Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 2 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 3 | A corresponding duty is imposed on him in the case of lettings of offices and shops ( Offices Shops and Railway Premises ( Hoists and Lifts ) Regulations 1968 ( SI No 849 ) ) . |
| 4 | The ombudsman claims that the jurisdiction and duty to investigate conferred and imposed on him by the scheme enables and requires him to investigate and determine complaints in relation to valuations made by employees of a building society of properties to be charged to the building society to secure further advances to an existing borrower from that society . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that in the 19th century the courts did consider the adequacy of consideration in restraint of trade cases , but more recently in M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1957 ] 1 WLR 9 Hodson LJ said " … although the position of the employee has to be considered , the court will not inquire into the adequacy of the consideration or weigh the advantages accruing to the covenantor under the contract against the disadvantages imposed on him by the restraint " . |
| 6 | The need for exports is too often regarded by Yugoslav enterprises as a ‘ necessary evil ’ imposed on them by the government . |
| 7 | If Stagecoach has sold it , why should the contemptible consumers of bus services not just be left to suffer from market forces imposed on them by the Government through privatisation ? |
| 8 | It really is er a new model Secretary of State although the fact of the matter is Mr Deputy Speaker , that er his reality of course is quite different from his and the reality is that this is a poor settlement for local government in Wales and it 's been roundly condemned , not least by the county councils , who is the largest employers in Wales will have to face the considerable burden imposed on them by the government 's acceptance of the public sector er review body recommendations but without the additional cash to meet those awards and what this settlement er does represent Mr Deputy Speaker is a further step along the road that we 've been travelling since nineteen seventy nine . |
| 9 | The rules were introduced in a memorandum from the Institute explaining to banks the duties imposed on them by the law on drug trafficking passed by parliament in July 1989 . |
| 10 | For some teachers not only was this difficult to plan and implement as an organizational strategy per se , but the increased demands imposed on them by the strategy meant that their opportunities for systematic and sustained monitoring of children 's progress were further reduced , while at the same time the increased levels of movement and disturbance in the classroom might adversely affect children 's concentration and time on task . |
| 11 | In other words , according to this view , Germany along with all the other nations stumbled into war in nineteen fourteen , was then declared , simply because she was the defeated party , declared to be the guilty party , erm had punitive terms imposed on her at the Treaty of Versailles , and as a result of this moved towards extremism in internal politics , with the erm consequence that the Democratic Republic of Weimar collapsed , erm Hitler came to power , and Hitler was some kind of evil person , a Satanic messenger from Hell , who first of all visited his atrocities on , on the Germans before doing the same to Europe as a whole . |
| 12 | One , stating that ‘ the great task imposed on us in the struggle against Bolshevism resides in the annihilation of eternal Jewry ’ , went on : ‘ Only when you see what the Jew has brought about here in Russia , can you really understand why the Führer began the struggle against Jewry . |
| 13 | In his philosophy reality is the spiritual world contemplated by reason , the material world being a mere receptacle for the ideal forms imposed on it by the world-soul . |
| 14 | British egg production had decreased because of constraints imposed on it by the ministry . |
| 15 | They were rather unpleasantly self-satisfied for a start — and this was not incompatible with the impression made on him by the man himself at their meeting . |
| 16 | But already by the time of Pope Gregory I ( d. 604 ) the monastic movement , widely diversified as it was , was being integrated into the life of the church at large and open to the demands made on it by the church 's interests and needs . |
| 17 | No demand , however , was made on us by the gate-keeper , the authorities being so liberal as not to charge persons for walking either on the roads or footpaths . |
| 18 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 19 | The programming interface is available now , and has won the support of suppliers including Intel Corp , L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Siemens AG , Alcatel NV and Lotus Development Corp , which are expected to start bringing out products based on it by the end of the year . |
| 20 | She wanted to make Dan sound as good as possible and after some of the stunts he 'd played on her in the past that was difficult . |
| 21 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 22 | Mr Butner — who developed a friendly , working relationship with Diana — eventually called on her at the palace . |
| 23 | Edward Pitt had called on them in the evening . |
| 24 | Things had changed since the 1920s when Lionel Hedges , a Tonbridge and Kent cricketer and Oxford blue , had dismissed ‘ a seedy looking middle-aged gentleman [ who ] called on him on the morning of a match . |
| 25 | While it was unquestionably the most important candidate for saving by the nation , if all efforts had been concentrated on it to the exclusion of others the nation would have lost Belton and Calke . |
| 26 | He has no power to order discovery of documents or the attendance of witnesses or to make any order as to costs ( unless such power is expressly conferred on him by the lease ) ; and if he dies or becomes incapable or unwilling to continue , it is doubtful whether another expert could be appointed under the lease . |
| 27 | Local authorities have a separate and specific jurisdiction conferred on them by the Act , and the course that they take is a matter for their judgment . |
| 28 | This is contained in section 1 , which provides that the Bank of England shall have the powers conferred on it by the Act , and also ‘ the duty generally to supervise the institutions authorised by it in the exercise of those powers . ’ |
| 29 | There , next to Miss Temple , stood the same black column which had frowned on me in the breakfast-room at Gateshead . |
| 30 | Earlier she had played Juliet ; and there had been much adulation showered on her by the public and the newspapers . |