Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 2 | Though the invisible trade surplus has been marked down , there was encouraging news for the Government yesterday on the visible trade deficit . |
| 3 | Are n't the plans for the alterations also on the desk ? |
| 4 | Sir Percival Sharp fought for the AEC mainly on the first issue — but could find no support — so that the second , the potential extension of the power of central government , went largely unchallenged . |
| 5 | I wonder whether you can lay the blame for the soot entirely on your neighbour , as I would have expected any ‘ fallout ’ to have settled some distance away . |
| 6 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The Miletti family have made a statement in which they lay the blame for the murder squarely on the shoulders of the police , ’ the woman began . |
| 8 | I said I 'd be in any time after six that evening and he came for the key precisely on the hour . ’ |
| 9 | Vitamins , they said it was , to build me up for the flight home on Saturday . |
| 10 | The Agreement extends qualified majority voting ( through the ‘ co-operation ’ procedure [ see page 6 ] ) , to cover issues such as the conditions of workers , the information and consultation of workers , and equal opportunities between the sexes both on the labour market and regarding treatment in the workplace . |
| 11 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 12 | Richard Brightman , 71 , walked away unscathed from the wreckage of his red Ford Escort after the crash late on Thursday afternoon at Ruswarp . |
| 13 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales last night stepped out on the town together after a day apart on separate engagements in the South Korean capital of Seoul . |
| 14 | The body of the 56-year-old , whose name has not been released , was found in a house at Seedhill Road after an incident late on Thursday night . |
| 15 | British Airways added 2p to 280p following the go ahead on its link with Qantas . |
| 16 | In the past Gates had claimed to have heard rumours of the operation only on Oct. 1 , 1986 , less than seven weeks before it became public . |
| 17 | Using census data , scores were derived for areas of the country either on the basis of ward or enumerator district ( with average populations of 5327 and 450 respectively ) and extra money is provided to practices with a higher proportion of factors perceived by a representative sample of doctors to equate to high patient demand . |
| 18 | Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them . |
| 19 | Meisel 's criticism centres on the notion that the ruling elite is claimed to be a class ; this is already an important point in Pareto 's theory , and with Mosca the flaw becomes a fatal one , for he founds the power of the elite precisely on their greater organisational capacity , with necessary implications for their internal characteristics . |
| 20 | The purpose of the research is to carry out a critical analysis of the literature both on the role of beliefs in social and political order , and on the principles of legitimacy of particular regimes , so as to develop a systematic theory about the legitimation of power . |
| 21 | The Labour party , which had forty MPs by 1914 , had established itself since the turn of the century largely on the basis of an electoral pact with the Liberals . |
| 22 | He could feel the sweat of the hall still on him , cold now ; working up towards a shiver . |
| 23 | I was on Mill Street for a bit and some of the padlocks there on the fish shops were filthy — you had to be very careful to wash your hands before you had your refreshments . |
| 24 | If you have learned calligraphy in school or at Brownies you could write the words of the Promise neatly on the bookmark . |
| 25 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 26 | These similarities mean that in analysing the behaviour of bureaucracies we can draw on the parallels with the theory of the firm notably on the separation of ownership and control , and on the economics of internal organization . |
| 27 | Over half of the paintings now on display in Bassano were not represented in Pietro Zampetti 's pioneering exhibition of the artist in Venice in 1957 , and the same is true of many of the drawings . |
| 28 | And the picture which is usually the most eye- catching is of the champion halfway on his downswing with his wrists fully charged ( in a cocked position ) . |
| 29 | He even offered advice to Greenwich Hospital who owned much of the land nearby on how to manage it . |
| 30 | It must be clear that the spatial location identified by here in each of these expressions could be interpreted as a series of concentric rings spreading out from the speaker and encompassing different amounts of physical space , but the interpretation of the spatial range of the expression here on any particular occasion of use will have to be sought in the context of what the speaker is talking about . |