Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an important matter , particularly as it affects violence , and violence more perpetrated on the woman than on the man . |
| 2 | In March Hedilla had talks not only with members of the Comunión Tradicionalista , but also with some of the supporters of the Alphonsine dynasty , whose political future also depended on the outcome of what was becoming a bitter , subterranean confrontation within the main conflict against the Republic . |
| 3 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 4 | DNA sequence recognition is achieved largely by hydrogen-bond contacts between the bases and amino-acid side chains located on a β -ribbon , a mode of recognition previously hypothesized on the basis of modelling of idealized β -strands and DNA , and mutagenesis of the Salmonella phage P22 repressors Arc and Mnt . |
| 5 | On the trains no problems , East Midlands Airport say everything 's running to time , in the city centre no huge delays anywhere , on the motorways they 're all okay as well , on the A One there 's major work just started on the roundabout , that 's the er five lanes end roundabout affecting southbound traffic , there are long delays there in peak times , that 's at er five lane ends , the work there on the A One just started , that 's the Roundabout , southbound traffic is being affected , there are long delays there . |
| 6 | Then she turned her attention to the tabby cat still spreadeagled on the back of the broom with its eyes screwed tightly shut and its claws gripping on for dear life . |
| 7 | Clouds heaped higher in the west , but the sun still shone on the village . |
| 8 | He looked up with satisfaction at the panelling of the new box-beds — comfort and decency for all three of them , while others in the village still slept on the floor like beasts . |
| 9 | The committee also called on the government to formulate long-term fuel-pricing objectives in order to encourage industry to invest in energy-saving measures and thereby to reduce emissions . |
| 10 | ( BH ) RIGHT : Churchend Mill formerly stood on a site in use since at least the 14th century . |
| 11 | Staining intensity in the PCNA assay also depended on the length of fixation , before we introduced the Saponin digestion step before application of the PCNA antibody . |
| 12 | Later , under the 1907 provisions for the medical inspection of children , parents ( and again the responsibility usually fell on the mother ) were told what was wrong with their children but were left with the task of seeking and paying for treatment , dependants being excluded from the provisions of the 1911 National Health Insurance Act . |
| 13 | So I returned to the laboratory , where the pieces of the woman monster 's body still lay on the floor . |
| 14 | The conference also agreed on a Statement of Forest Principles , aimed particularly at limiting the destruction of tropical forests . |
| 15 | The conference also called on the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) to convene a conference with prospective donor countries to formulate an aid plan which would assist in the social and economic integration of refugees who chose to return to Rwanda and of those seeking naturalized status in their present country of residence . |
| 16 | The parallel also held on the side of the defence . |
| 17 | Female danger/power also rested on the fact that women occupied structurally marginal positions ( i.e. neither fully inside nor outside the system , not wholly nature nor culture ) and on the fact that society placed them in interstructural roles ( as wives and daughters ) with respect to alliance-making and linking disparate power groups . |
| 18 | Stewart 's only birdie came at the short fourth , where her ball agonisingly finished on the lip of the hole . |
| 19 | The Commission also focused on the way the UK was measuring lead in tapwater . |
| 20 | The trade also regulated on the matter of pall-bearers ; usually six in number . |
| 21 | Throughout his childhood , Matthew can recall feeling angry just once — when his father unwittingly trod on a model boat which Matthew had spent several weeks constructing . |
| 22 | The leading masquer then stood on the dais , whilst a herald challenged anyone in the hall to play this strange man at dice . |
| 23 | The train newly arrived on a European covered in dust blown from the Gobi Desert , or encrusted with salt spray from the Bosporus . |
| 24 | A Major and a Captain hurriedly came on the scene , Lieutenant Keith bringing up the rear . |
| 25 | One Mozambican student recently complained on a youth television programme in Leningrad : ‘ I am called SPID ( AIDS ) all over the place ’ . |
| 26 | She had begun to climb the bank when the four-wheel drive suddenly appeared on the rim above , bumped down and drew to a halt alongside . |
| 27 | The word OPEN appeared on the screen , and two seconds later a shuddering vibration began beneath her feet . |
| 28 | A bottle of this smelly purple mixture always stood on the shelf above the sink in the bathroom alongside all the toothbrushes , and a very vigorous scalp massage with OIL OF VIOLETS took place daily after shaving was completed . |
| 29 | Rather than being confined to the church , therefore , Puritan religious life also focused on the household and various voluntary forms of public worship . |
| 30 | Government also jumped on the bandwagon , first with wage restraint policies and later with restrictive monetary policies to reduce inflationary pressures . |