Example sentences of "and on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sense of mystery and futility is imparted by events at the Grange and on the Ridge , and that sense is heightened by what takes place in the city when the party catches fire and rioting breaks out . |
| 2 | These are books by middle-aged semi-Scots who have chosen to publish accounts of their early lives which lay stress on the troubles they experienced , on the troubles inflicted , within their respective environments , by poverty and servitude , and on the responsibility of relatives for some of what the writers had to suffer . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Fernanda Eberstadt has been practising as an expert on captivity and escape , and on the beliefs established for later generations by the children of Israel . |
| 4 | And on the facing page he breathes some more of Shakespeare 's words : ‘ To return to Gavin 's or not . |
| 5 | For drama school it is the first taste of things to come and on the whole a good thing . |
| 6 | When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms . |
| 7 | Catholics and protestants became more and more segregated by school , as the Roman catholic bishops sought to bind in their flocks from outside influences , on the one hand to protect them from proselytism , and on the other to use the schools as a vehicle for the maintenance and development of faith . |
| 8 | Night , he wrote , work on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass , day , sleep and write this freewheeling commentary on the entire project , viz. on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass . |
| 9 | Night , he wrote , work on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass , day , sleep and write this freewheeling commentary on the entire project , viz. on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass . |
| 10 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 11 | I concentrated on the implications of Einstein 's General Theory , he said , and on the pathos of his later career . |
| 12 | And on the bus : Every morning he comes out into the garden with his cup of tea and stands there , looking round . |
| 13 | And on the stone staircase , a few steps up from Bert 's cubbyhole , Flossie barking asthmatically from inside , lay Bunty Baird , head down , her pretty limbs ugly in disorder within the flimsy disarray of her kimono , one white sandal still on her foot . |
| 14 | A success both in front of the box and on the critics ' pages CHANCER created a vogue out of a rogue — the identity of Stephen Crane ( Clive Owen 's role ) catching the attention of the country and reflecting the social changes in the early 90's as the enterprise culture began to take a tumble . |
| 15 | It was the beginning of the summer term and on the noticeboard was that term 's list of the morning lectures for the first-year undergraduates . |
| 16 | A little way along , I saw a path running up the bank to my left and on the top of this bank there was a rather eccentric mock-Gothic porchway . |
| 17 | Different varieties flower at different times ; you will find them described as early , mid-season or late flowering in catalogues and on the labels on most garden centres . |
| 18 | Room must be left on the upwind side in case there is a cable break or premature release , and on the down wind side in case the wing touches and causes a swing that way . |
| 19 | There are notes for pilots considering becoming private owners and on the types of glass fibre gliders which are suitable for early solo pilots . |
| 20 | But guard against getting overtired on the one hand , and on the other against become sluggish from too little exercise . |
| 21 | Down on the grass and on the bare earth under the chestnut tree , dozens of people now squatted at their ease among the sheep and their droppings , drinking from skin water-bottles and smaller stone ones of ale or whisky . |
| 22 | The house was much too small ; people made a deep ring round the couple and Cameron , standing on the cobbles among piles of bar and rod iron , the children perched on tree-stumps and on the lower branches of the very old yew tree which made a dark thicket with its multiple trunks . |
| 23 | He looked round the cool gloom of the store , rows of small barrels and big jars clad in wicker , standing on shelves and on the floor , inside thick windowless walls . |
| 24 | Recall that it was three-year-olds who had difficulty with Flavell 's appearance-versus-reality problems ; and indeed further experiments have shown that there is a strong statistical correlation between performance on the appearance-reality and on the false belief task . |
| 25 | But when the edge had dulled it was no problem and on the harder wood a burn mark could be left in a few seconds if very little pressure was applied with the cutter just spinning on the surface . |
| 26 | What is available to you will depend on your needs and on the policy of the local authority . |
| 27 | And on the whole achieved at less cost than earlier schemes — with less disruption , too , especially on the East Coast main line . |
| 28 | Class 321 units continued to be delivered at the rate of two a week , and on the Isle of Wight ‘ new ’ 1938-built former London Underground trains began to be introduced to replace coaches dating from 1923 . |
| 29 | He also laid down certain rules fur balance , on the need to bend the knees always as a preparation for any kind of step followed by a stretch , on the vital use of the head and on the need fur the co-ordination of all parts if the desired movements were to be precise and elegant . |
| 30 | He made one as if he should try and comfort her , but turned away , walked upstage and on the balcony with his back to the audience , raised his arms widely only to drop them helplessly . |