Example sentences of "[noun sg] 's [noun sg] [conj] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wyvern without a rider can be employed either to launch an early attack on your enemy 's artillery or on a powerful character . |
| 2 | The entrance was through an iron gate some four feet in width — to the left was the caretaker 's house and on the right a small committee room . |
| 3 | Somewhat behind schedule , the 1991 volume appeared this May and includes a broad range of studies on works in the Gallery 's collection and on the history of the Gallery itself . |
| 4 | All the letters you type are stored in the computer 's memory or on a disk if the available memory is not sufficient . |
| 5 | The value ( faith ) placed on a cheque depends on the depositor 's creditworthiness and on the standing of the bank on which the cheque has been drawn . |
| 6 | Courses for multilingual groups ( eg for teaching English in the UK , Australia or the USA ) rely more on the author 's experience and on the collective experience of his colleagues . |
| 7 | Most of the southern states resisted this and in one particular state one that 's sprung to prominence in recent times , the State of Arkansas er and its capital Little Rock , the then state governor , who was n't then Bill Clinton but a man called Orville Forbus defied the supreme court 's order and on a historic day in nineteen fifty four a little troupe of black children trooped up to the local high school and were met by armed , armed police and turned away . |
| 8 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 9 | All this has a snowball effect on the day 's turnover and on the individual dealers ' commissions . |
| 10 | James Milroy 's ( 1976 ) phonological analysis , which provided an essential basis for subsequent quantitative phonological work , drew both on the analyst 's intuition and on the pilot-study data . |
| 11 | The ‘ three-triangle ’ gull arose from a student 's problem whilst on a course in Wales . |
| 12 | The discontent voiced by reviewers appears to focus on the implausibility of the novel 's plot and on the incongruity of the unsettling elements in it . |
| 13 | If he wanted to keep his horse away from a certain mare he had only to rub some of the liquid on the stallion 's bridle or on the mare to ensure that the horse would not go near her . |
| 14 | That is why the abolition of the 1908 Act was sprung on us , on British Coal 's management and on the work force . |
| 15 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 16 | But it may be that even where there is evidence that the patient was mentally unfit or too young , the doctor would still avoid liability , not so much on the basis of the patient 's refusal as on the proposition of Elliott that further treatment was useless , or that of Williams that life had become a burden to the patient . |
| 17 | A barn owl was nesting on a ledge on the side of the chamber in an old jackdaw 's nest and on the right is a bone sample from this position with the bones being protected by the nest debris itself . |