Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 31 | Apart from his lectures at Woolwich , he delivered a course of lectures on the horse at Guy 's Hospital in 1817 . |
| 32 | I shall give a course of lectures on it . " |
| 33 | The reference to the ‘ friend ’ had to do with my association with the Speech Institute , where I was giving a course of lectures on what the Directress , Miss Marjorie Gullan , liked to call ‘ Modernist Poetry ’ ( for it was still considered that ‘ poetry ’ ended with the Georgians , whom we had all studied at school , and that Pound and Eliot were advanced experimenters ) . |
| 34 | A course of classes on firing and driving steam trains is being offered to complete novices . |
| 35 | I was also coauthor of the Black report on ‘ Inequalities of health ’ and continue to play a part in debates on that subject . |
| 36 | On a chest of drawers on a white cloth was another photo . |
| 37 | p. 167 ) puts it , ‘ building on the technological achievements of capitalism does not necessitate a defence of enterprises on the scale currently common in capitalist countries ’ . |
| 38 | To this latter end Mr Heseltine accompanied a busload of businessmen on a conducted tour of Liverpool . |
| 39 | It is so much easier to understand detailed and complicated financial figures when they are explained graphically rather than as a mass of figures on a piece of paper . |
| 40 | Classical elitists regarded Marxism as a religious faith , a prophylactic for the downtrodden proletariat which wrongly attributes all previous systems of elite rule to economic forces , and which ignores the inescapable evidence that organizational logic and the psychological dependence of a mass of citizens on leadership makes ineluctable some such structure of domination . |
| 41 | The ‘ Nye Report ’ of the American Committee investigating the munitions industry in 1935 printed a mass of documents on the entry of the United States to the Great War with the intention of influencing American policy . |
| 42 | It fell open , spilling out a mass of shells on her lap . |
| 43 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 44 | I remember one Sunday afternoon when I saw Zebbie the Coalpicker pushing a bicycle up the hill with a sack of coals on the cross-bar . |
| 45 | She set off , passing a field of cows on her left , until she reached a gate to a grassy track . |
| 46 | The Conservative Education Association strongly urged the government to amend the legislation so that a majority of parents on the register would be required to vote for opting out . |
| 47 | He has other litigation pending which , if successful , could give his supporters a majority of seats on the board . |
| 48 | They held a majority of seats on the National Executive Committee . |
| 49 | A majority of seats on the 71-member council were held by the Eelam People 's Revolutionary Liberation Front ( EPRLF ) [ see p. 37007 ] , which had been supported by the Indian troop presence . |
| 50 | This is especially true of the huge Konzerne which are the backbone of the German economy , and between the big three ( Deutsche Bank , Dresdener Bank , Commerzbank ) there is often a majority of votes on the boards . |
| 51 | The ruling Nepali Congress won a majority in elections on June 26 to the newly formed 60-member National Council , the country 's upper house . |
| 52 | Across the stream , tumbling fast on its way to Glyme and Evenlode , one sees a wide sedgy hollow planted with willow saplings , from which flocks of goldfinches rise with a flash of wings on sunny mornings . |
| 53 | He 's got a necklace with ears on it and he goes , ca n't you hear me ? |
| 54 | Tell me a story , my little brother used to clamour , tell me a story about knights on white chargers and damsels in distress . |
| 55 | Will the Secretary of State ask Major-General Burden to come to west Norfolk to have a look at houses on two RAF bases , Sculthorpe and West Raynham , which may close in the future ? |
| 56 | I always think of buttercups when I think of this time , for the fever hospital was at the end of a lane with meadows on either side , and these fields were bright with buttercups . |
| 57 | A ban on dogs on parts of Redcar and Saltburn beaches in Cleveland comes full into force this Bank Holiday weekend . |
| 58 | ‘ Build ’ is a strange , maverick record , assembled around a suite of songs on Side One , with the title track thrown in twice for good measure . |
| 59 | In Thai cookery , none of these ingredients is used alone ; indeed one of its special tricks is to offer a spectrum of variations on the same flavour . |
| 60 | Other passengers helped to erect a tent of tarpaulins on the deck and in it she gave birth to a daughter . |