Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] on [noun] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you may know the public seat on Snowhill has recently been removed from its base , as far as we can tell by vandals intent on stealing it . |
| 2 | Balboa might find it amusing : nearly five centuries later , the land he crossed in the sixteenth century on foot has still not been completely bridged for those crossing it by car . |
| 3 | The role of organisms in directly creating both erosional and depositional microforms on limestone has probably been underestimated . |
| 4 | The validity of official statistics on suicide has often been questioned ; some critics have claimed that different national suicide rates reflect the extent to which coroners in those countries are prepared to categorize deaths as suicide , rather than real national differences in propensity to suicide . |
| 5 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
| 6 | ‘ Small numbers of units which cut across traditional subject boundaries could be designed — one such unit on transport having already been produced . |
| 7 | When confronted with the large body of unknown work they saw in 1923 ( the brochure stated that ninety pieces on display had never been shown before ) , critics were obviously perplexed , and they sought its meaning , especially the meaning of O'Keeffe 's abstractions , in the fact that the artist was a moan . |
| 8 | Many unnecessary regulations on business have also been removed , leaving industry freer to compete . |
| 9 | And the Lockerbie Enquiry has heard how seventeen of the two hundred and seventy victims on board have never been found . |
| 10 | The Select Committee on Energy has also examined the proposals in considerable depth , and the Government welcome its report . |
| 11 | Since the 1960s the amount of purely speculative experimental work on aircraft has all but ceased . |
| 12 | So if some 500 million years ago , an astronaut , from some other planet passed near the earth , he could easily have noticed in the blue seas , a few new and mysterious turquoise shapes ; and from them he might have guessed that life on earth had really started . |
| 13 | The school was Summerhill , run by A. S. Neill , whose revolutionary views on education have since had considerable influence on modern teaching methods . |
| 14 | His contemporary Gregory Corso 's first book The Vestal Lady On Brattle had just been published . |
| 15 | But , in my opinion , oil painting is far from perfect : it darkens , it needs to be restored , any painting on show has generally been restored countless times and is no longer the painting that the artist originally created . |
| 16 | ‘ We make or break human life every day of every year as probably no other force on earth has ever done in the past or will ever do again … |
| 17 | The few hundred Australians on Timor had also contributed to the Japanese conviction that the island was to be re-occupied by the Allies , and the enemy reinforced his garrison with men of the 48 Division in the autumn of 1942 when these forces might have been employed to better effect against the Allies on New Guinea and elsewhere . |
| 18 | Scottish police carrying out the criminal investigation on Lockerbie had earlier been authorized to interview the suspect , named as Mohamed Abu Talb , who had worked under various identities for Palestinian groups in Egypt and Lebanon , but his lawyers refused to agree to interrogation procedures . |
| 19 | The results for some other questions on calendars have already been considered in the section on time . |
| 20 | He reported that all of the formerly rampant vegetation on Krakatoa had now been destroyed , with only a few of the thicker tree-trunks still rising above the thick mantle of ash , and that there were now three major eruption columns carrying clouds of dust and pumice high into the air , escaping from three separate vents . |
| 21 | The formal decision on industrialisation had already been made at the Fourteenth Party Congress in 1925 ; therefore the Fifteenth Congress could be claimed to be merely a continuation of previous policies . |
| 22 | The IAEA , holding an emergency meeting in Vienna , passed on July 18 a motion censuring Iraq for failing to allow inspection of its nuclear programme ( the UN 's Special Commission on Iraq having reportedly described as " premature " a claim by Perricos that Iraq had " come clean " on its nuclear programme ) . |
| 23 | A year ago most people on Merseyside had probably never heard of the Arkansas governor . |