Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [noun sg] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today the Victoria and Albert Museum stands on part of the renowned Brompton Nursery run by the talented garden designers George London and Henry Wise . |
| 2 | Two feet of silver Christmas tree , ( stolen from the theatre ) , stands on top of the T.V. surrounded by cards . |
| 3 | And your Mum stands on top of an ice-cream stan , van saying ten P a lick ! |
| 4 | AN AQUIFER often lies on top of a layer of less permeable rock . |
| 5 | This lies on top of a buttress cliff which forms the turning corner of the lake 's south shore , which here swings into a long south-pointing branch , the Urner See . |
| 6 | Both the 1431 monument to Bishop Richard Fleming in Lincoln Cathedral and that of 1442 to Sir John Golafre at Fyfield , Buckinghamshire , are of a type known collectively as ‘ cadaver ’ tombs , in which a standard effigy clothed as in life , lies on top of the tomb-chest , with a shrouded , sometimes verminous cadaver visible through the pierced side of the tomb-chest . |
| 7 | In the Trichoptera and some Monotrysian Lepidoptera ( Philpott , 1924 ; 1925 ) , the jugal area is produced into a lobe-like fibula or more elongate jugum which lies on top of the hind wing during flight but may be folded beneath the fore wing at rest . |
| 8 | A huge ‘ inverted funnel ’ of painted , coarsely plastered brickwork lies on top of an oak beam which acts as a fascia spanning a very broad fireplace , also lined with white-painted brickwork ( Plate 12 ) . |
| 9 | Zekai Tanyar writes on behalf of the Izmir Fellowship : |
| 10 | An alternative method for isolating advanced ICMs is to allow blastocysts to hatch and outgrow ( see Section 3.5.2 ) and then remove the knot of ICM cells that develops on top of the layer of trophectoderm outgrowth , using a mouth pipette . |
| 11 | The ICM develops on top of the outgrowth as a knot of cells which can be removed using a mouth pipette . |
| 12 | For example , his mother finds it almost impossible to prepare Veronica 's tea , which she likes to feed to the child , because John empties cupboards upstairs , turns on taps , climbs on top of the wardrobe , hangs from the banisters and shouts at the top of his voice . |
| 13 | Mr. Utley submits on behalf of the board that , on the true construction of section 18(1) , power to make an order for payment of costs by the board is only exercisable in favour of a person who is an unassisted party at the time when the relevant proceedings are finally decided , i.e. who is not then receiving legal aid . |
| 14 | The crosslinking reaction depends on addition of the methyl donor SAM ( Figure 5 , lane 4 ) and is partially suppressed by addition of sinefungin ( lane 6 ) , a competitive inhibitor of DNA methyltransferases ( 29 ) . |
| 15 | It is , of course , true that recognizing a link between Mrs Thatcher and The Iron Lady , for instance , depends on knowledge of the world rather than on textual competence . |
| 16 | This depends on interpretation of the statute . |
| 17 | Efficient N-Oct 3 expression in vivo depends on deletion of a large portion of the 3' untranslated sequence , implying that it is likely to be a determinant of RNA instability . |
| 18 | The meditations project an experience of alienation and deadness from which the meditator longs to be released ; he knows at one level that Christ 's death is the key to such release : But in this work such knowledge is not projected as that of experience , though it depends on recognition of the possibility of such experience for its validity . |
| 19 | In the forecourt of a pancake house the gigantic figure of a woman revolves on top of a pylon , picked out by spotlights , standing on tiptoe , high kicking . |
| 20 | In the arrangement in my act , the song floats on top of a piano sonata : it 's the Brechtian thing of throwing responsibility for the sentiment to your audience . ’ |
| 21 | We all know that ice floats on top of the pond , though crystals forming in any other liquid would sink to the bottom . |
| 22 | Ether is added which floats on top of the water and the cocaine transfers to the ether . |
| 23 | This invests on behalf of a number of British and American pension funds , including those of state-owned British Coal and of the United Nations . |
| 24 | THE time has come round in the European Commission 's calendar ( see page 5 ) when another set of committee meetings will set out to define yet another ‘ framework ’ programme , the commission 's name for the programmes of largely applied research which it plans and administers on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 25 | The best man replies on behalf of the helpers ( the bridesmaids ) . |
| 26 | It lands on top of the tights . |
| 27 | The following discussion draws on analysis of the BBC 1 Nine O'Clock News and ITN 's News At Ten bulletins by Cumberbatch et al ( 1986 ) , Jones ( 1991 ) and Masterman ( 1985 ) . |
| 28 | Within a few hours a scum appears on top of the wort and this rapidly builds up into a great yellowy-brown crust as the yeast turns the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide . |
| 29 | The operator 's hand rests on top of the mouse with the first and second fingers over its ‘ eyes ’ . |
| 30 | The magic starts with a further Grundfos whose inlet rests on top of the gravel bed . |