Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A GANG went on a killing spree , shooting five people dead , when a robbery attempt on a shop went wrong . |
| 32 | In a show of strength , she said a gang descended on the Market Trader on the Sunday wielding staves , pick axe handles and other weapons . |
| 33 | In a show of strength , she said a gang descended on the Market Trader on the Sunday wielding staves , and pick axe handles . |
| 34 | Thus a course based on a functional approach would take as its main starting point for language development what the learner wants to do through language ( Abbs & Freebairn 1977 ) . |
| 35 | FURY erupted in a border town in the Republic yesterday over a sentence imposed on a hit-and-run driver from Ulster who left a young Gaelic footballer dying on a country road . |
| 36 | One faintly ludicrous example is a 1993 case where the Court of Appeal said that a sentence passed on a Mr Fairman would ‘ indicate to other people who might be minded to set fire to armchairs in the middle of a domestic row that if they do , they were likely to go to prison for as long as two years ’ . |
| 37 | Apart from the word list , the comparative study reported above also included the signing of a text based on a picture book story The snowman . |
| 38 | Slow lorises use urine in a similar way and , in the laboratory , they will follow a trail smeared on the ground . |
| 39 | Completed engines are test-driven on a rig mounted on a Doane chain-driven bus which was acquired from California when Miaco was set up . |
| 40 | a speck bobbing on the waves : |
| 41 | A faith worn on the sleeve , to be seen and not hidden ; a faith that touches every detail of life ; a faith that knows how and what to celebrate ; a faith that knows how and what to celebrate ; a faith that earthquakes , terrorists , cholera , drought , power cuts , water shortages , poverty and bad housing will never shake . |
| 42 | A university depends on the community of which it is a part . |
| 43 | His terms of reference were to design a building based on the Cathedral of the Dormition in Vladimir and which would be structurally sound . |
| 44 | This is because the shearing force on a building depends on the building 's mass multiplied by its horizontal acceleration during a quake ; vertical acceleration is usually much less in quakes , and buildings are built to resist vertical forces anyway . |
| 45 | ‘ We know how a building works on a shake table . |
| 46 | In the case of Sheffield City Council v A.D.H. Demolition Ltd the Divisional court of the queens bench made it clear , for the first time in a reported case , that ‘ premises ’ within s.1(1) of the 1968 Act covered more than a building standing on a particular piece of ground , but did include a vacant site . |
| 47 | Learning is considered to be a consequence of either primary or secondary reinforcement , but the strength of a response depends on the level of drive ( or drives ) which is operating at that particular moment . |
| 48 | The debate which the Green Papers generated has been fully chronicled elsewhere ( Cownie , 1990 ; Donaldson , 1990b ) , but the response to the proposal that rights of audience should in future depend on certificates of competence in advocacy rather than membership of a particular branch of the profession met a predictably hostile response from the Bar and a response verging on the intemperate from the judges . |
| 49 | He also brought Greek artists to Rome , and was himself portrayed dressed as a Greek in cloak and sandals in a statue dedicated on the Capitol , where paintings of his campaigns were displayed . |
| 50 | The funeral liturgy included a mass for the dead , but to take full advantage of the memorial rite , masses had also to be sung on the third , seventh and thirtieth days following burial and , to complete the calendar of commemoration , the ‘ obit ’ : a mass sung on the first anniversary of the death . |
| 51 | You 've got a berth reserved on the train so you 'll be able to get some sleep once you get there . |
| 52 | Figure 5.7 is a schematic representation of the path of electromagnetic energy in the visible spectrum as it travels from the sun to the Earth and back again towards a sensor mounted on an orbiting satellite . |
| 53 | He was hanging out of a Lynx sitting on the side of this with this gun right ? |
| 54 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 55 | Arab voices recount the morning 's events : perhaps a Palestinian killed on the West Bank , or the latest tussle between Israeli and Palestinian delegations supposedly trying to make peace . |
| 56 | This can be compensated for by applying a correction based on the knowledge of the appropriate Mark-Houwink relations for each , the standard and the unknown , measured in the solvent used for elution . |
| 57 | Dan Technology reckons it will be forced to put up to £120 extra on the price of a PC depending on the configuration . |
| 58 | The value ( faith ) placed on a cheque depends on the depositor 's creditworthiness and on the standing of the bank on which the cheque has been drawn . |
| 59 | The final act of the evening was a sketch based on a management committee meeting of a fictitious oil company called SALMO . |
| 60 | He bought back as many as possible of those that his father had sold , and added a few more ; in 1971 he published a useful short account of the history of the collection , together with a handlist based on the latest critical opinion ; and he designed , and had woven in Spain , a carpet for the gallery , a room seventy-two feet long , with a pattern repeating the intricate stucco-work of the ceiling . |