Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 2 | Now , all of those criticisms come about on the work that 's been done which has mostly been done on the recognition of characters and letters . |
| 3 | Every day in many countries , it is routine practice that books , pamphlets , newspapers , etc. are censored on a massive scale , and those whose ideas are the object of censorship risk death and imprisonment as a matter of course . |
| 4 | Many of the goats described in the 30 or so scientific studies that have since been published on the phenomenon ( the earliest in 1904 ) can be traced to those bred and cared for by Mayberry . |
| 5 | A discipline has since been founded on the idea that human behaviour is genetically controlled , a hybrid of sociology and biology called sociobiology . |
| 6 | It 's a simple principle , you give everybody a number and the numbers as they move on are shown on a display board . |
| 7 | Indeed , in extreme cases , it may be sensible to organise some form of help even before the nursing expert reports to avoid the argument that such help has only been obtained on the expert 's advice . |
| 8 | ‘ Suffice to say that six of those invoices , supposedly coming from Rasiklal in Bombay , had apparently been typed on an Inca typewriter in England , ’ said prosecutor James Curtis . |
| 9 | Spain 's pro-Europeanism has long been based on the belief that Europe was needed to defend Spain 's fledgling democracy . |
| 10 | Suffolk County Council has long been over-stretched on the conservation side , and comparable houses have suffered from lack of expert advice . |
| 11 | The observations reported below are based on the results of his studies . |
| 12 | Nearly all of the taught postgraduate courses below are offered on a basis of full-time study . |
| 13 | The procedures developed during this particular investigation have all been conducted on a Computer Vision turnkey system . |
| 14 | At the event the desktop publisher was basking in the reflected glory when a lady sitting next to him suddenly said ‘ Oh dear , it 's all been done on a computer . ’ |
| 15 | It had all been said on the track where both McLaren 's new MP4/7As , driven by Senna and team-mate Gerhard Berger , were non-finishers . |
| 16 | But colonialism , the tensions caused by a feudal economy 's reaction to capitalism and finally the effects of capitalism itself have all been imposed on a social structure which can be traced much further back . |
| 17 | Recent rights issues , takeovers and even foreign exchange losses have all been sprung on an unsuspecting public rather than , as was the pattern in the mid-1980s , infiltrating the market through the columns of the Sunday newspapers . |
| 18 | When fly and lure fishing only are allowed on a water there is no other way that fish can be caught . |
| 19 | While great emphasis has rightly been placed on the active involvement of the pupils in their learning , it should always be remembered that there is still a place for the teacher to convey a feel for an event or person by presenting the story . |
| 20 | Monthly salaries will obviously be costed on a calendar month basis and with the exception of site-based staff the majority of salaries will probably be costed to overheads . |
| 21 | Bookings can only be accepted on the payment of a non refundable non transferrable deposit of £5 per person . |
| 22 | The same reasoning does not apply where the money is sent by a stranger , in which case it can only be accepted on the terms upon which it is sent . |
| 23 | The competition is open to readers of 'Small Gardens ' and entries will only be accepted on the entry coupon provided . |
| 24 | One swim I know on the Hampshire Avon near Ringwood can only be fished on a quiet day , when few other anglers are around . |
| 25 | For many Keynesians , and certainly Keynes himself , the celebrated ‘ problem of money wages ’ was essentially one which could only be tackled on a political as opposed to an economic front . |
| 26 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 27 | Another distinction is between so called European type options which can only be exercised on the settlement day , and American type options which can be exercised at any time up to and including the settlement day . |
| 28 | This should give sufficient cut down of search so that word shape need only be checked on a relatively small number of words . |
| 29 | in the case of Dahl 's study of New Haven , the power of the mayor can only be assessed on the basis of his own particular preferences for urban development and how he managed to secure these preferences in the decision-making process . |
| 30 | It was argued in that case that the taxpayer , however , could only be assessed on the income ( the gross income ) to the extent that he had power to enjoy it . |