Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [conj] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Macbeth succeeds in calming him by her usual tactics of scornful reductivism : ‘ When all 's done , /You look but on a stool ’ ( 67f. ) , and mockery of his cowardice : ‘ What ! quite unmanned in folly ? ’ ( 73 ) . |
| 2 | From then on the family would continue to take lodgers to help supplement its income , but very much on an ad hoc basis and on an altogether more modest scale . |
| 3 | The er consultation and on the eighteen of August erm was circulated to many members on the fifth of the September , a thirteen page document erm , it was true to say that the er consultation paper contained some fairly radical proposals for changes in dealing with er gypsies and travellers . |
| 4 | Courses for multilingual groups ( eg for teaching English in the UK , Australia or the USA ) rely more on the author 's experience and on the collective experience of his colleagues . |
| 5 | It crossed Harry 's mind that on the kind of salary he received — even if he was lucky enough to be paid as well by an English employer as he was by Wendell Harvey — Madeleine would not be able to afford designer dresses , or any other of those expensive luxuries she took for granted . |
| 6 | All this has a snowball effect on the day 's turnover and on the individual dealers ' commissions . |
| 7 | A wyvern without a rider can be employed either to launch an early attack on your enemy 's artillery or on a powerful character . |
| 8 | That is why the abolition of the 1908 Act was sprung on us , on British Coal 's management and on the work force . |
| 9 | The discontent voiced by reviewers appears to focus on the implausibility of the novel 's plot and on the incongruity of the unsettling elements in it . |
| 10 | But it may be that even where there is evidence that the patient was mentally unfit or too young , the doctor would still avoid liability , not so much on the basis of the patient 's refusal as on the proposition of Elliott that further treatment was useless , or that of Williams that life had become a burden to the patient . |
| 11 | The emphasis on God 's revelation and on the faith that apprehends it raised the further question of what theology itself can speak about directly — the revelation , or merely faith 's apprehension of it ? |
| 12 | It relied heavily on Baldwin 's leadership and on the success over the years in persuading the new democracy not to be seduced by socialist abstractions , trade union militancy or Liberal demagogy , but to accept Conservative values as the guarantee of liberty and secure social improvement . |
| 13 | The value ( faith ) placed on a cheque depends on the depositor 's creditworthiness and on the standing of the bank on which the cheque has been drawn . |
| 14 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 15 | Somewhat behind schedule , the 1991 volume appeared this May and includes a broad range of studies on works in the Gallery 's collection and on the history of the Gallery itself . |
| 16 | A barn owl was nesting on a ledge on the side of the chamber in an old jackdaw 's nest and on the right is a bone sample from this position with the bones being protected by the nest debris itself . |
| 17 | James Milroy 's ( 1976 ) phonological analysis , which provided an essential basis for subsequent quantitative phonological work , drew both on the analyst 's intuition and on the pilot-study data . |
| 18 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 19 | Now Oslear is wondering if the truth will ever come out — especially as ICC supremo Sir Colin Cowdrey has failed to comment on match referee Deryck Murray 's report and on the umpires ' official findings . |
| 20 | All the letters you type are stored in the computer 's memory or on a disk if the available memory is not sufficient . |
| 21 | If he wanted to keep his horse away from a certain mare he had only to rub some of the liquid on the stallion 's bridle or on the mare to ensure that the horse would not go near her . |
| 22 | Announcing his departure , Hickey commented : ‘ I am leaving the post at a natural time in Filmhouse 's history and on a personal level it enables me to take on a new challenge while moving to another area of the film industry . |
| 23 | The ‘ three-triangle ’ gull arose from a student 's problem whilst on a course in Wales . |
| 24 | Most of the southern states resisted this and in one particular state one that 's sprung to prominence in recent times , the State of Arkansas er and its capital Little Rock , the then state governor , who was n't then Bill Clinton but a man called Orville Forbus defied the supreme court 's order and on a historic day in nineteen fifty four a little troupe of black children trooped up to the local high school and were met by armed , armed police and turned away . |
| 25 | The entrance was through an iron gate some four feet in width — to the left was the caretaker 's house and on the right a small committee room . |
| 26 | Among the criticisms voiced , there were comments on jargon in the specifications ' language and on the need for more guidance on assessment and , especially , on merit . |
| 27 | Surprisingly , the same phosphodiester bond at -41.5 remains sensitive to DNAaseI on the gal P1 promoter and on the malT P1 promoter ( data not shown ) . |