Example sentences of "on [art] [noun sg] [prep] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge black desk was flanked by a complicated system of telephones and intercoms ; on the top of it was one platinum de Chavigny pen and one plain white folder . |
| 2 | Then she saw a little glass table with three legs , and on the top of it was a very small gold key . |
| 3 | The legal rave called Woodstock 2 , promises to be an event on the scale of it 's mascot . |
| 4 | On the gate behind it was a large white notice in seven languages . |
| 5 | Gloucester city council meets tonight to decide on the fate of it 's controversial plans to raise council house rents by 45 per cent and to close Gloucester law centre . |
| 6 | The second photo shows the GWR loco on loan to the BCR whilst both of their engines were out of commission in 1930 , on the occasion of it being decorated at Craven Arms Station to transport the son of our local MP ( The More Family ) returning from his honeymoon . |
| 7 | Mark himself states that it would have been remarkable for Jesus to have found fruit on the tree for it was not even the proper season for fruit . |
| 8 | On the front of it was the inscription : To Dad , Love Mandy — xxxx It was all he had of her now . |
| 9 | It stays trained on the front like it was expecting something to happen , while we hear a recorded interview with some policeman who probably never left his desk , saying it is possible one of the residents knows rather more about this , and investigations are in hand . |
| 10 | four noughts on the end of it is n't it ? |
| 11 | She held it gently : the arm on the end of it was so thin . |
| 12 | It was a gold chain , and on the end of it was a picture of a very beautiful woman . |
| 13 | ‘ Eastern Suburbs had planned a big welcome for Martin and the match with Balmain had sold out on the strength of it being his debut . |
| 14 | No doubt there are a few places where Stornoway citizens get drunk at Sunday lunchtime , indeed , there are quite a few of them , but their doors are shut to the public ; sin goes private on the Sabbath for it is public morality which counts in Sabbath observance . |
| 15 | Nor was it properly explained to the modern British public , any more than it was in 1925 , why the ‘ discipline ’ could not be imposed direct on the economy without it being necessary to cling to another country 's shirt tails to do so . |
| 16 | Thus , a public assembly to protest , which on the face of it is lawful , becomes unlawful if it obstructs B's so-called ‘ right of way ’ . |
| 17 | Steve mentioned , you know , to put fifteen , twenty pounds a month into it erm and you said well we 'll come back to that later which I think on the face of it is probably er a right way of going about it cos you did n't get interrupted at that stage talking about a specific product so I think that was er that was good . |
| 18 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |