Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shortcomings focussed on by alternative suppliers a |
| 2 | Many more will have suffered from cancers brought on by one of the radioactive substances released . |
| 3 | They were in many cases cheered on by local bystanders . |
| 4 | 1.1.4 the right to use the Licensed Software for demonstration , testing , support and such other purposes as are directly connected with the exercise of the rights conferred on by this Agreement ; |
| 5 | BA93 organisers fired on by Labour MPs |
| 6 | The N A S U W T says about a quarter of its teachers face problems brought on by poor pay and extra responsibilities . |
| 7 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
| 8 | Labour Governments are always constrained by cost considerations and by the financial disasters brought on by all the spending commitments that they claim are priorities and then have to jettison one by one . |
| 9 | In just one year , 1986 , over 88,000 children and 63,000 adults in the Romanian town of Giurgiu were treated for lung diseases brought on by rampant air pollution . |
| 10 | The reproductive role of women exposes them to many health problems , including diseases associated with malnutrition , infections and diseases brought on by inadequate prenatal care . |
| 11 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |