Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the function keys on a manual till include : |
| 2 | Since it is couched in similar terms to its predecessor in its reference to ‘ threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , ’ at least some of the case law on the previous section is still pertinent.a But in several respects , it is crucially different from that familiar standby of public order law . |
| 3 | Mr. Walker : I can understand the Hon. Gentleman expressing his concern about the opting out of hospitals in rural Wales , having looked at some of the press comments on the proposals . |
| 4 | Nor are the inner cities the only areas suffering from economic decline and physical decay — the coalfields of County Durham and South Wales come to mind , and the problems in some of the overspill estates on the outskirts of the cities may be as great as those in the centre . |
| 5 | DG is funding some of the development work on Medley , something which IBM is also expected to do . |
| 6 | Paul told afterwards he had caught some of the quality fish on hemp seed . |
| 7 | He plays us some of the interview material on the ‘ Talking Blues ’ LP , staring into the distance while it fills the plain office . |
| 8 | Under its Antartex banner , EWM has also acted as main sponsor for some of the horse trials on the Scottish circuit . |
| 9 | Maintenance engineers right and check over some of the process plant on the press floor . |
| 10 | Some of the puncture marks on his body were obviously self-inflicted . |
| 11 | Pure linen , woven and manufactured in Ulster , hand crafted bogwood , copperware , china , porcelain , bronze and jewellery are just a few of the quality products on sale . |
| 12 | We identify the sound-image ‘ tree ’ by differentiating it from ‘ free ’ , ‘ try ’ , and so forth ; equally the meaning of the concept tree depends entirely on its difference from such related concepts as bush , plant , etc. , that of the concept orange on its difference from yellow and red . |
| 13 | The problem is that when I try to play games under Windows , such as the Winchess program on November 's Mega Disk , I can only see half of the screen . |
| 14 | As between an innocent third party purchaser such as the building society on the one hand , and Mr. Steed on the other hand , his failure to take the ordinary precautionary and prudent step of informing his mother of her appointment as his attorney requires , in my judgment , that the building society be preferred . |
| 15 | If the protests that have been made about cuts in training places on Merseyside are simply synthetic protestations , as the Minister said earlier , can he explain why projects such as the Hexagon project on Merseyside face closure ? |
| 16 | As long as I was forced to stay awake I shrank from any stimulus to sensation ; now I relax and welcome the fading sensations until they are extinct , and for a few minutes will notice impressions of which I am normally unaware , such as the twilight images on the edge of consciousness . |
| 17 | ( 7 ) the consideration of liaison between the project and other provision , such as the county courses on microcomputers . |
| 18 | For much of the construction work on these lines he had the assistance of William and Murdoch Paterson , whom he took into partnership in 1862 . |
| 19 | The political character of much of the union movement on the European continent also provoked a counter-response by the non-socialist forces in society , particularly the Catholic Church , which proceeded to establish rival workers ' organisations . |
| 20 | A quick whizz around the impressive Les Clayes-sous-Bois research and development facility at Versailles , near Paris , France , where much of the multi-processing work on the RS/6000s will be carried out , revealed a number of interesting software projects afoot . |
| 21 | John Mackinnon , who did much of the pioneer fieldwork on orangs and gives an entertaining account of his studies in In Search of the Red Ape , theorizes that the early orangs ranged the ground in large bands like gorillas , protected by their giant males . |
| 22 | Harrison and his team at Rochester Row did much of the pioneer work on Salvarsan and their discoveries were used with great benefit during the First World War . |
| 23 | Practically all of the capital outlay on building costs etc. needs to be incurred at the start ( we have to have ‘ show ’ units and functioning leisure facilities in order to sell at all ) . |
| 24 | Robertson realized that the improvement of communications throughout the area was a pressing need , and became involved in the construction of many of the railway lines on both sides of the Welsh border , including the North Wales Mineral Railway which served the Brymbo ironworks , the GWR Shrewsbury to Hereford line , the LNWR central Wales line from Craven Arms to Llandovery , the Ruabon to Dolgelly line , and the branch to Bala and Blaenau Ffestiniog . |
| 25 | Many of the seafront hotels on the long esplanade have become nursing homes or been demolished for cliff-like apartment blocks with their individual balconies looking out to sea . |
| 26 | I had long been in favour of CVRs but like many other people I was very dissatisfied with the quality , particularly the clarity of the only really useful part of the recording — that from the area microphone on the first channel . |
| 27 | ICE-T and BODY COUNT , who replaced Faith No More as the opening act on the Metallica/GN'R US tour , have been bumped from the Los Angeles area dates . |
| 28 | Hewlett-Packard has also signed its first licensee for its OpenODB object-oriented database management system : Informix Software Inc is to integrate OpenODB it with its Informix OnLine relational database , making OpenODB available on several of the hardware environments on which Informix runs . |
| 29 | Without putting any of the test crew on the rail , she shot along close-hauled at a full seven knots in a true wind speed of 16 knots and shed only 2½ knots during our smarter tacks . |
| 30 | You can see from the screen dump that there are mixers aplenty to choose from , and a sound sampling utility that can accept sounds from any of the input ports on the card . |