Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [vb pp] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing at Aintree much shorter than 6 to 1 , whereas the two main parties in the General Election are offered on narrower terms . |
| 2 | Two main types of building are encountered on such farms ; sunken buildings and those built at ground-level , often called ‘ halls ’ in a rather indiscriminate manner . |
| 3 | If the market value weights used in the index are based on current market prices , then every time the price of any share in the index changes this will change all the weights . |
| 4 | In winter most Golden Plover are found on coastal farmland , including the permanent grassland of the levels . |
| 5 | The facts of Darwinism are capable of scientific verification , whereas the beliefs of religion are based on ancient writings , which , all through the centuries of civilised time have been contentious . |
| 6 | But policy assumptions about the economic costs of the elderly in future are premissed on bleak models of ageing and the ageing process , which Gail Wilson summarises as " downhill all the way " ( Wilson 1991 ) . |
| 7 | Members of the TAC are represented on both committees , and other TAC members are coopted on to many of their working parties . |
| 8 | The compound is about 800 yards from the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal , where the 12,000 US military personnel of the US Southern Command were put on full alert . |
| 9 | Baseline measurements of blood pressure and oxygen saturation were recorded on two occasions two minutes apart . |
| 10 | In one of their paradigms , subjects in the experimental condition were exposed on separate occasions to an odour and to a tactile cue ( the texture of a flooring ) . |
| 11 | The election , caused by the resignation of Ray Michie , MP , for family reasons , will be by postal ballot of party members , with the result being announced on 21 April . |
| 12 | For other deleted RAP74s proteins , the fractions from the P11 column that contained approximately 500µg of the protein were subjected on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis , and stained with 4M Na-acetate . |
| 13 | With their infamous riding qualities , the units compared ill with the air-conditioned delights of Mark 3 and HST stock being introduced on other regions . |
| 14 | Measurements of gastric secretion were performed on fasted animals ( food and bedding removed overnight ) but the mice were allowed tap water freely . |
| 15 | The papers are a reasonable cross section of the research being done on these topics in the UK today . |
| 16 | There is now some research being done on local languages in the university , but given the complex pattern of languages , especially with widespread population movement , and the cost , it seems unlikely that the government 's policy on the official medium of instruction will be changed . |
| 17 | Current postgraduate research being conducted on narratological innovation in the late 19th-century Italian novel , 20th-century poetry , and on the Resistance novel . |
| 18 | Patriarchal religion is built on many millennia of repressed fear of the power of female bodily processes . |
| 19 | Despite the current recession , demographic changes and the ‘ greying ’ of the workforce means urgent new thinking is needed on such issues as flexible working and retirement , taxation and superannuation rules ( especially abatement provisions ) , and employment laws . |
| 20 | Because the nation is seen as only partially liberated , and particularly by the membership of the largest party Fianna Fáil , the animus of the national-popular consciousness is focused on this issue , to the detriment of class-based politics . |
| 21 | First , since the volcano is built on oceanic crust , the magmas involved will be basaltic , so that the sort of eruption that we can expect will be a modification of an ordinary Hawaiian or Strombolian eruption . |
| 22 | Because operands may be very long , no accumulator is provided on this computer ; all operations take place between operands in the store . |
| 23 | I would hypothesise that as they draw , and the front of the mind is focused on that activity , the back of the mind is reflecting subconsciously , or even unconsciously , on the words they might use . |
| 24 | This optimism is based on several factors . |
| 25 | Some of the Naval survey parties may also have landed briefly on Krakatoa , because a hot spring is marked on some maps , but apart from this we know remarkably little about the islands or their volcanic history . |
| 26 | The research is based on primary sources , including interviews with those concerned with regulation in both Britain and the United States . |
| 27 | Although the current version of the LBS model places considerable weight on relative money supplies , and implicitly on purchasing power parity , current research is based on two propositions which are widely accepted in North America : |
| 28 | More specifically they suggested that the impact of change will vary differentially over the earth 's surface , and that further research is needed on likely consumption of fossil fuel in the next century , on prospective modes of management of the global biosphere over the next century , on quantitative clarification of the carbon cycle , on climatic response to increasing CO 2 in the atmosphere , and on the potential impact of climatic change ( Nature and Resources , 1981 ) . |
| 29 | Source : This case study is based on Industrial Relations Review and Report , No. 348 , July 1985 . |
| 30 | More than 450 eyes have so far been treated but the study is based on 79 patients with the longest experience of the treatment . |