Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | This the best known for the crack lines on its east face . |
| 2 | Coal for the pumping engines on the Cornish mines came from Swansea , and the copper ore went back to be smelted in South Wales . |
| 3 | I made sure I had sufficient pellets in my jacket pockets , then headed out of the house for the Rabbit Grounds on the mainland , between the large branch of the creek and the town dump . |
| 4 | And in this case they provide the power for the Decimax badges on the cabs to illuminate . |
| 5 | Lee missed West 's win at Boroughmuir on Saturday because he was playing for the North under-21s on Sunday , and he scored the injury time try which completed the North 's clean sweep in the Divisional Championship . |
| 6 | SECRETARY for the summer months on a small private island in Scotland . |
| 7 | It is as though one has a newspaper delivered only for the football results on Saturdays and assumes that nothing at all happened on the other days of the week . |
| 8 | After the war , Bomber Harris tried to get an issue of a campaign medal for the ground crews on operational airfields , as he maintained they were completely ignored when the medals were handed out . |
| 9 | The contract , which runs for a five-year period from 1 November 1992 , covers the provision of maintenance personnel for the production facilities on Amoco 's NW Hutton , Montrose Alpha , Arbroath , Everest and Lomond platforms . |
| 10 | We had to take our own meals at all times , even when we had cups of tea we had to take to the station our own tea , sugar and milk , but there was always a large kettle during the winter months on a coal fire , and during the summer months on a gas ring . |
| 11 | We had to take our own meals at all times , even when we had cups of tea we had to take to the station our own tea , sugar and milk , but there was always a large kettle during the winter months on a coal fire , and during the summer months on a gas ring . |
| 12 | As long as I was forced to stay awake I shrank from any stimulus to sensation ; now I relax and welcome the fading sensations until they are extinct , and for a few minutes will notice impressions of which I am normally unaware , such as the twilight images on the edge of consciousness . |
| 13 | For shorter boards the same principles apply , but the back position does not make the board faster as the board planes on too small a surface and becomes difficult to control |
| 14 | ( 7 ) the consideration of liaison between the project and other provision , such as the county courses on microcomputers . |
| 15 | Other weapons found between approximately 1066 and 1180 include the bisacuta , oucin and besaque , all of which were types of pick used to pierce the joints between the armour plates on a hauberk . |
| 16 | By the introduction of a 75 x 75mm ( 3 x 3in ) square-section hollow steel post sited close to the centre of the room for the support of heavy timber trimmers , it was possible to construct a gallery which extends between the flank walls on modestly-sized 38 x 150mm ( 1–1/2 x 6in ) joists , carrying boards which give a platform 2m ( 6–1/2ft ) wide overlooking the larger part of the living-room . |
| 17 | There is more knitting between the lace holes on swatch two , and the pattern is less defined while the fabric feels bulkier . |
| 18 | These sites then propagate reactions of the di-methacrylate polymerisation by forming hydrolytically stable covalent bonds between the graft sites on the ceramic particles and the polymer matrix . |
| 19 | She watched the nose of the iron poke between the pearl buttons on Louis 's shirt , thick cotton of silvery blue with a faint red stripe . |
| 20 | Lengthy discussions between the coalition partners on March 6 eventually resulted in an agreement that both German parliaments and governments would issue a declaration of intent after March 18 to the effect that " Germans will neither now or in the future call [ the Polish people 's ] right to live within secure borders into question by raising territorial claims " ; there would be no linking with the reparations issue or with the protection of a German minority in Poland . |
| 21 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I was asked to contact you about the parking restrictions on Snowhill , Scorton outside St Mary and St James RC church . |
| 22 | I 'm going to say a word about the efficiency savings on school meals and the proposal from the Conservatives bringing this alternative meal system . |
| 23 | We 've heard from Michael about the access problems on this corridor , erm he 's produced figures that show that this particular route is over design capacity . |
| 24 | Sister was telling Wendy Target about the blood results on Donna Hazell . |
| 25 | General Norman Schwarzkopf rose through the army ranks on his feet , as an infantryman . |
| 26 | It was alright at Euston Station on the way up because we had plenty of time for loading — but — on the return journey we could see the train approaching while still careering through the country lanes on our coach . |
| 27 | They walked back to South Audley Street together , weaving their way through the lunchtime crowds on the pavements , the tall , striking girl and the young man whose pixieish looks belied his twenty-six years . |
| 28 | I thread the yarns through these before they go up through the yarn guides on the mast and this prevents them from tangling together at the back of the table . |
| 29 | Although the City Council paid the bill for dry cleaning he never forgot the smell or the indignity of walking through the City streets on a summer evening drenched in manure . |
| 30 | ’ When we were very small , ’ Irina would recall , ’ our parents used to take us through the city streets on small sledges . |