Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The association of thrust faulting on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau with normal faulting in its highest regions has been interpreted as suggesting that it has attained its maximum elevation , and that consequently it is tending to grow outwards rather than increase in altitude . |
| 2 | A light , high tang of fuel lay on the air . |
| 3 | Some people have great difficulty in solving problems and making decisions and waste a great deal of time ruminating on the same thoughts without ever coming to a clear conclusion . |
| 4 | Therefore the model which recognises the regeneration of hydrocarbons to occur on the attainment of the previous maximum exposure temperature is a likely description of actual processes . |
| 5 | The confrontation became heated and a force of Gardai came on the scene . |
| 6 | At the end of the row , their backs turned to all these visual riches , was a ring of donkey-boys squatting on the ground . |
| 7 | A ring of blocks lit on the slant would similarly foam upwards and inwards , finally meeting in the middle to complete a rigid conical roof . |
| 8 | Daily defecation was maintained by daily administration of laxatives beginning on the evening of the clinic visit . |
| 9 | It is also important to create what I call a maternal genealogy to add to the paternal lineage which the current histories of art canonise — the succession of geniuses passing on the Olympic torch down the ages , man to man . |
| 10 | However things turn out the geography of football based on the Industrial Revolution seems likely to change in favour of a small ‘ super league ’ which will take high earnings from a ‘ live ’ national TV audience . |
| 11 | Etzioni ( 1961 ) has produced a typology of organizations based on the notion of ‘ compliance ’ . |
| 12 | The potential of a possible-world approach to fiction is successfully demonstrated in a typology of genres based on the nature of the accessibility relations between the actual world and the worlds functioning as actual in the universes projected by different types of texts ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 13 | The real loss of life occurred on the evening of 4 December when a group of insurgents , accompanied by a crowd who had apparently come along to watch events , was fired on during a panic reaction on the part of the soldiers . |
| 14 | Loss of bitterness depends on the boiling conditions , on the degree , type and time of trub formation and on the yeast action in fermentation . |
| 15 | At their busiest , the annual case load of tribunals exceeded 300,000 cases , though this has now stabilized at around 150,000 cases a year as a result of limitations placed on the rights of appeal under the income support and social fund scheme introduced in April 1988 . |
| 16 | Mr Stewart said no other hospital services would suffer as a result of cash spent on the scanner operation . |
| 17 | I carefully pasted the photograph of Joe waving on the front , and inside , in his best handwriting , he wrote , ‘ Happy Father 's Day , Dad . |
| 18 | On Dec. 11 , 1989 , the Polish Socialist Party-Democratic Revolution ( PPS-RD ) held its first national congress in Wroclaw , adopting party statutes and a programme of policies based on the goal of a self-governing alternative system . |
| 19 | This programme of research focuses on the survey interview itself . |
| 20 | At once more flares were identifying the target area and a fair concentration of bombs directed on the aiming point . |
| 21 | Now it was late afternoon and the headland lay enriched by the mellow afternoon light , the sea a wide expanse of wrinkled blue with a painter 's stroke of purple laid on the horizon . |
| 22 | It is only a slight exaggeration to say that , at this extraordinary historical moment , the future of Poland depends on the Germans ; the future of Europe depends on each behaving a little more like the other . |
| 23 | THE FUTURE of Antarctica turns on the outcome of an international conference which Michel Rocard , the French Prime Minister , opened yesterday with a speech that set the tone for what will be a fiercely political debate . |
| 24 | As defined by present mean sea level the continents account for 29 per cent of the Earth 's surface area and the oceans 71 per cent , but if the break of slope represented on the global hypsometric curve is used the figure for the continents is nearer 37 per cent . |
| 25 | Both the Brut and the Chronicle of London commented on the youth of those who attended , and Gloucester , Arundel , Devon , Warenne and Huntingdon excused themselves on grounds of age and infirmity . |
| 26 | I said that I hope to breed the fish in this tank , but at the moment there does not appear to be any indication of willingness to breed on the part of any of the fish . |
| 27 | If you do not have a male goat in the premises , a useful aid to heat detection is a ‘ billy rag ’ , a piece of fabric rubbed on the scent glands and stored in an airtight container . |
| 28 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 29 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 30 | On the landing he noticed a piece of paper lying on the floor between the stepladder and the wall . |