Example sentences of "on [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 2 | Civil war probably halted the work , with the result that 20th century tourists can still stumble on the stone axes where they were lain , and can study the progress of carving from the first outlines to the almost completed megalith ready to slide down from this rocky womb . |
| 3 | Her soft leather shoes made little sound on the stone steps and she was so lost in her thoughts that she did n't hear other footsteps coming as rapidly towards her . |
| 4 | The impression of the wood grain is often preserved on the metal components where they came into contact . |
| 5 | Whole companies depend on the computer networks that it is designed to control . |
| 6 | For many people there is an aura of mystery about dealing on the money markets but it just involves picking up a telephone , ringing two or three numbers , asking the price of something ( the interest or discount rate ) , and buying from the cheapest source . |
| 7 | Summarizing the argument , let me say that there are good reasons , based on sociobiological insights into hunting , which lead me to suppose that the cooperation , altruism and mutuality demanded by social-hunting techniques in 4-foot high hominids lacking all modern hunting technology meant that only the sons were likely at first to start to exploit the immense reserves of game which our gelada-like ancestors saw all around them on the savanna grasslands where they lived . |
| 8 | ‘ Kalli , ’ wrote Denness in his autobiography , ‘ was so angry that he smashed his bat so savagely on the pavilion steps that it broke in two . ’ |
| 9 | You could put a glass of water on the window edges and it would not spill over . |
| 10 | However , the toxic effects of aluminium on fish are complex and , if the calcium content of the water is high , its ions are preferentially adsorbed on the gill surfaces where they block the absorption of aluminium ions and so reduce their impact ( Mason , 1990 ) . |
| 11 | However , it would be virtually impossible to force that onto people , on the branch officers and we recommend acceptance again with that qualification . |
| 12 | The ceasefire in the Iran/Iraq war has put a stop to the bloodshed on the border battlefields but there is no end in sight to the Iraq regimes internal war against the Iraq people . |
| 13 | As in the degenerate Ferrari-Ibañez solution , the singularity structure is thus complicated by the fact that the solution contains impulsive waves on the wave fronts and which form the boundaries of the interaction region . |
| 14 | What have been effects of the changes on the spending departments and their relationships with the Treasury ? |
| 15 | The removal of the requirement , while retaining the broad objectives , ended the controversy as a question of principle and placed the responsibility on the subject boards and their panels to monitor the ways in which institutions and their courses interpreted the changed policy . |
| 16 | We headed north to Port de Centuri on a trip that was only 35 miles yet seemed like 135 as a result of the sheer concentration needed on the mountain roads but it was worth every second because of the incredible views . |
| 17 | The Maclean coat of arms was repainted on the funeral banners and his shield . |
| 18 | The general customer paper is to build on the information structures that we 've got , and to actually make the information more available internally and externally to the authority , and also to make use of new technology wherever that is possible . |
| 19 | On the marker posts that you see , the next time you , you travel past them at ninety miles an hour if you get time to see them , there is actually , a picture of the telephone headset and a number under that headset there will be an arrow pointing you in the direction of the nearest emergency telephone . |
| 20 | This time I worked in a watercolour sketchbook , deliberately to achieve the softening effect that the paper would have on the marker inks as they spread into it . |
| 21 | He 's just given a couple of experimental tugs on the lifting slings and he reckons the bomber , with the help of the flotation bags , of course , is nearing a state of neutral buoyancy . |
| 22 | So if you were commenting on such a section as this , you would have a great deal of things to say on , just on the letter forms as they appear on the page . |
| 23 | Well trams Dave they do both , they go on the railway lines and they go through the town centre . |
| 24 | He was quite determined that I was going to try and escape , and followed so close behind me on the railway stations that I could smell his breath . |
| 25 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
| 26 | And they 've hopefully they 're gon na come and see us , to seek our advice on the design techniques that we 've used on East Coast Main Line , and the construction techniques with particular regard to bridges . |
| 27 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 28 | Her mind ran on the wedding celebrations as she moved to the window where a stray shaft of sunlight , escaping through the thick cloud , threw a beam across the parquet floor . |
| 29 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |
| 30 | William could see darker shadows moving on the garbage heaps and he knew these were rats and that the garbage was composed of rotting corpses and the rats were eating them , gorging on the swollen , putrefying bodies of the plague victims . |