Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . |
| 2 | Well now , during this twelve months I went out on the beats etcetera , I just merely picked it up , if I was in doubt about anything my sergeant would put me right and the atmosphere , the amount of discipline was quite severe , for instance , I always , we had always to parade at least ten minutes before the hour to be acquainted with what had happened since we were last on duty . |
| 3 | There is a song in the repertoire of Scottish football fans which reflects unkindly on the character of those gallant heroes who have made untold sacrifices to represent their country . |
| 4 | Waves which break vigorously on a steep beach . |
| 5 | The central aim of this research is to explore the basis of this relationship by focussing on three key aspects which bear directly on the effectiveness of public policy initiatives in this sector . |
| 6 | Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue . |
| 7 | Indeed an even more striking feature of the results was that the individuals examined were especially high on a measure of ‘ ego strength ’ , indicating a greater than average resistance to mental breakdown : the finding is particularly interesting because the latter is usually very low in subjects who deviate markedly on the clinical scales of tests like the MMPI . |
| 8 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 9 | Although until late in 1912 Picasso and Braque lived in Montmartre and had relatively little contact with the other Cubists who lived mostly on the Left Bank or in the suburbs , they did not live in isolation . |
| 10 | I 've encountered Arena -reading Young Conservatives who get off on The Smiths and Sex Pistols : I knew a girl whose favourite group is The Jam but who claims to be apolitical and whose one great desire in life is a Mercedes . |
| 11 | After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor . |
| 12 | When you ruin a lean and effective team , you ca n't afford to have all the experts you need permanently on the staff . |
| 13 | Enclosure had been an exceedingly expensive business , not only the heavy legal costs which worked out on an average at about £1 an acre ( but were sometimes much heavier ) , but also the costs of making hundreds of yards of fences , which were heavier still . |
| 14 | Er you were called out at night and of course in those days you went round on a bicycle and you , you went round with your little black bag strapped on the back . |
| 15 | ‘ You can just see the sea from the nursery , ’ explains Prue , ‘ and if you stand on the loo and look out of that little window you can see all those cloverleaf intersections you drove over on the way in . |
| 16 | Shop and office workers who miss out on the best of the day only have their lunch breaks to enjoy the brief British summer . |
| 17 | Write the name of the course and the years you studied here on the back of the envelope . |
| 18 | An important strategic requirement over the next few years will be to make progress with the resolution of these questions which bear crucially on the structure of a collegiate university and raise fundamental questions about the nature of undergraduate teaching at Oxford and its relationship with graduate teaching and supervision . |
| 19 | The starting point is those aims which depend heavily on the particular contribution of DHAs . |
| 20 | A pilot scheme , using one welfare rights worker , indicated the potential of a specialist approach to welfare rights which concentrated solely on the needs of people with learning difficulties : it raised an extra £20,000 over and above existing benefits . |
| 21 | David Lee has provided a textbook for undergraduates which focuses primarily on the " world-view " of texts . |
| 22 | Matisse and Picasso , who form the backbone of the market in ‘ classic modern ’ prints , bring sums which depend both on the actual rarity of the image and its attractiveness . |
| 23 | The screws who worked down on the block were absolute monsters . |
| 24 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 25 | Professions are sometimes referred to as institutions , but the interesting point is that compared to many institutions they function less on the basis of formal , explicit regulations and codes than on informal , tacit norms and expectations . |
| 26 | With a crew which included seven Fairbridge trainees from Strathclyde and East Lothian , Spirit of Scotland was one of the scores of sailing ships which set out on the 1993 Tall Ships Race when the starting cannon fired at Newcastle . |
| 27 | Drawing the curtain across the windows she looked out on the gloomy , almost deserted street . |
| 28 | Despite his current good form , Stephens was one of the players who missed out on a Tour card at Montpelier last year . |
| 29 | games we play actually on a Sunday . |
| 30 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |