Example sentences of "[noun sg] on the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Misinformation from respected sources led us to state in the Feedback section of our November issue that the neck on the recently reviewed Manson ‘ Classic S ’ guitar was Japanese in origin . |
| 2 | Territories here are seen as action-facilitating in the sense that many of the patterns of action we have observed rely for their appropriateness on the fully defined context in which they take place . |
| 3 | The moonlight illuminated a hand carved wooden name plaque on the freshly painted gate , Honey Cottage . |
| 4 | Correction : the Semiconductor Industry Association is famed for putting a positive spin on the most downbeat news and making over-optimistic forecasts , so it is as well to check their announcements closely — the $1,771m recorded for chip shipments in April was actually a decline of 19.5% on the figure recorded for March ( CI No 2,166 ) . |
| 5 | A focus group would be a most interesting way of beginning work on the previously noted research into why some people do and why some people do not go to the theatre , but the results of such discussion would be hypothesis-provoking only , not in any way hypothesis-testing . |
| 6 | ‘ I know you can do it , ’ Biddy said unrelenting , and called for Nails after school every day on her motor-bike to subject him to another two-hour session on the aptly named Switchback . |
| 7 | The next race , the Grand Prix d'Europe , was taking place on the newly rebuilt Nürburgring , much shorter than the old , infinitely safer , but also less interesting . |
| 8 | And now , as dawn broke , Driver Oliver kept a watchful eye on the slowly lightening coastline . |
| 9 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the carefully targeted aid that she has given to Zambia in recent years . |
| 10 | Scottish economy on the up say CBI but more jobs set to go . |
| 11 | And as with tarmac highways , weekends and Bank Holidays can bring heavy traffic on the best known routes . |
| 12 | GUISBOROUGH-based Associated Power Services was the first small business award winner on the newly introduced Teesside Training and Enterprise Council Training Awards . |
| 13 | Kitty Butterwick and her team give their verdict on the commercially made options to end the traditional Christmas meal |
| 14 | Professor W. F. Grimes in his essay ‘ The Archaeology of the Stamford Region ’ in The Making of Stamford suggests that ‘ the inscription on the recently erected pillar that marks the Roman crossing on the Welland ought to be replaced by one which does less violence to the facts as they appear to be . ’ |
| 15 | It is cool outside as I throw a log on the gently breathing embers . |
| 16 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 17 | After the revolution , those authors who were not simply names to fill space on the badly produced jacket were usually sufficiently embarrassed to try to explain away their participation in the cult of Ceauşescu and thereby in lengthening his rule . |
| 18 | In some cases this provides a variation on the geographically based structure . |
| 19 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 20 | But its principled insistence upon grassroots-level work , criticising labour movement officialdom where necessary , has also produced difficulties : its inability to win sustained trade union support at regional level , over-reliance on the now abolished West Midlands County Council for core funding , and the instability of many of the community groups it serviced , have placed its future at serious risk . |
| 21 | Authority — ‘ that egg of misery and oppression ’ as the doctor has it — is the norm in the long line of historical adventures drawing for material on the extensively recorded history of the navy in the Napoleonic Wars ; but the outstanding writers in the genre look round widely from this stance . |
| 22 | Commenting at a later stage on the commonly held expectation that London should lead developments in medicine , the Hampstead DGM was able to report that the Royal Free had ‘ in many ways been very successful in maintaining and consolidating its position ’ . |