Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waking in his room at the week-ends , Sandra was there beside him , her head against his shoulder , the sun-bleached hair half-covering her ears ; the warm curve of her body shuddered a little when he stroked it , his fingers traced round the freckles on her shoulder , islands on an ocean of tanned skin . |
| 2 | The birds caught in the traps on Fair Isle will be mainly the smaller passerines such as warblers , chats and the like , which tend to seek out any cover available . |
| 3 | His eyes dropped to the socks on her feet . |
| 4 | A popular feature will surely be musician Peter Gabriel 's ‘ US ’ project for which he has commissioned 11 international artists of hugely diverse styles to create images inspired by the tracks on his new album ‘ US ’ ; amongst these are British artists David Mach and Andrew Goldsworth , German Rebecca Horn , Israeli Sculptor Zadock Ben David , and Zush who exists in his own self-created state of Evrugo . |
| 5 | On that occasion , much of the room was in darkness , and the two gentlemen were sitting side by side midway down the table — it being much too broad to allow them to sit facing one another — within the pool of light cast by the candles on the table and the crackling hearth opposite . |
| 6 | The Leningrad city and regional Communist Party first secretary and leading conservative , Boris Gidaspov , had been the most prominent local party leader to ignore party recommendations and had refrained from standing in the elections to the Russian Supreme Soviet , having apparently anticipated the kind of defeat inflicted at the polls on March 4 and 18 on many other Russian city and regional party secretaries . |
| 7 | Happily attempts are being made to change the colts qualifying date to September 1st from 1993 onwards rather than the anomalous January 1st which has for years disrupted team building by splitting units established over the years on the September date . |
| 8 | He defied suspension under a gagging contract imposed by the counties on their cricketers — but which , I feel , the players should have refused to sign . |
| 9 | It is based on the 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey and extends work done by the investigators on the 1980 Survey . |
| 10 | Above all it takes seriously the work done by the pupils on site , and incorporates it into further classwork . |
| 11 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 12 | The inability of the Party substantially to improve its image despite the personal sacrifices frequently shown by individuals in , for instance , the NSV ( the Party 's welfare organization ) , had its roots in the unpopularity of so many manifestations of the Party 's social and political role during the 1930s : the alienation produced by the attacks on the Christian Churches , the overbearing arrogance of the ‘ little Hitlers ’ , the hooliganism and loutish vulgarity of the organized mobs , and the irremovable taint of corruption and venality . |
| 13 | The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view . |
| 14 | The plaintiffs brought an action for damages against the defendants for , inter alia , conspiracy to defraud the plaintiffs by the obtaining of inflated fees and commission payments in respect of a number of property transactions conducted by the defendants on the plaintiffs ' behalf . |
| 15 | On 9 November 1990 , in an action by the plaintiffs claiming damages against the defendants for conspiracy to defraud in respect of a number of property transactions conducted by the defendants on the plaintiffs ' behalf , the third defendant issued a third party notice against J. , an accountant who had advised the plaintiffs , claiming an indemnity or , alternatively , a contribution to such an extent as the court might think just , on the ground of the third party 's alleged failure to properly advise the plaintiffs in relation to the transactions . |
| 16 | They were with difficulty persuaded by the linguists on the Committee , particularly the Secretary , Peter Gannon ( an HMI ) , and Professor Gillian Brown , at that time Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Essex , to accept a model of language in tune with modern ideas and the needs of the contemporary school . |
| 17 | His attention settled on the ducks on the lake but whenever he got near they fled in panic to the shore and sheltered under bushes and trees where he could not reach them . |
| 18 | Particularly divisive at a parochial level was the stress placed by the bishops on the need for a greater reverence in the communion rite , and their determination that the portable communion tables , which had been used since Elizabethan times , should be replaced by altars permanently positioned at the east end of the chancel and separated from the body of the church by altar rails . |
| 19 | The roan plunged into the trees on the far side . |
| 20 | Believe it or not , even my own branch manager was unaware of changes made in the charges on my account ( through computers , of course ) by his head office and unsurprisingly , the customer — me — was never told . |
| 21 | Salads with studio umbrella lights reflected in the waterdrops on the crisp leaves . |
| 22 | The vessel used by the smugglers on this occasion was the sailing yacht Eloise , a forty five feet sloop which had loaded her illicit cargo in the Mediterranean . |
| 23 | Stoppages called by the unions on May 8 , 14 , 17 and 20 for improvements in pay and conditions were strategically timed for the run-up to the local elections . |
| 24 | Think of the untold billions of pounds spent by the police on attending court cases dealing with so many facets of the internal combustion engine . |
| 25 | The principles set by the schools on both sides of the Atlantic are effectively the same ; they are vocational training centres which make use of speed-learning techniques in a high-energy learning environment . |
| 26 | The provision has been criticised as unnecessary as most organisers liaised with the police on a voluntary basis . |
| 27 | The main yarn in feeder 1 knits the needles selected by the blanks on punchcard or electronic programme . |
| 28 | The will , signed in January 1990 , listed all investors ' holdings : these were shown as loans made by the individuals on the basis that these were repayable at given notice or on Mr Young 's death . |
| 29 | The 52 chapters of the work ( Thomas , 1956 ) were organized in three parts : the first retrospective , elaborating the way in which man has changed the face of the earth ; the second reviewing the many ways in which processes have been modified ; and the third concerned with the prospect raised by the limits on the role of man . |
| 30 | So much detail was not available to her then but she would have agreed to it all and later she would be able to describe more of the room , the contents of the cabinets , even the names of the people represented in the photographs on top of the piano ; she did not know then that this was the first of many visits to this room . |