Example sentences of "[adj] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Langdon , of Park Avenue , Redcar , was working for subcontractor Tees Marine on an oil rig module , and was seen to collect the material , but never returned . |
| 2 | She remained entirely controllable on the helm and felt rock steady even in the gusts on a reach . |
| 3 | But narrative on the scale which it demands is impossible in a book like this . |
| 4 | The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it . |
| 5 | From 1893 he served on a departmental committee to review the collection and publication of factory statistics , and from 1895 on a committee of inquiry into anthrax among wool sorters . |
| 6 | ‘ I want a patch-through on a secure line to Vice-President Odell , ’ he said , ‘ and I want it now . ’ |
| 7 | Yesterday we saw some criminals being paraded in public on a lorry , and being ‘ criticised ’ by the crowd . |
| 8 | You get to it by being a Prestel subscriber , so you also have access to everything else that is public on the system ( and it can be a particularly cheap way of buying air fares , for example ) . |
| 9 | Mothers shaved the heads of their daughters and then made them undress to take cold baths in public on the Hill of Calvary . |
| 10 | There are 4 , 700 more prison officers , with 1,600 on the way , and 3,000 fewer prisoners , so the prison population has risen by 7 per cent . |
| 11 | Since it is usual in training to make circuit patterns from 800 feet or so , inexperienced pilots are often seriously put out if they find themselves unable to do this on a field landing . |
| 12 | The food , fancy French , all mousses and coulis , stuffed this on a bed of that , is now rather dated — stuck in a late-Seventies time-warp . |
| 13 | It does not take much to imagine the effect of this on a group of already dispirited players , all of whom held him in the warmest affection . |
| 14 | Finding helpers willing to act as car park attendants may be difficult if you intend to do this on a regular basis . |
| 15 | Researchers who were interested in people 's views on blood sports could either hang around waiting for respondents spontaneously to bring the subject up , or they could ask directed questions about this on a structured questionnaire , taking care to ask everybody exactly the same question . |
| 16 | Put this on a baking sheet and cook in a preheated oven 180 °C ( 350 °F ) gas mark 4 for 12–15 minutes until golden and then cool . |
| 17 | Get a chocolate egg about six inches high and place this on a wall made of cake . |
| 18 | So you write this on a piece of paper and give it to your daughter or son . |
| 19 | Was this on a freelance basis , or full time ? |
| 20 | Although she was astute enough to understand this on a logical basis , it took several sessions of counselling and therapy to convince Myra 's subconscious mind that she was in no way to blame and that she had behaved naturally and in total innocence . |
| 21 | Provided your building comes with an adequate floor , you can stand this on a row of substantial timbers , or on a number of carefully laid paving slabs . |
| 22 | So I started doing this on a sexual basis . |
| 23 | Only in 1532 did he alight on the policy of the royal supremacy : the idea that the English monarchy had enjoyed an unlimited authority over the church within its realm for centuries and only now needed to start exercising this on a more regular basis . |
| 24 | In the continuing pursuit of all things portable , I 'm writing this on a Macintosh PowerBook 160 . |
| 25 | To do this on a significant scale he had either to supersede another lord or outrank him so that the following of one lord became a component in the retinue of a superior lord . |
| 26 | I write this on a lovely , hot , sunny day and wishing I was on holiday . |
| 27 | Program this on a computer with which you are familiar . |
| 28 | It will build this on a ledge if one is conveniently available , but it is perfectly capable of fixing the nest to a vertical or even an overhanging wall of rock . |
| 29 | The effect of this on a nearby fish is devastating . |
| 30 | I 'm not used to using this on a circle . |