Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tony Castro-designed Juno IV was comfortably ahead of the other boats of her size and won on handicap by over a minute . |
| 2 | Finally , Mr. Beloff placed strong reliance on the decision of Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. in E.M.I . Records Ltd. v Spillane [ 1986 ] 1 W.L.R. 967 , which concerned the position of a solicitor , who held a document disclosed on discovery by the opposite party in litigation subject to the usual implied undertaking , when confronted by a notice from the Customs and Excise to produce the document to them pursuant to their wide powers under the VAT legislation . |
| 3 | While England will recall forever Obolensky 's try , Wales the depredations committed on England by Keith Jarrett and his 19 points — including that try — in Cardiff in 1967 , the Irish have elevated the Hamilton try to the highest point in the Great Pantheon of Irish rugby feats . |
| 4 | We also know that alcohol is the single most important cause of violence , not just directly , but also through the abuse committed on children by violently drunk parents . |
| 5 | This was counterbalanced by decline in government and defence revenues , and in computing and electronics , blamed on cutbacks by hardware manufacturers . |
| 6 | Like aggression , it may be blamed on attack by a predatory spirit . |
| 7 | Governor Clinton , who granted Bono a private audience , and has also been interviewed on MTV by Megadeth 's Dave Mustaine , received the endorsement of the official Madonna Fan Club Of West Hollywood . |
| 8 | Apparently Ziegfeld spied on rehearsals by watching through a peephole in the wall . |
| 9 | They were caught on camera by amazed police officers in an unmarked car . |
| 10 | Thieves are caught on camera by own victims |
| 11 | The purpose-built research facilities can be booked on appointment by anyone wishing to carry out their own desk research . |
| 12 | They may find someone to talk to , but rarely someone with whom they can actually cry although Damon Runyan claimed that the tears shed on Broadway by ‘ guys in love ’ , would produce enough salt water to start an opposition to the Atlantic and the Pacific . |
| 13 | I suspect , however , that the need for a task force , its assignment , its composition , and its leadership will have to be decided on case by case . |
| 14 | Further evidence of the Metropolitan 's heightened attention to textiles is the imminent completion of a well-illustrated catalogue of the medieval tapestries , being written on contract by Adolfo Cavallo , former curator of textiles at the Metropolitan and the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston . |
| 15 | In each case , wheat is grown on land by the labour of men and women , but the social arrangements are totally different . |
| 16 | On the subject of repeated offences , will the junior Minister now say why crime has risen on average by 6 per cent . |
| 17 | Food prices were reported to have risen on average by 6 per cent during one week . |
| 18 | This success followed some ten years after his first stage appearance at the age of 19 months when he was pushed on stage by an enthusiastic aunt to dance . |
| 19 | A TEENAGE rapist who committed a catalogue of sex and dishonesty offences after being freed on bail by magistrates was jailed for 11 years by two different Old Bailey judges yesterday . |
| 20 | Many reformers also complained that the new party 's founding document , adopted on Saturday by an 80 per cent majority , did not go far enough . |
| 21 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 22 | A VITAL World Cup soccer match this week between Albania and the Republic of Ireland will be seen on TV by Irish fans after all despite a breakdown in negotiations for broadcasting rights by RTE . |
| 23 | His death was seen on television by millions of people , but for days afterwards they were caught by the cameras staring unbelievingly into space . |
| 24 | We retire to the hotel bar early in the morning and are met on arrival by Big Al Jourgensen wearing a George Bush mask and clutching a can of hi-fi contact clear . |
| 25 | The debenture included a common form power to appoint a receiver and manager over the assets charged in the event of the company 's failure to make payment of the sums secured on demand by the bank . |
| 26 | Led by Pavel Kohout , Vaclav Havel and other Czechs and Slovaks who would not buckle under to the regime imposed on Czechoslovakia by Brezhnev 's tanks in 1968 , the first permanent group of dissidents in Eastern Europe issued their statement of inalienable human rights at the start of the year — Charter 77 . |
| 27 | This unidimensionality is imposed on history by a backward projection of present-day standard phonology on to the past , and according to the theory of language standardization that we have tentatively advanced elsewhere ( J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) , it can be seen as an attempt to historicize the standard language — to create a past for it and determine a canon , in which canonical forms are argued for and unorthodox forms rejected . |
| 28 | Azerbaidjan declared independence on Aug. 30 , and lifted the state of emergency imposed on Baku by Soviet authorities in January 1990 [ see pp. 37168-70 ] . |
| 29 | If all the King 's horses and all the King 's men could n't put Humpty Dumpty together again it 's doubtful if all the riches in the Bowes Museum could heal the scars imposed on Durham by Bowes and his fellow coal owners . |
| 30 | In most parts of the world , the churches are often accused of responding too slowly to the challenges imposed on society by the media . |