Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] on [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , she was so far ahead of the majority on points that she could afford to let up a bit .
2 That course would doubtless prompt an application by the P.C.A. to set aside the subpoena on grounds of public interest immunity .
3 Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy .
4 The religious metaphor is never very far from the pen of the writer on railways and stations .
5 First , members of the public , as local government electors , have the right to inspect , question and object to the accounts and to question and take issue with the auditor on matters arising in his or her report .
6 Various possible approaches to course syllabuses were outlined in 1967 , and a paper submitted in that year by one member of the Board on deliberations that had taken place in the Library Advisory Councils indicated that ‘ they would welcome the development of CNAA first degrees in librarianship or in librarianship associated with other disciplines ’ .
7 The influence of the cinema on children and young people provided a sharp focus for these anxieties , which had been aired since the arrival of the first silent movies .
8 I have been trying to make it more commercial and wearable for evening looks , and the staff are now using the technique on clients especially for weddings . ’
9 ‘ We had fed the heart on fantasies
10 Filming began again in the afternoon on scenes starring Gregor and actress Anne Kristen .
11 The homeward return time at Dover is in the afternoon on Thursdays .
12 She did n't spend the money on clothes — he suspected she just liked to see it mounting up as an escape fund .
13 In fact she was a trickster who transferred billions from the national treasury to her personal bank account and then squandered the money on forgeries .
14 The basis of the privilege on grounds of law went back many years .
15 For instance , what to do when the defibrillator requires intermittent cranking up , which is sadly often the case on wards off the beaten track .
16 Whether strictly order twenty eight , er order sixty , rule twenty eight for erm applies in this case is not amount entirely clear to me because the obligation to lodge a bill of taxation under rule twenty nine provides that he must begin proceedings for the taxation either within three months after the judgement direction or order of the terminations enter sides are otherwise perfected , and that is presently on it 's face which seemed to be debited May of nineteen ninety three and er accordingly that is right , it 's not in fact been any failure to comply with order tw order sixty two , rule twenty nine , one , and that has n't been disregarded , it 's not entirely clear to me that erm there is any matter come from paragraph sub paragraph A of rule twenty eight , four , it may already require , still nevertheless erm fall within paragraph B of rule fo , erm there has in fact been a delay in lodging the bill of costs for taxation , the delay being really and truly , the delay in having the order of Mr Justice perfected and it seems to me that although in chasing matters generally speaking it is the court will itself draw the order , nevertheless where er it seems to be clearly in this case would contemplate it that counsel would sign a minute erm that counsel do sign a minute and that minute has been signed having forwarded by the defendants solicitors to the defendants solicitors seems to me it must be the case that erm the obligation to , as it were , forward that minute to the court , it is an obligation which would lie upon the plaintiffs solicitors and it maybe said that erm there has been delay and erm on the best it should be lodged with the court sealed , er shortly after it was received and that therefore on that footing there has been delay lodging the bill of costs for concession , er Mr , doctor does n't seemed to be take any point in relation to that er because it 's not in his interest to do so , it seems to be that he does have to say if it has been delayed , with an order of twenty eight rule four that 's a rule , rule , rule twenty eight er four if he is to have interest disbarred and er Mr er he 'll apparently have the matter of read before the taxing master , it seems that the taxing master did not chew any sympathy with that er suggestion , that er there was in fact no breach of the requirement rule twenty , four , Mr he said , very probably , that erm , look on text upon it , he really is concerned to erm have this case dealt with as you put it on the merits , it seems to me it 's in the interest of all parties that erm I should deal with the case on merits have on the assumption erm that er , that that was lodged properly I think , I ca I , a matter of which found within rule twenty eight , four and that the taxing officer give our interest under that rule .
17 On Sept. 26 an appeals court had rejected the defence 's plea to have trial judge Thomas P. Jackson removed from the case on grounds of bias .
18 On days 6 and 9 fluid transport was significantly decreased in the jejunum compared with control values whereas this was not the case on days 13 and 19 after inoculation .
19 If he puts a thing in a box , it means you really have got to read this , and worry about it , but I think he 's fairly happy with the progress on police training and police communication arrangements .
20 ONE of the biggest changes in US defence policy under Clinton will be the ending of the ban on gays .
21 Some remarks ridiculed President Bill Clinton 's plan to lift the ban on gays in the military , the newspaper said .
22 The ban on activities of the republican Communist Party ( CP ) , which had been lifted on Sept. 23 , was reimposed on Oct. 2 at the second vote in the Supreme Soviet .
23 The reclaiming of the trade by the men was nevertheless to become a permanent reality , as an editorial in The Vote had correctly predicted.73 It is possible that if the war had not intervened , the men would in any case have been able to secure the prolonging of the ban on women beyond June 1916 .
24 Nevertheless the bill repealed the ban on women flying combat aircraft for the navy and air force , and created a commission to recommend whether other combat roles , including those of the army , should be opened to women .
25 The 5,000 British expatriates , many of whom have worked for up to 15 years in Libya , see the ban on flights as just another of the travails of doing business in an unstable but lucrative market .
26 in the soap opera ‘ Dallas ’ ( a popular move ) , and by composing an impassioned letter in favour of lifting the ban on homosexuals in the armed forces ( unpopular , and later withdrawn ) .
27 The ban on imports would remain .
28 Reuters news agency reported on Feb. 20 that according to local press reports , the Taiwan government had agreed to lift the ban on investments in China by subsidiaries of Taiwan banks and financial institutions in third countries .
29 At a stroke he was lifting the ban on radios and newspapers .
30 The ban on communists , however , was overturned at a special session of the Supreme Soviet on Sept. 23 , after which Aslonov resigned and the former Tajik Communist Party first secretary , Rakhman Nabiyev , was unanimously elected to replace him .
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