Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is won on the swings is lost on the roundabouts . |
| 2 | Perched on the hillsides are typical old Provençal villages , some , like Oppéde-le-Vieux , crumbling , haunted , half-deserted , others like Bonnieux with a flourishing modern village built below the old one , and up beyond Apt , through the dramatic stretch of ochre-mining country , the strange red-gold village of Roussillon appears to be toppling precariously on the edge of a craggy cliff . |
| 3 | The information contained on the questionnaires was then copied to computer input forms specially designed for this purpose . |
| 4 | This had been banned throughout Albania 's more than four decades of communist rule , and the only motorized vehicles seen on the streets were those used by state enterprises , by the army and police , and by senior officials . |
| 5 | It must also be remembered that the fundamental duty imposed on the police is to prevent a breach of the peace . |
| 6 | The sound his long-toed riding-shoes made on the flags was not clumsy , and yet curiously halting , like the pace of a lame man whose lameness shows only when he forgets to brace himself . |
| 7 | What 's needed on the railways is real competition , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The quality of and information shown on the maps is a fitting tribute to his hours of work and recording and greatly valued in Manchester . |
| 9 | The exact relation of what we see on the vases to what was shown on the walls is something we shall have to consider , but that in some way these vase pictures do reflect the revolution in wall-painting can not be doubted . |
| 10 | It is in the best interest of the school to make sure that the meals offered on the premises are value for money , nutritionally sound and are attractive to children . |
| 11 | City Lives may eventually generate income as material is published — a book based on the interviews is already in the pipeline . |
| 12 | The story of how the traditional management through the regions has been transformed into a marketing one based on the sectors is told elsewhere . |
| 13 | Far from emphasising violent confrontation and looting activity , both media focused on the steps being taken to quell the immediate rioting or the most effective ways of dealing with future disorder . |
| 14 | Nailed on the walls were rows and rows of stuffed animal heads . |
| 15 | However , the types of germs found on the fingers are n't usually the same one s which cause a discharge . |
| 16 | Another creature commonly found on the beakers is a dolphin . |
| 17 | One type of bird found on the slopes are Ptarnigan — * |
| 18 | Chief executive John Foster claimed the £231 spent on the leaflets was justified under the 1972 Local Governemnt Act , which allows councils to issue information about their activities . |
| 19 | Naturally the major proviso for such accord would be that the resources spent on the asylums be entirely redistributed within modernized health services . |
| 20 | Unless proper punishments are handed out , all the money spent on the ads is wasted . |
| 21 | The dividends received on the shares were used towards the partial repayment of the loan . |
| 22 | Painted on the walls were scenes of everyday life . |
| 23 | The whole emphasis is placed on the terms being negated , thereby reflecting a profound bias towards aggression as the norm . |
| 24 | The INSET project depended on the videos being viewed and then analyzed in a constructive way . |
| 25 | Checks on weeded volumes or on the physical quality of stock left on the shelves are reasonably easy to apply . |
| 26 | The reason for the exultation , the explanation of how this sense of craving had been mollified and a sense of sexual peace bestowed on the lyrics was simple : Marianne had come into his arms ; that golden apparition of loveliness , that lithe , sensuous , intelligent being of intuition and sympathy ; a gift of the gods to rank — and outrank — anything so far told in the surrounding mythology of his adopted Greek homeland ! |
| 27 | not allowed on the wards are physiotherapists . |
| 28 | The designs carved on the sealstones were very varied . |
| 29 | Since the average rate of interest paid on the deposits was about 9 per cent ( Mates 1986 ) , the banks would have needed to charge an average interest rate on their counterpart dinar loans of over 50 per cent in order to cover themselves . |