Example sentences of "[verb] on several " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , the mill stands on the site of a busy gravel pit , and is surrounded on several sides by large mounds of gravel . |
| 2 | According to Miller , Galanter & Pribram ( 1960 ) , behaviour is organised on several levels of complexity . |
| 3 | In situ occupation debris pre-dating the established mid to late second-century horizon has been located on several widely scattered sites , beyond that already noted beneath the east-west road and its side drains and the presumed public building(s) . |
| 4 | The Lothian Region ( Placing in Schools ) Appeal Committee is likely to meet on several occasions during late May and throughout June 1993 , to deal with appeals against refused placing requests for admission to primary and secondary schools for the session 1993/94 . |
| 5 | From the early nineteenth century Japan had been approached on several occasions by Western nations active in Asian waters and anxious to initiate trading and other contacts . |
| 6 | The rules pertaining to the right to buy have been modified on several occasions . |
| 7 | This occurred on several Riglos routes , where text and topo also differed as to the number of pitches ( Routes 2 , 9 and 14 are good examples ) . |
| 8 | U K market tried on several occasions to break through and remain above the two thousand level today , but confidence remains low and the Footsie one hundred index was unable to find support . |
| 9 | Andrew Wilton 's conception of the show is designed to work on several levels , and should be ‘ genuinely accessible ’ to the non-specialist visitor in terms of the beauty and importance of the objects while offering a coherent reading to the specialist . |
| 10 | This arrangement continued for eight years , and enabled me not only to work on several books , but also to continue with my computer research . |
| 11 | One gentleman , who has not actually seen the apparition , has on several occasions heard footsteps walking up a stairway in the station . |
| 12 | Insensitive and often racist policing have fused with inner urban decay to create a climate of both despair and rebellion in which black ( and white ) youth 's sense of injustice has on several occasions provoked urban revolt ( Benyon , 1984 ; West Midlands County Council , 1986 ; Gifford , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | From its Midlands grassroots in the Clean-up TV Campaign , the NVALA has grown into an organisation with over 30,000 members , and has on several occasions organised nationwide petitions which have secured a formidable number of signatures . |
| 14 | More important , it has on several occasions presented to the European Commission solutions to technical problems with the Directives which have had the unanimous support of member associations . |
| 15 | The UGT has on several occasions accused the CCOO of calling politically motivated strikes , aimed at disrupting the government 's economic policy . |
| 16 | However , popular legend has it that Andrew Patterson , then Headmaster at the Manchester Schools for the Deaf at Old Trafford , was perturbed to counter on several occasions a group of ex-pupils gathered around a certain gas-lamp in the city — the gas-lamp being a popular meeting place of local deaf people ( this was the subject of a Victorian drama as well . ) |
| 17 | He has been bailed on several sureties and appears in court tomorrow . ’ |
| 18 | It will grow on several varieties of British tree , the apple being the favourite , although others include the plum , poplar , hawthorn and mountain ash . |
| 19 | The letters were written on several different kinds and colours of paper , airmail paper , headed notepaper from hotels in several different cities . |
| 20 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
| 21 | They appealed on several grounds , but particularly that ‘ an agreement by two or more persons to insert advertisements in a magazine for the purpose of homosexual acts taking place between consenting adult males in private did not constitute an offence ’ . |
| 22 | We realise that names may appear on several sheets if a Student failed a test and resat but the Tutor can easily strike out or blank out information not required by the Board . |
| 23 | It arrives on several disks , in a box covered with glossy pictures and explanations ( sometimes exaggerations ) about its capabilities . |
| 24 | Like Venice , Torcello was originally built on several islands and was a city with canal networks connecting these . |
| 25 | A British doctor , Pauline Cutting , had returned home to a heroine 's welcome and was featured on several front pages . |
| 26 | My advice was sought on several occasions when the family did not know how to cope with quite serious problems concerning the behaviour of one of them . |
| 27 | Whether they can increase production at a rate which allows urban markets to be fed and exports to be maintained depends on several factors . |
| 28 | The actual point of this transition depends on several factors and it is this change of response which takes some getting used to , particularly for those with lots of fixed-wing experience . |
| 29 | Successful induction of superovulation depends on several variables including age , weight and strain of mouse , and the time of injection of the gonadotropins . |
| 30 | This depends on several considerations . |