Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , in classical and medieval times , there was no radical inconsistency between description based on the accurate observation of empirical reality and continued belief in a world of fable , inhabited by otherworld monsters . |
| 2 | However , sources say IBM has been making Taligent 's life a misery lately , by insisting that Taligent use its Distributed System Object Model — a general purpose mechanism for communicating between objects based on the OS/2 2.0 Workplace Shell , also up on AIX . |
| 3 | Distributed Systems Object Model is a general-purpose mechanism for communicating between objects based on the OS/2 Workplace Shell , and is also up under AIX . |
| 4 | Important work is also progressing in the recognition of engineering drawings for both the lines of the drawings and for text found on the diagrams ( Waite , 1989 ; Dori , 1991 ; Lysak and Kasturi , 1991 ) , and of musical notation ( Fahmy and Blostein , 1991 ) . |
| 5 | Reducing the volume of waste not only makes it more manageable and reduces the further risk of contravening the hygiene regulations , but since most local authorities or waste contractors charge for removal based on the volume , you will also make considerable savings on removal charges . |
| 6 | While exploring the question of whether bees can use information about direction gathered on the flight back from the food , we transported foragers caught as they were leaving the hive for natural sources to an artificial feeder in the middle of a large car park hundreds of metres from the hive . |
| 7 | Experimental evidence for chaos based on the mode-splitting instability was first obtained by Casperson in 1978 { 10 } : the route to chaos was not studied in detail , except that period-two was observed . |
| 8 | Small doses are also the intended viewing pattern for the recently produced ‘ British Art in the 20th century ’ a video programme produced for schools based on the Royal Academy 's British Art in the 20th Century exhibition . |
| 9 | The painting is one of a cycle of seven consigned by the Earl of Elgin for sale on 21 April to make up for losses incurred on the Lloyds insurance market . |
| 10 | The force has come in for criticism in the past two months after figures released on the constabulary 's ‘ crime-free day ’ in April showed Cheshire had suffered the highest rise in crime in the country . |
| 11 | It is a striking fact , by no means lost on the men who have to pay for them , that the spirits which so plague their womenfolk have expensive tastes and invariably request such items as costly perfumes , jewellery , fine dresses , and delicious foods and sweetmeats . |
| 12 | Instead , nationalist argument and continual bickering between nation-states played on the fears and worries of the borderlands . |
| 13 | Dewlike drops of moisture formed on the dry grass , and rose upward through the air as if powered by the jolts in our chest . |
| 14 | The report , endorsed by chief nursing officer Yvonne Moores , says : ‘ It is recommended that priority should be given to the achievement of change based on the systematic and structured methodology provided . ’ |
| 15 | Member states are obliged to police the Directive and the safety of products put on the market . |
| 16 | Ethel Scrimgeour , ‘ a tall and handsome maiden lady given to piety and good works , whose appearance was made remarkable by an immense knot of hair twisted on the nape of her neck in the mid-Victorian way , ’ remained Joyce 's friend to the last . |
| 17 | On Dec. 11 , 1989 , the Polish Socialist Party-Democratic Revolution ( PPS-RD ) held its first national congress in Wroclaw , adopting party statutes and a programme of policies based on the goal of a self-governing alternative system . |
| 18 | In the late 1980s the popularity of mergers hinged on the dash for growth . |
| 19 | and through him became a founder member of the Fitzroy Street Group , a small society of artists centred on the Soho area who were aware of post-Impressionist developments in France . |
| 20 | It 's near a place called Hackballs Cross , a nothing place , a couple of houses scattered on the map . |
| 21 | Mr Milne was speaking after some 800 Breton fishermen smashed stalls and equipment at the Rungis market , emptied trucks of imports , crushed shellfish underfoot , pelted riot police with frozen fish and left hundreds of tons of seafood strewn on the ground . |
| 22 | The correlation of 0.37 reported by Watts & Quimby ( 1980 ) was of course based on the averaging of ranked data from all subjects . |
| 23 | These figures are of course calculated on the nursing agency rates . |
| 24 | Professor Atiyah has argued that in England notions of fairness and equa-lity of exchange , coupled with liability based on reliance or the receipt of benefit , were replaced after 1800 by the notion of contract based on the expressed will of the parties , and liability grounded on promises ( offer and acceptance and the intention of the parties ) . |
| 25 | Similarly , those who claim that Foucault removes the possibility of resistance as such miss the point : all that he downgrades is a theory of resistance centred on the individual subject as sovereign agent . |
| 26 | If you are avoiding fried food , it follows that you should be seeking out the best methods of cooking noted on the menu . |
| 27 | How is the difference between elements of text indicated on the suggested display : |
| 28 | The charges made will vary with different brigades , and will depend on the number of vehicles and fire fighters attending the incident , and the number of hours spent on the job . |
| 29 | providing continuity of experience based on the reality of British society ; |
| 30 | The most useful definition is that of groups formed on the basis of occupational difference . |