Example sentences of "and [vb pp] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | export subsidies on manufactured goods are prohibited , and limited on primary products . |
| 2 | Then he wrote down what he expected would happen in the ensuing month with respect to each key task and what he was going to do about it , asked questions about policy , and commented on long-term opportunities , threats , and needs . |
| 3 | Nine 3 micron sections ( every fourth section ) were cut from each formalin fixed , wax embedded block and placed on gelatinised slides . |
| 4 | She was given pain relieving drugs and placed on intravenous drips to replace vital blood plasma and fluids . |
| 5 | He worked almost unbelievably long hours and subsisted on occasional cups of tea ( rather as Krishna Menon had done during his long , lonely London years ) . |
| 6 | To voters who had lost their party moorings , who focused on political matters only spasmodically and relied on fleeting impressions derived from television , Ronald Reagan proved to have exceptional appeal . |
| 7 | In other words , scribes did not always either know or care exactly who had been present at a grant , and relied on extant lists of great men , doubtless sometimes copied from earlier charters . |
| 8 | Ageing HM clowns with bottle tans and painted on black jeans held court at the wretched bar surrounded by sagging , middle-aged groupies who 'd made themselves up whilst drunk , it appeared . |
| 9 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
| 10 | The house was entered from the left into a sheltered deck area running its length and surrounded on three sides by louvred shutters . |
| 11 | But yesterday Norman Bainbridge , of Cleveland Avenue , said students regularly ignored restrictions and parked on both sides of the roads around the college , causing havoc for motorists and blocking driveways . |
| 12 | The evidence for market-control shows how such a system responded to and impinged on new forms of local power and local initiative . |
| 13 | It is severe and built on monumental lines . |
| 14 | The process of reconciliation of budget costs and actual costsprovides invaluable data so that standardized costs may be developed and used on comparable activities and projects in the future . |
| 15 | In HELP schemes the development took place on land formerly owned by the local authority and sold on favourable terms in return for the acquisition of some of the new dwellings by the local authority for its rented stock . |
| 16 | Journalists unanimously welcomed the announcement that Highline Photocards are being offered to customers throughout the network and called on other Banks to follow suit . |
| 17 | The Non-Aligned also approved ‘ the efforts being made for the early establishment of a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality in the region ’ and called on all states to support these efforts . |
| 18 | The British Foreign Office said events in Bucharest mirrored those in Timisoara at the weekend and called on all countries to condemn ‘ in the strongest possible terms ’ the actions of Romania 's Communist leadership . |
| 19 | On April 29 , Konare , whose electoral campaign focused on the promotion of dialogue , indicated that he intended to involve representatives of other political parties in government , and called on all forces which had played a part in the overthrow of Traoré to unite . |
| 20 | This welcomed Soviet completion , in compliance with the 1988 Geneva agreements , of the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan in February 1989 [ see pp. 36448-50 ] and called on all parties to respect the latter scrupulously . |
| 21 | The NATO leaders deplored the fighting in Yugoslavia and called on all parties to co-operate with international efforts to bring about a ceasefire . |
| 22 | On Sept. 21 the two factions announced that they were forming a joint leadership council to oppose the talks , and called on all Palestinians to observe a general strike on Sept. 23 in protest at the talks . |
| 23 | Delegates decided to make 1992 a " Year of Indigenous , Black and People 's Resistance " and called on European countries and the Vatican not to celebrate the Columbus anniversary . |
| 24 | He urged the EC to end agricultural export subsidies which damaged Argentinian producers , and called on European firms to become involved in the current privatization programme due to be completed by the end of 1992 [ see p. 38572 ] . |
| 25 | The report cited numerous examples of arbitrary arrest , torture and extra-judicial killing and called on Indian politicians to use the general election of May and June to commit themselves to ending seven years of " rampant human rights abuses " in the state . |
| 26 | It also urged the successful completion of the " Uruguay Round " of multilateral trade negotiations [ see pp. 38260 ] and called on multilateral institutions and donor countries to assist countries adversely affected by the situation in Kuwait and Iraq . |
| 27 | He also announced a $1,000,000 credit to Nepal for importing machinery and capital goods from Pakistan , and called on both countries , as members of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) , to strive to improve the wellbeing of the people in the region as a whole . |
| 28 | But such incidents are wildly exceptional , and based on fanatical misunderstandings of what fiction does or seeks to do . |
| 29 | These are transnational in scope ( combining US feedlot technology , European antibiotics and the Japanese market for boxed beef ) ; and based on international standards for consumption and trade . |
| 30 | These statistics and other measures of unemployment , all of which are socially constructed and based on certain assumptions , need to be treated with caution . |