Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm based on the moons of Jupiter from now on , and the only time I 'll come back to earth will be strictly on a day-trip basis . |
2 | This was also the first of many operations at Poole in which I was involved on the cutters . |
3 | I was kept on the rails . |
4 | ‘ They knew I was a sniffer but I was put on a YTS placement to learn to be a carpet fitter . |
5 | It means that if you are placed on a YTS programme through Compact , you have a real job . |
6 | So you 're hooked on the stimulants now , are you ? ’ |
7 | The truck later delivered this girl to the place where she was dumped on the outskirts of Pontino . |
8 | She was slashed on the hands as she struggled with him . |
9 | Afterwards , we 're stood on the steps outside the club , built at the top of a charmless metal shopping centre on the outskirts of Aarau . |
10 | So we were off er after that we were off and landed down in erm Bishop 's Wharf er in the woods there and we , the next morning we were off down to Gosport and we were embarked on the ships there and er landed in Normandy at the beach it was . |
11 | But to avoid unrest they are kept on the books at a basic wage , sitting around idly at work for lack of materials or customers . |
12 | When they are questioned on the attitudes , motivations and beliefs they bring to their tasks , strongly held schemas will often become obvious quite quickly to the trained observer who knows what he ( or she ) is looking for . |
13 | However , will the Minister assure the House that the new standing committees to be established by the UKCC will include committees for the minority professions so that their significant contributions to nursing are heard and they are consulted on the issues that concern them ? |
14 | Yeah if they only wh wheeled it down and then they 're allowed on the paths |
15 | When these pictures were issued they were indeed contemporary because they were based on the evils of the day . |
16 | One must beware especially of solutions that are presented as if they were based on the results of rigorous experimental tests and bear the stamp of proof . |
17 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |
18 | They were painted on the walls of many private houses whether the occupants wanted them there or not . |
19 | These were the only elements on the council between which there is any contemporary suggestion of hostility and it is thus significant how evenly they were balanced on the commissions . |
20 | These were the only elements on the council between which there is any contemporary suggestion of hostility and it is thus significant how evenly they were balanced on the commissions . |
21 | When Richard was a young man there was reckoned to be a tournament about once a fortnight on the Continent ; in England they were prohibited on the orders of Henry II . |
22 | And h Well , no , they were put on the wagons actually . |
23 | They were judged on the criteria laid down by the EC Directive — that they should be unbiased , should properly examine alternatives , and should detail the measures that would be taken to mitigate any environmental damage . |
24 | And yet they were founded on the theories and practices worked out by UNESCO ‘ experts ’ . |
25 | But they were rebuffed on the grounds that the society was not concerned with clinical research . |
26 | Not only will he be accepted on the terraces but also as a drinking partner in the local pubs . |
27 | Look how it 's repeated on the hangings . ’ |
28 | A lot like the pig above , except that it 's found on the grasslands and savannah woodlands of eastern and south-eastern Africa , is slightly bigger , is more bristly than hairy and is a muddy colour . |
29 | It is grown on the slopes of the Himalayas in Pakistan and has very thin grains and a surprising fragrance . |
30 | It is based on the resources , assets and habits of the organisation . |