Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] on [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took to it like a duck to water and from then on he 'd grill me for hours on end about the various types of plays , especially when we were watching it on TV . |
| 2 | We talked for hours on end about the existence or otherwise of God , the futility of human life , and all the other things that sixteen-year-old girls find to discuss . |
| 3 | Elderly ladies tend to cook themselves in front of an electric or gas fire for hours on end in an effort to keep warm . |
| 4 | Of all the community services on offer , he had chosen the coastguards , which involved nights spent quietly in a hut on the cliff tops watching for shipping ; and the hardest part of all the trials he endured in the Navy was being marooned on a ship for months on end with no opportunity to be alone . |
| 5 | ‘ Britain has the second highest level of taxes on alcohol in the EC and many are suffering as a result , ’ she said . |
| 6 | But behind the vast explosion of discourses on sexuality since the eighteenth century there is no single unifying strategy , valid for the whole of society . |
| 7 | He put on his glasses and read through the instructions several times before putting a pile of coins on top of the box and dialling . |
| 8 | I think in this day and age , there is probably a greater propensity to move and consequently there may well be an increased erm amount of vacancies occurring and that was why in our statement , we actually increased the number of vacancies , but I think that is a function of the number of houses on offer at the time . |
| 9 | When the lawyer representing British Caledonian Airways , who were opposing Virgin 's application , remarked that Virgin would need ‘ a lot of groups on Top of the Pops ' to afford to run an airline , Branson promptly retorted that Virgin 's £11.4m profits in 1983 were actually more than twice those of British Caledonian . |
| 10 | A good feature this year was the gallery of pictures on view in the Undercroft . |
| 11 | They will be joined by the former collection of books on architecture from the libraries of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Musées de France at present in the Louvre . |
| 12 | Using the count of books on loan at a given time for each interest category , he takes the square root of each of these numbers . |
| 13 | Gifts , ‘ Green ’ products for the home , and a wide range of books on sale at the Centre 's shop . |
| 14 | The campsite also has a selection of shops on site including a supermarket , launderette , bureau de change and weekly flea market and the resort of Canet Plage is only a five minute drive away . |
| 15 | The scope for the voluntary sector and not for profit activity in the nineteen nineties is immense , it will not be expansion just for its own sake , but principled entrepreneurial activity aimed to make the most of opportunities on behalf of the community . |
| 16 | Jim Bamford gave the vote of thanks on behalf of the fellowship . |
| 17 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 18 | If you can afford it this is what you do — come to Henley in style … then partake of some of the 3,000 bottles of champagne , 4,000 bottles of Pimm 's and almost two tonnes of strawberries on sale in the Steward 's Enclosure . |
| 19 | Thus in Figure 17.3(b) , the supply of bills on offer by the discount houses to the Bank falls as the rate of rediscount rises ( the supply curve of bills by the discount houses is upward sloping ) . |
| 20 | He wrote highly thought of articles on technique for the British Journal of Photography , and eventually became official photographic instructor to his beloved Royal Geographical Society . |
| 21 | Opposition came mainly from lawyers and magistrates , protesting that prosecutions would increase the number of offences on account of the publicity . |
| 22 | High levels of uranium over granites such as Cairngorm and Mount Battock argue against using the granites in the interior of buildings on account of the risk of radon gas emanation . |
| 23 | ‘ Despite protests on behalf of the ladies , ’ it adds , ‘ a resolution was carried that in future conference should not adjourn to play bowls . ’ |
| 24 | The fine pair of dogs on top of the gateposts of the present-day front door were taken away after the fire and put on the gateposts of a house near Mere , belonging to Bullen 's daughter-in-law 's second husband , Mr Chaffin . |
| 25 | Word is circulating that Digital Equipment Corp will be laying off 1,000 software engineering staff in Europe over the next couple of weeks on top of the 6,000 redundancies worldwide that were announced last week . |
| 26 | Detailed advice on choice of specialisation and other subjects is provided by the student 's Director of Studies on admission to the School . |
| 27 | If teachers are to be expected to put the policy into practice , head teachers must ensure that teachers ' views are taken into account , as well as those of the governors — with whose general statement of principles on discipline within the school the head is legally obliged to comply . |
| 28 | Er John , of of Consultants on behalf of the er Council for the Protection of Rural England . |
| 29 | It did , however , assist in the concentration of bombers on route to the target and was invaluable in getting aircraft back in conditions of bad weather , GEE 's most important occasion was perhaps the 1,000-Plan , when nearly 1,000 aircraft passed through the target area in about 90 minutes , making Koln a watershed in the history of the British Bomber Offensive . |
| 30 | Now the results of experiments on habituation of the OR have been taken as supporting the latter assertion — dishabituation fails to occur if the changed context is familiar . |