Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bomb disposal squad was called to the main postal sorting office in the French port of Le Havre after one of the postmen on duty detected a sinister ticking inside a parcel he was handling . |
| 2 | And we could really , add in for each organism in different weights the significance of each of the factors on each side . |
| 3 | What could be worrying is the extremity of some of the observations on rap records , for instance . |
| 4 | Being married to Brightman , he has said , has made it " much easier for performers to get in touch and feel they cart talk about their problems , and it 's a good thing for me to be aware of some of the problems on the other side of the theatre fence " . |
| 5 | Colin McEvedy has even proposed ( 1989 ) that the Phaistos Disc is a modern fake , a more successful Aegean equivalent of the Piltdown hoax , but this seems unlikely in view of the recurrence of some of the symbols on other Minoan artefacts . |
| 6 | His resignation honours list in 1976 , drawn up to reward prominent Labour Party supporters , was controversial because of some of the names on it . |
| 7 | Here 's just a selection of some of the attractions on offer . |
| 8 | The biggest of all of the engines on the Fat Controller 's Railway . |
| 9 | The activity of a Z-neuron is therefore , the result of summing the effects of all of the X-neurons on that cell . |
| 10 | The national economic crisis led to the removal of many of the subsidies on foodstuffs . |
| 11 | These reservations notwithstanding , the internationalism of many of the films on view reiterated the numerous concerns common to all gay people everywhere . |
| 12 | Rain believed he was reaching towards one of the cups on the table , but Barbara Coleman stood across the table from him and she recoiled . |
| 13 | It went off prematurely , leaving half of one of the Iraqis on a nearby roof and the other under arrest . |
| 14 | There 's another picture of one of the barges on the Trent . |
| 15 | Our panel this month included Paul Boutinot of Paul Boutinot Wines the north 's leading shipper , who trotted out some wines form his own stable of Champagne look-alikes ; Bill Towers who must be unique in Britain because as a sheep farmer in the Lake District he runs a very successful wine merchants out of one of the barns on his farm . |
| 16 | My store of money began to dwindle but at last I found Le Coq d'Or , a dingy , two-storey building which stood at the mouth of one of the runnels on the far side of the Grand Pont opposite the elaborately carved Notre Dame Cathedral . |
| 17 | He stopped by the bike , taking his helmet out of one of the panniers on the back , and then swung his leg over the seat , straddling the machine easily . |
| 18 | Erm we have actually taken the views of one of the developers on that site and you 'll see erm the letter that we received from him is included within our appendix nine . |
| 19 | The name of one of the dolls on Playschool . |
| 20 | Put yourself in the position of one of the bystanders on the path of Christ 's passion : Are you not moved to tears of remorse by the only Begotten Son of God , who for you and all mankind , in his innocence , was seized , dragged along , blindfolded , mocked , spat upon , crowned with thorns , finally hanged between thieves on the cross ? … |
| 21 | I thought a cup of sweet English tea or warm camels ' milk and clove and a sleep , and certainly not to take the wheel of one of the cars on their way to Al Ain . |
| 22 | Some leases contain rather more elaborate provisos such as : " no demand for or acceptance of rent by the landlord or its agents with knowledge of a breach of any of the covenants on the part of the tenant contained in these presents shall be or be deemed to be a waiver wholly or partially of any such breach but such breach shall be deemed to be a continuing breach of covenant " . |
| 23 | This principle , that within each diplomatic rank ( ambassador , minister-resident , etc. ) precedence should be decided merely by seniority , was to lead more than half a century later , by the international convention of 1818 , to a final solution of most of the issues on which for generations so many energies had been expended and so much ink spilt . |
| 24 | Memories of my childhood and how hard I was made to work , working like that in the fields on an empty stomach . |
| 25 | Like one of the soldiers on the war memorial rallying La République with fixed bayonets . |
| 26 | He rather looked like one of the comics on television who will always wear his khaki shorts halfway to his ankles . |
| 27 | Some people thought that with the mitre on his white hair he looked like one of the effigies on the tombs of the prelates which they met recumbent in cathedrals , and fancied that here was a bishop out of the Middle Ages . |
| 28 | To revert to my opening discussion for a moment , one might say that the conflict between the drives of the id and the demands of the cultural superego represented above all in the taboos on incest and aggression against the father has become severely exacerbated and that , if Freud felt that in his day the balance was too far on the side of society and the superego , today it has swung too far in the direction of the individual and the id ; for it is clear that a balance between these two opposing fundamental forces is the essence of human existence . |
| 29 | He wadded the money up tight and shoved it into one of the pouches on his Sam Browne belt . |
| 30 | He was unusually distrait as he buttered a slice of toast and cut into one of the rashers on his plate , then after a minute 's thoughtful chewing he brought down his hand on the table with a suddenness that made me jump . |