Example sentences of "on the [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well I thought I 'd put horseradish on the whatsit one week . |
| 2 | Out on the ridge that night he decided there was nothing for it . |
| 3 | They were now on their way to join 1st Commando Brigade on the ridge this side of the River Orne , on our left nearest to the coast and probably next to No. 3 Commando . |
| 4 | Sally-Anne had known nothing of this — only that standing with him on the ferry that day was sheer enchantment . |
| 5 | We 'll be at the Columba Hotel , and on the ferry first thing Monday . ’ |
| 6 | The drillers on the 150ft high derrick , are working around the clock 7 days a week . |
| 7 | Israel is a small country on the south eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea . |
| 8 | notes with alarm the increasing delays in the taxation of criminal legal aid fees on the South Eastern Circuit by the Central Taxing Teams ( CTTs ) caused by the failure of the Lord Chancellor 's Department to provide adequate staff ; and |
| 9 | These included the cancellation of Recordership sittings on the South Eastern Circuit , correspondence from the School of Law at the University of Warwick upon a research proposal into procedures for challenging confession evidence and reviews of the annual report to the Supreme Court Procedure Committee 1990/91 and the report of the Legal Aid Board to the Lord Chancellor relating to legal aid aspects of multi-party actions . |
| 10 | On May 21 , David Dahms , area services manager on the South Eastern area , and vice president of the SSA , went to the BBC headquarters in White City , London , to present a cheque for £295 , OOO on behalf of the company to television celebrity Sue Cook for the Children in Need Appeal . |
| 11 | Later examples had boilers without a steam-collecting dome , which strengthened the boiler shell and which characterized all his later locomotives , as well as those of his brother James on the South Eastern Railway and of his son Matthew on the Hull and Barnsley . |
| 12 | A well appointed new hotel , located on the South Eastern outskirts of the City of Coventry , on the A45 . |
| 13 | The school is situated on the south western edge of a medium-sized country town . |
| 14 | All I knew was that North Yemen was on the south western coast of the Arabian peninsula , that the language was Arabic and that the country had been closed to the West until 1962 when a revolution overthrew the ruling Imamate . |
| 15 | There is at the present time a park and ride facility on the south western side of York er on the er Tadcaster Road and er another one is being proposed on the eastern side at Grimston Bar adjacent to the A sixty f Excuse me , A sixty four trunk road . |
| 16 | Woodley et al ( 1992 ) , in their study of non-completion rates in Scottish universities based on the University Statistical Record , provide evidence that non-completion rates for ‘ mature entrants ’ , at 20.9% , are higher than those for all students ( 15.4% ) . |
| 17 | Based as it is on the north western edge of Snowdonia the centre is an ideal base for all kinds of climbing . |
| 18 | For instance , Malam Yaroh of Zinder in Niger maintained his own agents on the north African coast in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 19 | The Elector Counts of Ostland live on the north eastern border of the Empire beyond which lie the wild and dangerous Troll Country and the Northern Wastes . |
| 20 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 21 | At the end of last year there was good news for drivers from the Ilford/Romford area when the new Lea River flyover on the north eastern fringe of the Isle of Dogs opened . |
| 22 | The people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire . |
| 23 | ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined . |
| 24 | How does farming on the north eastern lowlands of Buchan differ from that further south in Lothian and Fife ? |
| 25 | That new settlement is while it 's within the Leeds district , is on the north eastern perimeter of that district . |
| 26 | The strategies , and the weapons designed for them , that were acted out on the north German plains bore a marked resemblance to the actual experience of the second world war . |
| 27 | When I moved to Cornwall to live with them first , their home was a bracing , windswept ( take your pick ! ) clifftop cottage at Widemouth Bay , three miles from Bude on the North Cornish coast . |
| 28 | Attempts were made by Wulfhere to detach the kingdom of Lindsey from its dependency on the north Anglian king , for Chad probably and Wynfrith ( 672-c. 674 ) certainly , successive bishops of Lichfield , exercised episcopal authority over the Lindesfara ( HE IV , 3 ) and the political foundations for this may have been laid in the 660s . |
| 29 | While on the Justice Department 's payroll he had named 216 ‘ Communists ’ ; in 1950–1 he had been employed by the FBI — at $70 a month — to inform on the US Communist Party ; and one of his early ( 1952 ) journalistic outings had been to write ‘ Reds in khaki ’ for the American Legion Magazine . |
| 30 | Commenting on the US federal government 's increasing involvement in education , Atkin ( 1980 ) observed a shift in national priorities during the Kennedy years , which influenced the nature of that involvement . |