Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three parties had disagreed on major issues and the coalition had been undermined by national discontent over recent austerity measures . |
| 2 | Abbott C.J. , with whom Bayley J. agreed on this point , said the payment might have been voluntary if the parties had stood on equal terms , and continued , at p. 735 : |
| 3 | In May 1856 , two months after his speech in Moscow , the tsar met Nazimov at Brest and discovered that , in the north-west , his words had fallen on fruitful soil . |
| 4 | Ferenczi had reported on little Arpad , who had a great interest and identification with chickens . |
| 5 | Comprehensivization , he muttered to himself , seemed to have had much the same effect on the middle-middle class in England as racial integration in schools had had on similar people in the States . |
| 6 | In early September the Khmers Rouges had called on Akashi to resign as UNTAC chief , accusing him of wanting to " sacrifice the Cambodian people to the economic interests of Japan , which wants to have the markets of the Vietnamese expansionists " . |
| 7 | Some reports claimed that regular Lebanese forces had fired on Israeli troops positioned within the " security zone " . |
| 8 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |
| 9 | While the ships were in port , word came to England that Spanish ships had fired on English ships at San Juan de Ulloa . |
| 10 | Their marriages had fallen on stony ground but it seemed to me there was still hope . |
| 11 | CI5 's fingers had closed on empty air . |
| 12 | It is impossible to know how far Lothar 's own personal interests and inclinations determined general policy , but the proceedings of the great general council of the Lateran which was to be held near the end of the pontificate were well in line with what he and others had absorbed on pastoral care at Paris in the last quarter of the twelfth century . |