Example sentences of "on the [noun] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE past couple of years has seen an explosion in the number of computing books on the shelves of even the most humble book shop . |
| 2 | ‘ A shot from Charlton , especially if hit on the run from outside the penalty area , is one of the great events of the sport , not because it is rare , which it is not , but because the power of it is massive and it erupts out of elegance , ’ Arthur Hopcraft , who followed Charlton 's career from shy schoolboy to elder statesman , wrote in his classic account of the English game , The Football Man . |
| 3 | The permission given by the 1969 Act for no-fault divorce was driven as much by a profound rethinking of the sources of morality by clerical and academic opinion as by the determined pursuit of individual self-interest on the part of either the population at large or lawyers in particular . |
| 4 | ‘ What do you find difficult about your teaching role ? ’ produced an almost unanimous response : lack of time on the part of either the consultant or the house officer , or both . |
| 5 | A second likely reason for the ineffectiveness of project work is that the activity itself does not have a clearly defined purpose on the part of either the teacher or the pupil . |
| 6 | On the part of both the government and the guerrillas , the behaviour is not very good for democracy . |
| 7 | Later , much later , they breakfasted out on the balcony with only the Portuguese gardeners near by to disturb their peace . |
| 8 | We drifted down past Magdalen Fellows ' Garden , borne along on the current with just the odd stroke to correct our course . |
| 9 | This family is characterised by the disk being ill-defined or constricted with the arms appearing to continue to the centre of the disk in some genera ; the disk may be covered with skin or a dense coating of granules ; the long and narrow radial shields ; the reduced papillae on the jaw with only the apical papillae well developed and the oral papillae small , like enlarged granules ; the genital slits situated vertically on the sides of the disk ; the arms long and covered with skin or granules . |
| 10 | Besides revealing that many of the collection 's frames were damaged when National Gallery conservators removed paintings for examination , the students say that a plan to store works not included on the tour in either the National Gallery or the Philadelphia Museum of Art would bring the foundation 's art classes to an end . |
| 11 | Safety requirements demand , among other things , the installation of multiple back-up systems for emergency cooling of the reactor , as well as constant checks by regulatory bodies on the standard of even the smallest weld . |
| 12 | The Prudential was assessed to stamp duty on the consideration for both the land and all building works on the grounds that the two agreements were a single commercial transaction , the substance of which was the sale of the developed site to the Prudential by the developers . |
| 13 | This entails a review of the impact of the Scarman Report , and other important policy documents , on the agenda of both the Government and other political institutions . |
| 14 | Is it seriously suggested that the entire elderly population should be regularly screened , that a clear majority should be followed up monthly for six months , and that half should be treated for life on the basis of even the most optimistic interpretation of the trial data ? |
| 15 | In the middle of the century there was no agreement on the formulae of even the simpler chemical compounds , and many chemists felt that an atomic theory was merely a distraction : that chemists ought to stick at the ‘ equivalent weights ’ which gave accurate recipes , and not bother with attempts at explanation . |
| 16 | There had been a perceived increase in youthful crime in the early 1930s that seemed to correspond to an increase in youth unemployment — and again we can reflect on the familiarity of both the problem and the complaint . |