Example sentences of "of [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start from the layby next to the Dundonnell River which is two and a half miles south of Dundonnell on the A832 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 4 | Rory grinned , stirring his finger through a little patch of moisture on the side of his glass . |
| 5 | His hair was untidy , as though it had been blown by the wind , and there were tiny flecks of moisture on the rough Harris tweed material of his jacket . |
| 6 | As he came closer , Dougal saw that there was a drop of moisture on the pink tip of his nose . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nothing in the age of contentment has contributed so strongly to income inequality as the reduction of taxes on the rich ; nothing , as has been said , would so contribute to social tranquillity as some screams of anguish from the very affluent . |
| 10 | Has not my right hon. and learned Friend conclusively convinced the House that only a Conservative Government have the courage to reduce taxation on the one hand and to get rid of taxes on the other , in contradistinction to nearly all other Governments before them , and especially the one between 1974 and 1979 who found endless ways of leaching money out of other people 's pockets ? |
| 11 | May the force be with you : West Indies ' bowling heroes Curtly Ambrose ( left ) , who had match figures of 8–81 , and Courtney Walsh , whose spell of 11–7–8–4 on the last morning was decisive . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | " I 'm sick and tired of the pace of play on the Tour , " said the winner of this year 's Catalan Open . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What 's the state of play on the second one , did it were , were the trustees all dismissed , or did Brown Wilkinson 's judgment stop that ? |
| 16 | WALES captain Andrew Puddle led by example in his side 's six-wicket Minor Counties win over Dorset at Cherborne School — a victory that did n't look possible at the start of play on the second day . |
| 17 | New Zealand were within 33 runs of their first home Test victory in three years at close of play on the fourth day against Australia in Auckland . |
| 18 | At one point the local authority threatened to put a schedule of dilapidation on the place to force Jarvis 's mother to repair it . |
| 19 | There are already a lot of Puritans on the London City Council , and they 'd love to close the theatres down . ’ |
| 20 | What really concerns him , however , is the lack of progress on the national strategy for waste disposal that arose from the Gradouge incident . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Spittals was still one inspector down on his personnel establishment and had not seen any evidence of progress on the Mills murder . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | The Australian government also relaxed its ban on aid to Vietnam , as announced on Oct. 9 in a joint statement by Foreign Minister Gareth Evans and Trade Negotiations Minister Neal Blewett , in view of progress on the Cambodian settlement . |
| 25 | 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 ] . |
| 26 | Support workers also worry about the effect of setbacks on the generally negative attitudes of many people in the community to people with learning difficulties . |
| 27 | A couple of setbacks on the journey kept our group of five wondering if we should really be going . |
| 28 | Initially to examine the effects of differentiation on the relative levels of ATF1 and CREB we used a previously described assay in which CREB and ATF1 present in heat denatured nuclear extracts are 32 P-labelled using protein kinase A and immunoprecipitated ( figure 2B ) . |
| 29 | Baghdad radio had announced on April 3 the recapture of Sulaimaniya on the Iranian border , and the Vice-Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council and deputy secretary-general of the Baath Socialist Party regional command , Izzat Ibrahim , visited that city on April 4 , reporting the " return of security and stability to northern towns and areas " . |
| 30 | 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 . |