Example sentences of "[adj] of the [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen carp humping the surface over the top of this ledge and even leaping clear of the water on occasions , and at one point along the bottom of the shelf a dense mudcloud was invariably evident . |
| 2 | Captain Smollett gave orders , and the Hispaniola turned so that the ship would sail just clear of the island on the east . |
| 3 | For example : students hear only half of the dialogue on tape and have to supply the missing lines ; students take notes and then give an account of what happened ; students act out what happened from memory ; students answer questions about the dialogue . |
| 4 | Lucas Aerospace has teamed up with Harm 's US manufacturer , and would get half of the work on any Harms ordered for the RAF . |
| 5 | Libyan forces capture one half of the country on behalf of one side in the civil war . |
| 6 | Moreover , each patch has to be walked by two men : one providing cover for the other while he polices his beat , so that each spends only half of the shift on their particular area . |
| 7 | Pubs will be placed on 21 year leases and they will be free of the tie on amusement machines and non-beer drinks . |
| 8 | The above arrangements are an attempt to relieve some of the congestion on the roads at peak commuting times . |
| 9 | Like all the beet family , they bleed easily , and should therefore be topped leaving some of the stalk on the bulb and the roots should be cleaned but not trimmed . |
| 10 | What we did : Michelle 's hair was bobbed to the length of her shortest layers , leaving some of the tint on the ends . |
| 11 | Marsh had spent some of the money on buying a Jaguar , followed by a Porsche which had now been repossessed . |
| 12 | There is then not only a relative gap to be filled , in these new terms , but also , from the quality of some of the work on the arts carried out from other positions , a sense of challenge : indeed a sense that it may be above all in this still major area that the qualities of the kinds of thinking represented by the contemporary convergence stand most to be tested . |
| 13 | Perhaps he did some of the work on them , but I do n't believe he did everything sold under his name . ’ |
| 14 | The foregoing conclusions regarding the inability of the professional participant in the stock market to consistently produce excess returns is at variance with some of the work on the performance of brokers ' advisory services . |
| 15 | When she is ready to lay , the male clears away some of the sand on the top to expose the rotting vegetation , the female lays a single egg in it , and he covers it over again . |
| 16 | Ironically for a quarrel which had arisen as a result of a revolt against the colonial taxation imposed to increase the revenue and retrench some of the expenditure on the Seven Years War , the American war doubled national expenditure from £131 million in 1775 to £245 million by 1783 . |
| 17 | We have already seen some of the emphasis on this in the account Luke gives of Pentecost . |
| 18 | Jeffrey — who was watched by most of his sevens charges — spent some of the tie on the wing , but there was a customary rumbustious downing of Cassell , and the scriptwriters had the perfect finale as he notched the Scots ’ sole try , courtesy of a pass from his ‘ not so old ’ back-row pal , Finlay Calder . |
| 19 | If he wanted to keep his horse away from a certain mare he had only to rub some of the liquid on the stallion 's bridle or on the mare to ensure that the horse would not go near her . |
| 20 | Greenberg ( 1983 ) and a collection of papers in Greenberg ( 1987 ) review some of the literature on environmental epidemiology . |
| 21 | Reviews of some of the literature on tests of the rational expectations hypothesis using direct survey data can be found in chapter 1 of Sheffrin ( 1983 ) , chapter 3 of Hudson ( 1982 ) and part III of Pesaran ( 1987 ) . |
| 22 | There may well be a greater stress on family commitments and we reviewed some of the evidence on sharing of tasks in section 6.4 . |
| 23 | Like erm , but , like Miss says some of the stuff on it was so rubbish , I mean like , there was somebody she knew , who their son failed the eleven plus twice and now they 've got their P H D |
| 24 | When a bitch is spayed , some of the influence on the bladder neck by female hormones is removed . |
| 25 | The move follows six months of negotiations during which the City of London , which owns some of the land on which the polytechnic is built , stuck out for a rent that one expert said was three times the market value ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 7 ) . |
| 26 | The smell of the fungus attracts flies and when they land they collect some of the jelly on their legs , which they then carry away , so spreading the fungus . |
| 27 | As a member of the Select Committee on Sittings of the House , I give nothing away — because it has been said in public session — when I say that consideration must be given to the views of the Lord President and the shadow Leader of the House about the timetabling of legislation , following some of the thinking on the subject of the Select Committee on Procedure . |
| 28 | Some of the programme on Saturday , November 28th has been given over to residents of several old people 's homes and approximately £500 worth of tickets for the 2.00pm service have been donated to the residents . |
| 29 | Moreover , the Soviet negotiators had clearly hoped to sell some of the sugar on the world market , which would have been highly advantageous to them , but the Cubans insisted on the insertion of a clause prohibiting re-export to their traditional markets . |
| 30 | ‘ But touring with ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ it would be great to do some of the show on my own and some with a band . |