Example sentences of "the [noun sg] with [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , while restrictive licence conditions which might be justified under the present quota system might lose their justification if that system developed into a more integrated system for the management of fishery sources , the same would not be the case with restrictions on the registration of vessels . |
| 2 | He later explained that he had not wished to distract the Colonel during the fighting with enquiries on its actual progress . |
| 3 | Concurrent validity was determined by comparing scores on the ITPA with scores on existing language tests and the linguistic portions of achievement tests . |
| 4 | One field away , two men were walking across the plough with lurchers on leads . |
| 5 | Falmouth 's main shopping street runs narrowly and crookedly along the waterfront with shops on both sides but with occasional tantalising glimpses of the harbour . |
| 6 | He had a two-stroke lead over playing partner Frost with two holes to play before the defending champion pipped him at the post with birdies on 17 and 18 . |
| 7 | There was a long buff envelope in the post with OHMS on it and I thought , ‘ Oh , my God . ’ |
| 8 | To his right wing the Zoo stretched away in the distance ; Three Island Pond he recognized as a paler shape than the rest with lights on the paths around to mark it out ; the Cages were in front of it with several Men around them . |
| 9 | Seven jobs have gone at the Open Software Foundation as a result of a realignment which sees the consortium effectively become a two-headed beast — one turned on the operating system , the other with eyes on interoperability technologies , which includes everything else . |
| 10 | Some return to the surface with scars on their snouts which suggest that they have been battling with creatures possessing suckers 13 centimetres across , and squid beaks even bigger than that of the Norwegian giant have been found in their stomachs . |
| 11 | Two years later , the Philadelphia Stock Exchange ( PHLX ) also began to trade share options , and the next wave was in 1982 when CBoT introduced options on US T-bond futures and PHLX introduced options on dollar denominated currencies , followed smartly by the CME with options on its stock index future and on currency futures . |
| 12 | Of course the trouble with boats on a rising tide is that when the tide goes out a lot of those boats are left high and dry . |
| 13 | And then there would be a big , what we called a big shafting , going along the the side of the barn with pulleys on it . |
| 14 | Cohn set up a spy system at the studio with microphones on every sound stage which were connected to a speaker in his office . |
| 15 | ‘ The thing about recording is , you always find bits of paper in the studio with lyrics on which people have left behind . |
| 16 | He is first described as ‘ The dwarf with hands on backwards ’ . |
| 17 | The AUT 's governing council , meeting in York , agreed to support a National Union of Students proposal for a one-day shut-down of universities in protest at the scheme with teach-ins on campuses . |
| 18 | Inside , the 'heads skip round the arena with bells on their ankles , and wave fluorescent plastic tubes in the air — but sadly , tonight the Grateful Dead never manage to make it past the mildly interesting stage . |
| 19 | Inside , the 'heads skip round the arena with bells on their ankles , and wave fluorescent plastic tubes in the air — but sadly , tonight the Grateful Dead never manage to make it past the mildly interesting stage . |
| 20 | The idea with Classics on a Shoestring was to achieve maximum working flexibility . ’ |
| 21 | Yugoslavian Foreign Minister Loncar visited all the principal capitals of the region with proposals on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement , essentially reflecting ideas which Algerian President Chadli had advanced in December [ see p. 37927 for Saudi refusal to discuss these ideas with Chadli ] , envisaging guaranteed Iraqi access to ( and perhaps a leasing of ) Warba and Bubiyan islands and talks on financial issues with Kuwait after an Iraqi withdrawal . |