Example sentences of "was [adj] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dingwall , in another context , calls these stories ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( 1977 ) , and Richman shows how they feature prominently in the discourse of traffic wardens , in an attempt to socialize new recruits into what they can expect , as well as being a means of stressing the moral worth of traffic wardens : a concern which was high on the priorities of such a stigmatized occupational group ( Richman 1983 : 115 ) . |
| 2 | The peasant caste 's second ranking in the official status hierarchy below the ruling samurai caste , was a formal recognition of the degree to which the economy as a whole was dependent on the products of peasant labour . |
| 3 | These buying and selling groups had contributed to reducing costs and improving pro fits but their continued success was dependent on the farmers accepting a measure of discipline . |
| 4 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 5 | Strabo quotes Timagenes only once ( 4.1.13 ) to say that Posidonius was right and Timagenes was wrong on the origins of the aurum tolosanurn , the gold from Tolosa which ruined the career of Caepio . |
| 6 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 7 | Rules were laid down as to what was acceptable on the fairways . |
| 8 | Admitting that he was easy on the eyes was simple artistic honesty . |
| 9 | It was dangerous on the roads for bairns as usually the horses with running with the carts . |
| 10 | It was cold on the stairs . |
| 11 | And the music was good on the ears |
| 12 | Oh I was stuck on the quoits , I never saw anything except |
| 13 | If the race was tough on the runners , it was n't the easiest job in the world for a photographer to cover either . |
| 14 | It was tough on the aircrews though , going out night after night to drop bombs on targets they could n't see through the murk and the searchlights , but perhaps this very impersonality kept them going — that and the fact that they were young and usually had a few days between each mission when they could recuperate in the relative peace and tranquility of the English countryside . |
| 15 | Sometimes being a racehorse owner was tough on the nerves . |
| 16 | The Swastika was evident on the seals of Mohenjo Daro in the Indus Valley , as well as in the Rongo Rongo tablets on Easter Island . |
| 17 | Dayflower , who goes for next week 's May Hill Stakes at Doncaster , was impressive on the gallops yesterday and the step up to a mile is expected to suit her admirably . |
| 18 | For some this was an entirely new experience , and it was felt within the schools that there was now a greater awareness among a significant proportion of staff of what was available on the shelves , and of the appropriateness and readability of book material . |
| 19 | Little detail was available on the needs of individual republics , and there appeared to be little co-ordination in the demands . |
| 20 | Seated at his tiny desk beneath the window , Richard was intent on the word-pictures being held up by the kindly faced tutor . |
| 21 | The offer was conditional on the exiles returning to the country by Dec. 31 , 1991 . |
| 22 | Secondly , in the Fearon case it was not the right to exercise an economic activity which was conditional on the shareholders ' satisfying the residence requirement , but merely immunity from compulsory acquisition measures adopted under legislation governing the ownership of rural land designed to ensure as far as possible that the land belonged to those who worked it . |
| 23 | I was keener on the pictures than on the prose and therefore skipped most of the moral rearmament propaganda : ‘ hobbies ’ , like ‘ pocket money ’ , were things that other kids had , so I was never tempted to make a jet-propelled car with a Sparklets bulb ( whatever that was ) . |