Example sentences of "on the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruby 's forte was getting her own photograph in the newspapers as she ‘ arrived at the police station to advise officers working on the such-and-such case ’ ; she was a popular television chat show guest ; and she made a decent living from writing about psychometry . |
| 2 | On the former GWR line to Bicester North a new station opened in October at Haddenham & Thame Parkway — the 150th new station opened by BR since the Beeching cuts of the 1960s . |
| 3 | The film of Wired ( 18 ) features Woodward ( J T Walsh ) as straight man to the podgy comedian , but though subtitled ‘ the laughs and times of John Belushi ’ , it is woefully short on the former component . |
| 4 | Though subtitled ‘ the laughs and times of John Belushi ’ , this ill-starred biopic is woefully short on the former component . |
| 5 | On the former point yesterday 's Old Bailey judgment says a lot about contemporary British social mores . |
| 6 | Steiner 's association of homosexuality with narcissism , solipsism , and the refusal of referentiality obviously suggests reservations about both modernism ( as he conceives it ) and the efficacy of the homosexual influence upon it , and it comes as no surprise that in his most recent book he launches a strong attack on the former . |
| 7 | BULGARIA 'S new leader , Mr Petar Mladenov , yesterday purged many hardliners from the Communist Party 's ruling politburo and central committee , while heaping blame for the country 's political and economic crisis on the former leader , Mr Todor Zhivkov . |
| 8 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |
| 9 | We can observe the experiences that an animal has , and what it does , and study how the latter depends on the former . |
| 10 | It is always interesting to note how handicappers assess maiden race form in comparison with sellers , and in allotting Peak District a 17lb higher rating than Dari Sound , the official may have been over-harsh on the former . |
| 11 | A mental health orientation places greater emphasis on the former to the detriment of the latter . |
| 12 | Records for 1930 and 1931 are scant , but during 1930 Bill achieved his sixth hole-in-one , on the former short 17th , his third at Henley , the others being on the 2nd and 4th . |
| 13 | On the former even views from the European Commission were conflicting but the Committee eventually concluded that in future the definition of ‘ specific handicap ’ could be a physical one constraining agriculture but also a protective designation such as SSSI notification . |
| 14 | On the Holyhead road at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch , now mercifully abbreviated to Llanfair P.G. , is a white toll-house on the former turnpike road , part of the new Holyhead route engineered by Telford ( q.v . ) . |
| 15 | We shall elaborate on this simple division below but suggest here that the wealth of literature on the former ( see , for instance , Burton et al. 1978 and Perry 1981 ) has yet to be matched by a similar volume of work on the latter . |
| 16 | Most of the heads ' experiences had been based on the former , although some of the schools had experienced formula funding since April 1988 . |
| 17 | That leaves us principally with two recordings , both from musician-pianists ( I place the emphasis deliberately on the former ) : Emmanuel Ax ( Sony ) and now Howard Shelley . |
| 18 | The sudden perception of the latter fact shatters her tenuous control ; she concentrates for the moment on the former , blurting : |
| 19 | They had descended on the former Jesuit college from all corners of the world representing a variety of organisations from the International Labour Organisation , through the Congress of South African Trades Unions , to the Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples , the cross-border American wo-men 's organisation Mujer á Mujer , and the London Hazards Centre . |
| 20 | Now we have already made the point that the weakness of a premonitory or sympathetic reaction compared with experience which is present and mine is no objection to acting on the former rather than the latter . |
| 21 | In accordance with the Protective Clause in the Act the traction posts within Croydon had bases , scroll work and finials like those used by the Corporation , with the coat of arms on the former and were mainly of bracket construction . |
| 22 | The embodiment of light is masculine , that of the dark is feminine , and thus a religion based on the former will tend to be served by priests , and one based on the latter by priestesses . |
| 23 | Today the very exposed 4b traverse on the former requires a cool head and skilful ropework and the top pitch of the latter will make many a leader sweat with mental and physical effort . |
| 24 | Teachers should encourage an interest in both rural ( traditional ) and urban dialects of English , by contrasting local non-standard dialects with Standard English , often using pupils as the linguistic experts on the former . |
| 25 | They view this building tradition as a merger of traits with Romano-British and Germanic origins , although Dixon ( 1982 ) has placed greater emphasis on the former . |
| 26 | Stricken Dakota teaching the saving of life at the International Fire and Safety Training School on the former Hal Far airfield . |
| 27 | The cows have gone to the cycle path on the former Consett to Sunderland railway line . |
| 28 | But the craftsmen 's talents were crippled by unemployment , while high taxation on the former governing classes made it difficult for them to commission buildings or goods of a quality acceptable to Lutyens and his contemporaries . |
| 29 | The aim with 78018 is to use her on the former Stockton and Darlington , Stanhope and Tyne Wear Valley routes which are used for summer Sunday pacer trains and cement traffic to Blue Circle 's Eastgate Cement Works the current limit of the line . |
| 30 | IT is hoped that 1993 will see the first working of an ex-B.R. main line loco on the former Mangotsfield to Bath branch when Bulleid Un rebuilt Battle of Britain 34072 ‘ 257 Squadron ’ makes a visit to the Avon Valley Railway . |