Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room was positively luxurious with bright-hued tapestries on the walls , and exquisitely embroidered linen cloths placed on tables , chests and over the backs of chairs . |
| 2 | Nell turned away and began to eagerly search the mass of notes , manuals and graphs stacked on desks . |
| 3 | While other media groups relied on acquisitions for growth , the Tribune Company concentrated on wringing more profits out of existing properties in its newspaper , television and entertainment empire . |
| 4 | In the ARPA project , most of the search strategies relied on properties of finite state grammars to limit the search . |
| 5 | The rating system was criticised for being unaccountable — only householders paid rates and , moreover , local authorities relied on grants from central government for the majority of their funds . |
| 6 | Early twentieth-century male and female doctors used eugenic concern about the quality and quantity of the race to argue that the welfare of future generations depended on girls being protected from rigorous examination schedules and receiving adequate training in house and mothercraft . |
| 7 | She had moved up the shop , between the assortment of hats perched on stands and to the counter behind which the other two sisters were standing , the tall spare-looking Miss Rene and the almost diminutive Miss Florence . |
| 8 | The Agia Triadha sarcophagus shows birds perched on double-axes , indicating the presence of a deity . |
| 9 | In the 1980s several British groups reported on studies which compared the effectiveness of diabetic care provided by general practitioners with care from hospital diabetic clinics . |
| 10 | There was a show trial , the five were beheaded in public and their heads placed on poles . |
| 11 | Supplementary pension is complicated , and to understand how it applies to you and the latest rates of payment , see the leaflets and books listed on pages 79–80 . |
| 12 | There are plenty of good recipes suitable for health-conscious people in the many ‘ healthy living ’ magazines on newsstands , not to mention newspaper articles and the books listed on pages 121–2 . |
| 13 | The ritual vessels placed on altars conformed to the same tradition . |
| 14 | She pointed to the delicately grilled squares arranged on skewers . |
| 15 | Most hospitals in the provinces relied on donations or regular subscriptions to keep going . |
| 16 | He added that demands placed on teachers by the national curriculum often meant there was not enough time for cycling lessons , but many of the town 's primary schools were involved . |
| 17 | Mr Cotgrave spoke of the increased demands placed on police officers . |
| 18 | The essential involvement of an issuing authority gives the choice of the designs placed on coins a relevance to our understanding of the political aspirations or concerns of that authority , and this , together with the great wealth of illustration provided by such designs , will be discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 19 | Follow the guidelines given on pp 213–8 . |
| 20 | When we look closely at the plants and animals depicted on frescoes and vases , many of them are not really very lifelike . |
| 21 | In some cases , however , the exigencies of timetabling for examinations and the demands made on students by applications for courses of further study can reduce the effective time available to the one-year foundation courses to as little as twenty or twenty-four weeks . |
| 22 | Mr MacGregor said that he would delay introducing the scheme because of the demands made on teachers by other educational reforms . |
| 23 | Increasing and conflicting demands made on funds for NHS use tends to focus media interest on the service 's shortcomings rather than its strengths . |
| 24 | There are conflicting demands made on schools and good marketing is n't about taking up every , or any half-baked , idea in the pursuit of popularism . |
| 25 | all assessments for a unit/module are comparable in terms of the demands made on candidates ; |
| 26 | He added that the demands imposed on teachers by the National Curriculum often meant there was not enough time for cycling lessons , but many of the town 's primary schools were involved . |
| 27 | Unemployment benefit would be reduced , and savings made on pensions and housing support . |
| 28 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 29 | This element of self-improvement recurs throughout the accounts of working-class leisure organizations founded on principles of social concern and there is a clear overlap of membership with , for example , the Fabian Society and later in the century , the Workers ' Educational Association . |
| 30 | Conversely , the images used on coins of the Anglo-Saxon kings — for example , Edward the Confessor — are greatly varied and inconsistent ( unbearded and bearded ) . |