Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyd 's has hitherto relied on the promises of rich men and women to meet exceptional insurance losses from their personal resources ; in recompense for this personal risk , they were often handsomely rewarded . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 3 | Sometimes , one finds it hard to understand why Americans are so disliked on the sports field . |
| 4 | Finally , after Mr Luciano Pavarotti and the entire leadership of the rest of the world had appeared on the wall for Mr Major , a modest , smiling , bespectacled figure was suddenly seen on the stairs . |
| 5 | It attributes the speedy exit to having its reorganisation plan in order and the cooperation of its creditors who are apparently agreed on a collections moratorium . |
| 6 | The two defectors , Rabbi Averham Verdiger and Rabbi Eliezer Mizrahi , had apparently acted on the instructions of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson , the Hasidic leader of the Lubavitch sect of orthodox Judaism ; although resident in Brooklyn , New York , his profound influence on Israeli politics was widely acknowledged . |
| 7 | Hand crossbow , rolling purchase arbalest and Moorish three-pointed dagger ; all used on the crusades and during Barbarossa 's Italian campaigns . |
| 8 | The evidence for such changes from past excavations is rarely satisfactory and is almost entirely based on the coins , which , in many cases , is far too slight to offer more than a hint . |
| 9 | I 'm working on 12 single figures all based on the apostles , the last series of paintings was very much more bathers . |
| 10 | We are basically settled on the areas that we want to service . |
| 11 | In the past decade the discussion of broadcasting , for so long centred on the peculiarities of ‘ FrancoFrench ’ in fighting within the hexagon , has increasingly encompassed destabilising international factors . |
| 12 | So as not to arouse suspicion , they continued fishing as usual , and when one of the bodies was discovered on the beach of Predmouth Bay a week later it had been so battered on the rocks that the Justices at Fowey had no reason to suspect foul play . |
| 13 | Many of the developments outlined in succeeding chapters are relatively new , and only time will tell whether politicians , management and the public at large are , as a result , better informed on the activities of government . |
| 14 | The highlight of the Junior School charities programme is the Summer Charities Fair held on the lawns in June . |
| 15 | The espionage ring was apparently established on the orders of veteran North Korean agent Lee Son-shil . |
| 16 | While standards have become tighter for landfills and incinerators , they are rarely imposed on the plants at which recycled materials are sorted for reprocessing . |
| 17 | Success or failure have thus depended on the devices by which a balance could be maintained between the preservative and the destructive effects of envy . |
| 18 | Scott 's appointment could be easily justified on the grounds of his qualifications alone , but the attempt by the Select Committee to make something of the competition results only serves to cast doubt on the reasons for the appointment . |
| 19 | Although some sex education programmes have been introduced into schools , the nature of these has largely depended on the attitudes of the local authority , the individual head teacher , and the teachers assigned to the subject . |
| 20 | Women and children 's freedom is already limited on the streets . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , I will never get it clean ! ’ ran through her mind , but already there was worse to witness for a plate of spinach was already spattered on the tiles of the fireplace and a bowl of zucchini sailed out of the window . |
| 22 | He 's just won on the houses ai n't he ? |
| 23 | She stumbled out of the car only to find that Rune had been quicker , waiting for her to emerge , offering her his supporting arm as her ankle momentarily twisted on the cobblestones , causing her to utter a sharp cry of distress . |
| 24 | She had already noticed on the streets of Florence how pretty the girls were — and how well dressed — and she made up her mind to look just as good . |
| 25 | I can only emphasise the point that Her Royal Highness has already made on the requirements for us to have a much larger membership to allow us to speak with strong voice in the many debates we find ourselves involved on behalf of our sport whether it be windsurfers , dinghies , offshore sailing craft , motor cruisers , powerboat racing , anything that virtually goes on the water we look after . |
| 26 | With less than twenty minutes of his shift remaining he had already decided on the clothes he would be wearing for the special occasion . |
| 27 | After only six months the investor would be entitled to receive a bank loan of perhaps 72p per share , normally secured on the shares . |
| 28 | In the individual it is largely modelled on the parents — normally most particularly on the parent of the same sex — and in the species derives from the collective parent — the father of the primal horde . |
| 29 | This has largely occurred on the Downs , where perhaps the greatest changes likely to affect birds in Sussex have taken place . |
| 30 | As noted above , the structure of local government is largely based on the reforms of 1972 and 1973 . |