Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dewlike drops of moisture formed on the dry grass , and rose upward through the air as if powered by the jolts in our chest . |
| 2 | The report , endorsed by chief nursing officer Yvonne Moores , says : ‘ It is recommended that priority should be given to the achievement of change based on the systematic and structured methodology provided . ’ |
| 3 | Ethel Scrimgeour , ‘ a tall and handsome maiden lady given to piety and good works , whose appearance was made remarkable by an immense knot of hair twisted on the nape of her neck in the mid-Victorian way , ’ remained Joyce 's friend to the last . |
| 4 | Mr Milne was speaking after some 800 Breton fishermen smashed stalls and equipment at the Rungis market , emptied trucks of imports , crushed shellfish underfoot , pelted riot police with frozen fish and left hundreds of tons of seafood strewn on the ground . |
| 5 | The correlation of 0.37 reported by Watts & Quimby ( 1980 ) was of course based on the averaging of ranked data from all subjects . |
| 6 | These figures are of course calculated on the nursing agency rates . |
| 7 | Professor Atiyah has argued that in England notions of fairness and equa-lity of exchange , coupled with liability based on reliance or the receipt of benefit , were replaced after 1800 by the notion of contract based on the expressed will of the parties , and liability grounded on promises ( offer and acceptance and the intention of the parties ) . |
| 8 | Similarly , those who claim that Foucault removes the possibility of resistance as such miss the point : all that he downgrades is a theory of resistance centred on the individual subject as sovereign agent . |
| 9 | If you are avoiding fried food , it follows that you should be seeking out the best methods of cooking noted on the menu . |
| 10 | How is the difference between elements of text indicated on the suggested display : |
| 11 | providing continuity of experience based on the reality of British society ; |
| 12 | He could imagine the unfamiliarity of such an approach to a policeman used to witnesses who worked on the fairly simple patterns of response found on the Cumbermound council estate . |
| 13 | Its supporting declaration called for the creation of " independent organs of struggle based on the factories " , and this was taken up at the Workers Charter Convention held in Bermondsey on 12 April 1931 . |
| 14 | The sums of money allocated on the basis of these unreliable estimates are large : each additional child aged 5–17 in a lone-parent family attracts just over a thousand pounds in GRE . |
| 15 | The large sums of money spent on the maltings have enabled manufacturing cost increases to be held well below inflation . |
| 16 | However things turn out the geography of football based on the Industrial Revolution seems likely to change in favour of a small ‘ super league ’ which will take high earnings from a ‘ live ’ national TV audience . |
| 17 | Checks on weeded volumes or on the physical quality of stock left on the shelves are reasonably easy to apply . |
| 18 | But only the paternalistic tendency to minimize the significance of action based on the agent 's judgment of his situation led to the attempt to amalgamate all voluntary obligations into a generalized doctrine of duties arising out of responsibility for inducing others to act . |
| 19 | The question remained unanswered , for Counsel for the applicants accepted that any cause of action based on the treaty would not be justiciable in the English courts . |
| 20 | The expression of confusion observed on the faces of such cats as they pick themselves up is in itself sufficient to turn any cat-lover against the idea of claw-removal . |
| 21 | At 11 p.m. , he made sure there was still plenty of tape left on the machine and departed , returning at 8 a.m. the following morning to take it across the street to Syrian George . |
| 22 | It is well known that isolation in itself , with no sleep loss , can induce hallucinatory experiences , and it seems that in this experiment the effects of sleep loss potentiated the relatively mild levels of isolation imposed on the subjects . |
| 23 | The size of figure represented on the card which an individual child can discriminate is then set against the information in the conversion table which indicates the correct text size usable by the child , as well as indicating the visual aid needed when reading certain print sizes at specific distances . |
| 24 | As recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the Heads of Department held on the 11th March 1981 , reaction to this document was anxious and ambivalent , with several threads of concern emerging . |
| 25 | The amount of delegation depended on the size and staffing of the districts , but there was a clear trend to greater delegation during the 1960s . |
| 26 | Bewildered , she slid into bed beneath a vast grey and emerald silk quilt , and lay staring at the patterns of light thrown on the ceiling by the white bedside lamp . |
| 27 | Flakes of snow settled on the muzzle of my rifle , and smoking a cigarette while wearing leather gloves left a gingery smell of burnt , nicotined hide in my gloved palm . |
| 28 | If you do not have a male goat in the premises , a useful aid to heat detection is a ‘ billy rag ’ , a piece of fabric rubbed on the scent glands and stored in an airtight container . |
| 29 | The Court of Session agreed on the issue of unfair prejudice but did not accept that , because unfair prejudice had not been found , it would be inappropriate to make an order for the winding up of the company . |
| 30 | Our main argument in this paper is that linguists have not often recognised the need for this sort of justification ; that their views about what is educationally relevant in the field of language study does not always coincide with the concerns expressed by educationalists ; and that linguists and educationalists need to begin a common search for relevance in which the linguists ' knowledge is related to a frame of reference based on the needs of learners and teachers . |