Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 2 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 3 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 4 | In the shadows under some of the sheds , in the darkness behind crates , in some cases even on the dusty rafters under the tin roofs , the nomes passed it as best they could . |
| 5 | And she had n't honestly thought he had — until just a few hours ago on the beach when he 'd said that this was goodbye . |
| 6 | He had been asked to speak some months ago on the subject , ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ . |
| 7 | Nothing remained as it had been , except for some pictures aslant on the wall . |
| 8 | With Dennis just a few feet away on the stairs , it was the sexual equivalent of Russian roulette . |
| 9 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 10 | Larsen saw that the skylight through which they had entered was situated at its midpoint , its twin a few feet away on the opposite slope of the roof . |
| 11 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 12 | This is good news for all because with a few modifications hopefully on the same car I may be in with a chance for first prize next year where the prize money increases plus a trip to the States to see their ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ . |
| 13 | It seems probable that supplies of wire also came from the long demolished Cambridge wire works a few miles away on the River Cam , close to the old road to Dursley . |
| 14 | Prince Charlie 's servants ushering him urgently on to a boat , looking anxiously over their shoulders to check that no traitor has deceived them and given away the location of the Prince 's departure , when suddenly the Prince spies a dark hole some miles away on the side of a hill . |
| 15 | The Labour party judges such matters only on the number of employees and trade union members on the books , which is not the test that we shall apply . |
| 16 | I think it 's wrong because they , they 're putting these houses now on the market , the building societies |
| 17 | This may be explained by the fact that more hydrogen was used in a metabolism other than methanogenesis in these subjects even on the basal diet . |
| 18 | Although we shall postpone further discussion to later chapters , we want to put these questions firmly on the agenda . |
| 19 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 20 | On the technical side , remedial work is in many cases already on the way . |
| 21 | Indeed , it has been suggested that this is precisely how lion prides arose , many years ago on the prey-rich plains of Africa , where the surplus of food led to an unusual increase in the lion population . |
| 22 | Child bangs all toys repeatedly on the floor . |
| 23 | The Treasury hopes that the new rates of return will make those companies still on the privatisation back-burner , such as British Coal and British Rail , leaner and more efficient . |
| 24 | We provide the Party with its broad base , we keep it on its feet and when necessary we keep those feet firmly on the ground . |
| 25 | I do n't want you put those trousers away on the washing . |
| 26 | Some patients failed to record data on one or more days either on the written record or the electronic record ( table I ) . |
| 27 | The players froze , too , realizing that all escape from the yard was blocked by yet more plague-sufferers still on the bridge . |
| 28 | This meant that management were able to push decision making well down the hierarchy , giving those actually operating the CNC machines much autonomy , and expecting a high level of integration of the various functions such as quality control , work planning , programming of the machine , and machine setting to take place via those operatives actually on the shop floor . |
| 29 | However , Silsoe College has developed a system which , when commercially available , will be cheaper than those devices currently on the market , it says . |
| 30 | it 's ab I think I said to you we 've got fifty , a good fifty-fifty split , if maybe not slightly more women actually on the course . |