Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The division of labour placed restrictions on the options open to women in all other aspects of their lives . |
| 2 | Little is known about Philip Henry Thomas 's life and career before he settled down in Lambeth with his Newport-born wife Elizabeth , grand-daughter of Alderman William Townsend ( 1795–1877 ) on her father 's side and a sea-captain named Marendaz on her mother 's side . |
| 3 | Too much research based conclusions on too short a time-scale . |
| 4 | Alice Pennings is consulting lawyers to ensure the family receives a sizeable chunk of the fee promised to murderess Lawrencia ‘ Bambi ’ Bembenek from a planned TV movie called Woman On Trial . |
| 5 | The technology itself — originally developed by IBM to produce a higher speed packaged dye on silicon for its thermoconduction module — takes multiple silicon or ceramic wafers and lies a high density raw dye on top of it , which binds a series of chips in a single package . |
| 6 | The Grampian Hospital Arts Project £1,000 commission was awarded to Morcant Tod and his piece entitled Notes on Buildings 1 was purchased for display in the hospital . |
| 7 | His findings , which included a vivid account of the scandalous extent of quackery , were published in 1806 as a pamphlet entitled Remarks on the Ineffective State of the Practice of Physic in Great Britain ; with Proposals for its Future Regulation and Improvement . |
| 8 | Internally , the existing building incorporated floors on seven levels because the floor levels of the Victorian extension did not ally with those of the original block . |
| 9 | The CNGSB claimed ( although the government denied ) that the law placed limitations on peaceful demonstrations and political activities . |
| 10 | The Werner Plan placed emphasis on the fixity of exchange rates and complete freedom of capital movements . |
| 11 | When you 've got enough boss imposed interruptions on the sheet , you know , twelve to fifteen , take the rest of the week off . |
| 12 | In 1828 , in a village called Ecclesfield on the road from Leeds to Sheffield , the body of a newly-born child was discovered without its head . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Fatima Mansions issue a video compilation titled Y'Knaa on November 30 . |
| 14 | The imitation fly is like a Goldhead but has a pewter coloured head on a nymph body . |
| 15 | The tower still stands above the walls of the old Hindu fortress , a tapering cylinder rising up 240 feet in four ever-diminishing storeys like a fully extended telescope placed lens-down on a plateau in the Aravalli hills . |
| 16 | Modern research shows that industry had its roots in the previous rural life of home weavers and part-time farmers , that technological innovations ( such as Abraham Darby 's use of coal in smelting iron , 1709 ) took many decades to supplant existing methods of production and provide for successful exports , and that early reliance on water power and canal transport placed limits on expansion . |
| 17 | On 23 March , 1981 , we were transferred to a place called Tazmamert on the edge of the desert , handcuffed and blindfolded , travelling by helicopter and van . |
| 18 | He is an amateur photographer , living in a bare-knuckles gold-mining boom town called Matupa on the southern rim of the Amazon basin . |
| 19 | This key requests that a copy of the currently displayed page be sent to a file called FORM.LST on the VMS directory from which you accessed LIFESPAN . |
| 20 | The GIMMS commands and line segment data described above are stored in a file called PMMLIB.GIMMSAF on the Nottingham University ICL 3900 computer system , as described in the preceding paragraph . |
| 21 | Waterman was secretly working with a Midlands band called Abracadabra on a version of the Abba classic Dancing Queen and when the Swedish group 's record company found out they tried to spoil his plans . |
| 22 | Does the ending of the Cold War cast doubt on the continuing relevance of the realist perspective ? |
| 23 | The British Government said yesterday it was deeply concerned at North Korea 's decision to withdraw from the treaty , saying the move cast doubt on Pyongyang 's long-term nuclear intentions . |
| 24 | About 500 miles south , on the frozen north coast of Baffin Island , the name is repeated in Cape Eglinton , which is close to a settlement called Clyde on Clyde Inlet . |
| 25 | Other computer based variations on the basic concept use a mouse-driven pointer to select key areas of an image . |
| 26 | It involves computer based work on social and spatial change at the national , regional and local authority levels ; locality research on housing markets and labour markets ; household research on the unemployed , the elderly and newly married couples . |
| 27 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 28 | Sometimes they have little bottles of stuff called Softwash on hotel shelves , which the guests take with them on leaving . |
| 29 | During the mela a slight outbreak of cholera occurred at a small station called Manickpore on the Jubbulpore line . |
| 30 | Hardly had the King reached Balmoral on the Saturday morning when the Prime Minister sent a message that it might after all be necessary for him to return to London . |