Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless proper punishments are handed out , all the money spent on the ads is wasted . |
| 2 | Men fighting in the field depended on the votes of men splitting straws in Washington . |
| 3 | Partly due to the ban placed on the authors ' disclosing anything about ‘ intelligence techniques ’ ( p. x ) , which has been rigidly enforced . |
| 4 | After the Labour group meeting , which was held in private , Councillor Keith Geddes , leader of the Lothian administration , said the referendum depended on the proposals put forward in a white paper which Mr Lang was due to publish . |
| 5 | Understandably , there was a tremendous variation in the hours worked on the farms with one well-established and organised family putting in a 28-hour week . |
| 6 | St Wolfgang is the most famous of the resorts set on the shores of Lake Wolfgang . |
| 7 | The present Conservative government 's proposals are to reduce , not increase , the taxes imposed on the incomes of the population of working age . |
| 8 | The Renaissance State consisted , at bottom , of an ever-expanding bureaucracy which , although at first a working bureaucracy , had by the end of the sixteenth century become a parasitic bureaucracy ; and this ever expanding bureaucracy was sustained on an equally expanding margin of ‘ waste ’ : ‘ waste ’ which lay between the taxes imposed on the subjects and the revenue collected by the Crown . |
| 9 | This is left oversized , the tenons cut on the ends of the back uprights and the positions for the mortises marked off by laying the rail piece over the tenons . |
| 10 | Agreement is being sought from the Clerk to the Licensing Justices to have the condition included on the Justices Licence . |
| 11 | This has underlined that the price of popularising rugby union has been the increase in pressures off the field , which can be as significant as the demands made on the players themselves . |
| 12 | If he succeeeds , the council will be barred from paying the losses incurred on the transactions . |
| 13 | The designs carved on the sealstones were very varied . |
| 14 | IN THE ancient fable the frogs called on the gods to give them a king . |
| 15 | I presume that the nature of the images formed on the retinas of observers is relatively independent of their culture . |
| 16 | In 1775 ‘ musketeers went into St Giles 's , to search for contraband goods , and the mob fired on the musketeers , and the musketeers fired on the mob ’ , TTC i 1 . |
| 17 | You 'll find all the ingredients listed on the products . |
| 18 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
| 19 | When Mr Bernard Corker , who owns the business , applied for retrospective planning permission the council refused on the grounds that it was too noisy , conflicted with proposed parking standards and did not fit in with the character of the residential area . |
| 20 | This the committee rejected on the grounds that it would arouse keen political controversy , would involve insuperable financial problems and would necessitate the establishment of a complicated national administrative machinery . |
| 21 | A further form of regulation is the operation of monetary policy , which may affect financial institutions , either through direct portfolio controls , as with the corset placed on the banks in the 1970s , or through interest rates which affect the environment in which financial institutions operate . |
| 22 | In that case the tax deducted on the dividends can be reclaimed provided it is meant for a non tax paying child . |
| 23 | In that case the tax deducted on the dividends can be reclaimed provided it is meant for a non tax paying child . |
| 24 | In that case the tax deducted on the dividends can be reclaimed provided it is meant for a non tax paying child . |
| 25 | The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again . |
| 26 | Would have preferred more botanical detail on the plants shown on the slides , which were good . |
| 27 | He stressed , however , that he had immediately sought to have the weapons removed on the grounds that they were inconsistent with Hungary 's policy of maintaining " balanced relations with both East and West " . |
| 28 | The bogies were then wheeled , and the body lowered on the bogies , the vehicle measured and set . |
| 29 | The meeting concentrated on the activities and progress of the three main working parties set up late last year to consider : rail privatisation ; the bus industry and financing of transport infrastructure . |
| 30 | Helen leaned over my shoulder and gazed at the long lines of boy scouts , girl guides , ex-servicemen , with half the population of the town packed on the pavements , watching . |