Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Providing authorities/hospitals would be paid for cases treated either on the basis of actual cost per case , or on some laid-down or agreed cost per case , and there seems little to prevent them behaving in the same manner as hospitals elsewhere where either ‘ Retrospective full cost reimbursement ’ or ‘ Prospective reimbursement ’ systems are in operation . |
| 2 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 3 | The rarity of artefacts found during excavations of such farms not only affects the archaeologist 's ability to date the buildings , but also makes it extremely difficult to understand the details of the activities carried out on the farm . |
| 4 | High fences around Admiralty installations gave good views as the birds perched briefly on the wires , taking their bearings . |
| 5 | Goodenough 's group confirmed that the emotional content of dreams could be affected by pre-sleep stimulation ( in this case , a film entitled subcision — explicitly showing a series of operations carried out on the penis as part of a tribal aboriginal initiation rite ) . |
| 6 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 7 | Think of rock concerts where they have those banks of giant speakers grouped together on the stage . |
| 8 | It seemed utterly incongruous that there were cars parked outside on the wide circular drive — carriages would have looked more appropriate . |
| 9 | In 1922 , the blue cars operated regularly on the Promenade for the first time , during the track relaying in Central Drive , and in 1926 were extended to the Gynn . |
| 10 | He looked at the words written simply on the coffin lid — Fanny Robin and child . |
| 11 | Other units based briefly on the airfield were the 15th Bombardment Squadron , 305th Bombardment Group and the 96th Bombardment Group . |
| 12 | It had resulted in the allocation of funds based not on the best interests of justice but on value for money . |
| 13 | Dimetrodon and other dinosaurs padded about on the surface of the Coal Measures which were bent up into the great hump-like structure , or anticline , of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 14 | Gary and Bean were looking understandably nervous by now , their eyes fixed hypnotically on the ramp of the horse-box . |
| 15 | Realising that his visitor was no ordinary mortal , the watchman did not challenge him but jumping to his feet he kept his eyes fixed firmly on the intruder , hoping thereby to induce him to retire . |
| 16 | SEVE Ballesteros has his eyes fixed firmly on the Ryder Cup clash at The Belfry in September — and is determined to play more match-play golf . |
| 17 | Dorothea Shottery , her eyes fixed unseeingly on the cream paint of a radiator , heard the sigh and wondered about it . |
| 18 | That , too , had been expressing its displeasure with rhythmic twitching of its powerful tail , its burning eyes fixed balefully on the visitors walking in front of its enclosure . |
| 19 | It was Blossom , moving at a brisk trot , great udder swinging , eyes fixed purposefully on the open door behind us . |
| 20 | When he came back Breeze was sitting curled up by the fire in the quaint but attractive parlour , her eyes fixed thoughtfully on the dancing flames . |
| 21 | He seemed to make no use of this position for the purposes of observation , keeping his eyes trained instead on the pages of the paperback be had bought at Reading . |
| 22 | But Hunt said that if the race were officially started and the cars lined up on the grid , he would have no choice but to race . |
| 23 | Cars skimmed past on the Earls Court Road , their headlights drawing his shadow again and again across the back of the booth . |
| 24 | Meredith was sitting in the stalls with his feet propped up on the row in front . |
| 25 | A large range of genuine Somerset baskets made here on the premises are on sale . |
| 26 | Most younger counsellors will have learnt about the war from texts , films and documentaries based essentially on the political view of history . |
| 27 | But such paradoxes were unlikely to convince businessmen brought up on the economic theory of the ‘ wage-fund ’ , which they believed to be a scientific demonstration that raising wages was impossible and trade unions were therefore doomed to failure . |
| 28 | The current crop of presenters lined up on the steps of the same church outside Broadcasting House where the original team — Terry Wogan , Bob Holness , Jimmy Young and all — had posed exactly a quarter of a century before . |
| 29 | ( For instance , one veteran listed a pair of jogging shoes left behind on the islands among his painful memories : another recalled a letter he wrote to his girlfriend from the trenches , asking her to tell me the truth , if she did n't love me any more or was going out with another boy ’ . ) ’ |
| 30 | To those of us standing on the sidelines , with our feet planted firmly on the ground , the manner of their going was quite exciting . |