Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present time interpretation , often of a narrow and unrewarding kind , flourishes , usually though falsely claimed on publishers ' blurbs to be saying something completely new and important . |
| 2 | It is written on children 's notebooks and chanted by their youth groups . |
| 3 | Information has been collected on households ' patterns of donating money and volunteering time to charities , individuals ' motives for giving , their attitudes to charities , and their knowledge of and views of covenanting and bequeathing money to charities . |
| 4 | The next most basic distinction is between direct taxes levied on households ' and enterprises ' incomes and indirect taxes levied on expenditure . |
| 5 | One of the most common methods of funding , and one that is becoming increasingly popular , is for a small levy to be made on students ' charges . |
| 6 | It is easier to judge the impression which the Black Death made on men 's minds , for this is reflected in the chroniclers ' writings , than to measure the scale of its ravages . |
| 7 | At this time the annual kill per US boat was less than 200 , but by 1986 , 94 per cent of all US sets were being ‘ made on dolphins ' ’ and the kill figure had increased to more than 600 . |
| 8 | They say their results show there is still work to be done on professionals ' understanding of the concept of collaboration , as nurses and physicians did not agree on the amount taking place . |
| 9 | Much work has been done on children 's understanding of how a person 's beliefs determine that person 's actions , but less is known about their conception of the role of motivation in action . |
| 10 | Shifting the dramatic frame enables us to use the dramatic fictions that are shown on children 's television as starting points for drama . |
| 11 | We have also drawn on members ' experience of a range of schools , on the Bullock and Swann Reports and on the work of the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) . |
| 12 | We looked at European history and traced the effects which the growth of specialised institutions of government and administration have had on women 's potential for political influence . |
| 13 | I 'm interested in the role of women all over the world , particularly in terms of what effect development strategies have had on women 's position , not merely in India but in other parts of the world as well , because I feel that there are a lot of common experiences which impinge on the problem as it relates to India . |
| 14 | He shows , without condescension , that Sylvia is inherently decent for all that her culture is founded on women 's magazines and television serials . |
| 15 | The company has more than 150 staff , some permanently employed on clients ' premises tending the results of its landscaping and planting efforts . |
| 16 | But it questions whether pollution levels have truly fallen in that period , since the figures are based on companies ' revised interpretations of what they are required to report . |
| 17 | Calculating any extra resource using an index based on doctors ' own perceptions of what creates work seems the more valid approach as these will presumably be factors deterring doctors from working in underprivileged areas or causing them to limit access so as to avoid overwork . |
| 18 | The Department of Health has cultivated the myth for some years that section 118 of the Medicines Act is the only reason why it is prevented from explaining the decisions of the licensing authority in general or the recommendations of the Committee on Safety of Medicines , based on doctors ' reports of adverse reactions , in particular . |
| 19 | By 1971 this J-shaped curve was long established ( table 4.10 ) , with fertility lowest in social class IIIN and still highest in social class V. As might be expected , fertility is related to social class based on women 's own occupation in more linear fashion . |
| 20 | But the phenomena of women breadwinners is in no way equivalent to the experience of the male breadwinners — the new breadwinners are poorer , the legacy of a wage system based on women 's economic dependence . |
| 21 | Hence the course 's educational philosophy which is based on students ' needs , experiential and facilitative in teaching methods with a strong emphasis on developing autonomy , self-reliance and self- confidence towards professional competence . |
| 22 | As at Leeds , there would be a seminar series based on students ' experience , and three options . |
| 23 | Choice is based on students ' background and interests , and , in some cases , alternative courses may be taken . |
| 24 | Research based on self-builders ' site insurance premiums suggests an average build cost ( excluding land ) of £60,000 . |
| 25 | Traditionally , BR has operated a priority system based on trains ' speeds , with express passenger services at the top of the list , followed by suburban passenger , parcels , express freight and so on . |
| 26 | Certain aspects of centres ' work may have been less successful than others ( there was a considerable and unproductive stress on making inefficient ‘ cheap ’ material such as bead microscopes ) and some centres like Nsukka , Nairobi , Domasi and Njala were more active than others but the overall record in terms of creation of exciting relevant material based on children 's experience is indeed impressive . |
| 27 | The Faculty believes that the scale charge should be based on manufacturers ' retail list prices , provided the Revenue publishes an annual list of such prices . |
| 28 | ( Thus Auer complains of Gumperz that " sometimes he makes strong claims about the effect of a given type or instance of code switching on the subsequent development of the sequence , which are based on informants ' reports , but fails to reproduce this subsequent passage " ( Auer 1984b : 106 , fn. 10 ) . ) |
| 29 | " On Free and Latent Semantic Energy " , by Claes Schaar , is based on informants ' interpretation of fragments of language in isolation , such as literary quotations , maxims and sayings . |
| 30 | It shows that domestic violence , sexual harassment , rape , incest and sexual assault are commonplace manifestations of a dynamic based on men 's power and women 's subordination . |