Example sentences of "of [noun sg] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An elderly man sat at a table beside an open fire , a large pint of beer and a small glass of whisky on the table , an alsatian stretched out asleep at his feet . |
| 2 | Rory grinned , stirring his finger through a little patch of moisture on the side of his glass . |
| 3 | On covered surfaces soil and vegetation maintains a continuous presence of moisture on the rock surface while organic decay increases the quantity of organic acids and the abundance of carbon dioxide ; both increase the aggressiveness of the water percolating on to the rock surface . |
| 4 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 5 | " I 'm sick and tired of the pace of play on the Tour , " said the winner of this year 's Catalan Open . |
| 6 | Billy Joel this is what we 're going to play and er traffic is coming up to let you know the state of play on the roads it 's pretty awful out there today . |
| 7 | We would like to propose that many of the gestural sequences , both those directed towards the state of play on the football pitch and those occurring in the interactional posturing between rival fans , can be understood metonymically . |
| 8 | At one point the local authority threatened to put a schedule of dilapidation on the place to force Jarvis 's mother to repair it . |
| 9 | A total of $100,000,000 in aid had been frozen by the US administration in May because of lack of progress on the compensation of US citizens for property seized by the former Sandinista regime [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 10 | Spittals was still one inspector down on his personnel establishment and had not seen any evidence of progress on the Mills murder . |
| 11 | An indication of progress on the subject of SLCMs was provided on July 14 , when the US National Security Adviser , Brent Scowcroft , commented that ( Soviet ) proposals to ban SLCMs altogether ( in the light of perceived verification problems associated with ascertaining their numbers ) were " one of the open areas in the strategic arms negotiations ' ( the USA had formerly wanted to exclude SLCMs from the talks ) . |
| 12 | Maidique ( 1980 ) states that ‘ month after month , Alastair Pilkington faced the firm 's directors with a new request for $280,000 of operating funds and with promises of progress on the project . |
| 13 | While it is true that no major course development has been held up by administrative constraints , the range of decisions with administrative effects ( deadlines , counting rules , etc. , as well as the information base about approved fields ) imposes a permanent culture of change on the administration of the Course . |
| 14 | — the impact of change on the process of interest articulation between different levels of structure within the enterprise . |
| 15 | King penguins were nesting on the hare ground a short walk from our landing beach , and while some still had eggs ( which are hatched on top of the feet under a fold of skin on the belly ) , others already had young , some of whom had developed brown down which made them look like teddy bears ! |
| 16 | Figure 4 shows that the effect of L-NAME on the response of the gall bladder to CCK-8 was not found in animals receiving L-arginine . |
| 17 | We settled down with a new bottle of champagne on the table before us , and I summarised what I had discovered about Brian Harley 's contract with Supersight and what I had not discovered about his putter . |
| 18 | and we had erm , and we had er a bottle of champagne on the table the Isle of plonk , you know , gala champagne |
| 19 | ‘ I think I can now afford to have a glass of champagne on the strength of it . |
| 20 | Kevin Coley was busy supervising four different video cameramen to capture Trace 's every stroke of genius on the field . |
| 21 | Effect of cimetidine on the histamine stimulated growth of MKN45 and MKN45G |
| 22 | The clearest sign of puberty is ejaculation or emission , and glandular secretions also account for growth of the penis , growth of hair on the face and body , and the deepening of the voice . |
| 23 | of hair on the bath enamel , twist |
| 24 | A tuft of hair on the front of the body helps them to check that their motion through the air is straight , but their primary navigational guidance comes from huge mosaic eyes on either side of the head , which provide superbly accurate and detailed vision . |
| 25 | Many species carry a small disc of shell on the side of it which , when the foot is retracted , forms a close-fitting lid to the entrance . |
| 26 | From the form of the Schwarzschild metric equation it is clear that the factor is an important measure of the effect of mass on the curvature of space–time . |
| 27 | The methods described and examples outlined above demand a certain amount of expertise on the part of the collaborator . |
| 28 | But the province 's former Education Minister said the increased sophistication of the terrorist threat required a higher level of expertise on the part of the army . |
| 29 | There is a glimmer of hope on the horizon . |
| 30 | Other airfields that have a spark of hope on the horizon include : Ipswich , Leavesden and Hullavington , although there are many more airfields where the future looks bleak . |