Example sentences of "on [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're not on the rota for cooking . ’ |
| 2 | The policies did not develop on the terrain of racism , however , but under the sign of culture . |
| 3 | Michael Lee checked the address on the scrap of paper and then the name plate pinned high to the wall of the tenement . |
| 4 | Its huge eyes fell on the scrap of paper on the floor . |
| 5 | During the second World War , Haworth took a completely different scientific route , working on the purification of uranium metal . |
| 6 | Instead he designed lamps on the spot and took them straight down into the mines to test them on the jets of methane . |
| 7 | Or from Jessie Stilwell in Occasion For Loving , who watches a white woman on the lookout for adventure fall in love with a black man , and who proclaims from her liberal stance : ‘ We do n't see black and white and so we all think we behave as decently to one colour face as another . |
| 8 | Zebra finches are always on the lookout for sex outside their ‘ marriage ’ . |
| 9 | A couple of wretches on the run , skulking in the bushes on the lookout for prey , would never have dared break cover and try their luck with us . |
| 10 | Please be on the lookout for talent in your classes and give serious consideration to auditioning yourself . |
| 11 | Owners , management and staff can play their part by being on the lookout for drunkenness , under-age drinking or drug-dealing . |
| 12 | Indeed , the boom in architecture and property development was so great precisely because nothing whatever diverted the flow of capital from what The Builder in 1848 called ‘ one half of the world … on the lookout for investment ’ to ‘ the other half continually in search of eligible family residences ’ into serving the urban poor , who clearly did not belong in the world at all . |
| 13 | The youth could n't have been an inch over five feet three , skinny with dark curly hair and flashing eyes that never seemed to be still , as if he were always on the lookout for trouble . |
| 14 | Harrison and Mehta are more convincing when they argue that one precondition for a long-term settlement in Afghanistan based on a stricter interpretation of non-alignment could be a broad Great Power or regional understanding on the neutralisation of Southwest Asia . |
| 15 | While the Soviet side presented views on ensuring security in Asia on a collective basis the Malaysians ‘ acquainted the Soviet side with the essence of the proposal on the neutralisation of Southeast Asia ’ . |
| 16 | You may also be able to store your notes on the equivalent of index cards on a computer ( in a database , or in word-processing document files ) . |
| 17 | Because of the obvious symmetry , we may concentrate on the singularity in region II . |
| 18 | This is followed by a report on the construction of lifeboats , then by one on the state of knowledge on radiant heat , again the third of a series , essentially reviewing recent work all over Europe ; then an account of the results of magnetic observations at observatories in the British colonies , another Humboldtian exercise ; a report on how Solar Radiations affect the Vital Powers of plants , grown under bell-glasses of various colours ; a catalogue of meteors ; a report on the surface of the Moon ; another on water-pressure machinery ; and reports on the equivalence of starch and sugar in food , on deviations of the compass in iron and wooden ships , and on the vitality of seeds . |
| 19 | She climbed up beside him on the ridge of rock . |
| 20 | She could see them standing on the ridge of hill that rose up behind Tara 's eastern boundaries , sending out the strong magic of the Samhailt to their creatures , so that the woods and the streams and the hillsides thrummed and quivered with the Mindsong . |
| 21 | If the memoirs of a Mr. J. Stanley Todd are to be believed , the employers first became aware of such a plan as a result of a chance encounter between himself and the union 's solicitor , presumably the " long-faced " Thomas Watson Brown , on the ferry between North and South Shields . |
| 22 | The river was white , and on the ferry in mid-stream , it seemed we were adrift in a cloud . |
| 23 | For television , in particular , where the text is itself both a theoretical problem ( where does a television text begin and end ? ) , and a banal critical object ( in comparison with the things people do with it ) , it may be inevitable that attention fastens on an ethnography of consumption rather than on the objects of production . |
| 24 | With the modals , the effect of representing the support in its place in time ( past or non-past ) as receiving the incidence of the potential event is to evoke actualization as dependent on the conditions of possibility , probability , etc. , expressed by the modal . |
| 25 | RIGHT : William Youatt , who frequently quoted the advice given to students at the College by Sir William Blizard in 1828 : ‘ Remember , gentlemen , that your reputation and success must be founded on the union of science and humanity ’ . |
| 26 | The northerners equally might look on the South with suspicion , or even downright hostility . |
| 27 | The Finnish Ministry of Environment has rejected the WWF 's proposal for a ban on the building of holiday homes in the area . |
| 28 | The use of experts should become part of the organisational culture — with emphasis on the building of expert teams if possible , ( ie. ‘ two heads are better than one ’ ) . |
| 29 | ‘ At about ten o'clock on May 20th , ’ he began , ‘ a man driving a petrol tanker on the north to south highway of Stowerton by-pass saw a car overturned and in flames on the fast lane of the south to north track . |
| 30 | Most turnpiking was done on the north to south roads , although some cross-country in-filling occurred later ; they were less new roads than improvements on old ones , designed particularly to ease the movements of goods and the aristocracy to their country estates . |