Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun pl] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would retail at £47.50 which compares very favourably with some of the better suits on the market . |
| 2 | This was once known as San Carlo 's Stable because of the archbishop 's mules were kept on the ground floor , the horses of the higher clergy on the first floor and hay for the animals on the upper floor . |
| 3 | Bill Fox and Michael Sinclair of York , who represent the associate members of the lower divisions on the management committee , are to meet officers of the GM Vauxhall Conference next Thursday to outline the League 's new requirements . |
| 4 | It was a practice requiring the submission of the lower classes on the street , yet at the same time reflecting subordination of the constables to the whims of senior officers and to a manipulative body of law . |
| 5 | The recruitment of migrant labour has also had what one might refer to as a series of indirect benefits , especially in the earlier phase of immigration , because Britain and the other importing countries were able to avoid the costs involved in actually producing the immigrant labour power , from the birth to the maturation of the workers concerned , and because of the lower demands on the welfare state of economically active , healthy , single , young men and women who nevertheless paid the same rate of taxation as other workers ( Gorz , 1970 ) . |
| 6 | being restricted by the roofs of the meaner buildings on the other side of the street . |
| 7 | Most of the smaller craters on the intercrater plains are secondaries , as indicated by their shallow elongated forms and their tendency to form clusters and chains . |
| 8 | Mochlos , one of the smaller towns on the north coast , is estimated ( by Todd Whitelaw , 1983 ) to have had a population ten times greater , living in an estimated fifty-five houses . |
| 9 | The meeting took place in one of the smaller boardrooms on the top floor and brought together the Chairman , Lord Monkton , Hammond Wilde , ‘ Squeezer ’ Lemon and Ms. Georgie Peacock , with Richie and Patrick in attendance . |
| 10 | The economic recession has caused European governments to take a fresh look at the extent to which a degree of interdependence in the past has been translated into a heavy dependence of the poorer areas on the richer north . |
| 11 | Aurigny does not compete with the bigger companies on the direct from Jersey or Guernsey to the UK . |
| 12 | His nephew , also called Timarchides , worked with the elder Timarchides on the Greek island of Delos , where he sculpted a portrait of the Roman businessman Gaius Ofellius Ferus . |
| 13 | A ploughman with a knack for handling horses could establish himself as a virtual NCO above the lower ranks on the land . |
| 14 | Though the yarn was prepared and spun in the new water-powered mills in the valleys , weaving long remained a domestic craft that was practised in the older settlements on the hillsides . |
| 15 | Some pupils , more boys than girls , placed in the lowest mathematics sets in their schools , were among the higher scorers on the reference test . |
| 16 | The groups at the higher points on the diagram — that is , those with higher median levels of RNR — consist of households in which the elderly live with younger people and it is one or more of the younger members who own or rent the home . |