetime gifts were exempt from inheritance tax , there was no longer double capital taxation . |
| 5 | This was justified on the grounds that , having failed to get into grammar school , I would be educationally disadvantaged further by attending the local comprehensive . |
| 6 | This was rejected on the grounds that there was nowhere else to put the rescued artifacts , many of which were designed for the house . |
| 7 | This was rejected on the grounds that such sinister tunnels would become lurking places for thieves . |
| 8 | These are based on the views of a panel of experts , perhaps drawn both from inside and outside of the ranks of the organisation . |
| 9 | These are spaced on the spars to act as bridle stops , so that the bridle connection on , say , a leading edge is retained and the tendency to slip is controlled . |
| 10 | Three were shot on the Crumbles on 15 August 1903 ; three were seen at Warnham Mill Pond on 20 March 1908 ; one was seen on Amberley Wildbrooks on 24 March 1926 ; two , one of which was eventually shot , were present in the Rye/Midrips area from 17 November 1946 to 22 February 1947 . |
| 11 | Anyone in the late twentieth century who studies Charles the Bald is perched on the shoulders of those giants . |
| 12 | The first is based on the characteristics of the consumer or user . |
| 13 | The first is based on the characteristics of the consumer or user . |
| 14 | And if the former is subtracted on the grounds that crimes against corporations are dissimilar to crimes for corporations , then just over 1 per cent of the listed material referred to corporate crime . |
| 15 | Figure 6.4 is based on the comments of the last paragraphs . |
| 16 | So it 's not only a duty that , that 's laid on the police . |
| 17 | All twenty-six were slaughtered on the directions of an inspector from the Board of Agriculture who also said that if the Borough meat inspector passed any of them , they could be sold for food ; the others were to be buried . |
| 18 | Four were arrested on the orders of the chief public prosecutor , but Mr Honecker was let off because of ill health . |
| 19 | Both are based on the adidas heritage lines of the Lendl Comp and the Equipment Clay Court and include features which recently attracted British No. 1 Jo Durie , who recently signed a one year shoe contract with the company . |
| 20 | The conclusion that TCR- β is sufficient is based on the observations that both the severe drop in total thymocyte numbers ( to about 1% of the wild-type level ) and the blockade at a DN stage in the RAG-1 mutant mice are fully restored upon introduction of a productively rearranged TCR- β transgene . |
| 21 | Some wonder why the bank stuck with Mr Parretti , even though his attempt to take over a French cinema chain in June 1990 was blocked on the grounds that it would ‘ threaten public order ’ . |