Example sentences of "of [noun pl] on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice that a dependent reason is not one which does in fact reflect the balance of reasons on which it depends : it is one which is meant to do so . |
| 2 | In this book authorities are said to be limited also by the kinds of reasons on which they may or may not rely in making decisions and issuing directives , and by the kind of reasons their decisions can pre-empt . |
| 3 | The pre-emption thesis will be readily accepted inasmuch as it concerns successful authoritative directives , i.e. those which correctly reflect the balance of reasons on which they depend . |
| 4 | Another owner discovered that if he put a line of coins on his sideboard his cat would knock them down one by one . |
| 5 | I could see the marks of fingers on his neck the murderer had strangled him . |
| 6 | As for truth , Epicurus , rather like Hobbes centuries later , took sense-perception to be simply the effect of objects on our material souls . |
| 7 | By late afternoon there was a pile of sketches on her desk . |
| 8 | Many amphibians , including the horned toad , have very serviceable rows of teeth on their jaws , as their ancestors had , but these are used for defence or as a way of gripping the prey . |
| 9 | Over the next ten years it kept going by making a succession of calls on its shareholders for additional funds ; by 1708 it was fairly clearly insolvent , and after 1713 it almost completely ceased trading . |
| 10 | Immediately after the NBC broadcast , his mother received a series of calls on her unlisted telephone number threatening his life and the safety of Mary-Claude 's family in Beirut . |
| 11 | John Peel has encouraged hundreds of musicians on his programmes with his attitude that puts creativity and originality above musicianship . |
| 12 | The remaining land between the estate and the village is under threat by a builder who wants to put hundreds of houses on it . |
| 13 | Returning now to the referral and investigation work undertaken by the team between October 1987 and March 1988 , Table 3 provides some detail about the range of activities on which the total time of 253 hours was spent and shows that the bulk of the activity time was spent in direct contact with children and/or their caregivers . |
| 14 | Alternatively , the Minoans may have singled out particular trees as sacred by the alighting of birds on their branches , since they regarded birds as epiphanies of deities . |
| 15 | They differed in the seemingly trivial but nonetheless diagnostic character of having not one but two pairs of antennae on their heads . |
| 16 | Finally , the guidance note contains an intriguing exchange of views on what should happen for NIC purposes where an employer reaches an informal or ‘ voluntary ’ agreement with the Revenue to settle income tax on employees ' benefits in kind and expenses . |
| 17 | In addition , the Six noted ‘ that there is a divergence of views on what should be done in the event of a failure to reach complete agreement ’ , but that ‘ this divergence does not prevent the Community 's work being resumed in accordance with the normal procedure ’ . |
| 18 | You must surely be right when you say in your editorial today ( ‘ Judging public mood ’ ) that judges should dispose of cases on their merits rather than , as Lord Chief Justice Taylor suggests , pass sentence with an eye to the public 's expectations . |
| 19 | She said she would shop for a couple of hours on her own , that she did n't want him with her while she mooched around dress departments . |
| 20 | Just once or twice , when he remembered , Busacher wondered how Willi managed to find the time to do all these things , and be Burgermeister , and put in a least a modicum of hours on his farm . |
| 21 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
| 22 | You will look at your own child , whose current display of skills is limited to marching around the house with a pair of knickers on his head claiming to be Postman Pat , and you will get restless . |
| 23 | Kriss Akabussi , World and Olympic finalist , when he was stationed in the Army in Germany brought a new car into Britain and was stopped a number of times on his way to Hampshire . |
| 24 | Here the street-walkers were not too sophisticated : outside her tenement a harlot stood , skirts raised , over a chafing dish of coals on which she had sprinkled brimstone and perfume so as to fumigate herself . |
| 25 | It may take the form of skills on which employers depend ; commitments to craft principles which support group autonomy ; a strategic function in the production process ; or professional solidarity supported by peer-group values . |
| 26 | With plenty of shareholders on his side , Mr Berlusconi seems to think he will stand a better chance of resisting a political challenge to his television empire . |
| 27 | Fran glanced up from the pile of newscuttings on her desk . |
| 28 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 29 | All of Wurlitzer 's fiction to date has dealt with this felt absence of forms on their breakdown . |
| 30 | Detractors of Ward 's friend and former boss , Graham Taylor , deface the England manager through the primitive superimposition of turnips on his head — but the only object likely to adorn Ward 's cranium in York at present is a crown . |