Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our large cases sit on a small side table at knee-level . |
| 2 | This is because the subjects taught really fall into three types , namely , appropriate parts of basic disciplines taught on a theoretical basis , e.g. economics , psychology , sociology , mathematics ; essentially practical , procedural subjects such as accounting , and problem areas which are a mixture of theory , practice and problem solving , e.g. marketing , policy studies . |
| 3 | The expression " breach of warranty " is often used in disputes about deferred consideration , when vendors are said in the agreement to " warrant " that the profits reach a specified figure , and the purchasers seek a repayment from the vendors to compensate them for that loss , in most cases calculated on a pre-agreed formula : if the profits exceed the specified figure , the vendors may be entitled to additional consideration . |
| 4 | It 's not obvious a priori whether all or any pair of these projects converge on a single set of structures . |
| 5 | Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts . |
| 6 | One group portrait has been taken in a garden : three generations arranged on a Turkish rug . |
| 7 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |
| 8 | Her lips parted on a tiny gasp . |
| 9 | By the 11th ballot on May 19th the failure of the major parties to agree on a common candidate allowed the Northern League 's candidate , Gianfranco Miglio , to poll the highest number of votes , underscoring the potential influence of the League , with its 80 parliamentary seats . |
| 10 | Reporting on his efforts to get the three opposition parties to agree on a common agenda , Mr Christie said he feared the argument that 75 per cent of Scots had voted for constitutional change at the last election lost validity without some unifying factor , enhancing the Tories ' claims of legitimacy . |
| 11 | Once the messenger reached his destination he delivered the mandate to the judges who then proceeded to summon the parties to appear on a stated day at a stated place . |
| 12 | By now the tendency for manufacturers to concentrate on a single site was apparent , and many of the smaller mills , such as Inchbrook , fell into disuse . |
| 13 | Prior to the Second World War this species was hunted , as part of a traditional subsistence economy , by Bedouin tribes but with the development of the oil industry and the introduction of modern vehicles and weapons , hunting parties organised on a large scale rapidly reduced oryx populations to such an extent that they were virtually eliminated . |
| 14 | A similar view may be taken where the parties embark on a criminal act together and the plaintiff is injured as a result of the defendant 's negligence . |
| 15 | All heard ‘ remarkably strong ’ signals transmitted on a mobile-phone frequency close to the Brackley radio mast , north of Oxford , between December 31 , 1989 and the end of January , 1990 . |
| 16 | The words came on a husky out-breath . |
| 17 | For example , two-dimensional animals living on a one-dimensional earth would have to climb over each other in order to get past each other . |
| 18 | The streets grew narrower , every doorway seemed to offer goods , there were wooden booths in small squares dappled with shade , selling pottery and saddles built on wooden frames , then the cool blue and green tiled courtyard of a mosque , with voices chanting on a high-pitched note . |
| 19 | Contrary to expectations , Antarctic Treaty nations agreed on a 50-year ban on mining and mineral extraction as part of a draft protocol concluded at the end of their Madrid meeting . |
| 20 | In April , the French and the Scots embarked on a polite exchange of congratulatory diplomatic compliments , with the French claiming that they had attacked Boulogne only for the sake of the Scots . |
| 21 | The School Development Plan emphasises a rational approach to decision-making by encouraging schools to focus on a limited number of priorities and devise action plans to implement and evaluate these . |
| 22 | The words arrived on a long feather of smoke . |
| 23 | They 're not meant to be crude or sensationalist , they give you an idea of the kind of thing that your fire fighters face on a regular basis . |
| 24 | Outside the formal political discourses of Alliance and Labour there emerged a genuine popular resentment against Alliance candidates based on a simple identification of them with threats to relief . |
| 25 | Conventional heuristic-based fuzzy logic systems can not learn and fail to work with many complex applications , the company says , noting that NeuFuz4 gets round the problem by using proprietary new defuzzification , rule inferencing and antecedent processing algorithms based on a modified back propagation algorithm . |
| 26 | All three systems use search algorithms based on a dynamic programming algorithm known as the Viterbi algorithm ( Viterbi 1967 ) . |
| 27 | And the following appear to be structural changes which are internal and national rather than international : railway development and mass poverty ( 1830s/1840s ) ; mass unemployment associated with the decline of textiles , shipbuilding and other industries ; full establishment of large-scale , assembly-line production ( early part of the 1930s/1940s period ) ; new production methods based on a fragmented labour force and flexible labour ( 1970s/1980s ) . |
| 28 | The new production methods based on a fragmented labour force and information technology ( computerization of design and production ) have been established in the 1970s and 1980s on an international rather than purely national basis . |
| 29 | A number of partial explanations have been put forward — the persistence of the calculations of calendars based on a solar year starting 1 January , and the popular association of the date with ‘ New Year ’ . |
| 30 | Then in 1965 , inspired by an eighteenth-century folio which she discovered in Leixlip Castle she revived the art of making pictures ( usually floral designs ) from different shells mounted on a black velvet background . |