Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The additional times caused by linkage handling can be avoided if the link held on the prime data track contains the record key , and if the software can detect whether the required record is in overflow quickly enough to avoid missing the start of the next record . |
| 2 | However , at base , the trial centred on the illegal conspiracy to support the Guinness share price during the takeover battle in order to make the Guinness cash and shares offer more attractive to Distillers ' shareholders . |
| 3 | The enthnography focused on the activity of Loyalist marching bands . |
| 4 | Awards made during and after World War Two have the year of the award engraved on the reverse lower limb . |
| 5 | In a ‘ thank-you ’ letter , Finance Administrator Roy Butt said the Hospice relied on the public sector for funding and it appreciated the Centre 's and support . |
| 6 | ‘ He went into the bend with Glengar Ranger , who took him out a bit and the winner got on the inside of them down the back straight . |
| 7 | Some cardiologists complained that the heart could never be more than a temporary remedy and that the money spent on the research could be better used for drug therapies and other techniques . |
| 8 | Unless proper punishments are handed out , all the money spent on the ads is wasted . |
| 9 | He argued that the money spent on the national curriculum would have been far better spent on circulating information about books and encouraging teachers to use them . |
| 10 | On the economic and social side , it has been argued , that the money spent on the military might well have been spent more effectively elsewhere . |
| 11 | I assure him that the money spent on the health reforms will lead to greater efficiencies and savings — its purpose is to improve patient care and to increase the number of patients treated — and it is extra to the maintenance programme . |
| 12 | But the new grassland is less environmentally interesting than the previous permanent pasture , and the money wasted on the whole ten-year cycle of grass-grain-grass has been very considerable . |
| 13 | I remember him struggling with a story where understanding of the narrative depended on the reader knowing about canals . |
| 14 | The case centred on the constitutional validity of a restrictive abortion law passed by the state of Pennsylvania and was seen as a fundamental test of the beleaguered 1973 legal precedent Roe v. Wade , the basis of legal abortion in the USA . |
| 15 | Robin Spencer , prosecuting , said the case centred on the use of textured vegetable protein known as TVP in meat products , and the way in which it was declared . |
| 16 | It transpired that Medlock 's patent was badly drafted and the case hinged on the degree of hydration of the arsenic acid reagent used . |
| 17 | Because the nets are usually deployed many hundreds or even thousands of kilometres from shore , few but their crews have ever witnessed the damage inflicted on the marine ecosystem by the drift-net vessels . |
| 18 | Finally , faced with the Commission 's persistent failure to take any action and the damage inflicted on the British fishing industry in 1986 , 1987 and 1988 by vessels owned by Spanish interests , the United Kingdom passed the Act of 1988 . |
| 19 | A report released on Aug. 2 by a UN team assigned to assess damage resulting from the 1980-88 war with Iraq [ see p. 38309 ] found that " the damage inflicted on the country 's infrastructure was of a magnitude and nature that will require several years of repair or reconstruction " . |
| 20 | The purely linear progression through the text based on the successive identification of lexies is a major contribution to the maintaining of the text 's plurality . |
| 21 | Such part numbers are of no particular interest on the hypertext side , though they form part of the text displayed on the screen , but are objects of special interest to the dispatch system . |
| 22 | They were still security conscious , but it was n't possible to disguise the progress made on the mast . |
| 23 | Men fighting in the field depended on the votes of men splitting straws in Washington . |
| 24 | Partly due to the ban placed on the authors ' disclosing anything about ‘ intelligence techniques ’ ( p. x ) , which has been rigidly enforced . |
| 25 | After the Labour group meeting , which was held in private , Councillor Keith Geddes , leader of the Lothian administration , said the referendum depended on the proposals put forward in a white paper which Mr Lang was due to publish . |
| 26 | In the alignment based on the NMR model , the alignment for helix III is the same as the one shown here ; however , the alignment for helix I is shifted by one residue whereas the alignment for helix II , for which no structural similarity was observed in the NMR study , is completely different . |
| 27 | The chairman called on the Department to take action about those complaints because if it did not do so there would be little industry left to take action about . |
| 28 | I do not want to see the election lost on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 29 | The scatter seen on the graph is the normal biological variability of plant material . |
| 30 | It follows , therefore , that the constraint imposed on the conduct of national monetary policies by the irrevocable fixity of intra-union exchange rates implies that there is no real difference between a currency union and an exchange rate union in terms of the degree of monetary autonomy enjoyed by the union member countries . |