Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life has become increasingly dangerous for the officer on the streets these days . |
| 2 | NATO Foreign Ministers , meeting in Brussels on Dec. 17 , placed the main responsibility for the conflict on the leaders of Serbia and of the Bosnian Serbs . |
| 3 | Consequently Paige 's nerves were stretched as tight as a drum by the time they stopped for the night on the banks of one of the streams they had waded through . |
| 4 | All might still have been well were it not for the rupture-discs on the vents above the reactor . |
| 5 | He was also , on the whole , for the Khedive on the grounds that at least he was the devil they knew . |
| 6 | I use a finer brush for the highlight on the ripples in the water and for the foreground plants , and a ruling pen for the tall grasses . |
| 7 | We shall find all these features clearly exemplified in the talk that accounts for the action on the terraces and that makes what happened in school meaningful and right . |
| 8 | The nearest clean water was from the standpipe in the churchyard ; they did not like to wash their finds there , because the water was for the flowers on the graves , but Martha fetched some in a bucket . |
| 9 | But now work on their old school is approaching its end and today was the last time for the children on the buses . |
| 10 | 4.2.1.2 to provide project management facilities for the Project on the terms and conditions set out herein and in the Grant Offer Letter dated 10 July 1990 |
| 11 | Similarly , in an 1894 speech , Millicent Fawcett pressed for the vote on the grounds that she ‘ wished to strengthen true womanliness in women , and because I want to see the womanly and domestic side of things weigh more and count for more in all public concerns ’ . |
| 12 | The Camden Town bomb attack in London at the end of February similarly injured several civilians , some seriously , and the IRA attempted to lay some blame for the carnage on the authorities . |
| 13 | Preliminary work had also been done during the war on the ideas for the social security scheme , and plans had begun to be drafted for a national health service . |
| 14 | There were open-air services during the summer on the beaches at Yarmouth and Bournemouth and there were inter-denominational Communion Services as an exercise in ecumenism . |
| 15 | Set on a slight , grassy slope in an enclosed corner of the park the sheep look as much a part of the landscape as the leaves on the trees . |
| 16 | Mickie told of some problems in helicopters , such as the pull on the blades at the hub of a Bristol-built helicopter in flight was equal to the draw bar pull of three main line locomotives . |
| 17 | In early September all leave and non-essential travel by US military and government personnel was cancelled owing to the increased security threat as the negotiations on the bases approached . |
| 18 | The formal shouts of challenge and reply were made between the guards on the watchtowers and the approaching horsemen , and a moment later there were hooves clattering in the yard . |
| 19 | The first speaker , Canon Ron Mitchinson , industrial commissioner for the of Oxford , says he 's concerned about the effects on the families involved . |
| 20 | Submitted another letter from Bob to Housing Dept in which he expresses concern about the effects on the children and asking for us to be re-housed in a safer area . |
| 21 | He felt it was time to ask about the stains on the clothes that Jim Lancaster had taken to the dry cleaner 's . |
| 22 | The remainder of Tramway No. 11 was inspected on 7 July and the Colonel asked about the gradients on the approaches to Pitlake Bridge . |
| 23 | I know about the deal on the paintings . |
| 24 | feeling that this gave to the beginning of that conference and this government then has the audacity to talk about the burdens on employers what about the burdens on the families of those whose relatives have been killed or diseased through workplace injuries by the negligence of the employers that actually employ them ? |
| 25 | As calmly as possible , Cowley told them about the accident on the outskirts of London . |
| 26 | And he was adamantly against anything changing the pattern of his life , for , as he said , he was having no netty inside , it was n't decent ; and just think about the effect on the sweets and the ingredients that went into their making . |
| 27 | Canon Devlin intoned the burial service in a creaky Latin and pulled his long cloak tighter around him against the wind that sifted through the cemetery on the outskirts of Milltown . |
| 28 | At this point you should go through the exercise on the senses and underline where you have used either a simile or a metaphor . |
| 29 | They squatted opposite each other on the top floor , on the landing , in the bright April light , which came , slightly dimmed by dirt , through the window on the stairs . |
| 30 | Its round towers and conical turrets peep unexpectedly through the trees on the hills north of Cardiff . |