Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | These products excel where text and graphics are to be mixed on a single page . |
2 | Another factor in Ethernet 's favour is that different types of cable can be mixed on the one Ethernet network , so you could lay cheap cable in most areas and higher-performance stuff in critical sections . |
3 | Even then opposing fans mixed on the same terraces without the ‘ taking of ends ’ . |
4 | Usually the line represents the flow of something but that something might be material , energy , information or time but again these should not be mixed on the same diagram unless differently coded lines are used . |
5 | At a conference in Stockholm in late September 1986 , nonetheless , a last-minute agreement was reached that each side should give the other advance warning of troop movements , and that on-site verification should be permitted on a limited basis for the first time . |
6 | Cycling is not officially permitted on the narrow towpath , however walkers can join it in Linlithgow at the canal basin at the top ( south end ) of Station Road . |
7 | **Represents percentage of vote won on a proportional basis on individual party lists . |
8 | And the presidential election is not won on a first-past-the-post basis by simply tallying the votes for Bush , Clinton and Ross Perot across the country . |
9 | Just like the General Election , our awards are won on a first-past-the-post basis . |
10 | Any contracts won on an exclusive basis could affect the price at which it is offered for sale . |
11 | For Pindar , Cyrene was the place of many sheep ( Pyth. ix.6 ) , and the equestrian successes of Arkesilas and Timokrates were won on the famous bay horses of Cyrene . |
12 | Wellington said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton . |
13 | The Druids won on the last occasion and have retained the trophy at their Henley headquarters . |
14 | Amidst patriotic excitement , it was won on the last stage by a Frenchman , Jean Robic . |
15 | Five and a half thousand men were killed and twenty-six thousand wounded on the blackest day of the American Civil War . |
16 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
17 | St Valentine , incidentally , was a Roman priest martyred on the Flaminian Way during Claudius 's time . |
18 | Tension crackled on the cold air . |
19 | Over the weekend of May 11-12 , power lines from South Africa supplying Maputo 's electricity were sabotaged , while vehicles were attacked on the main road north ; the main rail link with South Africa was also cut . |
20 | As with most stress rules , there are exceptions , for example ‘ honest ’ , ‘ perfect ’ or , both of which end with two consonants but are stressed on the first syllable . |
21 | A good example of the problem caused by anhydrite cementation can be seen in well 48/22–1 ( Fig. 19 ) in the southern North Sea , which was drilled on a dip-closed structure at ‘ base Zechstein' level . |
22 | Offshore commissioning and hook-up is progressing and production and injection wells are being drilled on the Shell-operated project . |
23 | Busacher 's voice cracked on a derisive laugh . |
24 | All too often the profit earned on an individual house or indeed a development as a whole is less than would have been made if the site had merely been left undeveloped and sold at the end of the development period . |
25 | They had insisted that their youth organisations should be organised on a semi-military basis , and other parties had followed suit . |
26 | Courses to be organised on a regional basis through the teachers ' centres . |
27 | There are a few places in the States , but there 's no federal policy to get them organised on a big-money basis and all the little local pressure groups keep them harassed and staying small . |
28 | organisation Some departments , such as the Welsh , Scottish , or Northern Ireland Offices , are organised on a geographical basis while others such as the Treasury are primarily centred in Whitehall . |
29 | The declaration went on to state bluntly that ‘ Europe must be organised on a federal basis ’ . |
30 | The first part is organised on a non-time-related basis , the second part is basically time-related in that the principle for determining the content of any subsequent sentence is " what does the nervous impulse do next ? " |