Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 2 | The young wheat is streaked by silver lines of water running between the ridges , the sheep are gathered together on the slopes . |
| 3 | By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner . |
| 4 | An overnight case had been placed carefully on a sheet of newspaper . |
| 5 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 6 | I thank the Minister for that answer and the confirmation that during the Government 's tenure the burden has been placed firmly on the shoulders of those who are least able to bear it . |
| 7 | On the left breast of his tunic the insignia of the Legion d'Honneur glimmered among a broad cluster of medals , and his plumed tricorn had been placed ostentatiously on a table at his side . |
| 8 | Marginal plants , as their name implies , grow in the shallow water at the pool 's edge and can either be grown in planting baskets , like waterlilies , or in soil that has been placed directly on the marginal shelf . |
| 9 | Over 5,000 students are registered worldwide on the Masters programme , the majority studying the Distance Learning MBA . |
| 10 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 11 | A large white cross has been painted roughly on the ground . |
| 12 | Leaves which are small , round or elliptic , fleshy , glossy , bright green , tapering towards the base without leaf-stalks , are arranged opposite on a stiff , round , fleshy stem . |
| 13 | Prices and incomes policies have been justified historically on the grounds that , if successful , they serve directly to scale down the rates of increase of money wages and absolute prices while minimizing the rise in unemployment which a policy of demand restriction would entail . |
| 14 | It claimed that people feel more in control of their lives if they are inching forward on a journey , rather than waiting for something to happen . |
| 15 | Dr Nathanson said that a reply had been received only on the eve of the press conference and did not alleviate all its concerns . |
| 16 | Where prices were once held constant for five year periods , from 1976 onwards they have been revised annually on the basis of a five-year moving average of world market prices . |
| 17 | THE sons of two members of 60s rock band Cream are to appear together on a new album to be released in January . |
| 18 | The arms carry spines ; in euryalid genera on the ventral part of the arm , while in the ophiurids they are carried laterally on the lateral arm plates . |
| 19 | ( The abacus beads are scattered randomly on the wires of the abacus . ) |
| 20 | He accepts that his input into the group is still the largest but believes the other members are contributing more on a growing basis . |
| 21 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 22 | The defeat of the Labour Party for the second time in 1983 had been blamed largely on the media campaign which had glorified the Falklands , hammered Foot , and unleashed a campaign of unprecedented vitriol against Livingstone 's GLC and the ‘ Loony Left ’ . |
| 23 | Service points outside the ‘ central ’ library are grouped together on the familiar area basis . |
| 24 | For each , engineering geology maps of the solid and superficial deposits are prepared on which materials are grouped together on the basis of their engineering characteristics . |
| 25 | The key language points of the unit are previewed clearly on a double-page spread . |
| 26 | Most of us are located somewhere on a continuum between these two positions . |
| 27 | Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible . |
| 28 | Right let's catch up with what 's been happening nationally on the football scene , and join Headley Feast . |
| 29 | At one point , half the company are banging rhythmically on a table like kids at a tea party . |
| 30 | A great deal of technological work has been done recently on the seasoning of wood , and safe accelerated drying schedules have been worked out for all kinds and dimensions of timber . |