Example sentences of "[vb pp] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These products excel where text and graphics are to be mixed on a single page . |
| 2 | At a conference in Stockholm in late September 1986 , nonetheless , a last-minute agreement was reached that each side should give the other advance warning of troop movements , and that on-site verification should be permitted on a limited basis for the first time . |
| 3 | **Represents percentage of vote won on a proportional basis on individual party lists . |
| 4 | And the presidential election is not won on a first-past-the-post basis by simply tallying the votes for Bush , Clinton and Ross Perot across the country . |
| 5 | Just like the General Election , our awards are won on a first-past-the-post basis . |
| 6 | It was , in fact , as if the football pools had been won on a massive international scale . |
| 7 | The Helmsdale area was drilled on a 130 m square grid with 41 percussion holes to depths of 80 m ( MEG 82 ) . |
| 8 | A good example of the problem caused by anhydrite cementation can be seen in well 48/22–1 ( Fig. 19 ) in the southern North Sea , which was drilled on a dip-closed structure at ‘ base Zechstein' level . |
| 9 | Busacher 's voice cracked on a derisive laugh . |
| 10 | They had insisted that their youth organisations should be organised on a semi-military basis , and other parties had followed suit . |
| 11 | Courses to be organised on a regional basis through the teachers ' centres . |
| 12 | There are a few places in the States , but there 's no federal policy to get them organised on a big-money basis and all the little local pressure groups keep them harassed and staying small . |
| 13 | organisation Some departments , such as the Welsh , Scottish , or Northern Ireland Offices , are organised on a geographical basis while others such as the Treasury are primarily centred in Whitehall . |
| 14 | The declaration went on to state bluntly that ‘ Europe must be organised on a federal basis ’ . |
| 15 | The first part is organised on a non-time-related basis , the second part is basically time-related in that the principle for determining the content of any subsequent sentence is " what does the nervous impulse do next ? " |
| 16 | Some non-time-related texts are organised on a classificatory basis , some on a comparison-contrast , others on a hypothesising basis . |
| 17 | The Read codes were designed to be used with a computer and are therefore organised on a hierarchical structure . |
| 18 | A later chapter in this book suggests that there could be a ‘ religious ’ purpose to conflict , but it would be directed against crime organised on a global scale , and as defined in that chapter . |
| 19 | For those unions organised on a comprehensive , industrial basis it is easy to see that they would be likely to seek bargaining arrangements founded upon the extent of the product market . |
| 20 | Each individual in the team considers he has more influence than he would have if the work were organised on a formal ‘ role culture ’ basis . |
| 21 | Interestingly enough , there are several types of writing commonly practised in school that are organised on a time-related basis , yet are not strictly narratives . |
| 22 | Such a pattern , however , may be organised on a time-related basis . |
| 23 | Although organised on a departmental basis , postgraduate study within the Faculty is not confined to disciplinary boundaries . |
| 24 | Prior to the Second World War this species was hunted , as part of a traditional subsistence economy , by Bedouin tribes but with the development of the oil industry and the introduction of modern vehicles and weapons , hunting parties organised on a large scale rapidly reduced oryx populations to such an extent that they were virtually eliminated . |
| 25 | The link scheme is organised on a five-yearly basis with a total Government budget of £210 million . |
| 26 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |
| 27 | The two parcels of vines belonging to Beaumont-sur-Vesle are located on a small patch of flat ground , west of the road leading out of the village towards Verzenay and , a kilometre further on , adjoining the edge of some of the poorest vineyards of Verzenay . |
| 28 | Iceland , on the other hand , is located on a mid-oceanic ridge and consequently has not moved significantly with respect to its hot spot since the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean over 50 Ma BP . |
| 29 | This is located on a permanent-memory chip , which can neither be added to , or altered , by an operator , nor erased when the machine is switched off . |
| 30 | the accommodation was located on a busy road which generated excessive noise . |