Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our large cases sit on a small side table at knee-level . |
| 2 | All treatment was withdrawn for a minimum of two weeks , after which inclusion in the trial depended on a diastolic blood pressure >105 mm Hg . |
| 3 | The settlement price ( or the exchange delivery settlement price , EDSP ) is the trading price ( per 100 nominal ) for the futures contract on the last day of trading . |
| 4 | Buddie was sitting on a hard chair with one foot resting on an upturned petrol-tin . |
| 5 | During the plague of 1603 rumours were fathered on him and John Dee [ q.v. ] to the effect that its future course depended on the imminent fall of a planet to earth . |
| 6 | The US decision was the decisive factor in persuading the military-backed interim government and local business groups to agree on the same day to renewed negotiations with the Organization of American States ( OAS ) . |
| 7 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 8 | Do you really believe that the first contact after weeks of silence just happened by sheer coincidence to fall on the same day as your arrival here ? |
| 9 | In its original form the Bill made provision for a single ballot , the decision resting on a simple majority of those voting . |
| 10 | This is because the subjects taught really fall into three types , namely , appropriate parts of basic disciplines taught on a theoretical basis , e.g. economics , psychology , sociology , mathematics ; essentially practical , procedural subjects such as accounting , and problem areas which are a mixture of theory , practice and problem solving , e.g. marketing , policy studies . |
| 11 | The debts shown in the Accounts relating to the Business ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the corresponding accounts for the preceding three financial years ) were good and collectable in full in the ordinary course of business and have or will realise the net amount thereof . |
| 12 | No debt of the Business which may be owing at Completion is overdue by more than eight weeks and the amount of such debts ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the Accounts and disclosed in the Disclosure Letter ) will be recoverable in full in the ordinary course of business and in any event not later than eight weeks after Completion and none of the said debts is subject to any counter-claim or set-off except to the extent of any such provision or reserve . |
| 13 | US troops in Panama remain on the highest state of alert . |
| 14 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 15 | Although a plot of sorts involves the intrigues of the Egyptian Queen , whose enfeebled brother and consort has no power to break her obsessive love for ‘ the Wanderer ’ , the story turns on the simple fact that Odysseus must for ever love an unattainable ideal . |
| 16 | AN HOUR to spare on a recent visit to London gave me the opportunity to visit the famous Science Museum 's well-advertised new gallery ‘ Physics and Nuclear Power ’ . |
| 17 | The expression " breach of warranty " is often used in disputes about deferred consideration , when vendors are said in the agreement to " warrant " that the profits reach a specified figure , and the purchasers seek a repayment from the vendors to compensate them for that loss , in most cases calculated on a pre-agreed formula : if the profits exceed the specified figure , the vendors may be entitled to additional consideration . |
| 18 | Dewlike drops of moisture formed on the dry grass , and rose upward through the air as if powered by the jolts in our chest . |
| 19 | It 's not obvious a priori whether all or any pair of these projects converge on a single set of structures . |
| 20 | Wigeon grazed on the far shore . |
| 21 | He slipped his arm around her and they walked through the park to sit on a secluded seat there . |
| 22 | And the involuntary malice within the desperate attempts to remain on the safe side of the frontier of madness . |
| 23 | place the services with the proposed single-tier local authorities — i.e. between 15 to 51 authorities depending on the future structure of local government . |
| 24 | Symbolically the owl sits on an Evil Eye that has been pierced by a spear , suggesting that the owl 's own ‘ Evil Eye ’ has been incapacitated by the mobbing display . |
| 25 | Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts . |
| 26 | The series of oral papillae is separated from the 2–3 small blunt oral tentacle scales situated on the proximal edge of the adoral shields — these scales are much smaller than the oral papillae . |
| 27 | These figures are of course calculated on the nursing agency rates . |
| 28 | Then one day in the summer of 1989 — around the time that I had signed a contract to go on the second rebel tour of South Africa — I got a call from Australia that came as a bombshell . |
| 29 | Billy resignedly followed his friend up the gently rising slope of the car park situated on the left hand side of the building . |
| 30 | By using arcs struck about the assembly points and passing through the other attachment points on the intermediate link , the member may be Positioned initially to a chosen point on the locus of point P ( see Figure 7.42 ) and then rotated to generate an attachment point on the locus of point Q ( link C ) . |