Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its supporting declaration called for the creation of " independent organs of struggle based on the factories " , and this was taken up at the Workers Charter Convention held in Bermondsey on 12 April 1931 . |
| 2 | The large sums of money spent on the maltings have enabled manufacturing cost increases to be held well below inflation . |
| 3 | Checks on weeded volumes or on the physical quality of stock left on the shelves are reasonably easy to apply . |
| 4 | The expression of confusion observed on the faces of such cats as they pick themselves up is in itself sufficient to turn any cat-lover against the idea of claw-removal . |
| 5 | For Windows 3.0 users there is a separate set of drivers held on the drivers disk ( they actually work under 3.1 as well , but not as fast as the proper 3.1 drivers ) . |
| 6 | It is well known that isolation in itself , with no sleep loss , can induce hallucinatory experiences , and it seems that in this experiment the effects of sleep loss potentiated the relatively mild levels of isolation imposed on the subjects . |
| 7 | At their busiest , the annual case load of tribunals exceeded 300,000 cases , though this has now stabilized at around 150,000 cases a year as a result of limitations placed on the rights of appeal under the income support and social fund scheme introduced in April 1988 . |
| 8 | Moreover , when in 1870 urban administrative councils ( dumy ) analogous to the rural zemstvos were established , even the most prominent commoners tended to defer to the minority of nobles represented on the councils . |
| 9 | Our main argument in this paper is that linguists have not often recognised the need for this sort of justification ; that their views about what is educationally relevant in the field of language study does not always coincide with the concerns expressed by educationalists ; and that linguists and educationalists need to begin a common search for relevance in which the linguists ' knowledge is related to a frame of reference based on the needs of learners and teachers . |
| 10 | Did you feel impressed by the standard of work displayed on the walls ? |
| 11 | He passed me by , probably more concerned about his own men of 6 Commando and the large number of casualties inflicted on the Commandos during the attack on the enemy positions in the village just along the road . |
| 12 | Clouds were moving across the far north-west of the landscape as I got to the cave , and I 'd just reached the mouth when the first drops of rain spattered on the stones at my feet . |
| 13 | John Jevons , Clwyd 's social services director , says in a report to councillors today that a plan would be thrashed out to best meet the needs of individuals based on the residents ' reaction . |
| 14 | Thirdly , is the inevitable consequence of good arrangements the presence of cheats , including mimics , thieves , parasites , parasitoids , nectar-robbers , toxin-users , and , of course , the whole pyramid of carnivores based on the herbivores , some of which ( as in the case of the hapless fig-wasps ) have been mentioned above , notably birds and ants . |
| 15 | Marital : Many a parental marriage is broken by the amount of focus put on the problems of the child primary sufferer rather than Upon improving the marital relationship and giving each other support in the time of crisis . |
| 16 | It was also suggested that a policeman attending court at the trial of the present proceedings might take note of evidence based on the disclosures and use that evidence . |
| 17 | Each month we publish a round-up of forecasts based on the averages of 170 seers polled by Consensus Economics . |
| 18 | The bank rate went down , and so did the Irish government , while the weight of lorries allowed on the roads of Britain went up from 3212 to 38 tonnes . |
| 19 | However , the types of germs found on the fingers are n't usually the same one s which cause a discharge . |
| 20 | I lay in the bath daydreaming of putters that never missed and that were made of priceless and perfect metals unknown to man , of millions of pounds won on the fairways of the world , and of even more millions made off the course . |
| 21 | Meetings are conducted according to rules of debate modelled on the rules used in what is probably the most famous talking shop in the world — the Houses of Parliament at Westminster . |
| 22 | Then a confederate of X called on the defendants , who delivered the coats to him under the impression that he was the plaintiffs ' agent . |
| 23 | This took and debate assisted in the further elaboration of a structuralist Marxist school of writing based on the notions of ‘ hegemony ’ and ‘ relative autonomy ’ . |
| 24 | The Barbier-Mueller collection contains about seventy pieces , covering the full range of works made on the islands — modelled human skulls , weapons , house posts , ancestor statues and a rare bark mask from the northernmost island of the archipelago — placing it second after the British Museum in terms of the importance of its holdings . |
| 25 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 26 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 27 | Notes taken at the time of operation commented on the appearances of ‘ an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma infiltrating strap muscles anteriorly and carotid sheath posteriorly . |
| 28 | The variety of languages spoken on the streets and in shops is extraordinary — for new immigrants as well as the old Anglo settlers . |
| 29 | I went in and looked with some surprise at a pan of sausages balanced on the coals . |
| 30 | Lack of labour hastened the coming of the steel plough ( c.1775 ) , but this in turn reduced the number of men required on the farms . |