Example sentences of "[vb pp] on several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , the mill stands on the site of a busy gravel pit , and is surrounded on several sides by large mounds of gravel . |
| 2 | According to Miller , Galanter & Pribram ( 1960 ) , behaviour is organised on several levels of complexity . |
| 3 | From the early nineteenth century Japan had been approached on several occasions by Western nations active in Asian waters and anxious to initiate trading and other contacts . |
| 4 | The rules pertaining to the right to buy have been modified on several occasions . |
| 5 | He has been bailed on several sureties and appears in court tomorrow . ’ |
| 6 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
| 7 | Like Venice , Torcello was originally built on several islands and was a city with canal networks connecting these . |
| 8 | My advice was sought on several occasions when the family did not know how to cope with quite serious problems concerning the behaviour of one of them . |
| 9 | One was paying the enemy to go away , an expedient which Æthelred adopted on several occasions , and which was also used by Alfred and envisaged by Eadred . |
| 10 | Before starting school he had attended the child development centre , received speech therapy and since had been seen on several occasions by the educational psychologist . |
| 11 | He suspected that perhaps McAllister , always so gallant in facing life , as he had now seen on several occasions , had tried to suppress , to crush down the awful memory of what had been done to her , had refused to give way to grief , to shed healing tears , until in his arms something had reminded her so strongly of what had passed and broken the barriers her will had erected . |
| 12 | He had been seen on several levels of the North Star site . |
| 13 | During 1989 one such working party met on several occasions to look at decision-making in the light of the ERA . |
| 14 | Because of the Government 's announcement of a review of the working of the Architects Registration Acts , 1931–1969 , the Committee met on several occasions to discuss this important issue . |
| 15 | The Working Party has met on several occasions and a research project is under way to provide all relevant background information . |
| 16 | Ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin produced in France has given rise to such problems in the past , and complaints to the Commission have led to charges being imposed on several occasions , in order to protect alcohol producers in the other member states from unfair competition . |
| 17 | For whatever reason he did not stop at the Fish — which he had visited on several occasions ; nor did he seek out or meet Mary whom he knew and greatly admired . |
| 18 | Appeals can be made on several grounds , for example , that permission ought to be granted , that permission has been granted and that no permission is required . |
| 19 | That the court can take such an initiative is well settled and indeed it has been done on several occasions in the past . |
| 20 | The Minister has promised on several occasions to ensure that the matter is cleared up . |
| 21 | In some ceremonies , an attendant , often male , tore a bough from the shrine-tree to the accompaniment of gestures of lamentation from the priestess and others present ; this over wrought scene , shown on several rings , seems to have symbolized the death of the young god and may conceivably have been followed by the sacrifice of the male attendant who represented him . |
| 22 | The long-lasting value of cavalry as a ‘ follow-up ’ force after a battle was shown on several occasions : at Verneuil in 1424 and , half a century later , in the battles involving the French , the Swiss and Charles the Bold , duke of Burgundy . |
| 23 | It is a pity that she could not have elaborated on several points , and provided a fuller answer to the question she herself raises on p. 101 : " When is it … perfectly appropriate to tell jokes and play with words ? " |
| 24 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
| 25 | The turnout for the referendum , postponed on several occasions [ see pp. 38752-53 ] , was over 70 per cent . |
| 26 | The United States and its allies agreed on several measures including the possible use of US air power to protect UN forces in Muslim ‘ safe areas ’ in Bosnia and to ensure that arms do not reach Bosnian Serbs from Serbia . |
| 27 | Because it transpired that Galileo had not mentioned the 1616 prohibition when applying for his license , Urban felt betrayed on several counts . |
| 28 | Forces from these garrisons have been used on several occasions against recalcitrant East European governments , though with the one exception of the limited uprising in the GDR in 1953 , they have always been extensively reinforced from the Western Military Districts of the USSR . |
| 29 | Stuttgart , beaten by Leeds in the European Cup earlier this season , have closely monitored his progress at Carrow Road and have had him watched on several occasions . |
| 30 | The ‘ flocculus hypothesis ’ is that a small area of the cerebellum , the flocculus , adaptively controls VOR by regulating signal flow from labyrinths to the flocculus to the relay cells of VOR , and has been challenged on several grounds . |