Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Wegener , the sial masses of the continents shifted on the earth 's actual mantle , the sima foundation . |
| 2 | They can help the experts to focus on the more difficult aspects of their specialities and non experts to be more productive and take more accurate decisions . |
| 3 | These measures may have unsettled the crowds gathering on the campuses but did not stop them . |
| 4 | From the crowds wet on the November sidewalk , |
| 5 | From the time that I was about eight , the Boxing Booth acted as a magnet to me and I spent a considerable time gazing in awe as the boxers paraded on the small stage outside the tent , ready to take on all corners . |
| 6 | The icons displayed on the screen can be used to move your characters around the world or invoke actions such as casting a spell . |
| 7 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 8 | The nine-page affidavit , filed by State Attorney David Bludworth in conjunction with the charges , documented the bruises found on the body of the alleged victim , and also stated that she had passed two polygraph tests on her statements to the police . |
| 9 | Exhausted they lay side by side watching the flames dance on the ceiling . |
| 10 | The settlement price ( or the exchange delivery settlement price , EDSP ) is the trading price ( per 100 nominal ) for the futures contract on the last day of trading . |
| 11 | The fair futures price is that which gives a zero arbitrage profit relative to the CTD bond from a cash-and-carry transaction involving the purchase of the CTD bond in the cash market ( with borrowed funds ) and selling it into the futures market on the delivery day . |
| 12 | The cost-of-carry equals the interest cost of holding the cash bond less the accrued interest earned on the cash bond before it is delivered into the futures market on the delivery day ( i.e. , d = rc ) . |
| 13 | sufficient time must be granted to the shareholders to decide on the offer ; |
| 14 | The details of the patterns depend on the magnitude of the advantage accruing to defectors ( the value of b ) , but a wide range of values leads to chaotic patterns , whose nature is almost always independent of the initial proportions of C and D. We believe that deterministically generated spatial structure within populations may often be crucial for the evolution of cooperation , whether it be among molecules , cells or organisms . |
| 15 | I think all you need is a libretto translation in the case of opera and translations of Lieder , and brief biographical details in the case of the artists performing on the discs . |
| 16 | By a notice of appeal dated 25 February 1992 the creditors appealed on the ground , inter alia , that the service of a statutory demand was not the bringing of an action and therefore did not contravene section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 17 | It tasted good , but the only resemblance to tea was in the tealeaves floating on the top of the liquid . |
| 18 | Both systems gave a kind of proportional representation : the number of councillors which each Attic deme sent yearly to the Council of Five Hundred depended on its population ( p. 112 ) ; and the number of federal councillors in Boiotia supplied by the cities depended on the size of the city and its territory . |
| 19 | The icicles froze on the end of his nose |
| 20 | It would be up to the courts to decide on the matter , ’ says her local trading standards officer , Mr Slater . |
| 21 | Secondly , in the classic jurisdictional fact cases the courts proceed on the assumption that they will supply the one correct answer to the disputed term . |
| 22 | While there may be a reluctance on the part of the courts to rule on the validity of Acts of Parliament , a related issue which has arisen is whether they may adjudicate upon the question whether something purporting to be an Act of Parliament actually is such . |
| 23 | The standing of the statement needs initially to be determined and it may be elevated to the rank of contractual term if the courts consider on the facts that this was the intention of the parties . |
| 24 | The ducks nest on the coastal tundra of western Alaska , in its North Slope region — site of the country 's largest oil-fields — and in Siberia . |
| 25 | He died early one morning with our arms around him , and with the ducks quacking on the beach outside and his dogs lying at the foot of his bed . |
| 26 | Though my dad says she 'll have to move now in case the Germans land on the coast . ’ |
| 27 | I glanced at my purse in her lap and the coins scattered on the bed beside her . |
| 28 | It 's almost exactly the same … we get everything we need for the notes written on the board so we can just copy it down … so it 's just the same as school , except the homework — when you do those problem sheets , they do n't bother to mark it . |
| 29 | The birds arrive on the cliffs in January and February and stay until June or July , and what are presumably the same birds are recorded right along the coast . |
| 30 | Examples are the mass flux in pipe flow ( Sections 2.3 and 2.7 ) , the torques acting on the cylinders in rotating Couette flow ( Sections 9.3 and 17.5 ) , and the heat transfer in convection experiments ( Sections 14.4 , 14.8 and 22.2 — particularly Fig. 22.1 ) . |