Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United had one more chance six minutes before the end when Martin Foyle did well to turn on the ball ; in the edge of the penalty area he hit a shot low and hard towards the corner of the net but it just drifted wide of the far post and United 's chance had gone . |
| 2 | The Hussars drew their sabres to drive the unarmed men back into the river , but French artillery had already closed on the southern bank and , as soon as the Hussars went into the trot , the first roundshot slammed across the water . |
| 3 | Hu had served on the politburo standing committee and secretariat ; Rui and Yan had both served on the secretariat . |
| 4 | In 1804 Currie had also written on the relationships between health and environment in Liverpool . |
| 5 | The Chancellor fought hard to improve on the initial proposals put to ECOFIN , but he was fighting with one hand tied behind his back . |
| 6 | The particular phoneme used generally depends on the surrounding sounds or the position of the sound in a word . |
| 7 | The voltage measured still depends on the path . |
| 8 | He said work had just begun on the Rockwell site where landscaping and planting should encourage wildlife and provide a pleasant outlook for people living on the nearby new housing estate . |
| 9 | Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted and it had to be raised at enormous cost . |
| 10 | Work had already commenced on the front terrace , with the erection of new rooms ( for the Lower Sixth ) on each side of the front door . |
| 11 | According to the report , the two countries had also agreed on a date for Vietnam to restart repaying its debts to Japan . |
| 12 | You would have thought that what happened at Tottenham had never happened on a football pitch before . |
| 13 | Denis could hardly hide his smiles , knowing that Uncle Mick had never stepped on a baseball pitch in his life . |
| 14 | Like all seducers they then backed-off , only to return when ostensibly they found the E4s Paul Ross had already made on the crag I had begun developing too wet . |
| 15 | As of the end of March the Security Council had yet to agree on a further resolution to establish definitive ceasefire conditions . |
| 16 | Accordingly , peasant aspirations remained firmly fixed on the one panacea of which they could conceive : the land of the nobility . |
| 17 | The Act enshrines principles social workers fought hard to get on the statute book . |
| 18 | A few observers had already commented on the effectiveness of coaching for tests , a factor which was to lead to the first serious public disquiet over tests as measurement of innate , unalterable and asocial ability — although such comments were not yet thoroughly substantiated . |
| 19 | On the front row of the Beau Nash Room , only one of the chairs was occupied — Number 1 , if the chairs had been numbered , from left to right , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 — the seat Janet Roscoe had invariably occupied on every single leg of the coach trip . |
| 20 | Although one government-inspired commentator tried later to dismiss the FBI teletype as ‘ an early memo … that sketched one possible scenario , as of October 1989 ’ , and which subsequent events had rendered ‘ irrelevant ’ and ‘ pointless ’ , it was less easy to reject the categorical denials by Air Malta , the airport staff at Luqa , the Maltese police and the Maltese government that any unaccompanied bag had been sent to Frankfurt on 21 December 1988 , or , indeed , that any Maltese connection with the Lockerbie bombing had been established at all , other than that the clothing in the suitcase bomb had apparently originated on the island . |
| 21 | Public opinion remained closely divided on the question . |
| 22 | The offline system ensures that a copy of every module sent offline exists on a primary and a secondary media item before the online copy can be destroyed . |
| 23 | Yeltsin had also called on the USA to replace its " Star Wars " space-based anti-missile programme with a " global system of defence " based on co-operation with Russia — an idea which Bush afterwards described as " worth discussing in more detail " . |
| 24 | These Pontian Greeks had originally lived on the southern coast of the Black Sea ( called Euxinos Pontos or Hospitable Sea in ancient Greek ) . |
| 25 | However , most research on home care problems had understandably focused on the dementia sufferers ’ informal supporters . |
| 26 | Even the pay of domestic servants varied widely depending on the status of the employer and the sex and duties of the employee . |
| 27 | The blankets and towels lay neatly folded on the sofa . |
| 28 | Pathologist Dr John McCarthy said Mr Topp had probably drowned on the day he went missing . |
| 29 | It was a summer 's evening as beautiful as God had ever blessed on a wicked world . |
| 30 | Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it . |