Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ten week preparation course on to the Open University programme leading to the diploma in Health and Social Welfare starts . |
| 2 | Paint black and silver squares on to the large strip of white fondant surrounding the neck of the rocket to give a chequered design . |
| 3 | Paint silver stars on to the dark blue board . |
| 4 | Using a very fine brush or tip of a cocktail stick , paint silver stars on to the blue background . |
| 5 | These details then lead the research worker on to the next step , which is that of drawing the threads together . |
| 6 | This downhill was set down the long-established OK course from Bellewarde to La Daille ; the two in February will be on the new Olympic piste carved down the precipitate north-east face on to the very heart of the village . |
| 7 | I put Growmore fertiliser on at the same time as the compost and it seems to have no ill-effects . |
| 8 | Welding a bonding cable on to the new rail . |
| 9 | Assembly of the Peugeot is a matter of fixing the separate plastic guard plate on to the trimmer head . |
| 10 | With SVR4.1 ES as the generic source base for all future products , and UI 's goal is to reduce time to market with each technology release and push the operating system on into the commercial market . |
| 11 | When using a plunger , ensure that it seals well on to the surface ( smearing petroleum jelly on to the rubber surface helps ) and that you do n't simply pump the water up the overflow pipe and back into the sink — hold a wet cloth tightly over the overflow while using one . |
| 12 | The 30-year-old Londoner , son of the late Graham Hill , steered his Canon Williams Renault on to the front row of the provisional grid alongside pole man and team-mate Alain Prost with a brilliantly controlled display of driving on the treacherous Interlagos track . |
| 13 | It was n't until she had successfully launched The Body Shop on to the Unlisted Securities Market that she began to examine the direction in which the business was going and to start articulating its mission in a definitive way . |
| 14 | What are the prospects for mining specialist Bernard Pache hanging on to the top job at state-owned Compagnie des Machines Bull SA now that France is to have a new administration ? |
| 15 | A blur of lights as a quick thinking cameraman locks on to the first Patriot missile fired in war . |
| 16 | Since Bush 's State of the Union address , Congress had moved at an unusually rapid pace to adopt a tax package which would be responsive to his demands but would also shift a greater proportion of the tax burden on to the wealthy . |
| 17 | Almost touch them with my hand , thought Jenny Dale as she looked out on the skyscrapers , then turned her attention to flying the small , six-seater , twin-engined Piper Seneca on to the final approach . |
| 18 | Since FIFA accepted South Africa back on to the international stage their top players have become available for transfer at cheap prices . |
| 19 | Peugeot has just introduced its DEC 1500 wallpaper stripper model on to the British market . |
| 20 | It dribbled something nasty from its back end on to the white sheet . |
| 21 | It occurs in a number of quite precise and extremely crucial contexts , from the Maccabean regime on into the first century A.D. Thus the High Priest at the period of Judas Maccabeus ( who died in 160 B.C. ) is referred to as a Zaddik and described as being ‘ a zealot for the law ’ . |
| 22 | The thirty-minute flight was followed by twenty minutes in a truck to a dilapidated harbour where a black-skinned man hauled himself from a motor boat on to the patched wooden dock . |
| 23 | Trace the dotted lines on the paper templates on to the hardened icing cut-outs . |
| 24 | A mouth that trembled and opened to expose pointed thorns for teeth seemed to work to speak ; over all , the shape of the woodland creature was that of a wolf , but a bare boned wolf , its fur gone , its flesh shrunken on to the jutting bones of its body . |
| 25 | He opened the car door and dropped his cigarette end on to the concreted surface where it glowed with vulgar ruddiness on the silver sharpness of the frost till he ground it under his foot as he stepped out . |
| 26 | ‘ Piss off , ’ said Onyx unemotionally , pulling the disposable paper nappy on to the unappetizing baby with a remarkable lack of expertise , considering it was her fourth . |
| 27 | The advantage of superimposing from within the colour section is that you are able to superimpose more than one garment piece on to the same colour pattern at the same time , providing there is enough room on the screen . |
| 28 | He watched Peter climb on to the large heap of coal by the wall and start to fill a bag . |
| 29 | This should firm the edge fibres on to the new cloth , and form a definite groove along the book . |
| 30 | Place some royal icing in a piping bag and pipe a handle and door knocker on to the sweet door . |