Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , Rameau 's part-writing works perfectly well on period instruments , especially when we recall that at the Paris Opéra there were many more players on the outer than on the inner parts . |
| 2 | The treaty imposed more onerous obligations on the Scots than on the French , but in the spring of 1334 Philip VI invited David II to seek refuge in France , and Philip now began to step up the diplomatic pressure on Edward 11I . |
| 3 | The understandable concentration of research on the needy and on the failures of community support meant that little attention was paid to the positive contribution to the community made by many older people in the form of services to family and community . |
| 4 | ‘ I am a different person when I am at work on the Geest or on the heath or in the dunes . |
| 5 | The whole joint family is on the scene , bearing the onslaught of British society and groaning with agony as a result groaning on the one hand because of the intense racism and poverty it faces and on the other because of the confusions caused by the irrelevance in Britain of its most valued concepts . |
| 6 | Visiting yachts can be taken out of the water by the club 's ten ton crane and wintered on the hard or in the shed . |
| 7 | Almost all the maritime alga-lichen-moss communities are richer in species and more luxuriant in growth than their continental counterparts , more so on the outlying island groups than on Antarctic Peninsula , and more on the northern than on the southern peninsula . |
| 8 | Although Nizan was in Moscow at the very outset of the Stalinist purges , his gaze was focused less on the national than on the international scene . |
| 9 | Other modules and integrated products will roll-out on the 27th and over the course of the year . |
| 10 | Late on the 14th and during the 15th and 16th a further series of Atlantic troughs brought extremely changeable and , at times , very windy weather back to all parts . |
| 11 | Amnesty International 's report that this unholy alliance is responsible for at least 2,500 political killings in the past two years demonstrates that the Colombian authorities are more interested in waging a war on the left than on the drug cartels . |
| 12 | The usual convention , followed in this example , is to place the largest , slice on the left and for the other slices to be drawn in descending order . |
| 13 | Then , in the sixteenth century , what had been a military building was converted by the Albret dynasty , who were now the rulers here , into a sophisticated civilian one , suitable as a home for courtly pursuits — there are some fine Renaissance doorways and windows dating from that conversion on the left and at the far end of the very irregular courtyard into which you first go . |
| 14 | The parliamentary road to socialism has been the major tradition within Britain where the Labour Party has long been the dominant organisational force on the Left and amongst the working class . |
| 15 | Allusion to Matt. 5 : 45 , ‘ for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good , and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust ’ . |
| 16 | Tiles can be laid on the diagonal or in a basket weave design to produce handsome effects . |