Example sentences of "on the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the death of Brunel in 1859 he was promoted engineer-in-chief , and it was while working on the ferry piers in 1862–3 that the idea of the Severn railway tunnel came into his mind . |
| 2 | Amber can be collected on the south shores of the Baltic from Lithuania to Denmark , as well as of the North Sea from west Jutland , north-west Germany and south-east England . |
| 3 | If you 're Toronto based , The Briars , a 200 acre world class resort on the south shores of Lake Simcoe , has welcomed guests for more than a century . |
| 4 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 5 | The database for the system contains data on the price movements of 1,700 companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange over the past 15 years . |
| 6 | Firstly , Pynchon draws on the adventure stories of Conan Doyle and Buchan and on detective fiction to create an absurdist pastiche of these popular genres . |
| 7 | Owing to the thick fog all day long , we had to take extra precautions on the road parts of the walk . |
| 8 | The catalogue user would seem to have been conditioned to seek information solely in terms of the system 's own requirements , which are dependent on the title descriptions of documents . |
| 9 | Would the team please comment on the effect of water supply and type of soil on the cooking properties of potatoes er Mr finds that all the maincrop varieties that he grows seem to boil into the water but the same variety grown commercially it says , does n't . |
| 10 | Allow this to work on the cooking residues for 20 minutes and then switch the combi-steamer onto the steam mode for 10-–15 minutes . |
| 11 | I was able to study only a few of these birds but Brosset 's ( 1978 ) research on the Malimbus weavers of the Gabon forests has usefully extended the story . |
| 12 | Against a background of uncertainty on European currency markets and continuing pressure on the French franc following the November realignment of the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) , the Norwegian central bank floated the krone on the exchange markets on Dec. 10 . |
| 13 | Last night , Mr Baker dismissed questions about the possibility that interest rates could be raised again and refused to be drawn on whether the pound 's dip below DM3 on the exchange markets during the day signalled a change in policy . |
| 14 | It is based not on the mythico-religious system resistant to challenge but on the exchange relations of the commodity market including the labour market . |
| 15 | The Hurricane lost it and flew round for five minutes , going down to 400 feet above the water to avoid appearing on the radar screens on nearby Italian-occupied islands . |
| 16 | The first incoming raid appeared on the radar screens at about 1345 , still 32 miles from the ships . |
| 17 | Birds of prey which rely on the heather moorlands for nesting and rearing their young , such as merlin and hen harrier , can do so without the persecution which sometimes occurs when their existence is in conflict with grouse-shooting interests . |
| 18 | Likewise , some hesitate , despite Jeffrey Shaw 's specific invitation to stand on the mirror steps onto which his videographic crowds of people and skyscapes are reflected , or pause rather than walking through Judith Barry 's wall of words across a computer animated floor . |
| 19 | Faults were discovered in the mountings on the crash barriers around the top deck of the car park in July . |
| 20 | Faults were discovered in the mountings on the crash barriers around the top deck of the car park in July . |
| 21 | After ten years , the site would be closed , giving scientists the opportunity to study the effects of the dumping on sea life , which on the abyssal plains of the deep sea , consists mainly of worms and molluscs . |
| 22 | It is also significant that Gloucester 's hold on the duchy servants in Lancashire , where he had no land , was weaker than in Yorkshire . |
| 23 | It is also significant that Gloucester 's hold on the duchy servants in Lancashire , where he had no land , was weaker than in Yorkshire . |
| 24 | These reductions in the labour power required to produce newspapers inevitably impact on the cost structures of the media groups concerned . |
| 25 | In a report on the cost implications of switching to single-tier councils , CIPFA claims that savings identified by the consultants , Touche Ross , have been overstated , while the potential costs involved are understated . |
| 26 | In recent years members of the department have been engaged in research on anti-discrimination law , commissioned by the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights in Northern Ireland , and Professor Munro has acted as a consultant to the European Parliament , while Mr Walker is participating in a project on the Policing Implications of European Co-operation , funded by the E.S.R.C . |
| 27 | Our advice , from solicitors and counsel , remained steadfast : that , in their view , the banks had clearly lost money through their own negligence and had not relied on the company accounts at all . |
| 28 | His first known job was of advising on the course alterations at Pyecombe in Sussex in 1902 , but he is better known for designing from scratch some of the country 's most stunning courses — Carnoustie , Dalmahoy , Blairgowrie and Royal Blackheath , plus many , many more . |
| 29 | Later these people reached all the inhabited areas of the Pacific and possibly America , it having been argued that they may have had a considerable influence on the rain-forest peoples of the New World , evidence coming from great similarities between certain groups in Borneo and central America , similarities greater than between these peoples and their geographic neighbours . |
| 30 | These same authors went on to compare the effects of homoeopathic potencies on the wheat seedlings with those on cultures of yeast , and obtained very similar results . |