Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath . |
| 2 | It is a gesture of faith in the future on a scale that takes the breath away and confounds the gloom merchants . |
| 3 | Bright future on the circuit for HIVOL |
| 4 | Building for the future on the past |
| 5 | Will my right hon. Friend encourage the Opposition to initiate a Supply day debate in the not-too-distant future on the subject of the recession , because there is a strange idea , fostered by the Opposition and the media , that it is a peculiarly British disease , whereas it is worldwide ? |
| 6 | Keegan 's club is building for the future on the back of 30,000 gates every home match , but the Newcastle boss refuses to discuss transfer targets and would n't comment on the Ferdinand situation yesterday . |
| 7 | The German theologian , Wolfhart Pannenberg , emphasises this impact of the future on the present in Jesus ' teaching . |
| 8 | She had thought a lot about her future on the way home . |
| 9 | These powers are : ( i ) to make any compromise with creditors or persons claiming to be creditors ; ( ii ) to bring or defend proceedings ; ( iii ) to carry on the business of the bankrupt so far as may be necessary for the beneficial winding up of the estate ; ( iv ) to accept payment in the future on the sale of any property comprised in the estate . |
| 10 | 1993 marks the start of an ambitious new preventative health care programme which aims to stem the spread of malaria and AIDS , and SIDT is pinning its hopes for a healthy future on the villagers , whose only option is preventative health care . |
| 11 | Thus , cases such as Expro Services Ltd v Smith [ 1991 ] IRLR 156 , involving the contracting out by the Ministry of Defence of its catering function , should not fail in the future on the grounds that the catering operation , as carried on by the Ministry , was not in the nature of a commercial venture . |
| 12 | Lord Christopher declined to talk further about the change , saying delicate negotiations about his future on the estate were still underway . |
| 13 | Gresham Telecomputing Plc , which last week released its first full year figures since the merger of the Gresham Group with Telecomputing Plc in 1991 is betting its future on the market 's movement towards open systems , despite the fact that its revenues still come from traditional ICL mainframe customers . |
| 14 | If apartheid is a thing of the past why did President de Klerk put his political future on the line in his fight against right-wing extremists who are determined to retain apartheid ? |
| 15 | He tried to slap Killion on the shoulder and missed , and ended up on the floor . |
| 16 | In 1832 , he moved away from his beloved Helps ton to a larger house in bleak North borough on the edge of the tens . |
| 17 | Of the other we have the head with the shoulders hunched by upraised arms , and the legs with the heavy cloak slipping down round them ; and we can reconstruct the figure almost exactly from the axe-man in the Centauromachy on the vase fig. 109 . |
| 18 | Carry on for a further third of a mile , then take the signed bridleway on the left . |
| 19 | On 21 October 1517 , Martin Luther had nailed his Ninety-Five Articles of Religion on the door of Wittenberg Cathedral , starting the Protestant Reformation . |
| 20 | Certainly we see here a very close relationship , of the kind envisaged by Durkheim , between society on the one hand and religion on the other . |
| 21 | The Cambridge philosopher of religion on the board refused to vote for Ramsey for he did not think his work up to standard — the Cambridge philosophers never forgave the ‘ irrationality ’ which was a streak in his first and most original book . |
| 22 | A couple of English-speaking students explain the hold of religion on the populace . |
| 23 | Whenever attempts were made to distinguish between means and ends , he could point to the crimes committed in the name of religion on the grounds that the end justified the means . |
| 24 | People who oppose religion on the grounds of its intolerance and bigotry think that the risks are very high . |
| 25 | One 's inability to make better speed on a scrambling descent seems as paradoxical as it is frustrating . |
| 26 | The rails of your board determine how well it sails upwind and its ability to maintain grip at speed on a reach and during a turn . |
| 27 | Indeed , the Ramblers Association has gone further than my hon. Friend has suggested in connection with that line , and has stated that , if British Rail increases the speed on a line , it will also be reducing the safety on it . |
| 28 | It used to be the case that games written for an 8086 processor were unplayable on a 286 machine , so developers included special code in their programs which would slow the game down to make sure that , as far as possible , the game played at the same speed on every class of machine . |
| 29 | Cardinal Lercaro , one of the moderators , stressed the need for greater speed on the part of the commissions , reminding them — an indirect but clear reference to the Theological Commission — that it was not their task to decide disputed issues by presenting for discussion one straightforward text , but to evaluate and organize amendments so that they could be more easily decided in the Council Hall . |
| 30 | I am intrigued to know how you work out the speed on the roads and tracks and how you know when to trot and when to canter ? |