Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggested that they had more than likely received a stern lecture in lieu of a death sentence ; in the world of Arabs , blame for unsanctioned sex is placed wholly on the shoulders of the female . |
| 2 | The young wheat is streaked by silver lines of water running between the ridges , the sheep are gathered together on the slopes . |
| 3 | In the end , de Gaulle could only secure peace at the expense of a series of humiliating concessions to the FLN — concessions which could be justified only on the grounds that they averted the yet higher costs of not making them . |
| 4 | We were a long way from Orange , isolated in the farmhouse , and we knew how unpleasant the next month was going to be depended entirely on the whims of the staff . |
| 5 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 6 | ( The abacus beads are scattered randomly on the wires of the abacus . ) |
| 7 | These horses are part-Arab , part-Basque and part-English , the English blood having been mixed in on the orders of Napoleon 1 , while the Arab strain has been traced , perhaps fancifully , to the horses left behind by the Saracens , who were badly defeated near here in the eighth century . |
| 8 | He tried , though perhaps without much success , to restrict the use of chrism to bishops , and , making a further distinction between royal and episcopal consecration , he ordered that kings , like emperors , were to be anointed only on the arms or shoulders and hands , not on the head . |
| 9 | This means that a management policy that is injurious to employee interests can be attacked only on the grounds that the directors lacked good faith , meaning that the directors did not honestly believe that the policy constitutes an appropriate balancing of interests , or that they have altogether disregarded the impact of their decision on the employees . |
| 10 | A winding wooden staircase led to an open-sided wooden shack perched precariously on the rocks , whence came a savoury smell and some aromatic smoke . |
| 11 | The fireworks were being let off on the ramparts of the castle . |
| 12 | As the coffin was lifted up on the shoulders of the men , Carmella stood and reached out her hand to touch its wood at Joey 's shoulder . |
| 13 | You no doubt have picked up on the typos etc. but it is sometimes useful to have another ‘ eye ’ . |
| 14 | Best of all , he tells of the people caught up on the fringes of small wars , and finds in their resilience the small mercies of his title . |
| 15 | Basrah had a hard war , first by being caught up on the fringes of routine military engagements and later by itself becoming a direct target for bombardment . |
| 16 | Tens of thousands were reported back on the streets in Timisoara yesterday , defying a state of emergency , a curfew , and a ban on assembly of more than five persons imposed on the region . |
| 17 | To some extent a loss of conditioned responding is to be expected purely on the grounds that conditioning tends to be context-specific . |
| 18 | Very little research has been carried out on the functions of domestic pottery ; there must have been a variety of functions which , glibly , can be placed under the headings of cooking and storage , but behind such distinctions there is little clarity . |
| 19 | Despite the increased difficulties , trials have been carried out on the effects of homoeopathy in a chronic condition — rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 20 | 1.6 " the Premises " means the part of the Site described in the Second Schedule together with such of the Works and the Tenant 's Works as may from time to time have been carried out on the Premises This describes the premises which are to be demised to the tenant and which will include the tenant 's works and possibly also the landlord 's works where alterations or refurbishment works have been carried out to the premises by the landlord . |
| 21 | Similar analyses indicating new ordering principles have been carried out on the gardens of aristocrats ( e.g. Leone 1984 ) , furnishings , the disposal of rubbish and forms of cutlery ( Deetz 1977 ) . |
| 22 | However , little research has been carried out on the quantities of wood required . |
| 23 | It was carried out on the orders of Salim Al-Makesh to give himself time to flee the terrorist base before Delta destroyed it . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps they had been carried out on the orders of someone else ? |
| 25 | Is there any obligation for an external audit to be carried out on the books and records of the organisation , or is this a matter to be decided according to an internally agreed constitution ? |
| 26 | Their pointing gestures and vocalisations will be video-recorded to allow detailed analyses to be carried out on the characteristics of pre-verbal communication . |
| 27 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 28 | The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people . |
| 29 | Emissions which currently amount to nearly 500,000 tonnes per year will be cut to 73,000 tonnes as a result of modernization to be carried out on the plants , in the towns of Nikel and Monchegorsk on the Kola peninsula . |
| 30 | Robert Hassan inspects all returns for their validity and between them , a daily check is carried out on the adjustments of each loom . |