Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Les Stewart , Senior Manager at Oban , who has responsibility for Scarinish , had perceptively anticipated that I would not be over-extended during my stay on the island . |
| 2 | A side-effect of this is that if your mail starts showing your long address as opposed to the short address given for your name on the list , the dopey list software rejects it . |
| 3 | As in the case of the central government , the new Bihar ministry relied for its survival on the outside support of the two communist parties and the BJP . |
| 4 | The authoritarian paterfamilias presided over the institutionalisation of the double standard , while the pedestalised mother and wife depended for her purity on the degradation of the fallen woman . |
| 5 | Functionalist theorists have also been attacked for their emphasis on the functional nature of stratification . |
| 6 | The 14 year old girl was attacked near her home on the Grovelands estate in Kidlington . |
| 7 | Thorfinn sent Tuathal to sleep for ten minutes and , when he returned , dropped in his place on the bare earth of an old wattle barn , asleep before he stopped moving . |
| 8 | Forget rolled on his back on the court in the seconds before Noah and other members of the team joined him . |
| 9 | It was parked beyond his flat on the opposite side of the road . |
| 10 | One of the key issues to be considered at our meeting on the 9th of June will be the drafting of a Memorandum to the President of the European Council ( in this case , the UK Government ) which is presented at the beginning of each new presidency . |
| 11 | ‘ The players have to take a heap of responsibility for what has happened at Celtic Park , ’ he said , ‘ but the squad is also made up of footballers who want to play in the manner Liam Brady has adopted as his philosophy on the game . |
| 12 | I explained that I worked during the winter for a golf-mad stockbroker called Andrew Buccleuth whom I had met during my year on the amateur circuit . |
| 13 | Mention has already been made of his influence on the Slovene literary movement . |
| 14 | The Government 's policy on television in mainland Tanzania could be seen as anti-elitist ; the same could not be said of its policy on the press . |
| 15 | He also noticed that Corsicans discussed the political principles connected with their dependency on the French less than the price of produce in Marseilles or the cost of cocaine . |
| 16 | As I hope to have suggested , the main educational debate had by then turned from its concentration on the organization of education , characteristic of the l960s , to the consideration of its content and its costs . |
| 17 | This lever has two positions , 1 ‘ and 0 , and if the autoset cam driver is positioned in its holder on the left of the ribber , it will change the autoset lever from 1 to 0 , or 0 to 1 , every time the carriage goes into the colour changer . |
| 18 | In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box . |
| 19 | However , the significance of the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians was not only to be seen in their effect on the Church , but also , according to Mrs Whitehouse , in their affinity with the secular intellectual elite which held sway in the 1960s : |
| 20 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 21 | The Iranian spiritual leader , Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei , confirmed on Feb. 9 the death sentence imposed by his predecessor on the British novelist Salman Rushdie for apostasy . |
| 22 | This is the lesson of the Khrushchev years , and this lesson is simple : if the subservience of Eastern Europe 's Communist rulers is ensured by their dependence on the Soviet Union , then the Soviet Union had best be dependable . |
| 23 | Joan was thanked for her participation on the Committee . |
| 24 | The southern aspect is dominated by Pegasus , which is large but not so bright as might be thought from its aspect on the maps . |
| 25 | The ‘ blood ’ referred to came of course from the animal which died as a substitute for the repentant Jew and which was sprinkled on his behalf on the altar by the priest . |
| 26 | The Plaintiff relies on proprietary estoppel the principle of which , in its broadest form , may be stated as follows ; where one person , A , has acted to his detriment on the faith of a belief , which was known to and encouraged by another person , B , that he either has or is going to be given a right in or over B 's property , B can not insist on his strict legal rights if to do so would be inconsistent with A 's belief . |
| 27 | Like artists of the earlier wars , Keane was frustrated by his dependence on the forces , their movements , their security and their unalloyed , albeit good-natured , company , which led him to be protected from real military action and from the indigenous civilian population of Iraq . |
| 28 | Like artists of the earlier wars , Keane was frustrated by his dependence on the forces , their movements , their security and their unalloyed , albeit good-natured , company , which led him to be protected from real military action and from the indigenous civilian population of Iraq . |
| 29 | Contract Procedure and Payments : the farmer wishing to have contract work carried out normally gave 4–5 days ' notice ; the administrator located a suitable machine not being used by its owner on the required date , and the operator collected the machine and carried out the work ; the farmer paid the group the agreed rate per acre for the work done ; the group paid the owner of the machine the agreed rate for the hire of the machine ; the operator was paid for the hours worked . |
| 30 | Yet it would seem that Lenin well understood the kind of mediation that would be required between bureaucracy and the working class and that this is shown by his emphasis on the need to prevent the bureaucracy emerging under socialism as the privileged social stratum it had been under capitalism . |