Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , a payment made on the same basis as that in the case of Adams v G K N Sankey Ltd mentioned in Chapter 16 would probably also fall within the second category . |
| 2 | In the next room , Francie tuned his fiddle and Aunt Margaret made a trial run on the flute . |
| 3 | The words are then assigned a rating based on the probability of the grammatical transitions that their tags participate in . |
| 4 | Got a bit grazed on the coral , but the national health service here better than at home ! |
| 5 | Well I think I 've got a bit stuck on the N and the F actually . |
| 6 | Later it announced that it would catch 296 minke whales this year — a level based on the recommendations of the IWC scientific committee and regarded as inadequate by many Norwegian whalers . |
| 7 | So where does a curriculum based on the children 's own interests start now , I asked myself . |
| 8 | The hearing will be adjourned pending the delivery of the High Court 's opinion , at which time it will be relisted and a decision given on the merits in the light of the High Court 's opinion on the law . |
| 9 | In previous years the British Independent Programme Producers Association had taken a stand and we were initially distressed to find that this was not to be the case in 1990 — a decision based on the exorbitant cost ( they will retain a stand at MIP-TV ) . |
| 10 | In a show of strength , she said a gang descended on the Market Trader on the Sunday wielding staves , pick axe handles and other weapons . |
| 11 | In a show of strength , she said a gang descended on the Market Trader on the Sunday wielding staves , and pick axe handles . |
| 12 | Slow lorises use urine in a similar way and , in the laboratory , they will follow a trail smeared on the ground . |
| 13 | A faith worn on the sleeve , to be seen and not hidden ; a faith that touches every detail of life ; a faith that knows how and what to celebrate ; a faith that knows how and what to celebrate ; a faith that earthquakes , terrorists , cholera , drought , power cuts , water shortages , poverty and bad housing will never shake . |
| 14 | His terms of reference were to design a building based on the Cathedral of the Dormition in Vladimir and which would be structurally sound . |
| 15 | He also brought Greek artists to Rome , and was himself portrayed dressed as a Greek in cloak and sandals in a statue dedicated on the Capitol , where paintings of his campaigns were displayed . |
| 16 | The funeral liturgy included a mass for the dead , but to take full advantage of the memorial rite , masses had also to be sung on the third , seventh and thirtieth days following burial and , to complete the calendar of commemoration , the ‘ obit ’ : a mass sung on the first anniversary of the death . |
| 17 | You 've got a berth reserved on the train so you 'll be able to get some sleep once you get there . |
| 18 | Arab voices recount the morning 's events : perhaps a Palestinian killed on the West Bank , or the latest tussle between Israeli and Palestinian delegations supposedly trying to make peace . |
| 19 | This can be compensated for by applying a correction based on the knowledge of the appropriate Mark-Houwink relations for each , the standard and the unknown , measured in the solvent used for elution . |
| 20 | He bought back as many as possible of those that his father had sold , and added a few more ; in 1971 he published a useful short account of the history of the collection , together with a handlist based on the latest critical opinion ; and he designed , and had woven in Spain , a carpet for the gallery , a room seventy-two feet long , with a pattern repeating the intricate stucco-work of the ceiling . |
| 21 | Very briefly , I would 've preferred to have seen a contract based on the end performance with the grass being cut to a structured length . |
| 22 | These include a checklist based on the outline of a Norwegian study in 1983 , and a checklist forming part of a UNESCO study in 1986 . |
| 23 | I will be looking for a technique based on the recreational values of safety , economy of effort and enjoyment . |
| 24 | His water-colours acquired an increasingly remote and sometimes visionary quality , deriving in part from the delicacy of texture and colour which he achieved through a technique based on the miniaturist 's use of hatching and stippling , developed to an extraordinary degree of refinement . |
| 25 | We subsequently applied a technique based on the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) to detect herpes B virus DNA in cerebrospinal fluid ( CSF ) . |
| 26 | Unless we explain in terms of a framework based on the idea of the motions of material body , we are left with ‘ uncertain conjecture ’ . |
| 27 | Nearer our own time , in 1830 , when the extensive manor of Ingleton changed hands , the new owner had a tower intended as a hospice erected on the summit , made from stone pillaged from the wall and the foundations of the huts . |
| 28 | There is a certificate typed on the bottom of the last page of the document of legal charge which had been drafted by the bank 's solicitors for the benefit of the bank . |
| 29 | Altofts is an outlier of Normanton , a settlement based on the canal trade . |
| 30 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |