Example sentences of "[noun] on [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German theologian , Wolfhart Pannenberg , emphasises this impact of the future on the present in Jesus ' teaching . |
| 2 | I do n't know what was said at the relief office but when Dad came back he just threw the ration card on the table in disgust . |
| 3 | ‘ We do n't know a lot , do we ? ’ she said , fixing her eyes on a policeman in uniform who was walking by . |
| 4 | Prost 's observations need to be weighed against his mounting paranoia as Senna continually proves to be the faster of the two but , when you see only one member of the McLaren-Honda management standing by Prost 's car on the grid in Spain while five key people fussed around Senna , Prost 's fears would appear to have substance . |
| 5 | This enables you to keep your mind on the task in hand . |
| 6 | ‘ Keep your mind on the task in hand , Cecily , ’ Athelstan murmured . |
| 7 | If he is asked to only trot round in large circles , he will have plenty of time to think about life being fun , whereas if he is ‘ worked ’ he will have to concentrate his mind on the job in hand . |
| 8 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |
| 9 | In October 1970 , screenwriter Goodman and Dustin started research on the character in New York by going to a couple of universities to observe the behaviour of certain professors , presumably threatening the eggheads with violence to see how they would react . |
| 10 | There is surprisingly little research on the differences in work performance which are traceable to sex differences , and the situation is complicated in many countries by the inclusion of sex as one of the variables where discrimination is legally inadmissible . |
| 11 | He thrust a sandwich on a plate in front of her . |
| 12 | On her way she encountered two fat pigeons gobbling the remains of a dropped sandwich on the pavement in front of her . |
| 13 | So you would use the carrying of weight on the gallops in training to see how fit a horse is ? |
| 14 | Durham County Council has been erecting safety fencing on the bridge in preparation for the opening of the link on the Teesdale Way but work was not complete . |
| 15 | All the usual kind of things … curtains ; a sort of dark blue velveteen stuff ; and then the blackout curtains , and lots of silly bits of brown tape on the glass in case Jerry drops a bomb . |
| 16 | I have witnessed this expansion in parts of North America for nearly 60 years , first working as a student with a pitchfork on the harvest in Alberta . |
| 17 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Feb. 2 reported that the ruling family was believed to want two concessions on the Constitution in return for setting a date for National Assembly elections . |
| 18 | To try to ignore it is about as much use as trying to ignore an aching tooth ; and it will have equal effect in preventing concentration on the work in hand . |
| 19 | In his concentration on the job in hand , John allowed his normal vigilance to slip . |
| 20 | There was a tray on the table in front of the stove with a bottle of ouzo , a jug of water , glasses , and a bowl of fat blue-black Amphissa olives . |
| 21 | Two social workers have been suspended from work following allegations that they smoked cannabis while supervising three teenagers on a holiday in Torquay . |
| 22 | Confidence is high among the experienced Darc Star team hoping to be the first UK successful attempt on the mountain in winter . |
| 23 | Later , on Oct. 1 , he claimed that Gates 's role " was to corrupt the process and the ethics of intelligence " , exemplified by his doctoring of assessments of the assassination attempt on the Pope in May 1981 in order to suggest KGB involvement , and his wilfully inflated estimate of Soviet influence in Iran in the mid-1980s in order to justify the sale of arms to so-called moderates in Tehran — the first step toward the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 24 | That is apart from the colossal cost of fitting cars with the number plates and finding out which cars needed to be fitted , catching drivers who had removed the plates , sending out bills , dealing with drivers who said they had not driven their cars on the date in question , and many another items . |
| 25 | The snow on the path in front of us was flawless ; behind , it was as churned up as a freshly-harrowed field . |
| 26 | And the time when I did my citizen 's good deed and spotted a wobbly wheel on the car in front . |
| 27 | Those were some of the high hopes at the start of Challenge 93 as representatives from seven European states parachuted into RAF Weston On The Green in Oxfordshire . |
| 28 | The Government 's initiatives on rough sleeping are having a marked effect on the problem in London . |
| 29 | That the long-term unemployment figures are much lower than they were bears testimony to the fact that many of our pledges and the policies that we have implemented are having a positive effect on the ground in relation to the individuals about whom Opposition Members spoke with such understandable feeling and passion . |
| 30 | All observers agreed that the effect on the situation in Algiers was profound . |