Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 2 | The constancy of heat both on Earth and in animal species has a bearing on life and death cycles . |
| 3 | The user should not assess a piece of software solely on technical merits . |
| 4 | She was pushing a piece of toast around on her plate , wondering if she had imagined that arctic expression on his face just now , when she heard the door open . |
| 5 | They squeezed into the little , bright cubicle and Keith put a piece of paper down on the shelf . |
| 6 | Mr Whittaker threw the piece of paper down on his desk . |
| 7 | A proof , taken by inking the mirror-image metal , and pressing a piece of paper down on it , went to the ‘ readers ’ for checking . |
| 8 | But he was the adult involved , after all , he thought , eating a piece of chocolate hard on a particular tooth to get rid of some bitter aspirin lodged in a broken stopping . |
| 9 | In this latter attempt to turn the coercive action of metaphor back on itself lies the seed of the type of metaphor developed in Such . |
| 10 | I quickly exhaust my quota of courage out on the roads when seated on something flighty . |
| 11 | it is fair to say that in the case of er in the case of Alwyn , erm because of the special circumstances where we did n't actually use a clerk of works ever on that job |
| 12 | While on the subject of working at a depot we only find out about ‘ offers ’ either through the Journal , press or during shopping time so savings are also possibly lost when staff who work in the stores can take advantage of multi-buys etc on a regular basis . |
| 13 | A MAN said a silent prayer of thanks yesterday on the third anniversary of his heart transplant for the anonymous donor who gave him his life . |
| 14 | information , er , they did it on erm , one of the programmes they actually put a bucket of water actually on the equator , I do n't know if you saw it . |
| 15 | A bit of activity out on the water catches my attention next and I bring the ‘ scope out ; it is a small party of long-tailed duck in their handsome winter plumage , the long tail-streamers of the drakes showing clearly as they display to the females . |
| 16 | bit of Araldite just on the end of the thread is |
| 17 | JB : There 's a bit of painting there on the wall that I rather like — well in fact I do like it , it took 20 minutes . |
| 18 | Well I I know I 'm putting you under a bit of pressure here on the basis that erm it 's lovely to be able to have a choice . |
| 19 | Most students assume that ( ii ) is a question as to the liability of C. Clearly on its wording the question is the same as in ( i ) , namely , as to the liability of A. |
| 20 | At this moment , a knock , and with a premonition she went to open the door , a look of authority already on her face . |
| 21 | A relapse was defined as a clinical deterioration with an increase in DAI requiring ( i ) high dose steroids , or a return to high dose steroids in the case of patients still on tapering prednisolone doses , or ( ii ) surgery . |
| 22 | Out there is a whole world full of garbage and it gives me ulcers to throw one more shred of scum back on the heap . ’ |
| 23 | Moreover , an occupier may be liable if he deliberately causes the escape of things naturally on his land . |
| 24 | Our courts have refused to consider the validity of an Act of Parliament either on the ground that Parliament had no power to pass it or on the ground that the statute had been improperly passed . |
| 25 | The form , in fact , was one beloved of prosecutors both on the screen and in literature . |
| 26 | In the mood of schoolboys off on an expedition to plant stinkbombs on speechday , the party set off from Westminster Pier , shadowed by two police launches . |
| 27 | More precisely , this will be a museum with no contents at all : the first museum of costume entirely on computer . |
| 28 | I could make out the tracery of blonde down on the edge of her cheek . |
| 29 | Tom pressed the stethoscope-like circle of metal lightly on Faye 's abdomen , waited a moment , moved it slightly , and waited again . |
| 30 | We have had a problem for a long period of time now on high conductivity . |