Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the recent experience of an Economist correspondent flying on an American-owned airline . |
| 2 | This is realized phonologically as a tone group , with the peak of prominence or tonic accent falling on the new element . |
| 3 | But in terms of luxury , elegance and sophistication , the Land Cruise was ( and is ) poles apart from the Venice Simplon Orient Express unleashed on an unsuspecting world in May 1982 . |
| 4 | Good reads among the new releases include Dick Francis 's COMEBACK ( Pan , £4.99 ) , his 34th racing thriller and as pacy as ever , Danielle Steel 's NO GREATER LOVE ( Corgi , £4.99 ) about the Winfield family whose lives are changed forever the night the Titanic sinks , and Mary Stewart 's STORMY PETREL ( Coronet , £3.99 ) , an atmospheric suspense story set on a Hebridean island . |
| 5 | The Moebius Strip stands on the southern bank of the Grand Canal about a kilometre along from the Baratha Arcade , between the Church of the Directed Panspermia and a crustacean restaurant . |
| 6 | Research summary To investigate , through a case study centered on a major commercial company , the organisational transformations taking place in commercial software development . |
| 7 | A Sunday Mirror exclusive linked to the television Crimewatch programme focused on a powerful attacker who was nicknamed ‘ Muscle Man ’ by detectives hunting him . |
| 8 | Billy resignedly followed his friend up the gently rising slope of the car park situated on the left hand side of the building . |
| 9 | This is because the prediction algorithm relies on the previous word positions being identified correctly , and this is often not the case . |
| 10 | He said in a Radio France Internationale interview broadcast on the same day that he had won 62.7 per cent of votes in the March 1989 presidential elections and that his opponents were a minority . |
| 11 | The aim is to develop a strong export industry based on a small number of processors who are not heavily involved in intervention schemes . |
| 12 | The labour force/retirement research focused on the 60–70 age-group , indeed sometimes drawing in those in their fifties , while the social research was more often concerned with those who were older and more dependent . |
| 13 | The Tyne Tees Television weekly current affairs programme Briefing reported on the desperate shortage of long-term foster parents throughout the North-East . |
| 14 | I remember my wedding ring sitting on a fat burgundy cushion , Oliver leafing through the telephone directory looking for people with silly names , how I felt . |
| 15 | Make sure that the appraisal interview ends on a positive note with the other person feeling up , not down . |
| 16 | The weight percentage retained on the coarsest sieve is plotted at the appropriate grain diameter , the sum of weight percentages retained in the two coarsest sieves is plotted at the next finer mesh , the cumulative contents of the first three sieves at the next finer mesh and so on until the entire sediment has been accounted for at 100% . |
| 17 | A short drive to the West is Clovelly , an extraordinary , quaint fishing village built on the steepest of cobbled streets running down to a tiny harbour . |
| 18 | On the little altar to his ancestors beside the mirror , lighted candles stood amidst tiny dishes of fruits , pork , fish and rice , and behind him incense burners and small brass pans of aloe wood set on a low lacquered table sent perfumed smoke drifting in gentle spirals towards the ceiling . |
| 19 | You 're heading a subsidiary of an internationally active company , or you 're coordinating employee benefit planning on an international level . |
| 20 | A jazz band played on a little stage at the end of the wide , luxurious room , and diners sat and listened at tables covered in white linen and silver . |
| 21 | The choice of the interviewers and the interview process depends on the particular job . |
| 22 | No orchestras , no opera , just loads of seal meat drying on every available ice slab . |
| 23 | NATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION EMBARKS ON A NATIONWIDE NETWORK TO HANDLE BENEFITS PAYMENTS |
| 24 | The 23-year-old Tynesider , now recovered from a serious pelvic injury , came on as substitute against Ipswich Town on Tuesday night to lay on the second goal for record signing Don Goodman . |
| 25 | Erwin Schulhoff 's neo-Ravel/Poulencian Third Sonata is also an absolute charmer in five movements , but it is Nicolai Kapustin 's jazz-inflected Second Sonata which left the most lasting impression , its perpetueum mobile Finale bordering on the insane in its executant demands , and I am sure that Petrov 's blinding performance is destined to become a classic of recorded piano music . |
| 26 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 27 | Applications are invited for a research assistant to work on a three-year SERC-funded programme based at Sheffield University . |
| 28 | I am aware that the association has provided a review paper to OFFER on the perceived barriers to the development of CHP , and the issues raised are primarily matters for OFFER . |
| 29 | Mr Bob Wright , National Farmers Union Midland and Northwest spokesman commenting on the good weather We do n't want to turn our cows into drug addicts . |
| 30 | She could not get the image of a yellow piqué dress crumpled on a white bed out of her mind . |