Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modules may be offered as free-standing units or in integrated modular programmes depending on the needs of various client groups . |
| 2 | An intercommodity spread between two index futures , where the shares in one index are a subset of the shares in the other index , represents a futures contract on the shares that are in one index but not the other . |
| 3 | It is therefore primarily an adult process , but will take different forms depending on the circumstances of the participants . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It moved uncertainly towards her , its uncut claws rattling on the tiles , and gave her hand a soft , wet greeting . |
| 7 | These measures may have unsettled the crowds gathering on the campuses but did not stop them . |
| 8 | The fairies sit on the motes and rest in the sunlight . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Labourers and more poorly paid seamen lived on the banksides and in the ‘ low street ’ in single-room tenements in industrial and pre-industrial slums . |
| 11 | The insignificant proportion of men in the £3 — £9 range would appear on the face of things to betoken no handicraft beyond what would suffice to satisfy demand in a small hundred , while the many nils , amounting to very nearly one-third of the total , strongly suggests that many of the inhabitants of Walsingham were mendicants subsisting on the alms of the faithful . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Propagation is by means of the vegetative buds appearing on the leaves . |
| 14 | Eyes like beetles caught on the bushes . |
| 15 | Finding candidates to sit on the panels would not be a problem , not least among those moving out of the auditing profession itself . |
| 16 | These were the first volumes to be received by the library from overseas and it is significant to note that after two centuries many of the original books remain on the shelves and Miller 's Dictionary is still is use . |
| 17 | In the distance he could hear a woman 's heels catching on the cobbles as she ran to keep an appointment . |
| 18 | So we have a rehearsal of grievances centring on the injustices they feel they have suffered as a result of black immigration into the area . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll Never Walk Alone ’ was sung with gusto and flares glowed on the terraces as Liverpool started with barely controlled frenzy . |
| 21 | Business units concentrate on the operations and operators within individual markets and the shorter-term consequences of this analysis . |
| 22 | I presume that the nature of the images formed on the retinas of observers is relatively independent of their culture . |
| 23 | The court must consider these arrangements before making an order and must invite the parties to comment on the arrangements ( s34(11) ) . |
| 24 | Tillyard ( 1918b ) has studied the hairs occurring on the wings of the most primitive groups of Holometabola . |
| 25 | Lucky Rob had all criminal charges dropped , but only on the condition that he put in two years ' community service , visiting schools to lecture on the dangers of drugs , talking to juvenile delinquents and visiting prisons in his home town of Drayton , Ohio . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Because of the interesting , usually technical , demands made on the performers , their ballets often become testing grounds for future soloists . |
| 28 | It is , however , equally true that Parliament can not stop Frenchmen smoking on the streets of Paris ( or , for that matter , Englishmen smoking on the streets of London ) and that it can make it a crime for a man not to turn into a woman . |
| 29 | Francis took no notice of them , but led Christopher and Jane straight out to the kiln which was housed in a huge barn , with brown squirrels perching on the rafters . |
| 30 | In April and June 1927 , Nos. 36 and 38 were fitted with Westinghouse air brakes acting on the wheels and on the track so that they could be used on the Thornton Heath route and run in conjunction with the bogie cars that were being similarly equipped . |