Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most useful definition is that of groups formed on the basis of occupational difference . |
| 2 | Far from providing a new kind of experience and ‘ meaning ’ , at bottom ( on Gellner 's view ) these counter-cultures depended on the existence of mainstream society and culture for their critiques to have any purchase . |
| 3 | As Professor Landes has pointed out , the tolerance of non-factory employers depended on the fact that they did not have to take the running or fixed costs of machinery into account . |
| 4 | Gryglewski et al ( 1978 ) incorporated collagen strips into extracorporeal circuits in animals and showed that prostacyclin brought about disaggregation of platelet aggregates formed on the collagen strips . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He respects , looks up to , objects placed on a pedestal … but only within limits ! |
| 8 | Named copies distributed well before the start of school on Monday , with spare copies posted on the staff room notice board gets the week off to a good start . |
| 9 | The researchers relied on the ability of the material to repel a magnetic field , a trademark of superconductors . |
| 10 | Both systems gave a kind of proportional representation : the number of councillors which each Attic deme sent yearly to the Council of Five Hundred depended on its population ( p. 112 ) ; and the number of federal councillors in Boiotia supplied by the cities depended on the size of the city and its territory . |
| 11 | The renaissance of this subject was caused by some Soviet experiments in the mid 60s , where V. P. Dzhelepov and colleagues noticed that muon catalysed fusion of two deuterium nuclei depended on the temperature . |
| 12 | The General Product Safety Directive ( 92/59/EEC ) is designed to ensure that products placed on the market in member states are safe for consumers to use . |
| 13 | At worst , this is quite simply being ignored : neither the LEA adviser , nor the head nor any one else asks about special interests and skills developed on the course and how these could be most effectively put to good use in the school . |
| 14 | Police , who found petrol canisters nearby , suspect that the fire was the result of an arson attack on an Afro-Caribbean hairdressers situated on the ground floor . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) An appeal under this section shall be lodged with the sheriff clerk within 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against or in a case where reasons for a decision have been given under section 18(2) of this Act , within 14 days from the date of receipt of those reasons , which shall be presumed to have been received on the day after the date on which they were posted , except that in the case of reasons posted on a Friday or Saturday , they shall be presumed to have been received on the Monday next following . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Improvements depended on the size of the increment , not on savings or redeployment of services . |
| 18 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 19 | Beyond the gazebo was a pond fringed with willows ; dead leaves and beer cans floated on the surface of the water . |
| 20 | Initially views differed on the technology to be employed and the cable-laying techniques . |
| 21 | Although other sources could not be ruled out , the department said that the most likely sources of contamination are open-cut and underground lead mines located on the city 's outskirts . |
| 22 | Lying still , with the fingers clenched on the envelope and the eyes saucer wide . |
| 23 | It 's near a place called Hackballs Cross , a nothing place , a couple of houses scattered on the map . |
| 24 | I glanced at my purse in her lap and the coins scattered on the bed beside her . |
| 25 | Watch for the rich earthy tones of their Etruscan paving , the mosaic patterns impressed on the slab capturing the mood of the Mediterranean . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | In a further development on Dec. 12 the New York Times reported on a plan put forward by the US Army Chief of Staff , Gen. Carl Vuono , called " Strategic force for the 1990 's and beyond " , which envisaged a cut of one-third of US forces in Europe by 1995 , from 305,000 to 200,000 . |
| 28 | It now seems unlikely that this was any more of a prehistoric trackway than other roads depicted on the map . |
| 29 | He moved the hand slowly , eyes closed , teeth clenched on a smile . |
| 30 | Cecil recalls that one of the bases was Great Ashfield and other Woodbridge , one of the three emergency strips located on the east coast , Cecil particularly recalling the very long runway there . |