Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One Saturday we were kept waiting for TWO MINUTES for Science Now on Radio 4 which then ran its full 30 minutes . |
| 2 | We welcome all sorts of investors here on fair terms . |
| 3 | Robert Asshe came home at the end of the evening performance , traces of grease-paint still on his face . |
| 4 | At the bottom , where the hotel drive met the highway , he halted and was watching the traffic on his left when Fabia , traces of amusement still on her face , looked to the right and suddenly felt all amusement vanish . |
| 5 | He enjoyed good relationships with adults especially on a one-to-one basis . |
| 6 | They spend months on end continuously on the wing , feeding by catching insects in mid-air , mating by coupling high in the sky and tumbling downwards interlocked for hundreds of feet , and presumably even sleeping on the wing . |
| 7 | It predicts that , despite tougher standards for new cars , the problem is likely to increase for some years to come , largely as a result of a lack of any controls over the emissions of vehicles already on the road . |
| 8 | Then he covered the dead coolie with his mat and helped Dong fling clods of earth rapidly on top of it with his hands . |
| 9 | There were at least six cold periods with glaciation somewhere on the earth . |
| 10 | These electric motors are highly reliable and offer excellent advantages over rowing especially on biggish waters where low speed trolling is an effective method . |
| 11 | Free classes for artists now on offer |
| 12 | Viewer , the add-in that lets you see the contents of files still on disk , has been improved and now allows the import of ASCII text and now lets you save the current worksheet and retrieve a new file in a single command — so reducing the risk of +:F7 you loosing the work you had just been doing before using it ! |
| 13 | And indeed it was something very different — the bones of a human skeleton , a few pieces of clothing still on it . |
| 14 | Seven pieces of documentation actually on this spreadsheet . |
| 15 | The form starts by establishing that the haulier using the RHA conditions accepts goods for haulage only on the terms contained in those conditions . |
| 16 | Another factor also should have brought the French staff to this conclusion : the great fortress , and its double defensive ring of 21 smaller forts , had recently been shorn of many guns for service elsewhere on the Western Front . |
| 17 | Health and safety monitor is a monthly newsletter that distils into 8–10 pages the essential facts about the latest statutes , regulations , directives , consultative documents , and codes of practice etc on health and safety issues . |
| 18 | ‘ And , ’ Galvone continued , ‘ are those agents allocated to treat liberal elements holding positions of influence yet on their way ? ’ |
| 19 | the effects of high levels of inflation particularly on the costs of long-term capital projects ; |
| 20 | In the context of such revisions , the relevance of Bridget Riley 's work for a younger generation of artists is far less clearly documented than the impact and integrity of a singular vision , culminating in the bodies of work currently on show at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 21 | CAR leaves for the orphanages of Iasi again on April 5 , this time with 26,000 baby dinners , supplied by Cow and Gate . |
| 22 | Patients with naevi mainly on the back , a common pattern in men , were encouraged to ask a family member to inspect this area . |
| 23 | For both sets of stimuli there were significant differences between junctions both on risk ratings , F(23,437)=3.95 , p<0.01 ( odd numbered junctions ) , F(23,437)=5.67 , p<0.01 ( even numbered junctions ) , and accident estimates , F(23,437)=4.74 , p<0.01 ( odd numbered junctions ) , F(23,437)=4.02 , p<0.01 ( even numbered junctions ) . |
| 24 | In essence , what the portfolio matrix says is , let's have the various business elements at their different stages of growth explicitly on view in the matrix and not lost from view within organizational units . |
| 25 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
| 26 | Unisys Corp is porting its Mapper fourth generation language tool , which supports a range of databases , to IBM RS/6000 , Sun Sparc and SCO Unix-based platforms : Unisys claims 5,000 users of Mapper worldwide on its mainframe and Unix platforms . |
| 27 | Thus the philosophical Greeks and the industrious Chinese will do as instances of non-restriction only on condition that we allow ourselves a strangely overgeneralized view of the Greeks and the Chinese . |
| 28 | Registration of the program brings a number of extras including a non-TSR version of the program for users with machines low on memory . |
| 29 | According to the LTTE the offensive was launched after police had attacked a group of Tigers in Batticaloa early on June 11 , a claim denied by the government . |
| 30 | Not many heads would go as far as one who insists that male members of staff must wear their jackets in classrooms even on the warmest of days . |