Example sentences of "[det] on [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will build this on a ledge if one is conveniently available , but it is perfectly capable of fixing the nest to a vertical or even an overhanging wall of rock . |
| 2 | by the side of my head and she landed up , sort of like this on the floor but sh , apparently she did n't quite get that right ! |
| 3 | I — I found this on the floor after he 'd left the visitors ’ room . ’ |
| 4 | You 've got to tell all this on the phone and remember how important that is . |
| 5 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 6 | Some people take exception to this on the ground that it may imply that women generally have weaker characters and are less responsible for their behaviour . |
| 7 | People who are denied political privileges like this on the ground that they are not standard items naturally tend to reply that the charge is false — to claim that they are actually just as standard as everybody else . |
| 8 | Buy-out teams often resist this on the ground that the financiers would obtain their reward from participation in the buy-out . |
| 9 | I do not say this on the basis that I consider her approach irrational . |
| 10 | We oppose this on the basis that it reinforces our current oppression under capitalism — women being divorced from the means of production . |
| 11 | 5.9.5 On a permitted assignment to a private limited company and if the Landlord shall reasonably so require to procure that a guarantor or guarantors reasonably acceptable to the Landlord enter into direct covenants with the Landlord in the form of the Guarantor 's covenant contained in this Lease with " the Assignee " substituted for " the Tenant " There are various matters to be considered in connection with a permitted underlease ( not the least of which being as to whether the tenant should be allowed to underlet part or parts of the premises as well as to whole ) , eg : ( 1 ) In respect of any permitted underlease it is better to remove reference to the landlord 's approval of the rent reserved by it , and if possible ( particularly in a falling market ) to remove reference to the rent being no less than the passing rent under the lease , although the landlord will normally object to this on the basis that a low underlease rent could be used as a comparable on any subsequent rent review under the lease . |
| 12 | All this on the condition that you satisfy my curiosity later , of course . ’ |
| 13 | He based this on the belief that only where property considerations were absent — as by definition they were in the proletariat — could ‘ true sex-love ’ develop . |
| 14 | Journalists blame this on the fact that Mr Heseltine , David Mellor and the other ‘ dogs of war ’ who make for the best viewing concentrated on attacking Labour . |
| 15 | The government blamed this on the fact that only half the rates were paid by domestic ratepayers . |
| 16 | He reckoned that the population of the day numbered somewhere between six and nine hundred people , but he based this on the fact that the laird pressed together an army of a hundred men for the ‘ 45 , and according to Johnson ‘ the sixth part of a people is supposed capable of bearing arms ’ . |
| 17 | And this on an island where there appeared to be next to no gold and a few sparse cotton plants . |
| 18 | When the sun moved round she too had moved to the doorstep , her sleeves rolled up and concentrating half on the book and half on the remembered scene until her mother had arrived , walking up the street where they had both walked so many times before . |
| 19 | He 's always one of the last few on the range and he works on everything . |
| 20 | Er er er market forces everywhere er you you 'll see now it 's all for the market forces and if you have market forces a few on the top and all the rest at the bottom . |
| 21 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 22 | Well we had some on the garden but there 's no |
| 23 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 24 | Some select vantage points in the town , others in the hills up to Monte , some on the harbour or in the gardens and parks . |
| 25 | From ribbon roses and tapestries to a triptych , Rosemary has always had craft projects of one sort or another on the go but her interest in the world in miniature was re-kindled when her brother , mindful of the dolls-house she had lost years earlier , bought her a one-twelfth reproduction Georgian eight-roomed ‘ des . |
| 26 | ‘ Once the truth becomes apparent , nephew , ’ explained Richard of Gloucester , and I judge there to be no further danger of a rising to place another on the throne or appoint another as Lord Protector , Vaughan and Rivers shall be released — and no harm done . ’ |
| 27 | Report of the Royal Commission on Local Government ( 1969 ) ( Redcliffe-Maude Report ) ( among the research studies undertaken for the Royal Commission were one on Economies of Scale in Local Government , another on the Performance and Size of Local Education Authorities , and a third on Aspects of Administration in a Large Local Authority ) ; |
| 28 | The seven books of miracles are made up of one on the Glory of the Martyrs , another on the passion and miracles of St Julian of Brioude , four on the miracles of St Martin , and one on the Glory of the Confessors . |
| 29 | There is a clock on the cooker ; another on the video ; another on the dashboard of the car ; another built in to the pocket-calculator ; yet another on the end of the pen she uses ; another on the device that switches the boiler on and off ; yet another on the outside of the tall building Steven passes in his car on the flyover . |
| 30 | Even so , at £29.99 it does n't come cheap — try before you buy , and think very carefully before spending that much on a tool that 's only any use of driving and flight sims . |