Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subtle lamps gleamed on pink-clothed tables , each with its own vase of flowers . |
| 2 | Moreover recent racialist attacks are worsening and spreading to West Germany , as The Times reported on 7 October 1991 . |
| 3 | Physiologists capitalized on this instrumentation to demonstrate that the electrical activity of the brain and its nerve cells was a function of what the individual was doing , or not doing , or how sensory receptors were stimulated . |
| 4 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 5 | One of Reagan 's most spellbinding TV performances came on 27 July , two days before both houses were to vote on his tax cut proposal . |
| 6 | A study published last year by the Rand Corporation , a think-tank in California , found that 88% of the money spent by insurers went on legal fees and other paperwork costs . |
| 7 | Joseph 's words fell on stony ground . |
| 8 | I think this play upon words fell on deaf ears . |
| 9 | Those words fell on deaf ears . |
| 10 | But his words fell on unresponsive ears . |
| 11 | The trumpets blew on both sides . |
| 12 | ‘ We could have sold more of the Palin book , but BBC Books insisted on firm sale . |
| 13 | YESTERDAY 'S Diary explained where the main parties stood on British Rail ( between carriages jammed against the netty door , very likely . ) |
| 14 | When tax inspectors sat on high stools and wrote with quills , the sober ranges of Somerset House were an apt location for them . |
| 15 | The only recorded royal tram ride in the first hundred years of Blackpool tramways occurred on 21 October 1937 , when HRH The Duke of Kent ( the present Duke 's father ) visited Blackpool to open Victoria Hospital , the lifeboat house and Princess Way , culminating in him switching on the Illuminations . |
| 16 | And a syllabus which defines its content in functional terms is supposed to account for communicative competence in a way which syllabuses designed on other principles can not . |
| 17 | Its headlights came on full beam , and it accelerated away with a rising roar which brought heads to windows all along the street . |
| 18 | Black-headed gulls with red legs and red bills loafed on small islands . |
| 19 | At the far end of the room , spotlights shone on white tables , upon which cosmetics , in various stages of testing , were spread . |
| 20 | On the one hand , many pagan religious and philosophical moralists frowned on sexual activity as carnal and obstructive to the higher aspirations of the soul ; yet the reproductive impulse ensures the survival of human society and its exercise must be good when directed to procreation rather than pleasure . |
| 21 | The four Roman catholic archbishops replied on 28 April that they opposed divorce in general , and particularly the type of what they considered to be unrestricted divorce proposed in the constitutional amendment ( Irish Times , 28 Apr. 1986 ) . |
| 22 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 23 | Adidas insisted on 500 pairs going to the ‘ flagship store ’ in Oxford Circus . |
| 24 | Short stories , pamphlets , and articles appeared on both sides of the Atlantic and her novel , The Magnetic North ( 1904 ) , was a best seller , and was compared to the work of Daniel Defoe [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Cries rose on all sides of her as she filled the dishes , but she worked on steadily oblivious , like some eccentric female St Francis , brooding a little about the image seen in the vicarage garden , which , although it had turned out to be only an old cloth flung over a tree stump , was an indication of the way things might go . |
| 26 | The Sunday afternoon walk along the lanes was always interesting , even to very young children , for the high banks towered on either side of us , covered in wild flowers — campions , hemp agrimony , foxgloves , honeysuckle and many , many more . |
| 27 | Soviet troops advanced into Korea to accept the surrender of Japanese forces ; Stalin kept his word and when American troops arrived on 8 September , they assumed responsibility to the 38th parallel . |
| 28 | The sound of their cries tinkled on frigid air . |
| 29 | During the third century BC Roman attacks began on Illyrian tribes settled in the Neretva valley , followed by raids on the Greek cities on the Albanian coast . |
| 30 | A last-minute plea to the Scottish Office by the North Tayside MP , Bill Walker , for a few more days ' grace to allow the Diplexcito family to ‘ depart with dignity ’ from their home of 17 years fell on deaf ears . |