Example sentences of "[adj] with [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these there were 57 volumes under the heading Religious & Moral including works by Doddridge , Bunyan , Calvin , Knox , Dick , Beecher , Butler and D'Aubigne ; 19 volumes Scientific with books on Natural Philosophy , Geology , Astronomy , Agricultural Chemistry , Phrenology , The Art of Cooking and an Ornithological Guide to Shetland . |
| 2 | Chilling the petiole of the wounded cotyledon to 3°C has little effect on the electrical signal recorded on the petiole of leaf 1 ( Fig. 1 c ) , a result that is consistent with observations on action potential conduction at low temperature in cold-blooded animals and plants . |
| 3 | Probably , in his youth , some tone deaf colleague had told him that he possessed a good voice , ever since when , he would arise at every opportunity , usually by reluctant request , and then po-faced with hand on heart , would bellow ‘ Come into the garden Maude ’ , watched by a captive audience and a proud , watery-eyed wife . |
| 4 | The almost fragile-looking Union Chain Bridge crossing the River Tweed to link England and Scotland is the earliest surviving suspension bridge in the country , though contemporary with work on Telford 's Menai Bridge ( q.v . ) . |
| 5 | For the moment though , he had to be content with speed on the ground as he drove Crossland Motor Company cars on cross-country reliability trials . |
| 6 | FROYLE Village Hall was ablaze with colour on Friday when the Gardening Club held their annual spring show . |
| 7 | City Diary : High-flier with feet on the ground |
| 8 | The unfortunate Dorian Williams , whose cultured , distinctly upper-class accent was synonymous with commentary on the sport , was required to tell the viewers that the next contestant was Harvey Smith riding ‘ Hitachi Music Centre ’ . |
| 9 | The last question illustrates the difficulty of wording a question about real distance which does not get confused with distance on the tables , but this is more likely to happen in a pencil and paper test than in a practical situation . |
| 10 | At a number of places his landscaping was contemporaneous with work on the house by Samuel or James Wyatt [ q.v. ] , a professional association that may have started at Kedleston . |
| 11 | Almost a big as an oystercatcher , it is all white with black on the wings and back . |
| 12 | Burnley have beaten Britain 's biggest clubs to arrange a prestige home friendly with Ajax on Tuesday . |
| 13 | The American approach is to be as formal and rigorous as possible with insistence on systematic sampling , correlating and so on . |
| 14 | Drake 's coo trisyllabic with accent on last syllable . |
| 15 | Eager to hound down deals with users of the major databases , the company is laying low with Accell/TP on its Unify 2000 database for the time being . |
| 16 | A dull 0–0 defence-dominated , end-of-season clash could at any moment come alive with Stan on the field . |
| 17 | fat and sticky with sugar on the top , Peter paid a penny and took one away , then there were two currant buns left on the tray , two currant buns in the baker 's shop fat and sticky with sugar on the top , Peter paid a penny and took one away |
| 18 | fat and sticky with sugar on the top , Peter paid a penny and took one away , then there were two currant buns left on the tray , two currant buns in the baker 's shop fat and sticky with sugar on the top , Peter paid a penny and took one away |
| 19 | two currant buns in the baker 's shop fat and sticky with sugar on the top , Peter paid a penny and took one away |
| 20 | That January issue was the ‘ Revolutionary Oz ’ , complete with Quattrocchi on the Russian Revolution ; Widgery on the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara , who had been killed the previous October in the Bolivian jungle , and whose name Widgery and Oz spelt throughout as ‘ Geuvara ’ ; and even John Wilcock , whose ‘ Other scenes ’ reappeared in that issue , put in a piece on Regis Debray . |
| 21 | By July it was observing the ‘ Disturbing world of the flower children ’ and a week later it featured ‘ Weekends with the flower children ’ complete with notes on make-up followed by ‘ Flower children at home ’ comprising pictures of radicals doing very little in a house off the Balls Pond Road . |
| 22 | ‘ I jettisoned the wood , climbed down the path and there , neatly stashed away in a narrow inlet between the rocks , was my castaway , complete with gash on temple , soaked through , ice-cold to the touch and so deeply unconscious I thought at first you were dead . ’ |
| 23 | " Only the Commander was upset with nerves on account of a remark I made the other night . |
| 24 | Sometimes she had to be very firm with Andrew on the question of her lavish expenditure . |
| 25 | Therefore you are advised to arrange important meetings at times coincident with daytime on your home time and to avoid times coincident with night on home time . |
| 26 | Therefore you are advised to arrange important meetings at times coincident with daytime on your home time and to avoid times coincident with night on home time . |
| 27 | Keith Jackson , Managing Director , recently returned from an American sales trip which he described as ‘ encouraging with orders on the increase and an excellent reception for our new range ‘ the U.S.A. Collection ’ ’ . |
| 28 | Anne Taylor , Labour 's water spokeswoman , said : ‘ No one will be very impressed with discounts on something they already own . |
| 29 | ‘ Dad , ’ said Sam , drumming him awake with blows on the face , ‘ it 's our last day and you 're asleep . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm afraid we have a lot of people in top management today whose background is such that they do n't really get involved with people on the shop floor . |