Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the therapist is placing responsibility for change firmly on the client 's shoulders , reinforcing the notion that people help themselves . |
| 2 | But the evidence is incontrovertible , and Anselm based his later opposition to homage entirely on the decree of 1099 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | bit of Araldite just on the end of the thread is |
| 5 | JB : There 's a bit of painting there on the wall that I rather like — well in fact I do like it , it took 20 minutes . |
| 6 | Well I I know I 'm putting you under a bit of pressure here on the basis that erm it 's lovely to be able to have a choice . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What is of considerable interest and of value in assessing the rights and wrongs of it , is the fact that it was conducted from beginning to end entirely on the one issue , that of the sovereign rights of the inhabitants . |
| 10 | ‘ The dialectic ’ , according to Sartre , ‘ is both a method and a movement in the object ’ ( I , 20 ) : Marxism asserts simultaneously that both the process of knowledge and the structure of the real are dialectical , but it has never proved the former — basing its claim to truth instead on the ‘ dogmatic dialectic , of natural science . |
| 11 | She had been stopped and killed while cycling home from Byss to Hilderbridge late on the previous night . |
| 12 | The Director , Neil , explained to the company that many of the cast were involved that afternoon with a performance of Coriolanus downstairs on the main stage . |
| 13 | On the day agreed , travel from any station to Goschenen by rail on a special round-journey ticket , take over the reserved hire-cycle there , and set off on the journey of exploration downhill on the old cantonal road , taking as much time , and with as many halts , as suits you . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The size of the type itself varies enormously , 12 point Bookman looks much bigger than 12 point times even though they both occupy the same amount of space vertically on the page . |
| 16 | The case of Timothy Evans , however , who had been hanged in 1950 after conviction for murder partly on the evidence of John Christie , also convicted and executed for murder three years later , had convinced him that mistakes could occur . |
| 17 | If you want to watch the woodlice , rest the sheet of glass directly on the top of the pot . |
| 18 | It may be said that the Financial Secretary 's reference to the taxpayers being liable to tax as under the pre-existing law ( i.e. , under the Finance Act 1948 , section 39 as re-enacted by the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 ) shows that he was saying that the position was unchanged : nothing the Minister said could effect the proper construction of legislation already on the statute book . |
| 19 | Incredibly , it is almost impossible even to return a detective to uniform simply on the grounds that he is n't very good . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |