Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | How much reliance can be placed on the details of the story is perhaps open to question , but it seems safe to conclude that Molla Fenari and Haci Ivaz were indeed enemies , for whatever reason . |
| 32 | Environmental groups are campaigning for more money and importance to be placed on the needs of cyclists , with a target of doubling cycle use over the next five years . |
| 33 | The power of decision being committed by the statute exclusively to the housing authority , their exercise of the power can only be challenged before the courts on the strictly limited grounds ( i ) that their decision was vitiated by bias or procedural unfairness ; ( ii ) that they have reached a conclusion of fact which can be impugned on the principles set out in the speech of Lord Radcliffe in Edwards v. Bairstow [ 1956 ] A.C. 14 ; or ( iii ) that , in as far as they have exercised a discretion ( as they may require to do in considering questions of reasonableness under section 17(1) ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) ) , the exercise can be impugned on the principles set out in the judgment of Lord Greene M.R. in Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B . |
| 34 | The power of decision being committed by the statute exclusively to the housing authority , their exercise of the power can only be challenged before the courts on the strictly limited grounds ( i ) that their decision was vitiated by bias or procedural unfairness ; ( ii ) that they have reached a conclusion of fact which can be impugned on the principles set out in the speech of Lord Radcliffe in Edwards v. Bairstow [ 1956 ] A.C. 14 ; or ( iii ) that , in as far as they have exercised a discretion ( as they may require to do in considering questions of reasonableness under section 17(1) ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) ) , the exercise can be impugned on the principles set out in the judgment of Lord Greene M.R. in Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B . |
| 35 | While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product . |
| 36 | Thus in relation to conceptual criteria , research might be criticized on the grounds of inconsistency of reasoning or imprecision of terminology or general intellectual ineptitude , using the standards of argumentation approved by our culture ( though not necessarily by others ) . |
| 37 | With regard to empirical criteria , research can be criticized on the grounds of faulty methodology in the design of instruments for assembling data or in the means used for measuring them . |
| 38 | Of course these too can be criticized on the grounds that they lack precision , and carry with them built-in biases , impeding both our understanding of our own field experience as well as obstructing cross-cultural understanding . |
| 39 | This procedure might be criticized on the grounds that the sample is too small to justify it . |
| 40 | To count such comments as these as indicative of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with housework may perhaps be criticized on the grounds that what these women are talking about is not the housework situation , but marriage . |
| 41 | However , we have seen that this approach can be criticized on the grounds that the discourse structure of the interview is still present and that attempts to obscure the nature of the speech event are likely to lead in practice to confusion and difficulty . |
| 42 | In both , the main class order can be criticized on the grounds of the separation of Sciences from their respective Technologies . |
| 43 | The film could be criticized on the grounds that all of the characters are white , ‘ respectable ’ and economically advantaged . |
| 44 | This argument can be criticized on the grounds that a state bureaucracy can not be called a class . |
| 45 | The most important piece of equipment in our kitchen is a very large fridge so that the starters can be arranged on the plates well in advance . |
| 46 | In fact Salisbury poured scorn on Lord Wemyss — ‘ the great prophet of North Berwick Law ’ — and insisted that interventionist legislation had to be considered on the merits of the measure in question . |
| 47 | In any future case the situation will be considered on the facts known at that time and if appropriate application will be made . |
| 48 | In any future case the situation will be considered on the facts known at that time and if appropriate application will be made . |
| 49 | The stores would be located on the sites of the company 's two advanced gas-cooled reactors at Hunterston and Torness in Northern Scotland . |
| 50 | Paths plan : Walkers turned out to hear plans for two new footpaths which could be located on the outskirts of the village . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | These may also be responsible for the associated climatic phenomena and may be blamed on the effects of plate tectonics with the rise and fall of mid-ocean ridges and the displacement of water by the piling up and erosion of new orogenic belts . |
| 53 | It ca n't be blamed on the unions or the last Labour Government . |
| 54 | Not all killings should be blamed on the terrorists or police . |
| 55 | On the subject of what he called atmosphere — ‘ … after all , this is a home for vagrants , and no-one who was not an outcast would be caught on the premises ’ . |
| 56 | The Left seemed to be caught on the horns of a dilemma : insurrection was regarded with increased scepticism and democracy with increased respect , but parliamentary socialism continued to reveal its all too familiar limitations . |
| 57 | Another means by which light may be shed on the problems concerning the modes of production and dispersal of metalwork would be to consider very distinctive examples . |
| 58 | At levels I , II and III a statement of support from HCIMA will be included on the NVQs issued . |
| 59 | A statement of support from HCIMA will be included on the NVQs issued by C & g at these levels . |
| 60 | In a large , well-appointed hotel the service of food and drink will be organised on the lines indicated in Fig. 1.8 . |