Example sentences of "[vb -s] on the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church stands on the highest point in the village . |
| 2 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 3 | Guy lives on the sixth floor in let me see , it 's on the it 's if , if you 're going along the corridor it 's just past the final year notice boards , it does have a number , I 've forgotten which one it is but it 's on the right hand side . |
| 4 | Flying a new type of glider is always fun , but it worries many inexperienced pilots : there is always an extra element of risk if an unexpected situation occurs on the first flight in an unfamiliar machine . |
| 5 | This is very much a ‘ people ’ story and concentrates on the day-to-day happenings in The Mob , with a fair amount of humour thrown in for good measure . |
| 6 | Soon there were to be further strains on the Anglo-Turkish relationship in Egypt . |
| 7 | The term normally appears on the right-hand side in place of . |
| 8 | This proposition builds on the considerable advances in industrial organization of the past 15 years , which have enabled theorists to identify the policy issues raised by a wide range of market phenomena . |
| 9 | She sits on the only chair in the room , by the night table . |
| 10 | For 22 years , North Down has been the personal bailliwick of James Kilfedder , the former speaker of the ill-starred Northern Ireland Assembly and an independent Unionist who sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons but without the party whip . |
| 11 | When he goes on the one day in two years that something went wrong , that shows he 's doing a good job . ’ |
| 12 | The Beast is a continuation of that tradition and capitalises on the same merits in combination with a wealth of other Brooks technology . |
| 13 | Somewhat anomalously , reference may even be made to later statutes , to see the meaning that Parliament puts on the same words in a similar context . |
| 14 | By the process of psychology the subject is all too often bound to the negative events in their lives and focuses on the negative results in their personality . |
| 15 | The research focuses on the evident tension in health economics between the ‘ pure ’ and the ‘ applied ’ , the ‘ theoretical ’ and the ‘ practical ’ , and the ‘ correct ’ and the ‘ useful ’ . |
| 16 | More general overviews , and interpretations of recent changes in the economic geography of the UK are provided in : Unequal Growth , by Steve Fothergill and Graham Gudgin ( London , Heinemann Educational ; 1982 ) , which focuses on the urban-rural shift in manufacturing ; Spatial Divisions of Labour : Social Structures and the Geography of Production by Doreen Massey ( London and Basingstoke , Macmillan ; 1984 ) which argues for a spatial divisions of labour approach to uneven development ; and Long Waves of Regional Development by Michael Marshall ( London and Basingstoke , Macmillan ; 1987 ) which uses a long-wave perspective , but draws also on aspects of the regulationist approach , in an analysis of the last century-and-a-half of uneven development in the UK . |
| 17 | Most Western press reports on the military situation in Cambodia in July claimed that the Khmer Rouge forces were making major advances in many areas , particularly the north and west of the country . |