Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] on by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some evenings there 'll be a series of sketches laid on by the Club 's Entertainments Team or a folklore show by guest dancers . |
| 2 | Under this Resolution , it was agreed to set up a Committee on Cultural Affairs , and that the Commission should implement actions decided on by the Council that were to be implemented at Community level . |
| 3 | This was manned by a number of highly professional officers skilled and experienced in the technicalities of flying , and they put into practical effect the policies decided on by the member States to standardise procedures , facilities and levels of safety throughout the world . |
| 4 | Our chalet was spacious and the meals laid on by the live-in girl were cordon bleu quality . |
| 5 | The Department of Trade and Industry ( as it had become ) was responsible for giving exemption from the Moneylenders Acts , could intervene if HP companies were misbehaving , and operated the terms controls decided on by the Treasury . |
| 6 | The women in the repeal movement encountered not only the power and outright misogyny of medical and military chiefs but also the restrictive codes of parliamentary politics , which defined the issues touched on by the acts as indecent and immoral . |
| 7 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |