Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er slung on us from another department . |
| 2 | Easily distinguished from other hybrids by its natural clarity , refreshing purity and the fact that it 's got the word MALVERN written on it in big letters . |
| 3 | An envelope with Zach written on it in bold lettering was stuck to the inside of the lid . |
| 4 | All four men 's evidence agreed that the assailant was wearing blue jeans and a black T-shirt with the word ‘ authentic ’ written on it in white lettering , and that he was between five foot eight and five foot ten inches tall . |
| 5 | Her own tongue moved on him in sympathetic sorcery . |
| 6 | No-one can have shown Americans round cities such as London , Brighton or Bristol and not been subjected to gasps of horror when they see the depredation wrought on them by ill-sited high buildings and demolished streets . |
| 7 | ‘ Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the fifth level on the standard scale or to both . |
| 8 | SALMAN RUSHDIE made a dramatic television appeal yesterday for a meeting with the Prime Minister to fortify his campaign to end the fatwa sentence of death imposed on him by Iranian fundamentalists . |
| 9 | Can anyone wonder that disbelief and despondency settled upon many schools in time to give way to anger and protest at the possibility of carrying out tasks that has been imposed on them under impossible conditions . |
| 10 | It might require them to behave authoritatively , submissively , wickedly or shrewdly ; the role might be labelled explorer , prime minister , designer or archaeologist , but they will do no more than adapt functionally to the situation of the drama just as they would adapt to roles required in a game — just as they once learnt to adapt to the limited number of roles imposed on them in real life . |
| 11 | The timber producing companies , the announcement says , would prefer to be respected for their integrity in the exercise of self-control without conditions imposed on them by other countries . |
| 12 | Aquino 's economic cutbacks , imposed on her for all the right reasons , have caused considerable suffering . |
| 13 | The other thing , I think , erm I do appreciate that Phyllis has got a terrible problem running the Council with the constraints imposed on her by Central Government , and by and large I think they do it very well , as I have said . |
| 14 | In this country , which has no serious experience of genuine fascism , the word ‘ fascist ’ is beginning to be applied to anyone who does not accept the statutory myth of the ‘ multi-racial society ’ , imposed on us by successive governments who have even contrived to make any open , honest discussion of it illegal . |
| 15 | It gives credibility to the particular choice we as a self-defining ‘ human ’ group have made , and reinforces the validity of that choice by obscuring the fact that we make it voluntarily , rather than have it imposed on us by scientific laws which are unquestionable and necessary . |
| 16 | Although there had been considerable growth in Russian manufacturing industry between 1880 and 1914 , by any criteria it was still quite inadequate to cope with the strains imposed on it by modern industrialised warfare . |
| 17 | Moreover , recent surveys have suggested that not so many members of these societies are ‘ literate ’ by the standards expected than had previously been assumed : in the UK it is now held that over one million people have an acquaintance with literacy that is insufficient for the demands made on them by this kind of society ( DES , 1980 ) . |
| 18 | Blix warned that the agency was experiencing serious financial difficulty as a result of the ever-increasing demands being made on it without adequate financial provision and because many members were failing to pay their annual contributions in full . |
| 19 | I do n't have to preach or tell our colleagues in England and Wales the effects water privatization 's had on them since nineteen eighty nine , they can see it for themselves every day . |
| 20 | I have dwelt on it at some length because I believe the opposite to be the case . |
| 21 | Now the door had closed on them in three more weeks scheduled for Spain . |
| 22 | As regards the visual interpretation of each array considered in isolation , Ullman relies on the work of David Marr , who studied the information picked up from the ambient light by the retina , and the image-forming computations performed on it by peripheral levels of the visual system ( Marr 1976 , 1978 , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | Robin Williams , Dead Poets Society : see Critic 's choice Virginia Mayo and James Cagney in Raoul Walsh 's classic 1949 production of White Heat … even movies as good as this ca n't live up to the praise lavished on them by some film reference books : see Critic 's choice Hear no equal , see no equal … |
| 24 | Charity was very aware of two things : that Matthew made no attempt to define his relationship with her , and that Sandra Bamfield 's golden , cat-like eyes narrowed on her with vague suspicion . |
| 25 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 26 | of Stafford , in full county court , faithfully to serve the King in his office of verderer , therefore judgment shall be pronounced on them on that account . |
| 27 | laid on me by those men who specialise |
| 28 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 29 | Although in his work using transformational grammar , Ohmann neglected this function , he has concentrated on it in subsequent work . ) " |
| 30 | Much of his later work , achieved under the shadow of inexorably crippling and ultimately fatal illness , which he faced with the utmost fortitude , was latterly facilitated by the research fellowship conferred on him by All Souls in 1954 . |