Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 2 | A MAN said a silent prayer of thanks yesterday on the third anniversary of his heart transplant for the anonymous donor who gave him his life . |
| 3 | It predicts that , despite tougher standards for new cars , the problem is likely to increase for some years to come , largely as a result of a lack of any controls over the emissions of vehicles already on the road . |
| 4 | His crisp jabbing had Gary Newton of Teams instantly on the defensive , and Exley followed up with tremendous hooks that had Newton down three times in the first round before the referee stepped in . |
| 5 | The form , in fact , was one beloved of prosecutors both on the screen and in literature . |
| 6 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 7 | Brilliant weather from the end of May through into June , particularly on the west coast , saw hordes of climbers up on the big mountain routes , particularly on Ben Nevis . |
| 8 | There was the hum of cars up on the main road . |
| 9 | Because he was on the spot , and had established a surprising , and surely almost heretical , chain of friendships there on the border , he thought he knew better than these older and cooler heads in London . |
| 10 | Operational records are described as giving day-to-day information such as lists of books issued to each user or listings giving the whereabouts of books not on the shelves . |
| 11 | Cos you see if you put your ace down , ace of clubs right on the top and I put the rest of the clubs , put it down |
| 12 | Triumphantly , he slapped a wodge of notes down on the polished mahogany counter , as if anxious to be rid of it , and snatching a 12 bore from the gunsmith , he strode out into the square . |
| 13 | I can see a dark figure , a barely visible silhouette against the backdrop of trees over on the grassy knoll beyond the car park . |
| 14 | The probability of selecting the original address had been proportional to the number of electors originally on the register ; this was a sensible procedure if the number of electors had not changed . |
| 15 | In subsequent analysis , therefore , all responses from individuals at addresses which had changed electors were weighted by the number of adults at the address divided by the number of electors originally on the register for that address . |
| 16 | ‘ … the extent of the establishment is but barely sufficient for the exigencies of the County , and it can not be contended that it is on too large or extravagant a scale ; the number of patients constantly on the books of the Infirmary ; the high reputation which it has justly acquired under the excellent management of the medical and other officers belonging to it ; the strict economy which to the general satisfaction of the Governors has been observed in the ordinary expenditure of the House … call forcibly upon the County at large to hold out a protecting hand to save it from ruin which appears inevitably to have waited , if not averted by our timely interference . ’ |
| 17 | I thought you would Chairman , take it later I see a lot of hands up on the other side . |
| 18 | Then , unseen at first , a small but subsequently vociferous crowd of lads out on the piss gathers at the corner of the bar . |
| 19 | Individuals may at various points in their lives experience discrimination in the allocation of resources either on the ground of being too old or too young . |
| 20 | The variety was so wide that no generalisations can be made , except to note a lack of books explicitly on the description of language . |
| 21 | He slammed a pile of papers down on the table . |
| 22 | We 're also committed to tenant participation and er we 've done a couple of exercises already on the scheme and we 've secured some funding from the housing corporation to employ Anglian Design on our behalf with the the housing association er , to involve the tenants as fully as possible in the er , development process . |
| 23 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
| 24 | Throughout the morning on which Morse was addressing his audience in Bath , and stripping away the deceptions and the half-truths which hitherto had veiled the naked truth of the case , there was much activity at the Trout Inn , a fine riverside hostelry set between the weir and the Godstow Lock in the village of Wolvercote , only a couple of miles out on the western side of North Oxford . |
| 25 | A couple of miles further on the massive cylindrical cooling towers to Richborough Power Station emitted a faint breath of steam . |
| 26 | a couple of sessions purely on the actual , no public speaking that 's right , it was actually public speaking rather than |
| 27 | Despite this the government needs to give some thought to the practices of doctors not on the medical register . |
| 28 | Nevertheless it was Webb and Bath who made their mark first , with a neat series of passes over on the right . |
| 29 | It invariably turns out that an operator makes a series of decisions partly on the basis of what is currently displayed ( on-line information ) and partly on the basis of other material obtained from his knowledge of the system performance , his briefing and his operating instructions ( off-line information ) . |