Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | For in matrilineal societies where kinship is traced through women on the mother 's side of the family , the mother 's brother does not usually behave in this fashion towards his sororal nephew . |
| 2 | The rain had not stopped for days on end . |
| 3 | I intended to study , and registered for courses on Spanish language and literature . |
| 4 | The EC meeting at Maastricht [ see pp. 38657-59 ] had broken off discussions on economic and political union to seek assurances of security following the Dec. 8 Minsk agreement . |
| 5 | The series is intended for teachers on RSA/UCLES Diploma courses , teacher development groups , and all those who need clear , topic-specific introductions at MA level . |
| 6 | But right now what is needed is a bottom-up approach ; entrusting the forests to those increasingly organised peoples whose survival has depended for generations on environmental knowledge . |
| 7 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 8 | This statistic was used in conjunction with a bidimensional weighted index where [ a ] was taken as the point most distant from the vernacular , and scores assigned for variants on the dimensions both of height and backness . |
| 9 | The idea was that particles like the proton and the neutron could be regarded as waves on a string . |
| 10 | The physical implementation and application areas of microcomputers are thus different from mainstream computers , but at the instruction set level which we discuss in this book they can be treated as variations on the central Von Neumann model . |
| 11 | Lifetime gifts such as apprentice premiums or partnership capital or lump sums on marriage were treated as advances on inheritance portions . |
| 12 | Except for minor modifications after they branched off the main line , all living species could be treated as steps on the way towards the human form . |
| 13 | The majority of housing expenditure ( almost 70 per cent ) made by the URA was committed to home improvement loans and equity participation units ( the latter designed for owner-occupiers on low to moderate incomes ) . |
| 14 | In principle , courses may be specially designed for ENs on a full or part-time basis , or ‘ comprise an individually designed range of approved learning activities , which might include day release , distance learning components , contract learning and planned modules from existing first level nurse courses ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Getting babies hooked on soft drinks even before their first teeth have come through verges on the criminal , ’ said children 's health writer Dr Tim Lobstein . |
| 16 | They also stressed that Latin America 's foreign debt problem had to be addressed during negotiations on the initiative . |
| 17 | Glue-sniffing vandals are being blamed for attacks on the bowling pavilion in Hartlepool 's Grayfields recreation ground . |
| 18 | On the day on which he had lost her he had sat for hours on the bed in the attic where she had lived during her time with him , and where they had shared their afternoon of love , and now , on the evening of the second day , he sat there again . |
| 19 | Put yourself in the position of one of the bystanders on the path of Christ 's passion : Are you not moved to tears of remorse by the only Begotten Son of God , who for you and all mankind , in his innocence , was seized , dragged along , blindfolded , mocked , spat upon , crowned with thorns , finally hanged between thieves on the cross ? … |
| 20 | New and exciting results were also reported for systems on surfaces , in large clusters and in condensed phases . |
| 21 | Participants in job creation programmes are usually employed on fixed-term contracts , whilst those in special training schemes might be considered as workers on a training contract . |
| 22 | The new policy towards the Soviet Union ( pursued despite misgivings on the part of the armed forces and the intelligence community ) brought suggestions of a significant realignment in Indonesian foreign policy . |
| 23 | the allegations made by the Society of Black Lawyers that the CLE had unlawfully discriminated against students on racial grounds in : |
| 24 | Another example of the rich and regal possibilities which religion offered Cnut is provided by a visit which he made to Glastonbury on 30 November of a year which may have been 1032 , when William of Malmesbury says that he laid a cloak decorated with peacocks on the tomb of Edmund Ironside . |
| 25 | The clay is keyed into holes on the board , and there are also nails at two inch random intervals to hold it . |
| 26 | Essential technical hardware used in making up curtains includes a variety of curtain hooks of varying strengths , made of plastic or metal , which can be sewn on , slotted into pockets on special tapes , or pinned into hand headings . |
| 27 | For instance , any such book might meaningfully have sections on ‘ Principles ’ and ‘ Systems ’ and the ‘ Principles ’ section might be decomposed into subsections on ‘ Computer Principles ’ and on ‘ Human Principles ’ . |
| 28 | The sight of , say , a field of corn interspersed with poppies on a sunny day did n't move me ; the spectacle of a woman who had slipped and fallen in the street did n't move me — either to sympathy or to ridicule . |
| 29 | Even written patterns consist of figures relating to stitches and rows , interspersed with instructions on what to do with these and the knitting methods involved . |
| 30 | Hazily through his sense of nightmare and unreality Harry knew the long shape of the rack with its ropes and pulleys , and the blackened irons laid by the brazier , and the whips dropped into sconces on the wall . |