Example sentences of "[noun pl] on [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numbers used to label the aperture settings on cameras therefore form a series of numbers with a ratio of 2 : 1 , 1.4 , 2 , 2.8 , 4 , 5.6 , 8 , 11 , 16 , 22 , 32 . |
| 2 | Swaying gracefully up the steps on heels even higher than Mrs Frizzell 's came Mrs Stych . |
| 3 | First , it will concentrate on the images on coins rather than the inscriptions . |
| 4 | Leaving the ever-increasing fitness demands on players aside , the chief weakness of the Sicily schedule was that it mixed a pool-based round-robin format , which creates a precise and fair hierarchy , with a league system , which reshuffles the pack and can end up rewarding skilful planning rather than success on the field , before finally moving to a knock-out format . |
| 5 | For the first performances , Handel assembled one of his most star-studded casts , and the resultant demands on singers today are formidable . |
| 6 | Slender , thin-backed books with titles , books on buildings , books on ships , on bridges , books on end , books on wardrobes never dusted , books on gardening books . |
| 7 | However , under U.S. GAAP unrealized gains and losses on contracts yet to expire are measured at each balance sheet date and included in the results of operations for the period then ended . |
| 8 | But four months on villagers still ca n't understand what happened . |
| 9 | All the lights were white golfball shapes on stands about four feet off the floor . |
| 10 | ‘ We strongly suggest that if you open a new course you want to get feet on greens quickly and that means building pay as you play courses . ’ |
| 11 | A visit to the castle at Loule , where the tourist information office is set in the remnants of the castle walls between two towers , elicited the answer to my enquiry whether there were Roman or Moorish sites on farms nearby . |
| 12 | The decay of older loyalties with the onset of the colonial era provided a new social context in which these limitations on entrepreneurs no longer applied . |
| 13 | They may not be significant — they may not even be there — but , if they are , the danger of overlooking them is not to be ignored in their effects on others also . |
| 14 | Yet the consequences of these decisions , as in the ophthalmology example mentioned above , can have profound effects on patients both inside and outside the practice . |
| 15 | The rules covering inquests on deaths abroad were changed following the death of Helen Smith , the British nurse who died in Saudi Arabia after falling from a balcony . |
| 16 | In company law it can equally be argued that by casting trustee-like duties on directors so that they are required to act only in the interests of the shareholders the law aims to ensure that the will of the shareholders is implemented . |
| 17 | Not many years ago , with income tax ranging up to 98% , and death duties on legacies as much as 75% a testator 's family was allowed to retain only 0.5% of the fruits of his labour . |
| 18 | Articles on exhibitions sometimes glide away into topics which have little to do with the art on display . |
| 19 | Apparently they had road blocks and patrols on roads all over the area , and they searched the grounds of the house . |
| 20 | Students of literature who used concordance packages on mainframes commonly asked the computer to produce for them a complete print-out of their chosen concordance , and then took it home to consult in the traditional manner , turning the pages of a sheaf of paper . |
| 21 | is perhaps the most personal selection of Raymond Williams 's work , including his picture of Cambridge University from the viewpoint of a Welsh , working-class student before the war ; his vivid cameo of F R Leavis ; reflections on his contemporaries , and on writers who were important to him — among them Solzhenitsyn , Lukacs and Brecht ; and his sharp judgements on subjects as varied as Monty Python , the Falklands War and classical Latin . |
| 22 | This , together with house price rises since 1980 , indicated that houses were being sold to buyers on incomes substantially higher than the average in Allegheny West . |
| 23 | Suppliers grumble that GE keeps their margins on contracts so thin that they have to cut corners to fulfil them . |
| 24 | Already many grass-roots activists in the US are attacking the biggest banks on issues as diverse as their continued business with South Africa , their indirect exploitation of the Third World 's people and environment , their systematic refusal to grant home loans in inner-city neighborhoods and their close ties to union-busting corporations . |
| 25 | Admittedly , dealing with a woman as dominating as Catherine de Medici and a family as powerful as the Guises , which all three had to do , would have put strains on personalities far stronger than Francis II , Charles IX and Henri III ; but the fact remains that while , unlike Mary , they did not show indifference to their kingdom , they were exactly like her in failing to assert their control of it . |
| 26 | Dogs on leads please . |
| 27 | Hang on — was n't this very magazine making several strong points about dogs on ladders just last month ? |
| 28 | Attacks on gypsies elsewhere in Europe are currently grabbing headlines . |
| 29 | Police say it 's a licence to assault , but magistrates insist they do take attacks on officers seriously . |
| 30 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |