Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] on the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 2 | Although progress was somewhat faster on privately-owned land than on allotment land , crop yields on the latter rose between 1861 and 1910 by almost 50 per cent . |
| 3 | When the right of control and transfer is conveyed , the holder relies on the same method of notification by which he was made a holder , except that he will be the initiator of the message to the carrier , and will need to await the carrier 's confirmation before the transfer process can be set in motion . |
| 4 | Daytime shifts on the same taxi are handled by lonely Joseph , who meets Julie one evening and — this being a French movie — takes her to bed . |
| 5 | Ironically the incident comes on the same day a new motor project for youngsters was launched two miles away in Horspath by motor racing star … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | but the , but the proce , the , er the , the whole thing works on the same principal but now they 're doing it without , with less effort . |
| 8 | Colonies are easily detected by females at a distance , especially in species where advertisement displays on the many nests are given in synchrony to produce a vivid tree-sized orchestration of sound and movement . |
| 9 | A videodisc player works on the same principle as a record player in that an arm moves back and forth across the disc . |