Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [noun pl] ' " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The next most basic distinction is between direct taxes levied on households ' and enterprises ' incomes and indirect taxes levied on expenditure . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The company has more than 150 staff , some permanently employed on clients ' premises tending the results of its landscaping and planting efforts . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As at Leeds , there would be a seminar series based on students ' experience , and three options . |
| 14 | Choice is based on students ' background and interests , and , in some cases , alternative courses may be taken . |
| 15 | Research based on self-builders ' site insurance premiums suggests an average build cost ( excluding land ) of £60,000 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ( 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 ) . ) |
| 19 | " 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 . |
| 20 | Work on knowledge about language can be based on pupils ' own fieldwork , collecting and classifying their own data , learning about the methodology of observation , classification , description , hypothesis making and explanation . |
| 21 | David Jones of Sharelink has proposed an order-driven system for small value share transactions which would be displayed on investors ' TV screens at home instead of on TOPIC . |
| 22 | This part is then laminated , with a photograph to become a multi-purpose ID card ( for use in the library ; presented when collecting LEA award cheques ; deposited against software loans at computer centre reception ; displayed on candidates ' desks during examinations , used to activate overnight access locks , etc . ) . |
| 23 | In particular , attention is focused on girls ' differential engagement with , and performance in , certain scientific and technical subjects ( see , for example , The Further Education Unit , 1985b ; The Schools Council Project on Reducing Sex Differentiation in Schools , 1983 ; Brent LEA , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | The X Business Group is organising ‘ X and Beyond , ’ a major X industry conference focused on customers ' perceptions of X and client/server computing . |
| 25 | The research has focused on students ' learning strategies , and has developed a typology of them . |
| 26 | Marseille 's foreign stars , Croat Alen Boksic and German international Rudi Voeller had earlier fired the Frenchmen into what looked an unassailable lead , but they had n't counted on Rangers ' indomitable spirit . |
| 27 | Any luncheon checks , lounge drinks and room service checks are posted to the tabular ledger and entered on guests ' folios . |
| 28 | Most of the recent research in this field has concentrated on school-leavers ' job aspirations . |
| 29 | Time deposits : Interest rates negotiated on customers ' time deposits are influenced by bid rates in the interbank market . |
| 30 | He got some kind of perverse pleasure out of this , thinking at the back of his mind that when The Graduate opened in the movie houses around Manhattan , the face would be seen magnified on a big screen and imprinted on audiences ' minds . |