Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is blamed on the land users themselves , who are seen to have mismanaged the environment because of lack of environmental awareness , ignorance , apathy and just plain laziness . |
| 2 | The government is concerned that most of the disappearances are blamed on the security forces . |
| 3 | They were good value , because they were in a style that he could wear anywhere and they were strong enough for all his walking and kept his feet from being bruised on the city pavements , for when you walk as much and as far as Boy did at that time you can hurt your feet badly . |
| 4 | There was plenty of life in and on the river : a life of crocodiles and fish , of porpoises that somersaulted in and out of the water , of herons and egrets wading in the shallows , and kingfishers perched on the marker posts . |
| 5 | Rows of large silent birds are perched on the mountain ledges — vultures . |
| 6 | The prince , Raja Pala , lost on a hunting expedition , came across the pool and spied on the star nymphs . |
| 7 | He said that the government had sat on the council figures which include injuries treated by GPs and first aid for two years . |
| 8 | And after the barbed wire was another fence that was higher and again the floodlights played and caught on the cutting edges … and after the high barbed wire was a wooden fence that was three yards high . |
| 9 | Water drips from the ledges of white hail caught on the straw roofs . |
| 10 | The first time Frank and Danielle Sheahan saw the West Usk Lighthouse near Cardiff , South Wales , chickens nested on the window sills , goats wandered in the living room and cows went to the bathroom in the bathroom ! |
| 11 | Neither formation provides ledges of any size or permanence , although small auk populations once nested on the chalk cliffs . |
| 12 | The dragons , lilies , magnolias and lotus as well as the traditional activities and scenery depicted on the wine cups may be compared with those employed by jade-carvers and painters and deployed in poetry . |
| 13 | Sluices are being repaired on the drainage ditches to raise water levels and create wetland … a valuable and increasingly rare habitat for plants and animals . |
| 14 | He was often directed to see to the ploughing , tilling and sowing of assarts , waste and other lands belonging to the king in the forest , and cattle were sometimes sent to him to be fattened on the forest pastures . |
| 15 | Having decided on the incidence assumptions , the procedure adopted is to select an indicator of the effective tax liability or benefit , which is then used to allocate taxes and expenditure . |
| 16 | The high table was covered in pure silk cloths , bathed in light by countless wax candles which winked and dazzled on the silver trenchers , flagons , glass goblets and knives with precious pewter handles . |
| 17 | Amber can be collected on the south shores of the Baltic from Lithuania to Denmark , as well as of the North Sea from west Jutland , north-west Germany and south-east England . |
| 18 | Although bus services were started , they never impinged on the tramway services . |
| 19 | The strike reportedly took place in mid-April and involved an eight-hour walk-out by up to 2,000 textile factory workers in Berat , some 70 km south of Tirana , protesting against low wages , although one report also spoke of anti-Hoxha slogans being daubed on the factory walls . |
| 20 | Often the Viking chiefs decided that their villages should be built on the river terraces . |
| 21 | To an extent these ‘ mixed ’ unions of office and production workers built on the wartime associations which had been sponsored by the state to suppress opposition to the war effort . |
| 22 | Our reputation is built on the manufacturing skills that have made Sheffield world famous for cutlery and Birmingham equally renowned for silverware . |
| 23 | Bradshaw 's technique , his whole life , was built on the twin pillars of strength and stamina ; he was used to taking on an unbeatable opposition and winning . |
| 24 | Five new quality channels will bring you the best in movie entertainment , many recently featured on the cinema circuits , and the best in sport , drama , music and comedy . |
| 25 | Firstly , no tax is levied on the capital gains realised on the sale of an owner-occupier 's house . |
| 26 | He had n't reckoned on the Care Bears . |
| 27 | The creature is often seen on the Idwal Slabs in North Wales and Stanage and Laddow Rocks in the South Pennines but has of recent years migrated on to the Craven limestone . |
| 28 | When one tries to analyse the real reasons for the respect which French cookery has so long exacted from the rest of the world , the French genius for presentation must be counted as a very relevant point , and its humble beginnings can be seen on the market stalls , i the small town charcutiers ' and pâtissiers ' shops , in the modest little restaurants where even if the cooking is not particularly distinguished , the most ordinary of little dishes will be brought to your table with respect , properly arranged on a serving dish , the vegetables separately served , the object of arousing your appetite will be achieved and the proprietors of the establishment will have made the most of their limited resources . |
| 29 | Although sometimes seen on the chalk cliffs in the summer , Cormorants have not bred in Sussex since 1938 or earlier . |
| 30 | The corpse/cadaver brasses sport shrouds of a type seen on the skeleton examples , though the presence of flesh allowed the cutter to render a more accurate portrayal of human features — often producing a successfully recognizable human being , albeit one in want of a good meal . |