Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name and age of the party boy or girl could be piped or painted on many of the cakes — perhaps across the large band of the hot-air balloon , on the space rocket or on the pop-up birthday card . |
| 2 | Others were baffled , not able to believe that free people , famous and rich too , could say what they saw printed or heard on Romanian television or radio . |
| 3 | Ranulf studied the painting curiously and felt a shiver of apprehension as he saw how the sinners were thrust into hot ovens , cauldrons of boiling oil , or broken on huge revolving cartwheels . |
| 4 | While Keynes 's ideas overlapped with Liberalism , his philosophy taught him that all political principles were expedients to be adopted or discarded on ethical grounds . |
| 5 | Military officials gave a figure of 48 dead or wounded on both sides . |
| 6 | Where fed on treated slop the living cells |
| 7 | Among those eligible were ( i ) surviving spouses , children or parents of those killed ; ( ii ) anyone detained for more than 30 days , imprisoned , pressed into forced labour or deported on racial , religious political grounds during the Second World War ; and ( iii ) soldiers sent to Soviet labour camps at the end of the war . |
| 8 | ( c ) External wall In the case of a demise of one floor of a building , or of a room on any floor that is bounded or enclosed on one or more sides by an outside wall , unless the outside wall is excepted or reserved , or there is some context which leads to the contrary conclusion , prima facie the premises demised comprise both sides of the outside wall ( Hope Brothers Ltd v Cowan [ 1913 ] 2 Ch 312 per Joyce ; Goldfoot v Welch [ 1914 ] 1 Ch 213 ; Sturge v Hackett [ 1962 ] 3 All ER 166 ) . |
| 9 | Being discriminated against or harassed on any grounds — whether it 's racist , sexist or even ageist — is always hard to cope with on your own . |
| 10 | To determine the extent to which symptom diaries of asthmatic patients are inaccurate or based on retrospective recall . |
| 11 | Some researchers try to counteract this problem by frequently collecting diary forms , but this is a burdensome procedure and the actual extent to which diaries are inaccurate or based on retrospective recall is unknown . |
| 12 | However , in work situations under much tighter constraint , or based on work-pacing technology like the assembly line , there is far less scope to manipulate managerial control . |
| 13 | The procedures for closure allow for periods of consultation and these have often led to bitter disputes within the community with the result that decisions regarding closure are delayed , or based on non-scientific data . |
| 14 | Curriculum reform , whether it is centrally determined or based on local or in-school planning , is generally held to be impossible unless it is firmly based on a plan for public examinations . |
| 15 | In the future , compression using techniques from digital TV , or based on fractal theory , could become important . |
| 16 | When it 's ill-conceived , ill-considered or based on incomplete information , the Profitboss wo n't criticize the critic . |
| 17 | In fact the extant Acts of the Martyrs ( where based on contemporary records and not legends ) do not portray the martyrs as human heroes , but as very frail mortals who are being given supernatural strength . |
| 18 | Some of these registers are not saved or restored on each procedure call . |
| 19 | On Dec. 7 the head of the Iranian judiciary , Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi , dismissed Amnesty 's claims as " lies " and denied that anyone had " been imprisoned or executed on ideological grounds " . |
| 20 | In many respects the significance of the physical form of a program , whether hard-wired on a silicon chip or stored on magnetic disks , is an irrelevance and should not affect patentability . |
| 21 | While redundancy rights can sometimes arise in the context of men being laid off from work or put on short time , in the case of a business executive , redundancy almost always involves a dismissal . |
| 22 | For such a policy to be effective the librarian should ensure that works selected or retained on this basis are accorded additional promotion in the library . |
| 23 | Even while authoritative actions reflect the subjects ' reasons , indeed in order that they should do so , they may well lead to different outcomes on particular occasions , and that without being in any way wrong or mistaken on those occasions . |
| 24 | It may , as in the early law of many societies , be no more than that an authoritative list or text of the rules is to be found in a written document or carved on some public monument … |
| 25 | The 1944 Act was amended so that free milk was provided to pupils over the age of 7 only if they attended special schools or qualified on medical grounds . |
| 26 | a method of printing where pages are imposed in one forme or assembled on one film . |
| 27 | He knows he is acting contrary to his fundamental principle or ideal , but the standard of the ideal is not lowered or compromised on that account . |
| 28 | Although surrounded on three sides by the sea the warming influence of the North Atlantic helps give mild winters and good summers . |
| 29 | And in doing so we looked at er other routes than shown on that plan there in order to encourage traffic to use those options . |
| 30 | Your new ‘ Global Sections Used ’ count will be 4 more than shown on this output , ie. , 41 + 4 = 45 in this example . |