Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [noun] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE true horror of Sarajevo was shown in your picture of the two little white-faced boys sitting holding their toy guns on the stairs at home , amid the real grenades and bullets . |
| 2 | In La Fille Mal Gardée Mother Simone does this when she triumphantly finishes her Clog Dance on the arms of her more graceful neighbours , just as all the guests but Alain do after the Betrothal and they all dance out , arms linked to celebrate . |
| 3 | Or will they attempt to funnel more business through their factoring subsidiaries on the grounds that they are better placed than the local branch managers to monitor the banks ' exposure to risk ? |
| 4 | Most of the new local authorities based their management structure on the Bains recommendations ( Alexander 1982a:69 — 72 ) , usually with modifications affecting the number of committees : local authorities did not follow Bains any more than Maud in the creation of programme committees . |
| 5 | In particular , grazing molluscs leave characteristic erosions from a leaf edge ; birds , particularly the wood-pigeon , feed on clover and often leave characteristic beak-marks ; weevils remove circles of tissue , often leaving the upper epidermis intact ; sheep ( causing damage probably indistinguishable from that caused by rabbits ) remove whole leaves , leaving torn petioles or leave their bite marks on the leaflets that remain . |
| 6 | However , he is regarded as a less vocal critic of the government , has banned the study of the Medellin documents and asked nuns and priests to withdraw from their community work on the grounds that it had become too dangerous : |
| 7 | CPRW hopes that the Secretary of State will grasp the opportunity now before him to alter the pattern of development which has characterised this site for several decades , by challenging once and for all the aspiration of the current and any future owner , to establish a large and permanent residence for their tourist operations on the cliffs above Amroth . |
| 8 | WASL would also like to thank Sally Cousins for her development work on the listings section . |
| 9 | The shops , launderette , barber 's and butcher 's — with their mesh grilles on the windows — are full of theories on what really happened . |
| 10 | On the ground a sheep lay , its four feet tied together , its head flat on the stones , held down between Anderson 's boots its white , frightened eyes were turning upwards Anderson stood above it . |
| 11 | They decided that her objections to adoption were not unreasonable and dismissed an appeal by the local authority against a county court judge 's rejection of its adoption proposal on the grounds that it was premature . |
| 12 | Although the Committee recommended that the BBC should not accept advertising on its television channels on the grounds that it would not be a satisfactory long-term solution to the impending restructuring of broadcasting , it made a number of significant proposals which would have the effect of recreating broadcasting as a market of consumers and producers . |
| 13 | Purchasers , to avoid difficulties , should make their offers conditional on the licences being permanently transferred by the licensing board . |
| 14 | Sabine had been guiltily aware of the click of her sandal heels on the flags of the ancient cloister , and was tempted to tiptoe instead , in case she upset the sleeping spirits of the long-departed monks with such frivolous modernity . |
| 15 | The Labour government elected in 1974 decided to concentrate its housing resources on the needs of the inner city areas and coupled this with changes in the basis of the rate support grant which disadvantaged rural local authorities . |
| 16 | In her famed speech on election night 1987 , as she rallied her party troops on the steps of Party Headquarters not to rest on their laurels but to continue the fight ( they were to be allowed one night of ‘ marvellous partying ’ but must start back the next day with renewed vigour ) , she announced that ‘ we 've got a big job to do in some of those inner cities … and politically , we 've got to get back in there — we want to win those too ’ . |
| 17 | Surrounded by a guard of honour , the Queen placed her poppy wreath on the steps of the memorial after the traditional two-minute silence . |
| 18 | She never heard the front door close , nor his foot fall on the stairs , nor even the bedroom door slowly opening behind her . |
| 19 | Investigators believed that the conversations were different and intercepted as Mr Gilbey used his car phone on the outskirts of Oxford to call Diana at Sandringham . |
| 20 | ‘ Having decided to make it a musical , ’ wrote Alexander Stuart in Films and Filming , ‘ William Sterling should have had his team work on the songs until they were really worth including until they added something to the tale . ’ |
| 21 | An accident or an attack , he wondered , and stamped the snow from his walking shoes on the steps of the main Administration doorway . |
| 22 | It gave him , too , if he wanted it , an unthreatened view of passing life : from the terrace he could train his opera glasses on the pleasure-steamers taking Sunday lunchers to La Bouille . |
| 23 | As the sub-manne pulled away , the captain ordered one of two soldiers he was carrying on board to open fire with his Lewis gun on the survivors in the dinghy . |
| 24 | The three-year-old had picked up the patter from watching his dad Keith on the airwaves . |
| 25 | Mansell makes his Indycar debut on the streets of this Queensland holiday resort against a backdrop of high-rise hotels and rolling surf . |
| 26 | We put a hell of a lot of time and effort into feeding your crowd detail on the Provos on your side of the water , and trying to get your judges to extradite the bastards back here is harder than getting water out of rock . ’ |