Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One moment of madness by Norwich goalkeeper Bryan Gunn resulted in the penalty which earned the Swiss the draw they craved , leaving the Scots to reflect on a missed opportunity to stay on the fringe of the qualifying race . |
| 2 | ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained . |
| 3 | The Spanish in South America had of course embarked on this course long before the British ; the changes of 1757–63 mark the point at which the British moved on an appreciable scale into the imperial activity of gaining new subjects in the process of expansion . |
| 4 | The February and October revolutions seem to have had the same effect on the Russian colonists as the expulsion of the British had on the American colonists in the eighteenth century — a removal of all restraint on the ambitions to despoil native lands and assets . |
| 5 | Many children have been injured in increasing numbers over the last year , and it was the idea of one school teacher in Oxford to bring a group of gendarmes over to England to teach children how the French behave on the roads . |
| 6 | Commercial insurance companies also grew and some doctors in poor areas ran their own sick clubs , to which the poor contributed on a regular basis to obtain free treatment when they were sick . |
| 7 | The promised re-routing on the Bromsgrove Line means that passengers make the connection at Worcester Shrub Hill . |
| 8 | Now the arcade will be knocked down with sheltered homes for the elderly built on the site . |
| 9 | Faye was lying on the outdoor lounger on the veranda as she had been yesterday , and she greeted Belinda briefly , her face creased with tension , before turning to Tom . |
| 10 | the secondhand snagged on the hourhand |
| 11 | The author has been directing the excavations since 1961 , and many of the dramatic finds on the site have been made by him . |
| 12 | None of the bereaved stood on the spot where their relatives died . |
| 13 | The problem here is that the transhistorical account of the Oedipal crisis and the consequent focusing on the eternal problems of the shaping of sex and gender already presupposes the existence of basic drives which are outside culture . |
| 14 | If any of the above apply on the first day of the PIW , do not pay SSP . |
| 15 | The shape of the inner depends on the design of the tent , but to all but lightweight buffs it can be the deciding factor of your purchase . |
| 16 | These can be read as standing stones , that you hear the Celtic lament on the sound track , and this piece again has a kind of environmental , ecological background that Judith was using , to do with how we live with technology all the time around us , and also juxtaposing that with , with the natural world . |
| 17 | If the insured insists on the original invoice being returned to him the invoice should be noted and stamped to show that the GA have included this invoice as part of a claims settlement . |
| 18 | Since the size of the residual depends on the efficiency of the firm , the monitor has an interest in ensuring that the firm is run as efficiently as possible . |
| 19 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |
| 20 | The footbed sits on a spring plate made of Daplen , reinforced with graphite . |
| 21 | She did not hear the quiet tread on the carpet , and when Rourke came and sat down beside her she drew in a quick , shaky breath , and let the brush clatter to the floor . |
| 22 | Yeah he goes no shitting allowed on the floor . |
| 23 | A lucky find on the edge of the Cotswolds is helping archeologists discover what life was like in Roman Britain . |
| 24 | A lucky find on the edge of the Cotswolds is helping archeologists discover what life was like in Roman Britain . |
| 25 | Only some of this range of procedures could be used in this feasibility study with a brief centred on the Cockcroft foundation list . |
| 26 | The dynamic duo were second in line and , unnerved by the wait and the antics of the interlopers , the McFall sewing machine did a brief turn on the delicate opening slab . |
| 27 | do a quick kill on the tarmac and see what goes on in the town and then they move on |
| 28 | But when this and fines imposed on others as well as those firms involved in the Folding-Carton industry conspiracy are calculated against the gross revenues and then standardized as a fine imposed on a person earning $15,000 annually , it is clear that they are relatively minuscule . |
| 29 | The budget , of course , also has a major bearing on the level of next year 's Poll Tax bills . |
| 30 | The girl wore no other jewellery — now , at least ; but he noticed that the long lobes of her ears were pierced , and that there was a slight graze on the side of her neck . |