Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] on [art] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tall storeroom on the ground floor , just beyond the kitchen , stretched high up to the rafters and Helen knew it would take a sleeping gallery . |
| 2 | The firing has ceased as we get to our feet , the Germans stand up , their hands above their heads leaving the wounded Officer on the ground . |
| 3 | The wounded Commando on the ground , obviously in great pain , is an incentive for us to kill them . |
| 4 | A defence is provided in section 4(1) of the Act for cases in which ‘ it is proved that publication … is justified as being for the public good on the ground that it is in the interests of science , literature , art or learning , or other objects of general concern ’ . |
| 5 | She paused by the brown dog on the ground . |
| 6 | He waved weakly at the plaster dust which billowed at him , did not flinch when a tangle of wire , metal and concrete shattered to pieces against the far wall and dropped into the tangled wreckage on the ground floor below . |
| 7 | The old dog on the ground yawned and seemed almost to smile at them . |
| 8 | I worked like a Trojan , clearing , cleaning , painting and refurbishing , until the old solar on the ground floor of our manor house gleamed as fresh and as opulent as one of the great Halls of Cambridge . |
| 9 | They were convicted in the magistrates ' court , but appealed successfully to the Divisional Court on the ground that the question whether their obstruction had been reasonable had not been adequately considered . |
| 10 | PRE-FORMED SHAPE Use a long spirit level on and around the pool to mark an outline of the outer edge on the ground , cutting through any turf with a knife |
| 11 | This is not to condemn such initiatives but to indicate the gap between their objectives and the actual work on the ground . |
| 12 | In the interval there would be pressure on Scottish MPs to abstain at the second vote on the ground that their constituents were not affected . |
| 13 | Now that flies in the face of erm I think the er the real position on the ground , which is that a development could take place within that district , even where areas have not yet been mined , without any adverse impact on the either the coalfield or the new settlement . |
| 14 | Richie Richardson was in his first Test as captain , leading a team minus Richards , Gordon Greenidge , Jeffrey Dujon and Malcolm Marshall for the first time in a Barbados Test since 1983 and , with Gus Logie and Carl Hooper eliminated by injury , showing six changes to that in the previous Test on the ground against Australia a year earlier . |
| 15 | He threw himself forward , startling the beasts that were tearing at the prostrate girl on the ground , and arced his sword round with manic strength , tearing the blade through two of them with one swing . |
| 16 | They surged forward around the prostrate figure on the ground and then shrank back . |
| 17 | Lord Scarman , for example , rejected the GLC 's interpretation of the 1969 Act on the ground that it ‘ would make mincemeat of the fiduciary duty owed to the ratepayers ’ . |
| 18 | Masklin obediently put the black box on the ground . |
| 19 | Amongst these are the Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at Paris , and the terrible collision on the ground at Tenerife between Pan American and KLM Boeing 747s which to this day accounts for the greatest number of fatalities in a single accident . |
| 20 | 1990 also had the lowest snow cover ever recorded in the northern hemisphere , although it is unclear whether this was a consequence of the higher temperature , or a factor contributing to it , since the less snow on the ground , the more the planet 's surface heats up . |
| 21 | This had then led to the classical dogmas of the Trinity and the incarnation , which Harnack described in his great History of Dogma as ‘ the fruit of the Greek spirit on the ground of the gospel ’ , the product of the ‘ hellenisation of Christianity ’ . |
| 22 | The lowest usable FL on an airway will give 1500 ft clearance over the highest obstruction on the ground . |
| 23 | There is also the question of camera vulnerability through general usage , swinging around on a line and likely to be the first arrival on the ground when the kite line is reeled down . |
| 24 | But as the days went on she found herself working with him more and more frequently , delegating the routine tasks to the general office on the ground floor . |
| 25 | But the circulars reflect the changing picture on the ground , revealed in the national monitoring exercises conducted by the SSI and health regions . |
| 26 | The cottage consists of the living space on the ground floor divided up into small rooms , with an attic store for beans , grain , potatoes etc . |
| 27 | The only thing on the ground floor that was similar to a dressing-room was a gents ' loo , so we set about disguising its true purpose by dressing it up for the evening . |
| 28 | It is the only room on the ground floor which is not required for showing to Trust visitors . |
| 29 | The kitchen is the only room on the ground floor that gets regular use these days ( except , of course , for the round-the-clock activity in the laundry room ) . |
| 30 | He was at a loss to describe the sky , its lilac whiteness , so ineffable above him that it was like a secret waiting to be deciphered , reflecting everything and seeping into the thin mist on the ground . |