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 . |