Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former UK Prime Minister Edward Heath , conducting a humanitarian mission for which he was much criticized at home on the grounds of the possible propaganda opportunities which it might afford to the Iraqi leadership , secured the release of some 40 British nationals who arrived at Gatwick airport early on Oct. 24 ( two children , several women , and some of the men on the list of the elderly and sick which he had presented to Saddam Hussein at lengthy talks on Oct. 21 ) . |
| 2 | An all too common kind of crisis for community and primary care teams is that a vulnerable patient is suddenly discharged from hospital on a Friday afternoon without any formal referral or plan for aftercare . |
| 3 | 1.10:USEFUL Flat handicappers Barford Lad , Beauchamp Express and Busted Rock all shaped with promise on their debuts . |
| 4 | This fire watching was only done at Wolverton on Saturday and Sunday nights ; for the rest of the week a full night shift was employed . |
| 5 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 6 | He wrote highly thought of articles on technique for the British Journal of Photography , and eventually became official photographic instructor to his beloved Royal Geographical Society . |
| 7 | Inadequate knowledge of basic factors resulting in excessive or untimely tillage , improper implements , poor use of the right equipment , burning of crop residues , and excessive livestock grazing have all contributed to erosion on cultivated land … |
| 8 | It was much influenced by evidence on the poor quality of the men employed in the merchant service provided by British consuls in all parts of the world . |
| 9 | In fact , Chubby has only appeared in TV on Opportunity Knocks , New Faces , Starburst and an episode of Play for Today . |
| 10 | This disposable income is not all directed into consumption on goods and services produced by firms in the domestic economy because some portion will be saved and some part will be used to purchase goods and services produced by firms in other countries ( i.e. imports ) . |
| 11 | Example 2:1 Parcels clause of office suite ALL THAT suite of rooms on the floor of the building known as ( excluding the outer faces of the walls enclosing the said building and its roof and roof structure but including the structure supporting the floor of the said rooms ) and for the purpose of identification only edged in red on the attached plan Example 2:2 Parcels clause of open land ALL THAT parcel of land in and numbered on the Ordnance Map ( 1968 edition ) for the said district a copy of which is attached hereto ( including the entirety of the hedge and ditch on the western boundary of enclosure number but excluding the entirety of the hedges and ditches on the northern boundaries of the said enclosures and the entirety of the road on the southern boundaries thereof ) Example 2:3 Parcels clause of building excluding airspace ALL THAT building known as shown edged red on the attached plan but excluding the airspace lying above the existing roof of that building together with a right for the tenant with or without workmen to enter that airspace for the sole purpose of inspecting the building or carrying out any works for which the tenant is liable under this lease Example 2:4 Parcels clause with details of boundaries ALL THAT the floor of the building known as ( " the property " ) including ( i ) all non-loadbearing walls situated wholly within the red edging on the attached plan ( ii ) one half ( severed vertically ) of all non-loadbearing walls separating the property from any other part of the building ( iii ) all plaster or other decorative finish applied to any wall bounding the property and not included in paragraphs ( i ) or ( ii ) above or applied to any column or loadbearing wall within the property ( iv ) the whole of all doors door frames windows window frames ( including mastic joints or seals ) bounding the property ( v ) all ceilings bounding the property and any void between any suspended ceiling and the structural slat above ( vi ) all floor finishes and floor screeds including raised floors and floor jacks supporting such floors ( vii ) all light fittings and air conditioning units incorporated in any ceiling but not any other part of the air conditioning system |
| 12 | Not until the late sixteenth century , under the warlords Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi , was the country unified under a single military hegemony , and this was only achieved by building on a series of successful military alliances . |
| 13 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 14 | Previously , L Detachment had been loosely organized into troops on a raid-by-raid basis as required , certain men attaching themselves to particular officers . |
| 15 | The British government bought a controlling interest in Anglo-Persian , which from then on operated in Iran on terms much more favourable to the British than to the Iranians . |
| 16 | The rain had not stopped for days on end . |
| 17 | Their fears were not allayed by restrictions on the Polish language , since the Prussians made no distinctions between Kaszubian and Polish . |
| 18 | Firstly , Worsley argues that overgeneralizations about the breakdown of the family unit are not justified by evidence on kinship networks . |
| 19 | This group had already trekked from Pochala on the Ethiopian border ; some of the boys had been living a transitory existence for four years . |
| 20 | I feel just as guilty because I have been here five Sundays and not come to church on any of them . |
| 21 | Alternatively , you could try a labour-saving electrical gadget which should give an even deeper massage , generally designed for use on your hips , thighs and bottom . |
| 22 | Put yourself in the position of one of the bystanders on the path of Christ 's passion : Are you not moved to tears of remorse by the only Begotten Son of God , who for you and all mankind , in his innocence , was seized , dragged along , blindfolded , mocked , spat upon , crowned with thorns , finally hanged between thieves on the cross ? … |
| 23 | Grace Jones is not expected to guest on vocals . |
| 24 | Indeed , this chapter may also itself be seen as the result of feminist activity within sociology , in that analyses of the position of women in society are no longer confined to chapters on the family . |
| 25 | His interests were not confined to works on paper , but also included tapestries , silver , glass , bronzes and paintings , some of which were offered at auction by Sotheby 's in 1987 . |
| 26 | A disclaimer can be used in relation to any trade description of any goods and is not confined to odometers on motor cars . |
| 27 | It was completed in nineteen hundred and twelve , turned down by three publishing houses , including the Nouvelle Revue Française , and finally accepted by Grasset on the understanding that , while it would appear under Grasset 's imprint , it would also appear at the author 's expense . |
| 28 | The designer is thus presented with information on the type of " failure " , its value , and where it occurred during the mechanism event . |
| 29 | EC Foreign Ministers meeting in Utrecht on Oct. 6 threatened to impose trade sanctions against republics impeding the peace process if a ceasefire were not imposed by midnight on Oct. 7 . |
| 30 | But health experts say the outbreak is not related to food on sale at the store.Richard Barnett reports : |