Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] are [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bank credit card vouchers and traveller 's cheques and foreign currencies are entered on separate paying-in slips . |
| 2 | This makes use of the fact that scientific publications are indexed on computer-based bibliographies by means of selected key-words ( or concepts ) . |
| 3 | May British courses are constructed on exposed land adjacent to the sea , or on rugged heathland with few trees . |
| 4 | The additional calories are spent on muscular activity , and the heat generated is more than enough to maintain the subject 's temperature against the steep environmental gradient . |
| 5 | Listening texts are based on real interviews with real people , radio programmes , advertisements , and songs . |
| 6 | For weeks on end through late summer and autumn the large lavender-blue , gold-eyed daisies are displayed on branching stems up to 3ft tall . |
| 7 | Instead of contrition , instead of apology , constant and unmitigated attacks are made on Labour councils that are struggling , in the most difficult areas of the country , to provide services . |
| 8 | Real heavyweights are promised on Romanesque , Gothic and British manuscripts and papal sculpture in Rome and Avignon , plus two more volumes from the magisterial Rubens corpus of the artist 's works . |
| 9 | This argument presupposes that moral ideals are based on rational considerations , and Rawls is anxious not to deny this : ‘ in making this argument , ’ he says , referring to the passage quoted above , ‘ I have not contended that the criteria of excellence lack a rational basis in everyday life ’ ( p. 328 ) . |
| 10 | Individual components are held on global " where used " files providing a linked network of information . |
| 11 | These lost lands are named on old charts as ‘ Sunke Sands ’ and it must have been a logical progression to name the risen sandbank ‘ Sunk Sand Island ’ , eventually over the centuries to be shortened to today 's Sunk Island . |
| 12 | We shall need to extend these to more general statements in what follows , but the above definitions are in fact what are used when actual measurements are made on real materials . |
| 13 | He is always delighted when extra candles are lit on special feasts and at Easter . |
| 14 | He concludes that ‘ calculations of the incidence of direct and indirect taxes are based on conflicting and contradictory assumptions ’ ( Prest , 1955 , p. 242 ) . |
| 15 | Lympho-epithelial lesions are observed on fixed tissues and immunohistochemical studies of fixed tissues can help to show these lesions with the aid of anti-cytokeratin or -epithelial membrane antibodies . |
| 16 | The company says the Enterprise File Manager is particularly suited to supporting large distributed networks where diverse applications are run on disparate hardware , including the gamut from personal computers through workstations , minicomputers and mainframes to supercomputers . |
| 17 | All too often these little details are ignored on lower-end instruments but Aria have proved that it can be done . |
| 18 | Most elderly homes are based on communal living , with pensioners spending the daytime in one big lounge and dining room . |
| 19 | Traditional measures are based on average lengths of different parts of the body , and are related to each other in terms of significant numbers such as three and twelve . |
| 20 | Numerous projects are based on question-answer dialogues and the development of natural language front-ends for databases . |
| 21 | About 20% of care is consistently shown to be inappropriate and only about 15% of medical interventions are based on solid scientific evidence . |
| 22 | No one loves plutonium , but equally a tamed carbon-free and virtually inexhaustible fuel has its attractions in a world in which increasing demands are made on finite energy resources . |
| 23 | The living turtles are placed on burning coals and heated until their top and bottom shells become malleable enough to rip off . |
| 24 | Many breed on coastal cliffs , but small colonies are reported on isolated nunataks tens or even hundreds of kilometres from the sea . |
| 25 | Hatchli designs are found on Afghan village and workshop rugs , as well as on those woven by nomadic tribes ( pl. 10 ) . |
| 26 | Intensive rearing practices have been blamed , where animals kept in cramped and often unhygienic conditions are fed on high protein feeds often containing the remnants of slaughtered chickens contaminated with salmonella . |
| 27 | In a nutshell , orthodox theories are based on homogeneous ‘ hot ’ accretion , the high temperatures leading to differentiation . |
| 28 | Small , lance-shaped , dark green leaves are arranged on long stems in whorls of 6–8 . |
| 29 | … patently the demand for new land would fall as these sites are recycled , and new houses are built on cleared sites . |
| 30 | A strict comparison can not be made since the new charges are based on two-person households whereas the existing charge is levied on individual community charge payers . |