Example sentences of "on [pron] the [noun pl] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily the ambassador had with him his master 's ring ; by the light of the diamond in it , he was able to see Roksanda , and he returned to tell Doushan that she was indeed a girl on whom the heavens might smile . |
| 2 | There was really only one ground on which the reformers could agree , in fiction as in fact : that cleanliness , above all , was the answer , and that the working class could achieve it in conditions where it was possible to make a genuine home . |
| 3 | Bills seeking to exclude various categories of placemen from Parliament were introduced on average once every session between 1692 and 1714 , and a general measure banning all placemen from the Commons found its way into the Act of Settlement of 1701 ( which laid down the conditions on which the Hanoverians would succeed to the throne ) , although this provision was subsequently modified before the Act came into effect . |
| 4 | There was ample material on which the justices could reach the conclusion they did . |
| 5 | You should also make a bed on which the flowers can lie from plenty of clean but crumpled tissue paper , also gently tucking it around the sides of the bouquet for added protection . |
| 6 | The postcard designs , on the theme of children 's rights , will be produced as a series of postcard-sized prints , on which the children will write their own appeals to governments on behalf of one of eight young people 's cases featured in Amnesty 's PoC Week ( from 18 October ) . |
| 7 | In the nursery school , both the researcher and the headteacher with her staff commented independently on what the returns might suggest . |
| 8 | Evidently there are some constraints on what the blackbirds will learn to treat as enemies . |
| 9 | It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation . |
| 10 | No limits are placed on what the participants can say , and the experimenter is able to control the complexity of the stimulus array in terms of the size and number of varying attributes . |
| 11 | ‘ It will put big constraints on what management can do , as well as on what the unions can demand , ’ admits Bill Ketchum , AT&T 's head of labour relations . |