Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to pick the bind out by hand , er the coal was all er sorted on the screens and er er a u u us lads , we used to stand at the side of the belts that were travelling round and tipping the coal into the wagons down below you see ? |
| 2 | Then cars may be parked on the verges and a way made across a footbridge over the River Elchaig to a well-blazed path leading up , in one mile , to the top of the Falls of Glomach , a very popular objective of walkers approaching from the head of Loch Duich . |
| 3 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
| 4 | Mrs Hitchcock 's other daughter Stella watched in horror as her mother was slashed on the arms and face as she tried to protect Kelly from the attack . |
| 5 | This was a simple job as the aim was to look younger than their years : flesh colour for the face , blue greasepaint smeared on the eyelids and a little rouge on their cheeks . |
| 6 | Hedgehogs injured on the roads and other countryside casualties find their way to 21-year-old Jonathan Hodges at The Falconry , Otter and Wildlife Sanctuary near Cheadle . |
| 7 | There was not enough food being grown on the farms and the government could not afford to pay for all of the grain it had requisitioned from the farmers . |
| 8 | Dzerzhinsky wrote that the swifter exchange of goods would help to reduce taxes levied on the peasants and so mollify them and speed up the realization of smychka between town and country ; but towards the end of the year he admitted in a resigned tone : ‘ Can such a huge enterprise like transport really change in a moment , can people really be regenerated at once ? |
| 9 | Adaptation as a concept was perfectly acceptable to the nineteenth-century naturalist — they had , after all , had plenty of opportunity to observe the changes that an English climate wrought on the coats and plumage , as well as the size , of live birds and animals brought from hot countries . |
| 10 | In fact it is not — it is a gloss which we have imposed on the accounts and stories they have provided . |
| 11 | The Renaissance State consisted , at bottom , of an ever-expanding bureaucracy which , although at first a working bureaucracy , had by the end of the sixteenth century become a parasitic bureaucracy ; and this ever expanding bureaucracy was sustained on an equally expanding margin of ‘ waste ’ : ‘ waste ’ which lay between the taxes imposed on the subjects and the revenue collected by the Crown . |
| 12 | This evidence that most men take the threat of AIDS seriously was backed up by comments made on the questionnaires and in the discussion groups . |
| 13 | Work to improve co-ordination may also be done on the arms and legs . |
| 14 | Feats as daring as those shown on the frescoes and sealstones are certainly possible and they probably were really performed , but it seems likely that they were carefully choreographed and presented to make them seem as dangerous as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ They had clashed on the stairs and argued over a girl , ’ said Mr Crigman . |
| 16 | And yet they were founded on the theories and practices worked out by UNESCO ‘ experts ’ . |
| 17 | Instead , a divorce will be there for the asking , but only when the parties have agreed on the finances and the children . |
| 18 | Hand crossbow , rolling purchase arbalest and Moorish three-pointed dagger ; all used on the crusades and during Barbarossa 's Italian campaigns . |
| 19 | Voices sounded on the stairs and came nearer . |
| 20 | While most attention is usually lavished on the lines and rolling stock , the stations , perhaps , the most permanent reminder of the system in our cities , towns and villages have been sadly neglected . |
| 21 | A man standing in his saddle in the half-lit half-alive dawn banged on the shutters and called two names . |
| 22 | This is commemorated every September when hundreds of bonfires are lit on the hillsides and hilltops of the immense valley in which Machico is situated . |
| 23 | Departures and connections in Reading are designed to develop the reading skills of elementary and pre-intermediate students of English , and are based on the structures and vocabulary of the first two levels of Streamline English . |
| 24 | In his ‘ April Theses ’ he called for a revolutionary government based on the Soviets and empowered to control the banks , production and distribution . |
| 25 | The conventional guess , based on the ups and downs of the business cycle , says that Japan 's GNP will grow by 3–4% in 1991 , then bounce back to 5% or so for years thereafter . |
| 26 | ‘ The Islamic movement is a reformist movement based on the principles and creed of the nation , ’ said Mr Arebeyat , 59 , who studied agriculture in America . |
| 27 | He did , however , acknowledge the nature of the dispute and promised to reduce Soviet forces based on the islands and to facilitate Japanese access to them still further [ see p. 38148 ] . |
| 28 | The recommendations of the Commission were not entirely adopted , but they did have an impact on the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act 1950 , which provided for a federal budget based on the functions and activities of the government . |
| 29 | It was also suggested that a policeman attending court at the trial of the present proceedings might take note of evidence based on the disclosures and use that evidence . |
| 30 | New ways of coping can be shared , and solutions to problems can be found based on the values and ideas of their generation , not according to the views and attitudes of the modern world . |