Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 2 | After 20 years ' service the almost total entitlement to remain on full pay , albeit suspended from duty , until the age of 65 . |
| 3 | Near to this was a small pool designated by our guide as Lod an Suidhe [ Pool of the Sitting ] where the guga hunters sit on surrounding rocks to wash their feet after the day 's toil . |
| 4 | And at floor level the Revue sits on four skid feet . |
| 5 | How else can you claim the insurance cover the certificate offers on all defects which occur in the first two years , and structural defects up to ten years ? |
| 6 | We are also concerned about the reliance placed on these tests but in a different context . |
| 7 | The first relevant principle to be derived from the ticket cases in the case of contracts placed on standard terms and conditions is that , if the party whom it is sought to bind knows that there is a set of standard terms which the other party intends should apply to the contract , and he enters into the contract on this basis , he will be bound by them . |
| 8 | This is however , not always practical , and in the absence of a change in the law through statute , the battle of the forms will continue to be a feature of the formation of contracts placed on standard terms and conditions . |
| 9 | Access to literacy was determined and directed by institutions formed on these assumptions . |
| 10 | Subtle lamps gleamed on pink-clothed tables , each with its own vase of flowers . |
| 11 | Indeed , an early CDP inter-project report was devoted to dismissing such cultural explanations of the situation of areas like North Shields in favour of structural accounts centring on industrial change and its consequences . |
| 12 | The roofs are flat , fully exposed to the rain , made by packing mud on wooden reeds resting on wooden beams . |
| 13 | Lawson insists on high interest rates |
| 14 | This was provisionally arranged for early May 1994 , after Easter but before the ACTS gathering on 25 June . |
| 15 | Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups . |
| 16 | Fourth , the grant depended on continued government goodwill ; in 1983 it was cut , and part of the rest was allotted only to courses jointly approved by employers . |
| 17 | But the government of Shamir insists on Israeli soldiers , at great risk , policing the area and protecting the Jewish settlers there — fanatical characters who , according to the soldiers , do not work . |
| 18 | In its reserved judgement given on 12th March 1992 , the Court concluded that the Visitors acted in their capacity as Judges of the High Court and not as visitors in the usual sense and were thus not reviewable . |
| 19 | In a judgement given on 14th May 1992 , the House of Lords allowed Johnson Matthey 's appeal that the £50 million payment in 1984 to its former subsidiary , Johnson Matthey Bankers Limited , was a revenue payment and eligible for tax relief . |
| 20 | Some employers sponsor students by paying fees and maintenance ; there is widespread employer involvement in various forms of sandwich courses and work placements including , in some cases , co-operation in student assessment ; there are endowed chairs at universities and polytechnics ; there are sponsored courses sometimes with a single client as customer for the whole student cohort ; employers sit on various boards and committees concerned with activities from course unit level to governing body ; employers use academics as consultants and engage academic departments to do research for them ; there are sponsored research and collaborative projects ; and curriculum material is available at all levels — usually for free — from industrial and commercial bodies . |
| 21 | It was just like Tracey to take unfair advantage of her attempts to remain on friendly terms with him . |
| 22 | The unification treaty provided for existing arrangements to continue to apply and required parliament to agree on uniform legislation by the end of 1992 [ see pp. 37661 ; 37833 ] . |
| 23 | In November Moscow agreed on United Nations monitoring on both sides of the Afghan border . |
| 24 | The range has eight firing points on two levels . |
| 25 | Most local authorities insist on separate systems to reduce the volume intake at sewage works , since rainwater can be discharged into the nearest watercourse without treatment . |
| 26 | The continents sit on shifting plates that form the outer crust of the Earth ; and the oceans fill the spaces in between . |
| 27 | If the GP insists on that referral , the health authority will honour it , provided that it is not wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds . |
| 28 | Yet the conventional wisdom in the transport world of the 1970s was that all progress depended on public investment , public controls and , of course , public ownership . |
| 29 | We let the Pacer loose on two testers — one fast , one slow . |
| 30 | Suffolk County Council is building ramped crossing points on either side of the road , plus an island in the centre of the carriageway . |