Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is claimed that after decay of the soft tissues , small mammal bone does not survive exposure for long on the ground , becoming soft and disintegrating within one year ( Voorhies , 1969 ) . |
| 2 | Two further examples may show the effect of Ultra on the conduct of the war : the sinking of the Bismarck on 27 May 1941 ; and that critical moment in the Western Desert in August 1942 when Montgomery , through Ultra , was able to predict the direction and strength of Rommel 's attack at Alam Halfa , where the Axis failure prepared the ground for the British success at El Alamein in the autumn . |
| 3 | It comes under the hammer at 2.15pm on the 20th , at the Barnstaple Motel . |
| 4 | That they never bore fruit was due as much to Bolshevik neglect of them as to the eventual insistence from above on the abolition of the private farms . |
| 5 | most of us had eaten our lunch by then on the coach because we were so hungry , after all it had been seven hours since we had last eaten . |
| 6 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 7 | and the final year I think there 's sort of less on the timetable but people tend to do more work for it and do a project as well but in the , in the first year erm you know it 's not that difficult to , to pass it erm er and there are always the , the , the referred papers in September so if you 're , if you 're keen |
| 8 | Langbaurgh 's mountain bike series concludes in Guisborough Woods on tomorrow with registration from 8.30am on the day . |
| 9 | With DNAaseI ( Fig. 2 ) , one observes a better protection of the hinge region between the two proteins ( phosphodiester bonds at -46.5 on the upper strand and at -49.5 on the template strand are almost insensitive to DNAaseI attack ) , and a more extended footprint in the upstream part of the CRP site at least on the upper strand , with the protection of phosphates at -81.5 , -82.5 and the appearance of two hypersensitive bands at -84.5 and -85.5 ( Fig. 2a , lane 2 ) . |
| 10 | Eleanor Thorne moved her head about uneasily on the pillow for a moment or two , wishing she had not complained about the soap , for now Alida might change the brand , keep that tablet to herself , And if it did not lather well , it had such a distinctive scent , a scent Eleanor liked . |
| 11 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 12 | It 's lined up with that lamp over there on the other wall , ’ said Dick . |
| 13 | Could this scene be acted out every day at 4.45pm on the road out of Pinjarra ? |
| 14 | There was a continuing round of meetings , but no serious approach to a formula of settlement until late on the following Saturday night . |
| 15 | About ten miles east of here on the coast . |
| 16 | His strength of character was invaluable in dealing with the guards and his commitment to his fellow hostages was such that he would listen quietly and matter of factly on the occasions when we all had a heart-to-heart about the little ways in which we got on each others ' nerves . |
| 17 | The last communication had been a letter from somewhere on the west coast of America , and my eventual reply had been returned ‘ not known at this address ’ . |
| 18 | As the day of ‘ our final hour ’ approached our publicity releases continued to whip up public opinion , and I carefully planned the last programme for broadcast from 9pm on the last evening until the station 's license expired with the stroke of midnight . |
| 19 | I hope that , given the work done so far to design and cost the scheme , you can have tenders to hand by then on the basis that construction would begin on site very soon after a decision at that meeting . |
| 20 | It is of vital importance to the successful operation of the police that they should have the co-operation of the public and they 're much more likely to get it if democratically elected representatives of the public are well represented indeed in the majority at least on the police authority . |
| 21 | Cocoa prices in 1989 also tumbled to a 14-year low owing to the sixth consecutive year of oversupply on the world market ( estimated at between 100,000-154,000 tonnes for 1989-90 ) ; failure to agree on the minimum price to be defended and continuing problems stemming from unpaid producer levies , estimated in 1989 to be well over $100,000 million . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's rented an old farmhouse right out in the middle of nowhere on the common , beyond your place and even more isolated , believe it or not . |
| 23 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 24 | This nugget that I call ‘ I ’ would bullet its way in even on the music of the spheres . |
| 25 | The old Committee look forward to seeing you by the Robinsons pump at 12.00 or the Theakston 's Old Peculier pump at 3.00pm on the 17th August at Docklands Arena . |
| 26 | To claim your goodies , you need to arrive at the box office after 10.00am on the date of the film you want to see , bearing a copy of that day 's Independent . |
| 27 | Retain a copy of both on the client file , and put a further copy of both on the department 's CFS file . |
| 28 | A loud slam from somewhere on the floor below put an end to further reluctance . |