Example sentences of "the [noun] [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These measures may have unsettled the crowds gathering on the campuses but did not stop them . |
| 2 | Note that the G appearing on the right-hand side of ( 7.16 ) is the usual gravitational constant and not some contraction of a tensor . |
| 3 | He raised his gaze to the middle distance and caught the red button eye of the dinosaur squatting on the check tablecloth beside the vase of dahlias . |
| 4 | Apart from the notion of transition outlined above , and unlike the Hallidayan approach , where the verb is generally considered part of the rheme , FSP theory assigns thematic or rhematic status to the verb depending on the context and the semantics of the verb itself . |
| 5 | I think all you need is a libretto translation in the case of opera and translations of Lieder , and brief biographical details in the case of the artists performing on the discs . |
| 6 | It tasted good , but the only resemblance to tea was in the tealeaves floating on the top of the liquid . |
| 7 | The trial judge sensibly obtained the agreement of counsel for the defendants to the case proceeding on the basis of defined issues . |
| 8 | He was some three shots clear of the field standing on the 14th tee , but then lost this advantage after he recorded a double-bogey and two bogeys in the last six holes . |
| 9 | He died early one morning with our arms around him , and with the ducks quacking on the beach outside and his dogs lying at the foot of his bed . |
| 10 | Another technique consisted of the salesman standing on the table as he called a client . |
| 11 | Examples are the mass flux in pipe flow ( Sections 2.3 and 2.7 ) , the torques acting on the cylinders in rotating Couette flow ( Sections 9.3 and 17.5 ) , and the heat transfer in convection experiments ( Sections 14.4 , 14.8 and 22.2 — particularly Fig. 22.1 ) . |
| 12 | When Ross Lovegrove walked into the office of the Hermés design director he spotted a memo from the chairman lying on the desk . |
| 13 | There have been 47 cases of the cable chafing on the power steering pump pulley on the right-hand drive vehicles manufactured from May 1992 up to chassis number p818990 , but no reported accidents , the company said . |
| 14 | It was possible to spend all day wandering happily round and round the camp musing on the possibility of a hole cut in the wire here , a tunnel dug there , or an assault with scaling ladders somewhere else . |
| 15 | As for the prevalence of sentiment — Jacobite , Anglican , non-Juring or simply straight Tory — he found that , given a minimum of competence and any serious support from France , the Pretenders should have sent the Hanoverians packing on the heels of James II . |
| 16 | Danny McStay and Welland Chu are the researchers working on the project . |
| 17 | I lay very still , the hair rising on the back of my neck as something nudged me through the canvas . |
| 18 | Turkish officials made references to a projected special relationship with the 42,000,000 Turkic peoples in the Soviet Union ( in Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Turkmenia and Uzbekistan ) , although in economic terms the states bordering on the Black Sea were of more immediate interest to Turkey . |
| 19 | Many of them had seen it at the synagogue meeting on the previous night , but now in the daylight they were able to examine it more closely and exclaim at its resplendence . |
| 20 | She dropped her eyes to the desk , staring unseeingly at the ledger lying on the polished wooden surface . |
| 21 | Tillyard ( 1918b ) has studied the hairs occurring on the wings of the most primitive groups of Holometabola . |
| 22 | As part of the employee briefing on the move , the company arranged week-end coach trips to Bristol for employees and their families to view housing and facilities in the area . |
| 23 | Not just the skiing equipment but the sweater leaning on the anorak , the goggles leaning on the nose and the woolly hat leaning on your ears . |
| 24 | Not our our owns but erm other people and they could see them the next day when the steamers went to the north isles for the er the cockerels or the hens sitting on the top of them . |
| 25 | These carry information concerning the light falling on the various regions of the retina . |
| 26 | It is interesting to note that the genome of phage φ29 is linear , and its superhelicity is likely to arise mainly as a consequence of the proteins acting on the DNA , such as RNA polymerase ( 37 ) or the viral protein p6 ( 38 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I ran into Phil 's house and saw the granddad lying on the floor with a hole in his leg . |
| 28 | In 1981 Reagan appeared regularly on television to advance the claims of his economic policy , and several of these were impressive performances with the president drawing on the skills acquired during many years in the business of communications . |
| 29 | Behind the bus station , through the glass doors of a luxury hotel , you could see the feluccas passing on the river . |
| 30 | The latter is the department bordering on the metropolitan area of San Salvador and the FMLN forces dominate an area of approximately 350 square km around the Guazapa Volcano , only some 30 km from the capital . |