Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The first relevant principle to be derived from the ticket cases in the case of contracts placed on standard terms and conditions is that , if the party whom it is sought to bind knows that there is a set of standard terms which the other party intends should apply to the contract , and he enters into the contract on this basis , he will be bound by them .
2 This is however , not always practical , and in the absence of a change in the law through statute , the battle of the forms will continue to be a feature of the formation of contracts placed on standard terms and conditions .
3 Access to literacy was determined and directed by institutions formed on these assumptions .
4 He helped the girl down very deliberately — well aware of Burkett 's calculating and approving regard — and as his fingers pressed on that tensile waist , as her free breasts brushed his over-layered chest , as her thighs carelessly kissed his own , he saw a break in the tight-capped cloud of his misery : but he could not reach out to it .
5 Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups .
6 The expanded scale of the banks ' operations depended on two significant types of innovation : technical and structural ( Enkyo , 1989 ) .
7 Farm suicides blamed on extra pressure
8 One Lubavitch rabbi in Stoke Newington organises gifts and loans — often running into thousands of pounds — for congregants fallen on hard times .
9 SPAR 's input was processed initially by a syntactic and semantic analyser ( Boguraev 1979 ) that resolved as much non-anaphoric ( word-sense and structural ) ambiguity as possible , leaving anaphors untouched , and constructing alternative case-labelled dependency structures when non-anaphoric ambiguities depended on contextual information for its resolution .
10 Two probes situated on each side of the deletion zone were used : the srRNA probe and the CO III probe ( Figure 1 ) .
11 She demonstrated that some women could make their voices heard on political as well as spiritual matters during the Interregnum .
12 The cast , all in full costume , are standing near their initial cue points , eyes riveted on one man , the sweep of whose arm will tell them to start acting out the next episode of Doctor Who .
13 When Mackay launched his cavalry at the attackers ' flank to try to restore the situation , they were caught up in the rout of the demoralised infantry , now stampeding from the field , while the victorious Highlanders pressed on unchecked until distracted from killing by the chance of plunder as they reached Mackay 's baggage train .
14 Biocontrol 's system uses special sensors situated on lightweight armbands and the so-called EyeCon headband , which detects eye movement and depth of field .
15 Hughes advocated the use of low potencies prescribed on pathological grounds rather than on the patient 's general symptom picture .
16 The social and economic functions of the countryside are undergoing marked change , in response both to significant shifts in agricultural , environmental and planning policies and to increasing demands placed on rural land .
17 He brings to the panel an acute understanding of the demands placed on modern players , and of course , a whole host of specialist back row knowledge .
18 Despite these objections to creating full-time salaried councillors , the demands placed on those elected can be considerable .
19 Interestingly , open complexes formed on supercoiled templates in the absence of the initiating NTPs were considerably less salt-sensitive than initiated complexes formed on linear templates .
20 Interestingly , open complexes formed on supercoiled templates in the absence of the initiating NTPs were considerably less salt-sensitive than initiated complexes formed on linear templates .
21 Assuming that salt is acting as a competitor for the binding of the RNA polymerase to the promoter , these results suggest that open complexes formed at P A2b on supercoiled templates are more stable than initiated complexes found on linear templates , open complexes formed on linear templates being the less stable ones .
22 Last session , 3,073 candidates enrolled on 74 courses .
23 Wycliffe had found Edwin 's books stacked on two tiers of rough shelving .
24 Cars parked on both sides of the road made it almost impossible for buses to pass each other on a popular bus route .
25 She said there could be heavy demands made on Samaritan volunteers , especially because they are critically understaffed at the moment .
26 Demands made on personal computing skills are minimal , and installation is simple .
27 The system will be effective in deployment of resources , economical in the demands made on those to whom it is applied and free of practices or procedures which restrict access or opportunity .
28 Homes built on toxic waste tip
29 No animals moved on this forbidding land .
30 The ideas for all previous attempts were mainly taken from my library of magazine cuttings and books collected on this fish .
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