Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | bit of Araldite just on the end of the thread is |
| 2 | Fifty thousand pounds extra for the voluntary sector at a time when a recession , when so called but completely un care in the community is putting a tremendous burden of responsibility both on the voluntary sector and on we know what a good job the voluntary sector do in this city thousand pounds is a small proportion of the money that they are actually requesting from us . |
| 3 | I did two rabbit sculptures for an exhibition in Yorkshire made of cow much on a metal frame . |
| 4 | And they 're intervening of course here on the side of a revolt which is going against the grain of erm of certainly for Russia of course of er of of the attitudes of the eighteen erm er eighteen teens early eighteen twenties . |
| 5 | Our courts have refused to consider the validity of an Act of Parliament either on the ground that Parliament had no power to pass it or on the ground that the statute had been improperly passed . |
| 6 | Health and safety monitor is a monthly newsletter that distils into 8–10 pages the essential facts about the latest statutes , regulations , directives , consultative documents , and codes of practice etc on health and safety issues . |
| 7 | ‘ And , ’ Galvone continued , ‘ are those agents allocated to treat liberal elements holding positions of influence yet on their way ? ’ |
| 8 | At the car plant in Kragujevac , 3,000 workers raised a loaf of bread halfmast on the pole where the national flag is usually flown . |
| 9 | Blanche retreated to her cubicle in the corner of the room , a knot of thoughtfulness still on her forehead , her movement followed by all the constables in the office who looked up from their conversations . |
| 10 | ‘ A week last Wednesday I dropped off a load of wood here on my way to Windsor races . |
| 11 | This situation — where one man , eminent as he is , nevertheless has to carry out a huge amount of work effectively on his own , mirrors the two previous demutualisations — is a situation many believe should not have been repeated . |
| 12 | Okay , it starts so what we 're talking there in text books you 'll find they define groups in terms of their structure and their composition and they 're the sorts of things that they usually pick out Okay , there 's a lot of work then on interaction in groups . |
| 13 | In the context of such revisions , the relevance of Bridget Riley 's work for a younger generation of artists is far less clearly documented than the impact and integrity of a singular vision , culminating in the bodies of work currently on show at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 14 | And indeed it was something very different — the bones of a human skeleton , a few pieces of clothing still on it . |
| 15 | Robert Asshe came home at the end of the evening performance , traces of grease-paint still on his face . |
| 16 | ‘ You ca n't take one decision on a particular area of reform in isolation because everything relates to some other aspect , so we are carrying the study of the different components of reform forward on a broad front . ’ |
| 17 | This particular trucker 's agent had gone out of business late on New Year 's Eve , one of a number of last-minute bankruptcies and mergers and a new agent would somehow have to be found to stamp his papers if Customs were to let him depart on the 20.15 sailing . |
| 18 | Seven pieces of documentation actually on this spreadsheet . |
| 19 | Also , they come of a class of person frequently on the move from household to household so a great deal of time was wasted by officials seeking to interview relatives who were in fact temporarily with other members of the family in another part of the country , where , of course , the authority I am representing has no jurisdiction . |
| 20 | Tom pressed the stethoscope-like circle of metal lightly on Faye 's abdomen , waited a moment , moved it slightly , and waited again . |
| 21 | the effects of high levels of inflation particularly on the costs of long-term capital projects ; |
| 22 | information , er , they did it on erm , one of the programmes they actually put a bucket of water actually on the equator , I do n't know if you saw it . |
| 23 | This spell may be used to freeze over an entire body of water anywhere on the battlefield , for example an entire river , a marsh , or a lake . |
| 24 | Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue . |
| 25 | But he was the adult involved , after all , he thought , eating a piece of chocolate hard on a particular tooth to get rid of some bitter aspirin lodged in a broken stopping . |
| 26 | At this moment , a knock , and with a premonition she went to open the door , a look of authority already on her face . |
| 27 | At the bottom , where the hotel drive met the highway , he halted and was watching the traffic on his left when Fabia , traces of amusement still on her face , looked to the right and suddenly felt all amusement vanish . |
| 28 | there was a lot of trouble early on this term when people could n't find stage boards , and like they were all missing and it turns out that they 're like the |
| 29 | From another point of view , Newton has reconsidered the whole debate in an attempt to assess the impact of size both on functional effectiveness and democracy . |
| 30 | Thus the philosophical Greeks and the industrious Chinese will do as instances of non-restriction only on condition that we allow ourselves a strangely overgeneralized view of the Greeks and the Chinese . |