Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | £20 h/b A photographic guide to the quintessentially French art of Line Vautrin , celebrated jewellery and accessory designer — parurière in her own language — whose creations include buttons made of blown glass containing tiny ships , buttons serving as scent bottles , necklaces of frosted glass and necklaces of white beads threaded on wire like wreaths of flowers . |
| 2 | Best Western also opened a Trust account for packages operated on behalf of members of the independent hotels ' consortium . |
| 3 | No adjustments to the fees are made on account of changes to the membership of a firm during the year . |
| 4 | Sir Hilary " Hal " Miller , a senior Conservative MP , told the House that he had acted on behalf of WS during the past few years , and had warned the DTI , the Defence Ministry and an unidentified " third agency " on a number of occasions about suspicious Iraqi orders . |
| 5 | Amongst the group with no training officer , evidence or specific mention of a training plan , based on assessment of needs of individuals and organizations was rare : the following comments were all made by authorities with training officers : |
| 6 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 7 | Much of Shavante life , in Maybury-Lewis 's words ( 1971 : 104 ) , ‘ is a function of politics , and Shavante politics is based on competition between groups of males ’ . |
| 8 | Since infection is first acquired during suckling , complete control would be based on removal of kittens from the dam and artificial rearing . |
| 9 | The evolution is based on growth of pairs of flux patches in the Southern Hemisphere , presumed to result from flux expulsion , each about half the strength of the four main lobes , as envisaged previously . |
| 10 | The note adds that directors participate in a long-term , performance related incentive plan based on growth in earnings per share above a minimum level over a four-year period . |
| 11 | Usually associated with the work of Bachrach and Baratz , this line of argument rejects both the earlier reputational approach to community power , and also pluralist methods based on observation of decisions on key issues . |
| 12 | His most notorious story was a psychoanalysis of Rupert Murdoch based on material from sources including the office cleaners . |
| 13 | Labov 's ( 1966 ) definition , like ours , is based on agreement on norms of variation within the community rather than on the absolute values of the linguistic forms themselves . |
| 14 | 3 — dumped on seat of pants in west half of room , penalty of -10 to WS , BS and I for first round only . |
| 15 | Work by social psychologists like Giles and his associates on the other hand , has focused on variation in individuals across different encounters . |
| 16 | Fieldwork has concentrated on mineralisation in greenstones of the Jurassic Alao division and sediments cut by Cainozoic intrusives . |
| 17 | The liquidators had interviewed many people to find out whether or not civil claims could be brought on behalf of investors against two of the Barlow Clowes companies , in particular Barlow Clowes International Ltd based in Gibraltar and Barlow Clowes Gilt Managers Ltd . |
| 18 | In the wardrobe , the ceiling painted on wood in oils by Professor R. Anning Bell is a masterpiece of fun , combining the five bodily senses with the four winds and the four seasons . |
| 19 | Businessman Ian Frederick Thompson , 38 , of Wallnook Court , Wallnook Lane , Langley Park , Durham , was remanded on bail by magistrates in Lytham , Lancashire , yesterday on two forgery charges involving a total of £20,000 . |
| 20 | In Poland Big Bang has piled on pain for consumers in the hope of taming inflation . |
| 21 | The concern is expressed on behalf of defendants in custody because they may ultimately be acquitted or given non-custodial sentences , and on behalf of defendants on bail because of the uncertainty and unpleasantness of a pending criminal trial . |
| 22 | Where a deposit is paid on exchange of contracts for the purchase of such properties and is held as " agent " rather than 'stakeholder " , Newco 's election and notification to Customs must be made on or before exchange of contracts . |