Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stock is the merchandise or goods stored on the premises of the retail outlet where it is to be sold . |
| 2 | The ASB also announced that changes based on the proposals in FRED 2 , Amendment to SSAP 15 — Accounting for deferred tax ( see this issue , p 96 ) , have been adopted with immediate effect . |
| 3 | The German state prosecutor 's office announced on April 8 that tests conducted on the bones of a man who died in Brazil in 1979 confirmed that the body ( discovered in 1985 — see p. 33759 ) was that of Josef Mengele , the so-called " Angel of Death " held responsible for the deaths of 400,000 prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War . |
| 4 | They consisted of a historical introduction , a list of stipulations , curses and blessings invoked on the parties , a solemn oath and a religious ceremony to ratify the covenant . |
| 5 | It is all very far removed from that school of painters who specialise in washed-out stencilled flowers and garlands painted on the sides of distressed pine chests . |
| 6 | Coloured streamers , toilet paper , telephone book pages , shredded paper and confetti rained on the players from skyscrapers , while building site workers clambered off scaffolding and others out of office windows to cheer Farr-Jones and his players . |
| 7 | ’ ‘ Mon and look at the nice show in the League of Nations place , or thae big battleships and bombers painted on the walls over there . |
| 8 | Seaweed glistened on the rocks , waders large and small ran up and down , and gulls and cormorants bobbed on the waves . |
| 9 | The IMF , however , taking into account another failure in the June test , suspended further drawdowns and negotiations commenced on the conditions for further assistance , expected to include a further devaluation . |
| 10 | This speaker and others commented on the differences in the Jamaican and British types of Creole : The sound , the way [ they speak ] — it 's more or less the same , it is the same , same words the same everyfing , but — the way my parents speak it , it does n't sound affected , put it that way , it 's more like me and you speaking now , it 's more fluent , and not so harsh — but when we speak it 's sort of h-heavy tongue , I du n no . |
| 11 | Heavy industry produced not so much the industrial region as such as the company town , in which the fate of men and women depended on the fortunes and goodwill of a single master , behind whom stood the force of law and state power , which regarded his authority as necessary and beneficial . |
| 12 | It was unlikely that even a common language could create a common national spirit to unite Spanish-speaking people divided by the salt , estranging sea , but as long as empires based on the principles of allegiance to a monarch were the dominant form of political organization they were very well adapted to face the problems of expanding and then of ruling new subjects . |