Example sentences of "on [art] [noun sg] that [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lorries bullied past on the road that had once been a tow-path ; pile-drivers banged on both sites of the river ; no boat could pass without hooting . |
| 2 | The player , who scored last weekend on his comeback against Partick Thistle , might dwell on the advancement that has recently been made by someone like Eoin Jess , however , and reason that he would be well advised to channel all his energies towards regaining the kind of status that had him as part of Scotland 's European championship squad eight months ago . |
| 3 | The only way to deal with him was to fall back on the technique that had always served her best . |
| 4 | The Council of Nicaea set its seal on the structure that had thus come into being : a network of urban bishoprics , grouped into provinces headed by a metropolitan bishop , usually in the capital city of the civil province . |
| 5 | Each house stood high on the hillside that sloped down to the lakeside road , with curling or zig-zagging driveways and thick modern stone walls . |
| 6 | They stood together on the hillside that rose up behind the Castle . |
| 7 | His bulk , thin but long , was hard for them to get up their spiral stairs , so they left him on the sofa below , on the floor that lay over an ironmonger 's shop . |
| 8 | We now turn to statements on the curriculum that came out of the debate . |
| 9 | We have focused on the evidence that demonstrates how the so-called Fox — jailed for life earlier in the year — continued to emerge in different guises during the rest of the year . |
| 10 | It was ironic , I thought , that for the expedition for Gareth and Coconut I 'd deliberately chosen to aim for a spot on the map that looked as remote from any road as possible . |
| 11 | Or if you 're forty percent you would have actually paid a thousand and sixty seven , but because you did n't pay that because it 's tax exempt you actually gained that amount of interest on the tax that stayed in with your account . |
| 12 | She crouched there , her eyes , enormous in her white features , fixed on the light that came steadily closer . |
| 13 | Each application places its own peculiar burden on the hardware that makes up a system . |
| 14 | The grounds of the appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) there was no sufficient evidence that the requirements of section 31 of the Children Act 1989 had been satisfied ; ( 2 ) the justices had made the order on the ground that to do otherwise would cause harm to the boy , when the Act required the justices to find that ‘ significant harm ’ would be caused before making the order ; and ( 3 ) the justices failed to state their reasons adequately . |
| 15 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 16 | Basically , you just plug in the board — a long , 16-bit card with a LAN cable connector on the end that pokes out from the back of your computer — and run the SoftSet set-up program . |
| 17 | When er when you spot that number on the list that comes out to you you can claim . |
| 18 | Our proposal was based on the fact that living outside would possibly be cheaper and , if they did n't agree to pay for me to do so , I would remain in the home as an expense to them anyway . |
| 19 | Indeed , the Ventura manual does n't even get around to mentioning the ruler until the end of section 5 in its manual and there are books on the program that do n't mention it at all ! |
| 20 | In the sixteenth century , Mary , Queen of Scots , conferred the honour of Royal Burgh on the community that grew up around the estuary . |
| 21 | The idea was to show that it was the bumps on the skull that lead on to glory . |
| 22 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 23 | The old-age pensioner could not hear it , but for everyone else it continued to throb with the promise of its message , drifting over Dynmouth on the breeze that blew gently from the sea . |
| 24 | Most relate to the use of custodial penalties and are based on a technique that dates back to 1949 when courts were directed to avoid passing custodial sentences on young adult offenders unless it appeared that no other method was appropriate . |
| 25 | But Tory leader on the council , Reg Hales , said : ‘ I can see no reason for spending this type of money on a problem that does not exist in Birmingham . ' ’ |
| 26 | It was one of those dreary days when it is as dark at noon as it is at dusk and the onset of the official darkness is as the rolling down of a blind on a day that has never properly existed . |
| 27 | Because the machine is produced and factory aligned as a double bed with the needles sitting in individual channels and because of the addition of the pushing down wheels , the tuck knitting is more easily made , with its stitch formation more accurate , without the lateral distortion than can occur within the stitches made on a machine that does not have needle channels . |
| 28 | The idea is based on a system that works well in France , where supermarkets have less of a stranglehold on food supplies and there is a tradition of small farm-ers taking their produce to town . |
| 29 | I never doubted that I was on a road that led somewhere . |
| 30 | ‘ We have spent thousands of pounds on a survey that does not supply us with the basic information that we need , ’ she said . |