Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 2 | We are also concerned about the reliance placed on these tests but in a different context . |
| 3 | Fourth , the grant depended on continued government goodwill ; in 1983 it was cut , and part of the rest was allotted only to courses jointly approved by employers . |
| 4 | In its reserved judgement given on 12th March 1992 , the Court concluded that the Visitors acted in their capacity as Judges of the High Court and not as visitors in the usual sense and were thus not reviewable . |
| 5 | In a judgement given on 14th May 1992 , the House of Lords allowed Johnson Matthey 's appeal that the £50 million payment in 1984 to its former subsidiary , Johnson Matthey Bankers Limited , was a revenue payment and eligible for tax relief . |
| 6 | Yet the conventional wisdom in the transport world of the 1970s was that all progress depended on public investment , public controls and , of course , public ownership . |
| 7 | The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opens this month in a privately funded $150-million building located on 1.9 acres of government land adjacent to the National Mall . |
| 8 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 9 | The Leith line had another branch added on 1 August 1903 to South Leith Docks from Newhaven via Bonnington , Leith Walk and Seafield . |
| 10 | In 1990 the European parliament voted on two reports calling for action on age discrimination . |
| 11 | The Ministry of Defence objected on three grounds : the increase in nuclear missiles available to the West was operationally unnecessary and would only add to the existing nuclear overkill ; mixed manning was a formula for military disaster ; and the cost of the British share would have to come out of the already overstretched Defence budget . |
| 12 | Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 : |
| 13 | Many practitioners these days combine both schools of thought , using repeated doses of low potencies for pathological prescribing : for example , Rhustoxicodendron 6X twice a day for a period of several weeks in cases of arthritis where the condition is aggravated by damp weather and rest ; and giving , at the same time , a single dose of a high potency prescribed on constitutional grounds — that is , the whole symptom complex of the patient . |
| 14 | The seminar began with an introduction to the thinking behind the general SVQs in business administration , and an update on the feedback received on these awards so far . |
| 15 | The installation 's theme explores the relationship between creativity and evil , and concludes with a pair of collection boxes for victims of violence placed on either side of an amateur portrait made by a murderer . |
| 16 | Since the female workers were not in fact very much worse qualified or less experienced on average than the males , there was not much of the gap explained on these counts . |
| 17 | Even though 30,000 lives had been lost and massive amounts of matériel consumed on both sides , Madrid did not fall to the Nationalists . |
| 18 | When extracts from the fibroblast cell line BHK-21 were used in the band shift assay , a single complex formed on this probe representing binding of the constitutively expressed octamer binding protein Oct-1 ( Figure 2a ) . |
| 19 | The Privy Seal is a seal fastened on royal documents . |
| 20 | One chief adviser commented on this use of curriculum terms : |
| 21 | The offer was accepted and the talk given on 25 April 1956 in the main Harwell lecture theatre ( now known as Cockroft Hall ) was attended by laboratory scientists and G. P. Thomson 's AEI team from Aldermaston . |
| 22 | The selection of the correct key added on another minute or so and Sandison could only look on feeling helpless and frustrated . |
| 23 | The mere is the large village pond surrounded on three sides by a dense bank of elm and sycamore , and is closely associated visually with the churchyard . |
| 24 | According to his memoirs de Gaulle willingly envisaged that hostilities would commence in Indochina : ‘ French blood shed on Indo-Chinese soil would give us an important voice … since I did not harbour the least doubt as to Japan 's ultimate aggression , I desired that our troops should fight , no matter how desperate their situation . ’ |
| 25 | Poetry , says Jakobson , is ‘ organized violence committed on ordinary speech ’ ( Erlich 1980 : 219 ) , and Formalist work on poetry covers three main areas where this violence is carried out . |
| 26 | But that was a scientific illusion built on evolutionary terminology . |
| 27 | But they claim to have the support of hundreds of local residents , who they say do n't want the complex sited on common land . |
| 28 | In 1311 , for example , he demanded one foot soldier from each vill for service in his projected campaign in Scotland , and the vill was to pay the soldier 's wages for seven weeks by means of a special aid levied on each vill by the sheriff . |
| 29 | In return for accepting these obligations — obligations which , it should be recalled , are additional to the normal requirements as to conduct and to financial reporting imposed on all members of the London Stock Exchange — gilt-edged market makers have the right to certain privileges . |
| 30 | Gould 's collection up to this time consisted , as the Hobart Town Courier related on 24 May , of ‘ about 800 specimens of birds , 70 of quadrupeds ( several of which are new ) , more than 100 specimens preserved whole in spirits , and the nest[s] and eggs of above 70 species of birds , together with skeletons of all the principal forms . |