Example sentences of "[vb pp] on an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These forms of disability representation naturalise the exclusion of disabled people from societies which are organised on an ability to gain employment and these representations are the target of non-disabled people for the ridding of their fears over their own ‘ able-bodied ’ decline , mortality or loss of power . |
| 2 | Thus an education department may be organised on an area basis so that the centre plays only a co-ordinating role . |
| 3 | would be disclosed on an investigation of title to the properties ; or |
| 4 | Pseira , located on an island close to the north coast , was a similar sort of town — a town without an identifiable temple . |
| 5 | Jurassic Park is located on an island off Costa Rica , where a rich Scottish entrepreneur , played by British actor Sir Richard Attenborough , has genetically raised several species of dinosaur , using the DNA from excavated bones of the ancient reptile . |
| 6 | Jurassic Park is located on an island off Costa Rica , where a rich Scottish entrepreneur , played by Lord Attenborough , has genetically raised several species of dinosaur , using the DNA from excavated bones of ancient reptiles . |
| 7 | The Japanese are firm believers in the creative stimulus that nature can provide — and at Cranfield the staff restaurant will be located on an island in a man made lake which also extends around the front of the office building . |
| 8 | Also outclassed on an average of only 59.4 by most other hundreds of the region was Langtree hundred , which included Horsley and Munchinhampton . |
| 9 | OSF says the Informix Wingz spreadsheet has been ported to its Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology and was successfully installed on an IBM RS/6000 : a DEC Alpha version will follow . |
| 10 | In the consolidated p&l account , the group 's 30% share of the associated company 's profits should be included on an equity basis up to the date on which associated status is lost . |
| 11 | She had come on an errand and was greeted by a mad woman , an amazon . |
| 12 | And William standing in the middle of the kitchen looking pained and vaguely apologetic , and a reference book on Deaths among Rural Clergy during the Black Death lying recently discarded on an armchair . |
| 13 | Taillebourg is situated on the right bank of the River Charente , perched on an outcrop of light-coloured rock . |
| 14 | The Canadian Parliament from 1980 on has discussed and voted on an estimates figure ( an ‘ envelope ’ ) that includes both tax expenditures and traditional spending authorisation . |
| 15 | The Tominahs and even her uncle seemed to think this behaviour was quite to be expected on an occasion such as this , with so much soul energy flying around . |
| 16 | There was a suspicion of extra flesh at hip and belly , but that 's to be expected on an adult male . |
| 17 | Selahattin Ozberk , who had been booked on an afternoon flight from Heathrow to Istanbul , will now be sent back next Tuesday evening unless another country can be found to accept him . |
| 18 | To date advanced courses have been designed on an input model with emphasis being on the content . |
| 19 | Their values may be depicted on an Argand diagram and it is normal practice to denote zeros by drawing circles and poles by marking crosses at relevant points . |
| 20 | Youths in sweaters with numbers and initials blazened on their chests lolled against bus-stops , walls and a stationary bus ; a toddler sucked on an ice lolly . |
| 21 | Any unobliterated postage or revenue stamp valid for current use in the British postal area or elsewhere ( except a revenue stamp embossed or impressed on an instrument which has been executed ) . |
| 22 | Any postage or revenue stamp that is not defaced valid for current use in the British postal area or elsewhere ( except a revenue stamp embossed or impressed on an instrument which has been executed ) . |
| 23 | The attempt to hold the annual procession on the feast-day itself , 1 September , with a substitute statue borrowed for the occasion from the Greyfriars , produced a riot ; ‘ the Grey Friars gaped , the Black Friars blew , the priests panted and fled ’ — and the Greyfriars lost their statue , its head shattered on an Edinburgh causeway . |
| 24 | The reference to Murphy suggests that a sentence of four years would have been upheld on an appeal by the offenders . |
| 25 | The annual estimates are presented on an input , line-item basis with some brief analysis of programmes in the accompanying white paper . |
| 26 | Studies of the book trade and of the commerce of publishing are of little help here , referring to the romantic paperback variously as ‘ non-books ’ , ‘ formula fiction ’ , and ‘ products manufactured on an assembly line ’ by ‘ fiction factories ’ . |
| 27 | In fact , the first Labour government which took office in January 1924 , after Baldwin had been defeated on an amendment to the Address , lasted until October , when the new government in turn was defeated on a Liberal amendment to a Conservative motion which MacDonald chose to regard as a matter of confidence ; and the Conservatives rather than the Liberals were to be the beneficiaries of MacDonald 's fall . |
| 28 | Hannele , who had not yet apparently decided on an expression , smiled . |
| 29 | On 20 February 1979 a Cabinet meeting decided on an overhaul of the statutes of the CNES , in order to increase its role and powers , to organize a body that would produce and commercialize the Ariane launcher rockets , and to undertake a new telecommunications satellite programme ( Telecom-I ) . |
| 30 | Technically the appeal against the decision of Potts J. is interlocutory because decided on an application by the defendants to strike out the claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action , while the appeal against the decision of Phillips J. is a final appeal because his decision was on a question directed by consent to be tried as a preliminary issue . |