Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decent community solidarity and welfare socialism that Mr Kinnock embodied was caught on the horns of a terrible contradiction , which Labour in opposition did nothing to resolve , since it did not tackle early enough the low tax/public spending anti-welfare consensus that Thatcherism built . |
| 2 | Malaria was hyper-endemic by the beach , so the village had been built on the cliffs above it , near the fresh springs . |
| 3 | Shortly before this development , three magistrates who had been seconded to assist Sica had been withdrawn on the grounds that they were working too closely with the police , thereby prejudicing their independence as magistrates . |
| 4 | It was an awareness of a new kind of potentiality , one very different from my old sense of the word , which had been based on the illusions of ambition . |
| 5 | In late August , however , only days before the body was due to be transported , Imelda Marcos announced that the burial had been delayed on the grounds that she would not submit the body of her husband to the " indignity " of being transported on the cargo aircraft which had been offered by the Philippines ' government . |
| 6 | By November 1927 the patent application had been rejected on the grounds that the description was so sketchy that ‘ an expert is unlikely to be able to practise the invention ’ . |
| 7 | It had been accepted under the UDF umbrella , but after the ethnic strife at the beginning of 1990 concerning the Turkish minority it had been rejected on the grounds that it had been constituted on ethnic lines . |
| 8 | The major was aware that the main suspect had been freed on the orders of the opposition leader . |
| 9 | Another dramatic instance of historical déjà vu came during the miners ' strike , when it was reported that an attack had been made on the police station in Malby , South Yorkshire , scene of an anti-police riot a century earlier when the ‘ new police ’ first arrived there . |
| 10 | Is not it sad to hear that until yesterday no representations had been made on the patients charter by NUPE and COHSE ? |
| 11 | In each case the rubber stamp had been positioned on the prints so it was aimed at Phoebe 's back , the centre of her chest . |
| 12 | Sure enough , when the chest had been deposited on the cobbles , the stranger reached into a pouch and there was the flash of a coin . |
| 13 | Although vengeance had been wreaked on the assassins in Edinburgh , that was still by no means the main administrative centre . |
| 14 | Her own childhood had been lived on the margins : she had wanted theirs to be calm , to be spared the indignities of fighting unnecessary territorial and social wars . |
| 15 | On May 3 sources at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in Brussels claimed that on Feb. 25 , the day of major opposition demonstrations in Moscow and across the country [ see p. 37322-23 ] , a division of up to 6,000 heavily armed troops had been mobilized on the outskirts of Moscow . |
| 16 | ‘ If correct depths had been shown on the charts , the QE2 would have avoided the area completely and the grounding would not have occurred . ’ |
| 17 | By then , Iran-contra was no longer a good movie , even if the livelier parts had been preserved on the videotapes that were hastily rushed out . |
| 18 | But we must not be confused by this : a wide variety of views had been held on the relations of popes and emperors , bishops and kings , in the tenth century ; a wide variety was still held in the twelfth . |
| 19 | ANC sources said the funds of the ANC Department of Social Welfare , which she heads , had been frozen on the orders of the movement 's treasurer-general after she failed to account for more than 400,000 Rand ( £80,000 ) that is missing . |
| 20 | The Minister of State for Internal Affairs , Subodh Kant Sahay , announced on Jan. 19 that the National Socialist Council of Nagaland and the United Liberation Front of Assam ( ULFA ) had been banned on the grounds that both were " hand in glove in extremist activities " . |
| 21 | If statistical tests had been performed on the results of the experiment it is likely , from Anderson and Barrios ( 1961 ) , that a primacy effect would have been obtained . |