Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the point at which her mother usually said , ‘ You are only fourteen , ’ — an undeniable truth which Molly decided to save for the endless discussions on the subject which would be bound to occur in the weeks to come . |
| 2 | Canary yellow , no. 108 , ochre , No. 184 and brown ochre , No. 182 were applied for the golden glazes on the coffee pot , cup and saucer , with an ultimate highlight of white . |
| 3 | Nineteen ninety one will be remembered first for the extraordinary events on the international stage — the Gulf War , the Soviet coup and the release of the hostages . |
| 4 | The hope for the future rests on the merging of the separately funded worlds of universities and polytechnics . |
| 5 | This approach effectively placed services for the black communities on the margin of mainstream service delivery and turned collective issues concerned with race into individual case work ( Ben-Tovim et al . |
| 6 | Safety manager , presented and with their own pen sets as well as those for the other lads on the team . |
| 7 | It had taken Carlson some time but he believed that he had finally worked out who was responsible for the ritualistic murders on the planet . |
| 8 | It is essential , however , that the student takes responsibility for the final decisions on the selection of strategies and means of implementation . |
| 9 | The public be excluded from the meeting for the following items on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs eight and one of part one of schedule four A of the I so move er , paper G , and I believe we 've got , oh , I 'm sorry , Morris . |
| 10 | Most of the 1,500 crowd who came for the best objects on the last two days of the sale meanwhile , were just tourists , which made taking bids extremely difficult and fatiguing , Tajan said . |
| 11 | For the 24 students on a new Performing Arts Course at the Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology , it was a first day they would never forget . |
| 12 | It has fallen most heavily and for the longest periods on the most vulnerable members of society , with a particular concentration on the young , and on unskilled or semi-skilled workers . |
| 13 | I agree with the Lord of Aberdale that it is vital for the elected representatives on the police authority to be clearly seen to be in the driving seat of the committee . |
| 14 | Obviously , there 's no need to give up favourite foods , but look for the healthiest options on the shelves : for example , low-calorie dressing rather than thick mayonnaise ; reduced-sugar baked beans ; margarine or spreads rather than butter ; skimmed milk . |
| 15 | Hard , they say , to be too overawed by a character like Cage , whose music includes Roaratorios and a piece composed solely for the white keys on the piano . |
| 16 | As for the white kids on the estate , they experience the immediate effects — unemployment , bad housing , but they 're in no position to understand or tackle the actual underlying causes . |
| 17 | She 'd sit in her dressing-gown by the window and try to listen for the electric trams on the distant street , anything to give some kind of shape or structure to her day , but the noise made even this impossible . |
| 18 | The shock for the three neighbours on the discovery of Ann Pearman can well be imagined . |
| 19 | The competitors who had entered all three parts of the competition had usually designed all three parts together , and in some cases had shown drawings for the different parts on the same piece of paper . |
| 20 | For the shorn hairs on the head of every initiate , and on any other hirsute parts of their bodies , prickled and stood on end , as though an electrifying ghost briefly shared their body-space with them . |
| 21 | About 150,000 price quotations are collected for the 350 items on a specified Tuesday near the middle of every month . |
| 22 | He wriggled to the rear of the cupboard ; felt for the wooden battens on the panel at the end of the dark space . |
| 23 | These qualities are revealed in the tree-like species grown principally for the striped markings on the trunk , the so-called snakebark type . |
| 24 | He returned to his regiment in September 1918 during the final advances on the German lines . |
| 25 | Instead of limited liberal-democracy they saw unrestrained mass democracy pushing the state into ever more intervention ; instead of responsible party government they saw adversary politics ; and instead of the harmony of pluralist group competition they saw only overload and hyperpluralism with the trade unions as the new lads on the top . |
| 26 | as the Victorian engravings on the stairs |
| 27 | The patterns in the hewn rock were evocative , thin traceries of crystal , she imagined , beautiful whorls and arches , as fine to look at as the fine lines on a mother 's face . |
| 28 | When the chart specifies a time outbound such as the 3 minutes on the adjoining pattern , such time is meaningless unless allied with a specific speed to produce a specific distance . |
| 29 | Once the bickering and backbiting , which also led to Terry Vaux and Gwilym Treharne standing down from their posts as the Welsh representatives on the International Rugby Board , had died down , the general committee resolved to consult the clubs again over links with the Republic . |
| 30 | Teachers should encourage an interest in both rural ( traditional ) and urban dialects of English , by contrasting local non-standard dialects with Standard English , often using pupils as the linguistic experts on the former . |