Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , Bede had a direct influence on the Carolingian renaissance of the ninth century through his pupil Egbert , who became Archbishop of York and trained Alcuin , who under Charlemagne founded the Frankish schools that did so much to stimulate learning on the Continent . |
| 2 | Originally , the Romans had a complicated system of dividing the month , with Calends ( from which our word ‘ calendar ’ is derived ) on the first , Ides on the fifteenth of March , May , July , and October and on the thirteenth day of the other months , and Nones occurring eight days before the Ides . |
| 3 | In his home at Denbigh Terrace , Richard Branson flicked off the television , breathed deeply on the tangible aroma of excitement in the air and allowed a broad smile to crease his face . |
| 4 | Four Australian cricket-writers and one Australian team manager will never forget the day at net practice in Christchurch on the 1985–86 tour of New Zealand when , during a routine discussion with the journalists on preparation for a one-day match , he made mention of the fact that he intended to resign if his shattered team did not win the match the following Saturday . |
| 5 | Bill Mishkin has an office on the 54th floor of the RCA building . |
| 6 | He tossed the first stone at the small wooden framed bedroom window on the lefthand side of the cottage , keeping a wary eye on the righthand window at the same time . |
| 7 | They hurt , sometimes excruciatingly , but on the deepest level of all , it is somehow ‘ all right ’ ; and out of the praise and gratitude and joy that spring from it when we can grasp it , I think that we may give ourselves permission for the more mundane , but wonderfully healing emotion of happiness . |
| 8 | The practical consequence of the range of laws we have described was that , by 1979 , the freedom to engage in peaceful protest in this country was traditionally dependent not on the law but rather on the benevolent exercise of discretion by those in power . |
| 9 | Work is being undertaken on the feeding behaviour of ungulates and how feed quality affects optimum body size , a topic of both ecological and agricultural importance . |
| 10 | Then she saw that beneath her on the sacred site of Callanish all of the men and the eagles who had fought had disappeared . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's proved that he is capable of scoring goals and although he can improve on the defensive side of his game his passing skills are a tremendous asset . ’ |
| 12 | Alan Walton 's refreshing undergraduate text on the atomic constitution of The Three Phases of Matter , as the title has it , is now in its second edition . |
| 13 | " Well then , Sara , " Slater said , leaning one-elbowed on the shoulder-high wood of the mantelpiece . |
| 14 | It can help you concentrate on the inner content of the music ; and I have always been able to establish a real sense of what the musicians are doing . |
| 15 | Glaxo believed it was unnecessary to do this because cells sitting on the inner surface of the gut wall do not divide . |
| 16 | A. vole mandible with gnaw marks on the body of the mandible ( ×8 ) ; B. other half of the same mandible with the posterior part destroyed ( ×9 ) ; C. proximal femur with the head and shaft extensively gnawed ( ×19 ) ; D. femur head enlarged ( ×45 ) ; E. proximal end of humerus with the head destroyed by gnawing and individual gnaw marks visible on the inner surface of the bone ( ×30 ) F. enlargement of the individual gnaw marks , which are approximately 20 microns in breadth ( ×188 ) . |
| 17 | Those which normally live on the inner part of the reef flat ( see below ) are more resistant to emersion than those normally under vigorous wave action : some species can survive emersion for periods up to three hours . |
| 18 | There is Robert Skidelsky 's history of the second Labour government and Stuart Ball 's excellent account of the Conservative party in opposition , a book which casts an enormous amount of light on the inner life of the party . |
| 19 | In some insects a flexible plate or prostheca , fringed with hairs , is present on the inner border of the mandible . |
| 20 | These cells will later lay down the skeleton and move on the inner wall of the blastula to take up a characteristic ring-like pattern . |
| 21 | Shaping like this can also be done on a plain ‘ V ’ neck cardigan by working the cable next to the front edge on the straight and leaving the pattern as it is during the shaping , working the decreases on the inner edge of the cable pattern where it will not show . |
| 22 | He took the ten radials , previously selected , and projected a system of ‘ express arterial roads ’ , including a new outer ring ( the D ring ) , placed on the inner edge of the green belt . |
| 23 | Ophiopristis may be defined as follows : the jaw longer than broad with one or two apical papillae flanked on each side by 4 or more rounded or slightly pointed oral papillae which form a continuous series with 2–4 slightly larger tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore , these scales may arise on the adoral shields , in some species there may also be papillae on the inner edge of the first ventral arm plate , the adoral shields long and narrow separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields covered and inconspicuous ; tentacle pores of the arm not open but armed with one or two leaf-like or scale-like tentacle scales . |
| 24 | Erm the criterion one that has been avoi has been described as a avoid the greenbelt to reflect the possibility or the theoretical possibility that er a new settlement could be er provided shall we say erm erm n on the inner edge of the greenbelt , if the scenario arose that the final definition of the York greenbelt did allow for that possibility to emerge . |
| 25 | Behind his Oakley sunglasses his eyes were focused on the inner drama of his own existence . |
| 26 | " The Triumph of Horus over his Enemies " is shown in relief scenes with inscriptions on the inner face of the great girdle wall of the Ptolemaic temple of Horus at Edfu . |
| 27 | A scene on the inner face of a plate in the upper middle of the aspect illustrated shows a procession of spearmen on foot and mounted warriors accompanied by three trumpeters assisting at what appears to be the sacrifice of a prisoner . |
| 28 | She had also noted patches of discoloured skin on the inner aspect of both ankles which itched . |
| 29 | He thanked the boy , then went out into the gathering darkness and across to the trodden path on the inner perimeter of the camp . |
| 30 | I stepped back to avoid the overpowering closeness of his face and a little man on the inner circle of the crowd startled me with a friendly smile , but I could not find him again when I looked for him . |