Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most useful definition is that of groups formed on the basis of occupational difference . |
| 2 | The clash of ginger on pink as a small skipper butterfly lands on petals of camp ion ; gorse pods popping in the hot sun ; small striped snails creeping out on to the wet path after a cloud burst ; soldier beetles gathered on the white umbels of wild carrot : these sights and sounds I can enjoy at my pottering leisure — whilst the hordes of laden hikers tramp by with stern faces and never a glance to left or right . |
| 3 | Far from providing a new kind of experience and ‘ meaning ’ , at bottom ( on Gellner 's view ) these counter-cultures depended on the existence of mainstream society and culture for their critiques to have any purchase . |
| 4 | As Professor Landes has pointed out , the tolerance of non-factory employers depended on the fact that they did not have to take the running or fixed costs of machinery into account . |
| 5 | Gryglewski et al ( 1978 ) incorporated collagen strips into extracorporeal circuits in animals and showed that prostacyclin brought about disaggregation of platelet aggregates formed on the collagen strips . |
| 6 | The red stone gleamed in the sun ; the white birds floated on the thermals , wheeling in silent inspection ; on the rocks below , other birds screamed now and then . |
| 7 | As in so much of eighteenth-century Sussex local patterns depended on the experiences of one family , yet overall the role of the aristocracy and gentry remained more or less unquestioned . |
| 8 | Named copies distributed well before the start of school on Monday , with spare copies posted on the staff room notice board gets the week off to a good start . |
| 9 | The researchers relied on the ability of the material to repel a magnetic field , a trademark of superconductors . |
| 10 | THE nights were still so cold that icicles formed on the outside of the chutes that fed the water-mills , where the water churned white and spilled over . |
| 11 | Both systems gave a kind of proportional representation : the number of councillors which each Attic deme sent yearly to the Council of Five Hundred depended on its population ( p. 112 ) ; and the number of federal councillors in Boiotia supplied by the cities depended on the size of the city and its territory . |
| 12 | The renaissance of this subject was caused by some Soviet experiments in the mid 60s , where V. P. Dzhelepov and colleagues noticed that muon catalysed fusion of two deuterium nuclei depended on the temperature . |
| 13 | The General Product Safety Directive ( 92/59/EEC ) is designed to ensure that products placed on the market in member states are safe for consumers to use . |
| 14 | At worst , this is quite simply being ignored : neither the LEA adviser , nor the head nor any one else asks about special interests and skills developed on the course and how these could be most effectively put to good use in the school . |
| 15 | Police , who found petrol canisters nearby , suspect that the fire was the result of an arson attack on an Afro-Caribbean hairdressers situated on the ground floor . |
| 16 | The series of oral papillae is separated from the 2–3 small blunt oral tentacle scales situated on the proximal edge of the adoral shields — these scales are much smaller than the oral papillae . |
| 17 | The Girls used a combination of numbers five and nine ; a few streaks painted on the cheeks , chin , nose and forehead were blended with the fingertips . |
| 18 | Improvements depended on the size of the increment , not on savings or redeployment of services . |
| 19 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 20 | Beyond the gazebo was a pond fringed with willows ; dead leaves and beer cans floated on the surface of the water . |
| 21 | Initially views differed on the technology to be employed and the cable-laying techniques . |
| 22 | Although other sources could not be ruled out , the department said that the most likely sources of contamination are open-cut and underground lead mines located on the city 's outskirts . |
| 23 | Lying still , with the fingers clenched on the envelope and the eyes saucer wide . |
| 24 | From the time that I was about eight , the Boxing Booth acted as a magnet to me and I spent a considerable time gazing in awe as the boxers paraded on the small stage outside the tent , ready to take on all corners . |
| 25 | It 's near a place called Hackballs Cross , a nothing place , a couple of houses scattered on the map . |
| 26 | I glanced at my purse in her lap and the coins scattered on the bed beside her . |
| 27 | Watch for the rich earthy tones of their Etruscan paving , the mosaic patterns impressed on the slab capturing the mood of the Mediterranean . |
| 28 | The clay model of a priestess in a swing , also from Agia Triadha , shows birds perched on the swing-posts , as if the act of meditative swinging itself had induced the epiphany ( Figure 42 ) . |
| 29 | The Druids won on the last occasion and have retained the trophy at their Henley headquarters . |
| 30 | It now seems unlikely that this was any more of a prehistoric trackway than other roads depicted on the map . |