Example sentences of "on [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 yeah , I would n't call that cheap oh there was summat on t' other day , Sunday , and I told him and he forgot about it did n't he ? ,
2 ‘ T' Brownies laid yum acrost t' river one night long ago so'as an old farmwife who 'd been kind to yum could get over to her daughter 's house on t' other side without goin' miles a-down t' river t' bridge . ’
3 I landed 'im one for that and bowled him clean over — now he 's grinning on t' other side of 'is face !
4 ‘ I 've heard on t' Brownie gals , ’ Aunt Nellie told her when the tall lady had driven off in her smart two-seater sports-car , ‘ but I don' reckon they do the sort o' good turns I 'd set store by — like helpin' wash up an' lay t' table — that I don' ! ’
5 ‘ Do n't tell me you have n't heard on t' Brownie wee folk ! ’
6 One six zero zero four are not even anything you want to rest on , fundamental problems are each treatment , the processes , and erm distortion of thin rings , which as them er , er , er , an issue when it goes to face grinding , in as much as because of the distortion you get all those lever locks stuck on , and you got to do about twenty passes on t' face grinder rather than two , and that means that we 've got an equipment out of balance in the factory , because er , it 's got , you know , so there 's quite a lot of investment
7 When he again came to visit he found a very different situation , with the starving Buttery spirit stretching out in vain for the wholesome food on the larder shelves .
8 She swivelled her eyes to the potatoes Léonie was fetching from their earthy resting-place on the larder floor .
9 The breadboard is on the larder shelf .
10 ‘ What is on the kitchen table ? ’ or ‘ What is on the larder shelf ? ’ etc .
11 ‘ The officers are concerned especially about the wording on the disclaimer notice issued to NBS participants .
12 Apparently from the notes , a certain Fruchtbaum in the Times Literary Supplement has described Charles on setting out on the Beagle voyage in such terms , which is certainly an exaggeration , but I do not know anyone else who has ever subscribed to that opinion .
13 Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment .
14 On the Beagle voyage , Darwin had discovered evidence for the ‘ law of succession of types ’ by unearthing South American fossils related to the unique modern inhabitants of that continent .
15 That 's the Argentine base in the south-west of Tierra del Fuego , on the Beagle Channel .
16 The fall in late-life fecundity was much smaller in crosses between ‘ r' lines , showing that the genetic basis of selection response differed between them , and that senescence had evolved by accumulation of partially recessive deleterious alleles , which would not be expected on the optimization theory .
17 The new Powerdisplay 16 and 19 are now also available on the deskside models .
18 The new Power display 16 and 19 are now also available on the deskside models .
19 In Vologsky 's squadron , each individual pilot fell due for such a flight every twelve days on the rota system .
20 Comments from several solicitors , from both large and small practice firms , suggest that there remain on the rota solicitors who have over-valued or mis-stated their criminal experience :
21 Sometimes even minute breakthroughs on the talking front can transform a flagging sex life .
22 About the only place you could see them was on the scrap heap .
23 We devised a sort of Great Egg Race for the children — Rover gave us some materials which would normally have gone on the scrap heap , lent us a hall and judged the competition .
24 Almost everyone , man or woman , feels some sense of misgiving at the prospect of retirement , and for men in particular , it can seem like being ‘ thrown on the scrap heap ’ .
25 Aesthetic appreciation is thrown on the scrap heap .
26 And they were going to throw it on the scrap heap but somebody in the mill the said , that was the bicycle that Adam had made .
27 On the scrap heap , girls , after fifty , unless you alter and stretch so much that the staples keep hitting the continuity girl .
28 As a result , they would be better educated and would not be thrown on the scrap heap .
29 The figures for this year show that £20 million-worth of coal will be imported to Britain by the end of December — the equivalent of closing 20 average-sized pits and getting rid of between 20,000 and 25,000 miners by throwing them on the scrap heap .
30 They start their young lives by being thrown on the scrap heap at 16 , 17 or 18 .
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