Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun sg] [conj] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The back scooped down to 4 inches below my waist , but the weight of the beads stretched the base fabric and on the dress rehearsal , much to my embarrassment , the backless gown inched its way over my buttocks until it became not only backless but bottomless . |
| 2 | He said that the oil , which was spilled more than two months ago , had seeped into cracks and crevices along the coast and more had settled above the tide mark and on the sea bed . |
| 3 | Something was very wrong , ‘ not on the medical side , because that was not too bad , but on the teaching side and on the disciplinary side ’ . |
| 4 | Graeme , a town-bred Yorkshireman , is more at home on the kitchen range than on the prairie . |
| 5 | Bad behaviour may seem a lot worse on a day when the washing machine has flooded the kitchen floor than on a day when everything has gone well . |
| 6 | Most interesting was the contrast between Ashworth on the Think Tank and on the University Grants Committee . |
| 7 | Racking was used to store the goods both on the warehouse floor and on the platform and was bolted to supports for safety . |
| 8 | a rival trade union was formed which drew much more heavily on the lower social strata in the labour force and on the Moscow railway workshops and other industrial centres . |
| 9 | The focus on the labour process and on the division of labour allows other forms of uneven development to be picked up . |
| 10 | Dalgliesh was aware of the heightening tension : small individual tremors of anxiety which shivered on the still , sea-scented air , unified and focused on the car door and on the tall figure which unwound from the driver 's seat , leapt easily over the low stone wall and walked deliberately across the courtyard towards them . |
| 11 | The display of goods in the shop window or on the shelves of a supermarket is an invitation to treat , i. e. an invitation to members of the public to make an offer to buy . |
| 12 | She regularly puts on exhibitions of works in the shop window and on the walls which question the borderline between music and visual arts . |
| 13 | Rather than establish a separate organization to administer the fund , it would probably be better to leave aid of that nature to the World Bank and bilateral and regional agreements , the more so since an issue like controlling carbon dioxide emissions may come to depend not so much on targets and dates agreed under a protocol to the climate convention as on the speed with which programmes to introduce cleaner forms of energy ( possibly including internationally supervised nuclear energy ) can be funded and implemented . |
| 14 | Some activities take place at the centre — initial canoe training is in the swimming pool and on the small lakes in the grounds . |
| 15 | To the rear is the casing ; on the left Hex Nodes in container and Ceramic Sponges ; in centre is Duo Density carbon Pad , lying on the coarse strainer unit beside it is the white trickle tray ; in front of that the heaterstat unit and on the far right the pump unit . |
| 16 | Within easy reach of the town centre and on a frequent bus route , Wexford House stands in a large garden which will afford a pleasant area for future residents . |
| 17 | Within each reach of the town centre and on a frequent bus route , Wexford House stands in a large garden which will afford a pleasant area for future residents . |
| 18 | At the time of Coburn 's first draft little was settled either on the casting front or on the design aspects of the Doctor 's space/time machine — key factors as they were greatly dependent on the size of the budget which would be allocated the show . |
| 19 | It emerged that a video camera had been trained on part of the premises of the night club and on an area where an incident preceding the arrival of the police and part of the incident said to be the violent disorder had taken place . |
| 20 | The government 's policy of dividing the different ethnic groups among the African population has in some cases encouraged particularist nationalisms , nowhere more so than in Kwazulu , where the ‘ Zulu nationalism ’ of the Inkatha movement has contributed to a polarization of black society in Natal , with highly detrimental effects on the education system and on the lives of young people ( Chapter 13 ) . |
| 21 | If the trial judge dismissed the petitioner 's action either on the compromise issue or on the misconduct issue , then the petitioner could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 22 | No dilatory Motion with respect to , or in the course of , proceedings on the Bill shall be moved in the Standing Committee or on an allotted day except by a member of the Government , and the Question on any such Motion shall be put forthwith . |
| 23 | The young boy relinquishes his primary attachment to his mother in order to accompany father to the allotment , to the DIY store or on a fishing expedition . |
| 24 | Jim was sitting in the middle of the back seat and on the edge but he did not utter , even when Patrick squeezed between two juggernauts with inches to spare . |
| 25 | When Congress assembled the Speaker of the House of Representatives asked Hall to give the opening prayer and on a Sunday he preached before both Houses in the Capitol building . |
| 26 | Drinks are served in the dining room or on the terrace which offers lovely views across the lake . |
| 27 | All these books have strengths that justify their place on the library shelf and on every reading list on the history of seventeenth-century science . |
| 28 | This temperature will depend on the chain rigidity and on the energy of intermolecular interaction . |
| 29 | Concern has , however , been expressed about the overall impact of the Nissan plant on the rest of the motor industry and on the economy as a whole . |
| 30 | For example , the conversation analytic ( CA ) approach requires a minutely detailed transcription in order to focus on sequential features of the conversation , while the more macro-sociological approach of Gumperz uses less detailed transcriptions and places as much emphasis on participants ' post hoc explanations of the code switching as on a detailed display of the continuing talk . |