Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ . |
| 2 | it 's just some noise I heard on the tape . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 4 | And it could turn out that the car I left on the Foulness road was stolen from a car park in Colchester or somewhere . |
| 5 | as good as the frictional force you get on the bottom . |
| 6 | In the last chapter she meditates on the meaning of suffering . |
| 7 | And she used to go with the district nurses a lot to er to treat different people specially a long time I remember erm a young man erm h he had er I think it was cerebral palsy he had and er he was so fed up with himself he threw paraffin over himself and er set light you know on the top of the stairs and threw himself down . |
| 8 | Forget the crap you hear on the telly , you never get ‘ used ’ to the bombings and shootings . |
| 9 | In this chapter we concentrate on the problem of integrating geographical data reported for different areal spatial units , one of the most intractable of all data integration problems . |
| 10 | After easy rock we congregated on the platform under Amen Corner . |
| 11 | Rob Phone , Mr and Mrs National Holidays , and the journalist they met on the train have all gone their separate ways now , but perhaps a little enriched , a little relaxed , by a modicum of light , meaningless conversation . |
| 12 | In effect they confer on the individual a sphere of immunity against interference by the state , other organisations and other individuals . |
| 13 | Rumi compared the tears and the effect they have on the soul to drops of rain on the desert . |
| 14 | In his discussion Nash includes analyses of various authorial devices and the effect they have on the reader , concerning both the cognitive ( character perception and plot comprehension ) and affective ( development of empathetic feelings ) aspects of reading . |
| 15 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 16 | ‘ You would n't believe how many of our employees told me what a good deal they got on a car or a boat because they adopted Karrass ' strategies ’ says an executive of a major oil company . |
| 17 | Ben , watching him , saw once again how the light seemed trapped by the matt black surface of the heavy iron ring he wore on the index finger of his right hand . |
| 18 | The only ingredient he recognized on the prescription was caffeine . |
| 19 | Taking the carrier bag from the back seat he slipped on the mask . |
| 20 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 21 | He did n't care about the effect it had on the rest of us . |
| 22 | In that state inside my head , this is like intellectuals in a country sneering at religion while not being able to deny the effect it has on the mass of people . |
| 23 | He asked why the parish council were so against the signs ‘ Do the parish have an official policy , because if they do , they should think again about the effect it has on the village . ’ |
| 24 | Any regulatory framework must be judged against the effect it has on the cost of financial intermediation and the allocative efficiency of the financial system . |
| 25 | You would n't believe the effect it has on the value . ’ |
| 26 | Temperature is an important factor in rates of chemical weathering , both through the direct effect it has on the rate of chemical reactions ( see Section 6.2.2 ) , and indirectly through its influence on rates of organic activity and hence the production of both soil carbon dioxide and organic acids — both critical components in chemical weathering . |
| 27 | Arieti , an expert on both creativity and schizophrenia — and therefore the most qualified among these contemporary psychiatric writers to comment — is equally disappointing in the light he throws on the issue . |
| 28 | Still , it would be churlish not to greet this release for the light it casts on an age long gone . |
| 29 | Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 . |
| 30 | Alongside this , there is a need to break down our bureaucracy , thereby reducing the power of the state and the stranglehold it exerts on the nation 's political activities . |