Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [noun pl] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about the troublesome matter of subtitles and the encoding of multilingual versions on to the CD videos ? |
| 2 | Robyn breathed a weary sigh of relief , and threw the carrier of wet clothes on to the floor . |
| 3 | Equipment such as Fit-Bits , Plastic Meccano , Junior Engineer and Bilofix , requires the manipulative skills of fitting nuts on to bolts . |
| 4 | The continued flood of repossessed properties on to the market is depressing prices , which in turn is making it difficult for the building societies and other lenders to take the normal escape route for those who are unable to keep up their payments — the sale of the house . |
| 5 | Dropping a handful of loose coins on to the table , he set the empty glass down and rose to his feet . |
| 6 | This magnetotail could steer larger quantities of charged particles on to the near side than on to the far side . |
| 7 | Further , such displacements of non-sexual fears on to the sexual deviant , be he or she actual , imagined , or constituted in and by the displacement , are made possible because other kinds of transgression — political , religious — are not only loosely associated with the sexual deviant , but ‘ condensed ’ in the very definition of deviance . |
| 8 | And all you 've done here is build a lot of little windows on to a heart full of other fashionable artists ' paintings . |
| 9 | Jean Piaget , in arguing that cognitive mechanisms constitute the actual organs of regulation during exchanges with the environment , emphasizes that the development of complexity arises through the assimilation of new functions on to older structures . |
| 10 | Back in the drawing room , Alex Mair threw a couple of thin logs on to the glowing embers and went to get the drinks . |
| 11 | David Fielding 's set has his familiar white walls and floor , with a series of coloured backdrops on to one of which are projected a distant view of the palace and a nearer one of a stag . |