Example sentences of "on [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They created a duty of care imposed on builders and owed to foreseeable victims of their negligence . |
| 2 | Their contact with war was to sit in the dining room of the Hay Adams Hotel , or the Petroleum Club in Dallas , or by their own swimming pools , sipping on cocktails and going through lists of guns and launchers and grenades . |
| 3 | As well as providing the benefits of a Current Account , we offer students tiered interest on credit balances , no account charges on accounts that remain in credit or within the limit of a pre-arranged overdraft and commission free travel services until the end of February after graduation . |
| 4 | Intonation helps to produce the effect of prominence on syllables that need to be perceived as stressed , and in particular the placing of tonic stress on a particular syllable marks out the word to which it belongs as the most important in the tone-unit . |
| 5 | There is therefore a need for restrictions on the actions that are permitted on objects that participate in trails . |
| 6 | However , Trazior also formed part of a mega-complex of hives densely crowding a poisoned terrain , interlinked by transport tubes supported on pylons or suspended from cables . |
| 7 | Fears that the staging might be a little too picturesque are quickly dispelled as realistic dummies drop from the ceiling on ropes and dangle above the actors ' heads . |
| 8 | To begin with , a very large number of the objects recovered from archaeological sites had a ritual function , and many of the images carved on sealstones and painted on wall plaster and pottery show religious symbols , rituals , or mythic events . |
| 9 | To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed . |
| 10 | I was struck by the fact that Cornwall seems to be overspending on roads and underspending on its schools . |
| 11 | Reviews research on attitudes and talk to older people , with particular reference to the concepts of status and solidarity . |
| 12 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 13 | In the case of expressions output on channels or assigned to variables this expression only needs to hold in the context of the strongest enclosing boolean . |
| 14 | With the carcasses in the cart , were they put on trays or put in bags or ? |
| 15 | It is particularly noted for its dome with high drum , supported on pendentives and pierced with two rows of windows and crowned by a stone ribbed cupola ( 313 ) . |
| 16 | It is best to classify this as a prefix-suffix error : any corrective teaching should focus the children 's attention on the effect of -ing on words that end in -e . |
| 17 | The matron moved towards Elinor 's bed on legs that seemed to be joined to her feet without ankles : she did not walk so much as stomp . |
| 18 | Oddly reassured by that very lack of sympathy , Luce followed him on legs that felt as if they hardly belonged to her . |
| 19 | In the southern bay all the vehicles needing a heavy repair , or vehicles of a larger type ie : six wheel bogies , articulated stock etc , were repaired , but these were placed on stands and completed in a static position . |
| 20 | At a time when the political parties have all released bulky documents stuffed full of environmentally-friendly policies , when any washing powder that ca n't say it 's CFC-free and untested on animals and made from biodegradable phosphates is likely to be left on the supermarket shelf , golf 's ‘ green ’ credentials seem pretty strong . |
| 21 | Some respondents to the Discussion Paper expressed concern that its disclosure requirements could impose unacceptable burdens on preparers and result in financial statements including information that was not relevant to users and difficult to interpret . |
| 22 | Railway lines were being raised on viaducts or sunk into cuttings and tunnels , and the railway station became the surface reminder of the engineering works below . |
| 23 | Books used in the liturgy were holy objects , often encased in jewelled bookcovers , and placed on altars or carried in processions to inspire and impress the faithful . |
| 24 | The imagery of the death of human beings is helped by numerous run on lines that add to the lamentation of the words . |
| 25 | on shelves and indulge in public hanky-panky |
| 26 | In addition they had two camel guns , small cannons which could be mounted on saddles and fired from the backs of camels ; for the circumstances these had been mounted on the back of a plush sofa which had been recovered from the rampart where it had served during the rains . |
| 27 | The 10-year agreement eased restrictions on imports and called for greater co-operation . |
| 28 | ‘ We had one of those nights recently when everybody got on bongos and played to [ Peter Gabriel 's ] ‘ Passion Sources ’ . ’ |
| 29 | They could often be seen leaning on farm-yard gates , chewing on straws and marvelling at Noddy 's turn of speed as he roared by in the slipstream of anything from a milk marketing board tanker to a Maserati ! |
| 30 | Usually worn by those smug bastards who fidget relentlessly on planes and insist on getting up and walking round the whole time , demonstratively taking photos out of windows and asking for guided tours of the cockpit . |