Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Team manager of Kazakstan says the weather is hot , but his riders are doing well on the climbs . |
| 2 | The young wheat is streaked by silver lines of water running between the ridges , the sheep are gathered together on the slopes . |
| 3 | Conifers are planted mainly on the lightest soils and large plantations are established on the western half of the Downs and at Friston . |
| 4 | Friedman 's views are based essentially on the quantity theory relationship and depend crucially on statistical evidence which purports to show that velocity is relatively stable and predictable especially over long time periods . |
| 5 | In Herefordshire , education , health , social services and voluntary groups are working together on a Lifestyles Project which enables students leaving college to have a life of their own within the community . |
| 6 | Northern fur seals have for centuries been exploited commercially on the Pribilov and other islands in the Bering Sea ; since 1911 stocks have been managed and exploitation limited under international agreement , providing a rare example of successful management of an international resource ( Young , 1981 ; Gulland , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | It has often been said that heads are recruited largely on the basis of having been successful classroom teachers and are therefore appointed to a new task on the basis of their ability in a different job . |
| 8 | Trade relations between member countries would in future be conducted primarily on a bilateral basis . |
| 9 | Her words were carried away on the breeze , to join the tumult of sounds . |
| 10 | Pearce 's screams were borne away on the wind . |
| 11 | Bruce was in the hammock and Mr and Mrs van Meer were sitting side-by-side on the steps . |
| 12 | What would they think if Johnny were to sit casually on a chair which , to their eyes , simply was n't there ? |
| 13 | During July 1690 , demonstrating the French command of the Narrow Seas , small landing parties were put ashore on the Sussex coast to put up posters urging local residents , and especially army and navy officers , to support their former king , a somewhat pointless propaganda exercise , but a much more serious incursion followed . |
| 14 | Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines . |
| 15 | Somehow , he had moved closer , and their thighs were pressed together on the wooden seat . |
| 16 | WHEN Germany 's politicians agreed in March on a ‘ solidarity pact ’ to help pay the cost of unification , their eyes were fixed dreamily on a distant future . |
| 17 | His eyes were fixed remotely on the horizon . |
| 18 | His note-book and the library books were piled neatly on the stone with the wire and cutters . |
| 19 | The issues in Samson were focused commonly on the internal struggles of the individual confronted with temptation , and whether the poem achieved a tragic dimension or not . |
| 20 | The assessment presented in this chapter is based largely on a cognitive-behavioural model , but encompassing both ‘ psychodynamic ’ and ‘ systemic ’ approaches . |
| 21 | The relationship between the functions discussed in this chapter is indicated diagrammatically on the flow chart shown . |
| 22 | An economic appraisal is provided usually on a before-and-after , or with-and-without the project basis . |
| 23 | Probably the most effective way of dealing with an incipient spin in practice is to move forwards on the stick , apply the opposite rudder to check the yaw and then to use all the controls normally to bring the aircraft level . |
| 24 | This practice is based largely on the belief that intravenous heparin increases coronary artery patency rates . |
| 25 | A much easier alternative is to come here on a summer bank holiday weekend , join the queue and be winched down in a bosun 's chair courtesy of various caving clubs . |
| 26 | if the horse is travelling fast on the road he 's at the trot , I mean it is n't |
| 27 | The Honourable Diana Spencer was born late on the afternoon of July 1,1961 , the third daughter of Viscount Althorp , then aged 37 , and Viscountess Althorp , 12 years his junior . |
| 28 | The indifference of the electorate was blamed partly on the apathy produced by this being the fourth election in 18 months , by the confusing number of different party slates and by the lack of concrete proposal and programmes from the candidates . |
| 29 | Yet , beguiling as these songs may have been , there was little doubt that the success of Culture Club was based largely on the curious popular appeal of Boy George himself . |
| 30 | Her agent was talking somewhere on the air waves . |