Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [vb pp] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most skilled professional jewellers and their craftsmen have focussed attention on the qualities which first brought men to recognize particular substances as symbols of outstanding excellence . |
| 2 | ‘ For 40 years both of those parties have grabbed power on the basis of 40 per cent of the electorate at most and with 60 per cent against . |
| 3 | Thus , provided that the parties have reached agreement on the essential aspects of a transaction , a court will generally treat their agreement as legally binding , especially where one of the parties has acted on the assumption that there is a binding contract ( see Hillas v Arcos [ 1932 ] All ER Rep 494 ; Foley v Classique Coaches Ltd [ 1934 ] 2 KB 1 ) . |
| 4 | All the parties have lavished money on their leaders ' spectaculars . |
| 5 | KILLJOY educational inspectors have poured scorn on the breathtakingly high number of A-grade passes in this year 's round of GCSE exams . |
| 6 | Well , what it 's all about is that er , the insurers have seen things on the telly etcetera and horrified with the result , |
| 7 | Some countries have lifted restrictions on nationality and now allow local nationals to set up in the zones . |
| 8 | Other companies have run numbers on what USL would be worth and found it hard to justify more than $200m . |
| 9 | Increasingly , Israel 's own interest lies in winning the recognition that the Arabs have made contingent on a decent settlement for the Palestinians . |
| 10 | Penn says that engineers have built chips on the outside of cylindrical substrates . |
| 11 | Our dry summers have highlighted the fact that water is a commodity which can run out , and higher bills have focused minds on water economy . |
| 12 | Nearly all transfers have taken place on the initiative either of prospective landlords or of mainly Conservative local authorities . |
| 13 | A preliminary survey of these associations shows that South Asians have formed associations on the basis of all-Asian , subcontinental , national , regional , socio-religious , linguistic , gender and age criteria in the framework of their position influenced by class and race in Britain . |
| 14 | Problems with mistake have arisen with hire purchase proposal forms where dealers have manipulated figures on proposal forms . |
| 15 | In just a few years , Chilean fishermen have inflicted damage on dolphin stocks which will take decades , if not centuries , to repair . |
| 16 | Recent topics have included updates on how European countries are handling the environmental labelling issue and proposals for a comprehensive EC labelling system . |
| 17 | It is believed to be the first time that prospective officers have sought election on a collective basis . |
| 18 | The changing EC directives have placed responsibilities on the Government . |
| 19 | Many businesses have obtained loans on the personal security of directors , often a house . |
| 20 | For many years staff of the Group and its predecessors have represented BGS on the British Standards Institution committee concerned with aggregate . |
| 21 | Some studies have used marks on shells that would disappear if shells decrease in size ; it is known that molluscs can remain living for long periods without detectable growth ; and some studies have recorded negative growth but dismissed it as apparent error . |
| 22 | This will often happen when counsellees have placed blame on other people and not looked at their own contribution to their problems . |
| 23 | Although the terms of the motion to be debated are supportive of government economic policy , a significant number of constituencies have criticised over-reliance on interest rates as an instrument of economic regulation . |
| 24 | Indeed the careerist political prostitutes have grown fat on the crumbs thrown from Westminster 's groaning table of goodies , whilst our people have faced the hard cold reality of deprivation , poverty , unemployment and even the daily threat of death at the unshackled hands of the Marxist terrorists . |
| 25 | Many regions have produced guidelines on personal safety , and have advised branches where personal attack alarms can be purchased at a very reasonable cost . |
| 26 | In the last few years many policy analysts , professional organizations , charitable bodies and government-funded bodies have made recommendations on how the NHS and local authority structures should be changed in order to develop community care more effectively . |
| 27 | SOCCER chiefs have blown time on a Sunday afternoon league — because so many players turned up drunk after lunch-time pub sessions . |
| 28 | In some ways , however , these disputes have been contained because certain scholars have written books on the constitution that have endured to be widely regarded as so authoritative that they define the parameters of acceptable constitutional debate and almost the very constitution itself . |
| 29 | It was this last bit that caused the problem , and critics have poured scorn on the advice ever since . |
| 30 | Also Labour members have established positions on a Left-to-Right spectrum of opinion and more often put their own view than transmit the reactions of voters . |