Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , indeed , when Indian ink was daubed on a few minnows , which were then put among a school , the painted minnows were disproportionately taken by predators . |
| 2 | Our company is based on sound and we stand or fall on it ; since the introduction of Smooth Tubes we have never been busier and it is insulting and naive to suggest our success is based on a few LEDs . |
| 3 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 4 | There also seem to have been considerable baseline imbalances in the trial reported by Kinmond and colleagues , judged on the few characteristics described in table I , and so the same concerns must apply . |
| 5 | Even when they are provided for it usually amounts to their being dumped on the few professionals from black and ethnic groups . |
| 6 | The government argued that ‘ if real progress is to be made in tackling some of the major concentrations of problems , special efforts must be focused on a few cities in the next few years ’ ( HMSO , 1977 , p. 16 ) . |
| 7 | Police intervention provoked allegations of brutality , but media coverage focused on the few police injuries , underemphasised the extent of police aggression and exaggerated the women 's part in the violence . |
| 8 | The interest is simply focused on the few individuals who commit several serious atrocities . |
| 9 | However , the concerts may not be as thick on the ground as in previous years because the province 's main promoters have had their fingers burnt on a few occasions during festival season and they are not taking any big risks for the remainder of the year . |
| 10 | Modern British architects worth their salt , or future knighthoods , can be counted on a few colour spreads of the Prince of Wales 's bestselling book A Vision of Britain . |
| 11 | A primitive shading is found on a few vases of the generation before , by the Brygos Painter for instance to indicate the roundness of shields ; and in this time it appears , very sparingly , both in red-figure and on another class of Attic vase which we have not yet considered , those with a white slip . |
| 12 | Dragging with them seventeen unwieldy brass cannon from Edinburgh castle , they took Norham castle on the south bank of the Tweed , and pressed on a few miles to Flodden in Northumberland . |
| 13 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 14 | Wallace looked threatening up front , and should really have scored on a few occasions . |
| 15 | This may be confirmed on a few sites by the presence of a small cemetery over the site of the original house , after it had been thoroughly demolished , since some of the graves have been dug into the wall foundations , showing an ignorance of their existence . |
| 16 | The cleaner should be tested on a few pieces to ensure its suitability . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the ethos of competitive assessment often leads the student who has failed on a few tasks ( e.g. learned more slowly than other people ) to feel that he/she has failed as a person . |