Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were various elongated portraits , all painted on canvases of an idiosyncratic size , roughly six foot by two . |
| 2 | The timetable will need to be agreed with court officials and will be affected by this and also by the fact that petitions are usually only heard on Mondays . |
| 3 | The SADR first took its seat at the Organization of African Unity summit of 1984 , not 1989 as inadvertently given on pp. 37014 , 37220 . |
| 4 | The grass margins are trimmed neat as a Home Counties lawn and there are single-storey farmsteads with shuttered balconies all perched on stilts to suit the climate . |
| 5 | The painters downstairs , skylarking on the fringe of the main action , celebrate ( though they would be surprised to hear it ) the living life which was , I said , merely imposed on Notes from Underground , but which now surrounds both crime and punishment and makes the whole novel responsive like a touched spider 's web . |
| 6 | This technique can only be applied in bold , relatively thick outlines , and is therefore only used on items which employ reasonably simple designs . |
| 7 | They have place that Rosemary mentioned , it 's only opened on Saturdays . |
| 8 | But biological weapons are unlikely to be much used on troops in combat , mainly because of the difficulties of getting the aerosols on to them without seeing them drift back on to those who released them . |
| 9 | The others all dragged on planks and sandbags . |
| 10 | This sentiment was not so much based on results — those of the evolutionist disciplines were hardly capable of experimental falsification — as on a belief in the infallibility of the ‘ scientific method ’ . |
| 11 | They were made in Plasticine , and obviously based on photographs of Hindu sculpture in the art books on his bottom shelves . |
| 12 | Instead the article , obviously based on interviews with my critics , attacked what I had said or written about IQ in other places . |
| 13 | It needed too much spent on repairs , and the stock was old-fashioned and out-of-date . |
| 14 | Editors have naturally concentrated on sources closest to Bach , but there is in the more peripheral ones a wealth of information about the origin and reworking of pieces , as well as performance practice ( notably fingerings and ornaments ) for which musical sources can shed light on specific details in a way more generalized literary documents rarely can ; and on the estimation of Bach 's music by his contemporaries and immediate successors . |
| 15 | Organizing resources : six case studies was a research report into specific aspects of resource centre organization and so concentrated on matters such as indexing and the allocation of funds . |
| 16 | Andrew Gurr claimed to detect ‘ a rather remarkable pattern of shifts between ‘ you ’ and ‘ thou ’ ’ , only to admit that the ‘ sequence ’ as a whole showed ‘ a remarkable display of inconsistency ’ and so concentrated on Sonnets 1–17 . |
| 17 | The Science and Technology Directorate ‘ will badger governments into giving more money to [ educational ] institutions … it is futile for governments to spend money to increase industry 's competitiveness ’ it is better spent on projects in educational institutions . |
| 18 | Readiness to improvise and make use of scraps saves money that can be better spent on things you can not make for yourself . |
| 19 | But they say $40 for a lift ticket would be better spent on books . |
| 20 | You have to slide your cursor , which takes the form of a thief , over jewels randomly dotted on landscapes , while avoiding mobile meanies . |
| 21 | For example , if society believes workers should be democratically represented on firms ' boards of directors , it also should be recognized that additional costs of democracy are to be borne by someone : shareholders who get lower profits , workers who get lower wages , customers who pay higher prices , or taxpayers . |
| 22 | The blokes all put on frocks , like , an' the chicks get togged up in strides . |
| 23 | Banner headlines and patriotic textbooks told the British they were ‘ an imperial race ’ — a message pictorially reinforced on biscuit-tins , sauce-bottles , and cigarette-cards . |
| 24 | Land reform policies were swiftly implemented on lines similar to China with the poor peasants and landless labourers constituting the spearhead . |
| 25 | Stamp duty is not necessarily paid on assets transferred by delivery and the purchaser may wish to apportion a significant part of the price to these assets , subject to other tax considerations . |
| 26 | He not only informed on fellow-members of the Communist Party in 1934–6 and requested a public session in which to do so ‘ because secrecy serves the Communist cause ’ ; he took a display advertisement in the New York Times to justify himself . |
| 27 | Moustaches and beards were rarely seen on skins ; shaving was obligatory and stubble not accepted . |
| 28 | With the mujaheddin at the gates , it was believed , the town 's defences would crumble as the Afghans within turned on supporters of the Najibullah regime . |
| 29 | They 're best placed on areas devoid of text , since they will overwrite a text area . |
| 30 | In a declining fishery , extra pressure is thus placed on fishermen to catch the larger and higher value yellowfin which associate with dolphins . |