Example sentences of "[conj] on [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be served on the person undertaking the activity , or on a person in control of it at the time the notice was served . |
| 2 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 3 | This ‘ business ’ characteristic does not require that he should regularly carry on business as an agent but simply that on the occasion in question he was acting as a business proposition . |
| 4 | Bristol Crown Court was told that on the day in question , the girl had gone to the shops with a friend , and stolen two cans of aerosol body spray . |
| 5 | And he points out that on the day in question , there were several serious emergencies , including the case of an eight year old boy who died . |
| 6 | She managed so well that on the Wednesday in Hartford she even got her encore , which she had rehearsed and never had the chance to perform , ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ . |
| 7 | A more serious difficulty is that on the theory in question : |
| 8 | Chuck Moxon drove , his colleague beside him operated the direction-finder ( D/F ) receiver , a small box like a miniature television , save that on the screen in place of a picture was a single glowing dot . |
| 9 | He worked furiously to revise and expand ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ , and on a night in February wrote a poem of wonderful beauty addressed to his infant son . |
| 10 | On his other side was an array of cheap , gaudy small bottles for the scent he sold ; and on the floor in front of him were ivory balls with cavities for scent . |
| 11 | Janice and Rory were tucking into their salads ; the terrace of the Achnaba Hotel was crowded with tourists , and on the road in front of the hotel cars , caravans and coaches hummed past , heading for Lochgilphead , Gallanach , or Kintyre . |
| 12 | It all depends on the person over whom authority is supposed to be exercised : his knowledge , strength of will , his reliability in various aspects of life , and on the government in question . |
| 13 | The river was white , and on the ferry in mid-stream , it seemed we were adrift in a cloud . |
| 14 | Our reason for driving on the right in America and on the left in Britain is just our expectation that this is what others will do , coupled with our further belief that it is more important that there be a common rule than that it be one rather than the other . |
| 15 | The soot deposits from its chimneys fall in the residential area in which it is sited , settling on washing , paintwork and parked cars and on the plants in people 's gardens — all of which suffer . |
| 16 | I spent the summer in hard training in the gym and on the track in preparation for the coming season , as did many other players . |
| 17 | I , for example , use the Grolier Encyclopaedia — not on a CD-ROM , but on a computer in Columbus , Ohio . |
| 18 | The second suspect was a resident of Consett , but on the night in question his wife had given birth to their first child , and the doctor and the midwife both vouched for the fact that the man had never left the house after he came in from work at half-past five until he went to work the next morning , an hour after he had heard his son first cry . |
| 19 | I shall rely not just on statistics but on the position in communities which I have known well over many years . |
| 20 | On the album , because of the studio , I had to pull it back a bit , but on the road in Europe and the States I can get up to these big , massive sounds . ’ |
| 21 | Its liberal recommendations reflected de Gaulle 's own view that France had to satisfy African demands for development , not with a view to eventual decolonization , but on the contrary in order to tie the empire more securely to France in the postwar era . |
| 22 | But on the Amazon in Brazil , the birds collaborate . |
| 23 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 24 | The ‘ three-triangle ’ gull arose from a student 's problem whilst on a course in Wales . |
| 25 | That night , as on every night in Benedict 's , in some ward in every block at least one patient was hovering on the outer edge of life . |