Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five of the eight appear on the royal books for 1661 as members of the ensemble known as the Hautbois et musettes de Poitou . |
| 2 | ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained . |
| 3 | The February and October revolutions seem to have had the same effect on the Russian colonists as the expulsion of the British had on the American colonists in the eighteenth century — a removal of all restraint on the ambitions to despoil native lands and assets . |
| 4 | Many children have been injured in increasing numbers over the last year , and it was the idea of one school teacher in Oxford to bring a group of gendarmes over to England to teach children how the French behave on the roads . |
| 5 | ‘ Yeah , we know it were him , ’ said a woman as she added another bunch of flowers to the hundreds piled on the embankment . |
| 6 | The first , purely spatial method groups eruptions according to the shape of the volcanic vent and where this is situated relative to the volcanic edifice as a whole , while the second depends on the character of the eruption itself , and the nature of the deposits it produces . |
| 7 | The first idea is of a metaphorical and anthropomorphic kind , and the second and third also call out for analysis , if only for the reason that there are other non-causal pairs of things such that the first explains the second and the second depends on the first . |
| 8 | The first course is an AI appreciation course requiring no specific prerequisite skills ; the second focuses on the techniques used in AI work for modelling problem solving , linguistic and visual abilities . |
| 9 | Consider , for example , the case of two owners of agricultural land on the periphery of a town , both of whom applied for planning permission to develop for housing purposes — the first being given permission and the second refused on the ground that the site in question was to form part of a green belt . |
| 10 | As the seventies wore on the numbers of lesbians in the WLM increased dramatically , the rumbles of discontent turned into roars . |
| 11 | The three called on the victim who lives alone shortly before 9pm on Monday night . |
| 12 | The three called on the victim who lives alone shortly before 9pm on Monday night . |
| 13 | The three called on the victim , who lives alone , shortly before 9pm on Monday . |
| 14 | And Mrs McMahon , who naturally had n't seen it because had n't she just this minute arrived back from the village and was n't the dress still in its bag , looked up at the three hovering on the stairs as though it were a divine deliverance , mumbled vaguely about a headache coming on , and thankfully abandoned her responsibilities to whoever was willing to take them on . |
| 15 | ‘ We did n't know ’ , he says as the three embark on the master plan , ‘ that we were playing with fire — Greek fire , ’ he adds , ‘ the kind that burns and destroys ’ , in case we do n't know what playing with fire means . |
| 16 | My work in the 1970s focused on the black holes that can result from such stellar collapse and the intense gravitational fields around them . |
| 17 | The promised re-routing on the Bromsgrove Line means that passengers make the connection at Worcester Shrub Hill . |
| 18 | Now the arcade will be knocked down with sheltered homes for the elderly built on the site . |
| 19 | We can observe the experiences that an animal has , and what it does , and study how the latter depends on the former . |
| 20 | In theory the self-appraisal and inspection are complementary exercises and the value of the latter depends on the quality of the former . |
| 21 | As well as these , there are the spiracular muscles and the epipleural muscles , the latter inserting on the subalare and basalare . |
| 22 | The investments are reported at the lower of cost and net current value , the latter based on the enterprises ' most recent accounts . |
| 23 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 24 | Wolfram 's ( 1980 ) account of variable constraints on prefixing a- to the present continuous form of the verb in Appalachian English ( e.g. ‘ He got sick a'workin' so hard ’ ) is also a mixture of quantitative and non-quantitative analysis , the latter focusing on the now familiar problems of establishing relevant environments and possible semantic distinctions encoded in a -prefixing . |
| 25 | To begin with Quakerism , Friends taking the initiative against the slave trade in the 1780s drew on the colonial American Quakers Benezet and Woolman . |
| 26 | Faye was lying on the outdoor lounger on the veranda as she had been yesterday , and she greeted Belinda briefly , her face creased with tension , before turning to Tom . |
| 27 | the secondhand snagged on the hourhand |
| 28 | The iodine-131 deposited on the ground would decay in a few weeks . |
| 29 | The author has been directing the excavations since 1961 , and many of the dramatic finds on the site have been made by him . |
| 30 | None of the bereaved stood on the spot where their relatives died . |