Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [be] [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods . |
| 2 | Started by the local Labour council , the plans were cancelled on financial grounds when the Tories took over , but building was allowed to continue after negotiations to sell the site fell through . |
| 3 | The rules were imposed on privatised companies in the wake of political trouble over the lucrative sale of undervalued assets like British Aerospace 's disposal of Royal Ordnance factories which had been in the public sector for centuries . |
| 4 | The skills being wasted on unwanted buildings should be used to prop up houses ? — . |
| 5 | Also like S. Mark 's , the domes are supported on massive square piers which are pierced at two levels by round arched passages . |
| 6 | The domes are constructed on high drums but are hidden externally by steep conical , stone roofs . |
| 7 | ‘ The brakes were slammed on mega boardroom pay awards early this year . ’ |
| 8 | In fact , for some industrial purposes , the rods are reeled on large diameter drums and can be made automatically without supervision . |
| 9 | And that applied whether the words were spoken on separate occasions or all together . |
| 10 | As with all Gibson 's books , the images are paired on opposing pages being visually connected with one another either by implication , texture , pattern or in the case of this particular volume , often by colour . |
| 11 | We can , for example , examine the consequences of increasing a particular tax , with the proceeds being spent on current government expenditure , which does not affect savings decisions , there being no other change in government policy . |
| 12 | Three of the meteorites were found on rocky terrain where they may have fallen directly or been deposited by melted ice . |
| 13 | The companies were ranked on various measures of corporate success ( ranging from returns on sales and equity to rates of growth of sales and profits ) , and were then split into three groups : top performers , average firms and laggards . |
| 14 | It is broad and low with wide , pointed , quadripartite stone vaulting , the vaults being supported on columned corbels with foliated capitals . |
| 15 | The soils are developed on marine or estuarine alluvium found between the normal high-water mark and the limit of highest spring tides . |
| 16 | The soils are developed on freshwater alluvium . |
| 17 | It had turned down an offer by the UN , under which Iraqi exports of up to 1,000,000 bpd would be permitted if the revenues were spent on humanitarian aid [ see p. 38742 ] , arguing that the conditions were unacceptable . |
| 18 | But Richard Collin , the council 's director of central services , said the calculations were based on unreliable assumptions and were some 25pc out . |
| 19 | To buy and run the above mentioned Cavalier and Mercedes-Benz , the two drivers would have to earn an extra £4900 and £10,916 respectively ( the calculations being based on cost-per-mile figures from industry analysts ) . |
| 20 | The attacks are based on empirical observation ; most women and older children are actually quite as rational as most men while some men are actually less rational . |
| 21 | The flats were sold on 125-year leases and priority was given to first-time buyers . |
| 22 | I suspected that he was cheating , that the questions were based on false premisses . |
| 23 | These records need not be held in this ‘ logical ’ sequence ( see Figure 5.9(c) ) , as long as the files are held on direct access storage devices . |
| 24 | Many of the orders were based on over-optimistic plans for expansion rather than the replacement of existing aircraft . |
| 25 | The internal and external threats faced by many countries " hardly justify the sums being spent on armed might " , and finance agencies were " entitled to ask whether it makes sense to help governments whose first priority is not to develop , but to add to , military strength " . |
| 26 | Although some of the scenes are found on Central Gaulish samian , the large jugs and flagons ( Déch. form 76 ) made on the Rhône , probably at Vienne , gave more space for larger and more detailed scenes on the appliqué medallions . |
| 27 | This type of chimney construction , where the fireplaces were built on interior walls , is common in older detached properties , especially bungalows . |
| 28 | Usually on Pack Meeting nights he waited until Brownie Bells had been sung and the Brownies were ready to go home before joining Brown Owl , but one evening , when the Brownies were engaged on various activities of their own , he came across to Brown Owl , and they walked about , talking earnestly . |
| 29 | On 19 July 1991 the sentences were overturned on technical grounds — a typist 's error on the charge sheet . |
| 30 | However , on 19 July 1991 , the sentences were overturned on technical grounds by the Third Chamber of the Appeals Court ( Sala Tercera de la Corte de Apelaciones ) and a retrial ordered . |