Example sentences of "and [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their owners were also beginning to notice what was going on and commented on the changes that were making their business more difficult , for the books often had no dispersal markings on them . |
| 2 | The house was old and situated on the outskirts of London . |
| 3 | Not every funeral furnisher was able to go independent , and relied on the wholesalers to provide items for which he was rarely asked and consequently had no need to stock . |
| 4 | Firstly , how old is the pattern of fields which we see both in the landscape and depicted on the maps ? |
| 5 | In finance , the crude picture in Herodotus ' list of the Tributes ( iii.89ff. ) and depicted on the reliefs at Persepolis — huge quantities of bullion brought by subject peoples — must be modified by the fourth century . |
| 6 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
| 7 | Andrew Beattie returned to Newtownabbey in south-east Antrim and reported on the decisions of the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee to a joint meeting of the local paramilitary organisations . |
| 8 | By 1916 it had become obvious that the war was not likely to be over for some time and the government round that it was necessary to introduce military conscription in place of voluntary conscription , in order to ensure replacement of the thousands of soldiers being killed and wounded on the battlefields . |
| 9 | The Canadian Parliament from 1980 on has discussed and voted on an estimates figure ( an ‘ envelope ’ ) that includes both tax expenditures and traditional spending authorisation . |
| 10 | Adley reminded the House that each year 105 000 people were killed and injured on the roads . |
| 11 | The interior is centrally planned and organized on the lines of the Pantheon in Rome . |
| 12 | The Christians had destroyed all the Moorish buildings and built on the sites ; two of which were Roman : at Villa Maura , and Estoi . |
| 13 | As with the official curriculum , much has been researched and written on the ways teacher-pupil interaction can be different for boys than for girls , and a brief initial summary will suffice . |
| 14 | Just as he finished , Garvey stood up and hauled on the reins . |
| 15 | Secondly , the hon. Lady does not seem to be aware that 17 drug prevention teams have been established in areas where Ecstasy and other drugs are being consumed in large amounts and sold on the streets . |
| 16 | Ale is still produced in the eighteenth-century brewhouse , and sold on the premises . |
| 17 | But in the short run the new game of image-building spread , even to conservative England , even to the most patriarchal conservative , Harold Macmillan , who by the late Fifties was being promoted with his enthusiastic cooperation as ‘ Supermac ’ and sold on the hoardings by Messrs Colman , Prentice and Varley , the advertising agents . |
| 18 | Hearts beat faster , and along the streets , footsteps lightened and quickened on the paving-stones . |
| 19 | She opened it frantically , half wrenching the door off its hinges , and looked down , screaming as the expected room disappeared and she saw nothing except a terrifying precipice and below , lying crashed and sprawled on the rocks , Mark . |
| 20 | Her programme included electoral reform , housing allocation according to need and based on a points system , the extension of the Race Relations Act to Northern Ireland , and the provision of employment through state investment . |
| 21 | The vast majority of empirical investigation in the area of textuality has been psychological in orientation and based on the responses of readers . |
| 22 | With these facilities the way is open for customer database files to automatically be retrieved and displayed on an operators ' screen before the phone is answered — the kind of time saving integration between phone and workstation that telesales operations dream about . |
| 23 | This conquered territory was totally under Charles ' control and bordered on the territories of the unconquered Slavonic Sorbs . |
| 24 | The water is reprocessed by a pump and injected on the dishes at pre-wash stage . |
| 25 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 26 | The brains themselves only need the lightest poaching for a quarter of an hour before being lifted out of the court-bouillon and set on the beds of lettuce . |
| 27 | Widnes came back with a Devereux try in the 34th minute , but when Lee sent Reid over four minutes later Salford had a big enough lead to have relaxed and concentrated on the basics . |
| 28 | Hector trusted him to guard his back , and concentrated on the men poking spears at him from the front and sides . |
| 29 | He abandoned speculation firmly and concentrated on the implications for the present case , since he was plainly being offered expert testimony . |
| 30 | Well , I masked those different faces with paper and concentrated on the eyes . |