Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposite the Philadelphia was an almost perfect Roman amphitheatre ; other Roman ruins lay scattered on the hills , barely investigated by the experts . |
| 2 | The system could not be fully cost justified on the savings of labour alone . |
| 3 | Alcohol deprives boozers of their livers and their memories , and ends the lives of all too many innocents who get smashed on the roads by the inebriated . |
| 4 | d's appeal dismissed on the grounds the documents which the medical examiner considered relevant were to be disclosed , but indiscriminate disclosure of all the records would threaten the confidentiality of p , without securing any benefit to d . |
| 5 | I contemplate a quick thirty minutes in my sleeping bag , but by the time I 've checked on the sentries again it 's too late . |
| 6 | lists we 've pencilled on the backs of envelopes . |
| 7 | I 've fallen on the stairs . |
| 8 | When we 've decided on the names , we then have to find the best person to approach for each potential guest , and that can be like a detective job . |
| 9 | These are what I 've got on the disks you see . |
| 10 | Or , if you 've over-ordered on the chestnuts for your turkey stuffing , how about chestnut soup ? |
| 11 | I 've gone through phases when I had seven effects pedals in front of me and then I 've concentrated on the pedals rather than my playing , and that 's wrong . ’ |
| 12 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 13 | Could I tell your listeners a little bit about the good news that 's in the budget , because we 've talked we 've focused on the minuses so far , but there 's a lot of plusses as well . |
| 14 | Now , you 'll notice the numbers in the brackets are some indication of the amount of time that we spent , the relative amount of time that we 've spent on the subjects . |
| 15 | There Burn worked on the drawings of Lowther Castle and was entrusted with the task of supervising the building of Covent Garden Theatre , an arduous nine-month feat of office and site organisation in which he was hard put to maintain a working relationship between his 27-year-old employer and the contractor , Alexander Copeland , one of the giants of the London building world . |
| 16 | Yeah we divided them all up , but if me or Jan needed to refer to anything we 'd recognize the information that we 've put on the envelopes quicker than we 'll recognize the stuff that he 's put in there |
| 17 | " Many 's the time I 've stood on the terraces at Ibrox . " |
| 18 | I 've lived on the streets since I was a child , cold , hungry , among people who are always drunk and fighting . |
| 19 | ‘ Have we not all , ’ he heard himself saying from the pulpit , ‘ as we have gazed on the ruins of the mighty Colosseum … = ’ Well , a few more of his congregation would have done that by then . |
| 20 | The Australian kookaburra has a very distinctive call , which I am sure I have heard on the soundtracks of films from other locations in Africa , South America or the Florida Everglades . |
| 21 | Time/space travellers make audio tapes of the sounds and rhythms they have heard on the voyages . |
| 22 | If you have relied on the services of external designers to produce artwork it is foolish to imagine that internal staff with no training can achieve similar results . |
| 23 | More extensive , however , are the vast sheets of basaltic lavas which have formed on the continents at various times in the past and are referred to as continental flood basalts . |
| 24 | Previous studies have uncertain relevance to the outpatient setting as they either investigated subgroups of patients for example the elderly , or have reported on the findings in hospital inpatients . |
| 25 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
| 26 | In fact it is not — it is a gloss which we have imposed on the accounts and stories they have provided . |
| 27 | Once you have decided on the questions you want to ask , you should draw up a chart like A on which you can record customer 's responses quickly , simply by ticking or filling in the appropriate column . |
| 28 | We have decided on the cuts as a result of strong competition from Mercury , whose prices until now have been around 20 per cent lower than ours . ’ |
| 29 | Throughout , we have drawn on the records of accounts and observations amassed through our fieldwork and ordered through working papers to illustrate the argument , and where appropriate to make evaluative comments along the way . |
| 30 | Instead , a divorce will be there for the asking , but only when the parties have agreed on the finances and the children . |