Example sentences of "it [vb past] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the company donated part of a site which it owned on the shores of Loughrea Lake , to the town of Loughrea … |
| 2 | If a society 's year ended in , say , September , it passed on the tax the following January . |
| 3 | That confusion between terminology and rigour , truth and exactitude , was to prove a weakness to the New Criticism in later years , since it laid on the critic a continuous duty to adopt or devise terms rigorous enough to satisfy himself and others . |
| 4 | Even the highly cosmopolitan and very trendy audiences of New York City did not know quite what to say about it ; a typical reaction was from May Okon , of the New York Sunday News who wrote : ‘ Jack Nicholson 's Drive , He Said is how it read on the marquee of the Third Avenue movie house . |
| 5 | Vinnen , whose offensive smacked of anti-semitism in that it centred on the figure of Paul Cassirer and lambasted the critics for being in the service of speculators and dealers , called for a boycott on the purchase of non-German art . |
| 6 | Estimated at £30,000–40,000 it sold on the telephone for £165,000 ( $264,000 ) . |
| 7 | She lay for a few moments watching the patterns it made on the ceiling . |
| 8 | They claimed that Saibou 's government had failed to keep promises which it made on the conditions for their return . |
| 9 | None of this meant that war was a rare or unimportant phenomenon in the eighteenth century or that the demands which it made on the peoples of Europe were negligible . |
| 10 | Popularly known as the " White Book " , it expanded on the programme announced when the government of Premier Jozsef Antall had taken office in May . |
| 11 | The small parish provided for its poor without frills ; but it provided on the basis of personal knowledge of immediate needs . " |
| 12 | It dwelt on the problems arising when Irish suspects , caught in police trawls , turned out to be only Republican sympathisers rather than terrorists . |
| 13 | It bounced on the carpet , shedding chunks of red-hot ash . |
| 14 | Strabane 's Lynn McCool had a 12 foot putt to give herself and Eileen Rose Power victory over Julie Hall and Kirsty Speak but it stopped on the lip and the match was halved . |
| 15 | Her dress shrieked as it caught on the comer of the table and tore . |
| 16 | The aircraft was lost when it crashed on a night overshoot on July 24 , 1957 . |
| 17 | As befitted a man who had sung the pleasures of the ordinary , it occurred on a bus going up Headington Hill , on his way back to Mrs Moore 's house . |
| 18 | Bensons now have a large factory complex , much of it built on the site of the former canal basin of the Thames and Severn Canal Company . |
| 19 | It focussed on a number of different client groups and 28 projects set out to move about 900 people from hospital settings to community settings . |
| 20 | Many of these are arranged through a voluntary organisation called Crossroads ( address on page 143 ) which takes its name from the television series because of the attention it focussed on the needs of disabled people . |
| 21 | One and six it cost on the ferry |
| 22 | Lonrho 's ethics have been publicly queried in the past , so many in Whitehall are galled to see it cast on the side of the angels by its opposition to the Al Fayeds , after they had thwarted Lonrho 's own designs on Harrods . |
| 23 | Keegan knew his side would face Barnsley 's stifling three-man central-defensive formation , yet the attempts to counter it bordered on the banal . |
| 24 | It concentrated on the curriculum and organization of Inner London secondary schools and focused on those pupils who were underachieving , took few or no public examinations and showed their dissatisfaction with school by absenting themselves or by behaving in an uncooperative manner ( ILEA 1984 ) . |
| 25 | This second report did not re-emphasise the need for massive resource transfers , instead it concentrated on the adequacy of the international financial system and the debt problem faced by many countries . |
| 26 | The right hon. Gentleman can hardly refer to such a body as having the kind of authority with which he seeks to imbue it when it disagreed on a number of matters and failed to address any of the ones that really matter . |
| 27 | But , after considering the comments it received on the ED , the board has decided not to pursue the subject as a single project . |
| 28 | It came on a day of positive signs for the British economy , with the Bank of England saying it thought inflation would remain below the Government 's target of 4 per cent for the next two years , and cautious indications of a pick-up in high street spending . |
| 29 | They were 132 for 6 at the close and it was clearly time to pray for rain ; but it came on the rest day by mistake , and although Emburey and Downton battled for a while , the end was not long delayed . |
| 30 | It came on the market two months ago . |