Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The settlement price ( or the exchange delivery settlement price , EDSP ) is the trading price ( per 100 nominal ) for the futures contract on the last day of trading . |
| 2 | The clash of ginger on pink as a small skipper butterfly lands on petals of camp ion ; gorse pods popping in the hot sun ; small striped snails creeping out on to the wet path after a cloud burst ; soldier beetles gathered on the white umbels of wild carrot : these sights and sounds I can enjoy at my pottering leisure — whilst the hordes of laden hikers tramp by with stern faces and never a glance to left or right . |
| 3 | This supply response takes a variety of forms depending on the institutional arrangements within particular labour markets , but the Lucas model postulates that there will be a diminished demand for holidays and other leisure activities and an increased demand for overtime or weekend working . |
| 4 | The US decision was the decisive factor in persuading the military-backed interim government and local business groups to agree on the same day to renewed negotiations with the Organization of American States ( OAS ) . |
| 5 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 6 | And the involuntary malice within the desperate attempts to remain on the safe side of the frontier of madness . |
| 7 | place the services with the proposed single-tier local authorities — i.e. between 15 to 51 authorities depending on the future structure of local government . |
| 8 | The series of oral papillae is separated from the 2–3 small blunt oral tentacle scales situated on the proximal edge of the adoral shields — these scales are much smaller than the oral papillae . |
| 9 | The huddle of noisy stalls in the back streets were a clamour of life and colour , selling diamanté , silk ribbons , radios , clothes , dead fish sliced up on cold slabs , snakes split down the middle , innards steaming on the bloodied stone floors , live birds in cages , killed with a hammer then plucked and sold , and thousand-year-old eggs streaked black and white with gaudy orange centres . |
| 10 | From the time that I was about eight , the Boxing Booth acted as a magnet to me and I spent a considerable time gazing in awe as the boxers paraded on the small stage outside the tent , ready to take on all corners . |
| 11 | The Druids won on the last occasion and have retained the trophy at their Henley headquarters . |
| 12 | The ponds hold the usual species associated with this type of habitat , with Great Crested Grebes and Tufted Ducks nesting on the larger ponds and lakes , and the small breeding population of Teal in the county largely restricted to this habitat or the smaller streams and marshes , rarely being found breeding on the river levels . |
| 13 | Less reliance on power bases is found in managers who have the tactical and interpersonal skills to concentrate on the essential objectives . |
| 14 | The official response was equally conditioned by short-term considerations centring on the reserve position and by lack of understanding of the issues involved . |
| 15 | Since the pomeshchiks depended on the same source — peasant produce — for their income , there was always a conflict of interest over the portion to be paid to the State . |
| 16 | Time to let the readers loose on the FESTIVE CAPTION CONTEST . |
| 17 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 18 | His eyes glazed on the swaying barley and the two figures standing far on the edge . |
| 19 | In 1986 , according to Friends of the Earth , a survey of the homes clustered on the surrounding hills found that three-quarters of 800 residents were opposed to the Rechem plant . |
| 20 | And , like a drunk will try to focus on a stationary object to stop him turning , turning , Elisabeth planted a buddleia in her mind and watched as the purple emperors mated on the white tresses . |
| 21 | They could be used as either a deck , or through span structure , and the length of spans varied on the light truss type from 45ft to 85ft , and on the standard type , 90ft to 1 50ft . |
| 22 | Then he was crossing the road and the long ochre-coloured palace came into view with the snowflakes falling slowly in front of it to land on the roofs of the cars parked on the sloping car park in front . |
| 23 | Even then opposing fans mixed on the same terraces without the ‘ taking of ends ’ . |
| 24 | The probable trigger for the induction of LTP is the entry of Ca 2+ through NMDA channels located on the postsynaptic cell . |
| 25 | A Scottish Homes report on the preliminary findings says the survey found that 20.8 per cent of Scotland 's houses , or 423,000 , showed evidence of damp , serious condensation or mould either singly or in any combination . |
| 26 | Kenneth Clarke , the UK Home Secretary , announced on May 8 that intelligence operations to uncover Irish terrorist units operating on the British mainland would henceforth be led by MI5 , the UK security service . |
| 27 | The three authors focus on the artistic mode of production , its socio-historic contextualisation , and its patterns of collection respectively . |
| 28 | As the DCSL recalls , the IS coordinator defended the demands made on the local library on the grounds that : If we had a decent school library I would n't need to do it . |
| 29 | This a less familiar technique , used for a number of plants and usually very successful ( the persistence of couch grass and convolvulus from root fragments depends on the same principle ) . |
| 30 | For a split second he looked oddly vulnerable , but then he pushed himself up in the bed , her wary eyes lingered on the naked gold of his shoulders , and she quickly changed her mind . |