Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] on this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What developed was a massacre rather than any battle , as disciplined and prepared thousands bore down upon a scattered , unready and largely leaderless crowd , which could have had no idea that any enemy were on this side of the river . |
| 2 | The natural place to mount a small drawing is on this centre . |
| 3 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 4 | The compact was on this occasion approved by 4,633 votes ( 59.8 per cent ) to 2,988 ( 38.6 per cent ) but , as on previous occasions , the level of approval fell short of the 75 per cent necessary to amend the Constitution as required by the terms of the compact . |
| 5 | The Gallagher jurisdiction rule is uncertain ; the refusal of the Court of Appeal to relist B's appeal combined with its refusal to certify prevented B from resolving the uncertainty or ascertaining what English law is on this matter . |
| 6 | Young Solper was on this list , not before time . |
| 7 | but , when you go into the passage his door , he 's got the door into the front room , same as ours , on the left , but when you get into the bottom of the passage , there 's a brick wall in front of ya , and it comes round and his door to the back dining room is on this side here |
| 8 | You ask what the Government 's policy is on this matter . |
| 9 | The bolt was on this side , the stack-yard side . |
| 10 | Then it goes to the copy editor , who says marvellous things like , ‘ The door was on this side of the room on page 24 , and on the other side on page 124 . ’ |
| 11 | Leslie had an aunt in Durban , but by great misfortune disembarkation was on this occasion not allowed , and he did not meet the relative who had last seen him as a little boy in Scotland . |
| 12 | On the London and Southampton line sixteen million cubic feet of earth were moved in making the cuttings and embankments , mostly between Basingstoke and Winchester : some of the most extensive cuttings in the world are on this stretch of line . |
| 13 | I do n't know what day my birthday 's on this year . |
| 14 | The member for Worcester City was on this occasion one of the dozen or so gentlemen who , after most late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century general elections , as a sort of ritual but somewhat haphazard sacrifice to virtue made by an easy-going society , were unseated on petition for allegedly corrupt electoral practices . |
| 15 | I remember when my mum and dad were on this committee , actually the this records department is part of the Libraries ' erm , committee 's responsibility , records sub used to be there , and used to regularly meet and that used to deal with it . |
| 16 | You can see now how important your cooperation is on this adoption question ? |
| 17 | Reliance was apparently placed — I say ‘ apparently ’ because there is nothing in the papers which indicates clearly one way or the other what the view of the justices ' clerk was on this subject — I am told that reliance was placed on section 8(3) which provides : ‘ For the purposes of this Act ‘ family proceedings ’ means any proceedings … ( b ) under the enactments mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) . ’ |
| 18 | The annual gathering was on this occasion attended by supporters of far-right groups in Austria , Belgium , Germany and Italy . |