Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 2 | Though the invisible trade surplus has been marked down , there was encouraging news for the Government yesterday on the visible trade deficit . |
| 3 | Are n't the plans for the alterations also on the desk ? |
| 4 | Sir Percival Sharp fought for the AEC mainly on the first issue — but could find no support — so that the second , the potential extension of the power of central government , went largely unchallenged . |
| 5 | ‘ The Miletti family have made a statement in which they lay the blame for the murder squarely on the shoulders of the police , ’ the woman began . |
| 6 | I said I 'd be in any time after six that evening and he came for the key precisely on the hour . ’ |
| 7 | The Agreement extends qualified majority voting ( through the ‘ co-operation ’ procedure [ see page 6 ] ) , to cover issues such as the conditions of workers , the information and consultation of workers , and equal opportunities between the sexes both on the labour market and regarding treatment in the workplace . |
| 8 | Using census data , scores were derived for areas of the country either on the basis of ward or enumerator district ( with average populations of 5327 and 450 respectively ) and extra money is provided to practices with a higher proportion of factors perceived by a representative sample of doctors to equate to high patient demand . |
| 9 | The purpose of the research is to carry out a critical analysis of the literature both on the role of beliefs in social and political order , and on the principles of legitimacy of particular regimes , so as to develop a systematic theory about the legitimation of power . |
| 10 | The Labour party , which had forty MPs by 1914 , had established itself since the turn of the century largely on the basis of an electoral pact with the Liberals . |
| 11 | I was on Mill Street for a bit and some of the padlocks there on the fish shops were filthy — you had to be very careful to wash your hands before you had your refreshments . |
| 12 | If you have learned calligraphy in school or at Brownies you could write the words of the Promise neatly on the bookmark . |
| 13 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 14 | These similarities mean that in analysing the behaviour of bureaucracies we can draw on the parallels with the theory of the firm notably on the separation of ownership and control , and on the economics of internal organization . |
| 15 | Often it is possible to build the mains side of the circuit directly on the p.c.b . |
| 16 | The Unwins themselves — and it was impossible for anyone to grudge them their moment — said over and over that it was great , just great that one of the horses actually on the train had won one of the races , it made the whole thing worthwhile , and the whole party , drifting into the dining car in true party mood , agreed and applauded . |
| 17 | It is highly likely that one corner , edge or the centre of the object you have just drawn will need to be lined up with a corner , edge or centre of one or more of the objects already on the screen . |
| 18 | If you are on the water just before daybreak you will often get an idea of the cyprinid population of the water especially on the smaller drains . |
| 19 | Many people rightly think that they are far more important than many of the items currently on the agenda which are causing problems . |
| 20 | We then move one of the pencils upwards on the table , by about an inch or so , and ask again about the relative length of the pencils . |
| 21 | There could be nowhere better to experience the suddenness of the Pyrenees here on the French side . |
| 22 | You have to spend some proportion of the fee there on the rock . |
| 23 | Staff are taught how to deal with the public both on the phone and in person . |
| 24 | She turned them inside out , returned them to Dot to put on with the insides now on the outside . |
| 25 | And deal with the issue actually on the Economic Development Committee budget , because er , I mean in a sense , Economic Development Committee has n't always played the game , you never know when you 're being asked to identify target reductions by an authority , they have found those target reductions , so have the Planning Committee , so have Trading Standards . |
| 26 | If you need to change angle to land on the line , you take two slight passes , the first either stopping with the wood still on the back table , or starting with it already on the front table , depending which way you want to tilt . |
| 27 | He and Pilger were now at each other 's throats , with the showdown already on the horizon — the dummy edition of Sunday 7 December . |
| 28 | And the Turk 's Head stayed shut with padlocks on the doors and the windows boarded up , and Uncle Titch went away and no one seemed to know where he 'd gone to , not even William 's grandad , and no one seemed to know whether he 'd taken his fairground with him or whether it was still there behind the shutters and the padlocked doors in the dark rooms with the bloodstains still on the walls and floors . |
| 29 | Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker . |
| 30 | Steps should be laid from the bottom upwards on a solid base of concrete . |