Example sentences of "[verb] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then opposing fans mixed on the same terraces without the ‘ taking of ends ’ . |
| 2 | Wellington said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 3 | Five of the eight appear on the royal books for 1661 as members of the ensemble known as the Hautbois et musettes de Poitou . |
| 4 | Faint white spots next appear on the top surfaces of leaves , but turn the leaves over , and more prevalent patches will be found . |
| 5 | The other two , Braniel and Andersonstown , are both located on the outer edges of the city and might be described approximately as upper-working to lower-middle class . |
| 6 | It is likely that there were windows of appearance located on the first floors of the Minoan temples , overlooking both West and Central Courts . |
| 7 | These types of villages can be located on the two axes of temporal and social change ( figure 4.4 ) . |
| 8 | Two of them , Pompeii and Herculaneum , which were located on the lower flanks of Vesuvius , were particularly badly shaken by the shocks , and some damage was done , but the townspeople were not especially alarmed . |
| 9 | They had fulfilled various ecological niches which were occupied on the American continents by other birds . |
| 10 | GRAHAM TAYLOR yesterday vowed not to quit as England manager — but admitted he feels as hounded on the back pages as the Royal Family are on the front . |
| 11 | It would be both remarkable and alarming if that change alone did not bring greater scrutiny to bear on the perennial dilemmas of NATO strategy and of roles and responsibilities in the Alliance . |
| 12 | Dr O'Reilly has exceptional marketing experience and talents which when brought to bear on the solid foundations of these businesses should help create a new level of profitability . ’ |
| 13 | These were beehive-shaped stone structures , made so that the many apertures between the stones let the wind through , with most of the moisture being trapped on the rough surfaces of the stones . |
| 14 | ‘ But we seemed to concentrate on the economic effects of the Industrial Revolution , and stuff like that . |
| 15 | I intend to concentrate on the two subjects of today 's debate , education and employment . |
| 16 | It was half way through , and she could not understand a word of the dialogue and was surprised and rather indignant that she could not understand , for she had genuinely looked forward , with half of herself , to seeing a picture : as it was , she found herself obliged to concentrate on the other aspects of the affair . |
| 17 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 18 | Therefore , some of the larger single roses become giant-sized once they are pressed , and can really only be used for big arrangements on walls , such as murals , so try to concentrate on the smaller varieties of rose , as you will still be astonished at their relative size once they are pressed . |
| 19 | Although in actual practice the Formalists tended to concentrate on the formal qualities of literature , this was because formal devices were taken to be the means whereby defamiliarization was realized . |
| 20 | David Hall exhibited at MOMA an elegant piece which drew on the lost potentialities of the Nipkow disc , mechanical heart of the early Baird Televisor , ‘ superseded ’ and eradicated by a progress which has been synonymous with standardization . |
| 21 | Hailed as a modern masterpiece , it drew on the basic elements of nineteenth-century picturesque — towers , pavilions , arches , and vaults — but gave them a distinct Scandinavian feel and line , the spirit of the sagas , as embodied in the gigantic statues at the entrance . |
| 22 | The association was chaired by John Hume and drew on the self-help traditions of the credit unions . |
| 23 | It is also blamed on the human technologies of slaughter and environment destruction . |
| 24 | The families Qaddafi knows are organized , grouped on the natural principles of descent , and provide society with systematic natural and just relationships which necessarily include every individual who has been born . |
| 25 | He also reported on the possible links between a parish in the East End of Glasgow , where the Minister was the Rev. Ada Younger , and Orap , in Zimbabwe , following the very successful visit from Simbongile Jamaila . |
| 26 | Larry covers ‘ working-class sport for the working classes ’ , one of his classics being the time he reported on the local-government elections in Westminster . |
| 27 | The nimble pack horses , with a capacity to carry twenty stone , moved on the narrow trails in a train of twenty horses , connected one to another by plaited tail to following halter . |
| 28 | Thomas and Kassab recently reported on the substantial benefits of fluoridation for the dental health of women aged up to 32 years who had lived continuously on Anglesey and who were attending St David 's Maternity Hospital between July 1986 and July 1987 for their confinement . |
| 29 | She had come on no other Scarabae beyond Cheta , who had brought her breakfast . |
| 30 | At present the science curriculum is structured around physical science interests , on which boys are keener ( how motor cars work , atoms and molecules ) ; we were able to recommend that teaching build on the overlapping interests of the two sexes , because girls as well as boys want to know more about human biology and spectacular features of the environment ( animals in the jungle , volcanoes and earthquakes , acids and chemicals ) . |