Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hearing will be adjourned pending the delivery of the High Court 's opinion , at which time it will be relisted and a decision given on the merits in the light of the High Court 's opinion on the law . |
| 2 | The red stone gleamed in the sun ; the white birds floated on the thermals , wheeling in silent inspection ; on the rocks below , other birds screamed now and then . |
| 3 | As in so much of eighteenth-century Sussex local patterns depended on the experiences of one family , yet overall the role of the aristocracy and gentry remained more or less unquestioned . |
| 4 | Partly due to the ban placed on the authors ' disclosing anything about ‘ intelligence techniques ’ ( p. x ) , which has been rigidly enforced . |
| 5 | After the Labour group meeting , which was held in private , Councillor Keith Geddes , leader of the Lothian administration , said the referendum depended on the proposals put forward in a white paper which Mr Lang was due to publish . |
| 6 | Another writer commented on the implications for staffing , recalling the importance of this contingency in course planning in Figure 1.1 : |
| 7 | Men fighting in the field depended on the votes of men splitting straws in Washington . |
| 8 | The Girls used a combination of numbers five and nine ; a few streaks painted on the cheeks , chin , nose and forehead were blended with the fingertips . |
| 9 | The clay model of a priestess in a swing , also from Agia Triadha , shows birds perched on the swing-posts , as if the act of meditative swinging itself had induced the epiphany ( Figure 42 ) . |
| 10 | Watch the robin especially because it always flies low , and you might see a nervous young Minpin perched on the feathers having its first flying lesson . |
| 11 | Eyes like beetles caught on the bushes . |
| 12 | This year our Easter Course will take place from lunch time Tuesday 8th April until after tea on 12th April at Southlands College situated on the outskirts of Wimbledon ; set in pleasant rural surroundings , participants will be accommodated in Queensmere pictured here . |
| 13 | Maggie LeMan kept her eyes riveted on the occupants of the stage for a moment , where they were bowing and making the best of the half-hearted appreciation now being shown by clapping punctuated with cat-calls ; then , slowly leaning to the side , she picked up the bird cage as she said , ‘ What do I want with a concert party ? |
| 14 | I presume that the nature of the images formed on the retinas of observers is relatively independent of their culture . |
| 15 | She climbed the dark , stepped alley from the market place to the rue du Bateau and emerged opposite her car parked on the cobbles . |
| 16 | And then he saw Creed sitting in the back of a black car parked on the Crumbles . |
| 17 | Agreement is being sought from the Clerk to the Licensing Justices to have the condition included on the Justices Licence . |
| 18 | Police found his body buried in a back-garden cesspit , and the widow was last seen by her next-door neighbour doing a ‘ voodoo dance in the garden with blood smeared on the doorsteps . |
| 19 | This has underlined that the price of popularising rugby union has been the increase in pressures off the field , which can be as significant as the demands made on the players themselves . |
| 20 | Because of the interesting , usually technical , demands made on the performers , their ballets often become testing grounds for future soloists . |
| 21 | It is well known that isolation in itself , with no sleep loss , can induce hallucinatory experiences , and it seems that in this experiment the effects of sleep loss potentiated the relatively mild levels of isolation imposed on the subjects . |
| 22 | Dušan built on the foundations laid by his predecessors during the previous century . |
| 23 | The intense political debate on whether and how to amend Germany 's liberal asylum law , which had allowed the influx of hundreds of thousands of mainly economic migrants since 1990 , was resolved on Dec. 6 when leaders of the main political parties agreed on the terms of a constitutional amendment [ see also pp. 38544-55 ; 39066 ; 39206 ] , subsequently approved ( on Dec. 15 ) by the parliamentary party of the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) . |
| 24 | With an elaborate initiation ritual modelled on the conventions of freemasonry , its aim was to ‘ rid the world of the merciless Jewish reign of terror ’ . |
| 25 | In the hills of Fezzan in southern Libya and at Tassili-n-Ajer in Algeria are galleries of madder-coloured animals engraved on the rocks : rhinoceros and giraffes , elephants and hippopotami , buffalo and antelope , all of which once grazed the lush pastures of the Sahara . |
| 26 | ‘ Both voters and candidates in the coming parliamentary elections in Jordan shoulder a grave responsibility and should therefore seek a true democratic rule based on the tenets of the constitution , avoiding rashness and extremism . ’ |
| 27 | In the latter the student is routed to appropriate parts of the instruction programme based on the responses made and the learning need . |
| 28 | This method has been used since , and others have been added to it , including methods based on the effects of Jupiter on the paths of fly-by spacecraft . |
| 29 | In keeping with its standing as an independent body with a built-in majority of teachers , the Council was committed to the thesis that ‘ each school should have the fullest measure of responsibility for its own curriculum and teaching methods based on the needs of its own pupils and evolved by its own staff ’ . |
| 30 | An empirical study based on the preferences of the median would still be valid ; and there would not be any need in equilibrium situations to introduce party political dummy variables ( a party whose ideology took it away from the median would not be victorious in an election and its policies would not be observed ) . |