Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success in 1991 of PRIME SUSPECT ( for Granada , and starring Helen Mirren ) again brought Lynda La Plante 's writing talent on to the screens of 17 million viewers . |
| 2 | The definitions are , at this early stage of our knowledge of Myrinian culture , valuable in themselves , not only because they reveal something of the inadequacy of our own language , but because they throw some light on to the mysteries of an alien culture . |
| 3 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 4 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 5 | She was walking backwards and forwards over the makeshift stage shaking sand on to the boards from a small bucket , trying to evoke the desert sands of Saudi Arabia . |
| 6 | As always the major attractions were romantic landscapes and the monuments of culture , but by the 1860s the British ( pioneers as usual ) were exporting their passion for physical exercise on to the mountains of Switzerland , where they were later to found skiing as a winter sport . |
| 7 | First , there may be a case for shifting the evidential burden of establishing consent on to the shoulders of the defence in certain cases , such as where there is evidence of injury inflicted by the defendant , where weapons are used or where sexual intercourse takes place in the context of the commission of another grave offence . |
| 8 | ‘ Sphereality ’ was recorded live in concert and finds Crawlspace hanging on to the shreds of their psychedelic shape-shifting strum ( last featured on the 45 they made with Mooseheart Faith ) , only this time they are even more adventurous and what unravels goes far beyond any trip/trance acid groove . |
| 9 | Instead of trying to compete head on with the likes of Our Price and HMV , he moved down-market , stocking cheaper CDs and tapes at prices starting at £2.99 . |
| 10 | Pour boiling water on to the leaves in a clean container or teapot and leave to stand for 3–10 minutes ( no longer , otherwise the flavour changes ) . |
| 11 | It was five minutes to eight when Yanto cycled over the low swing bridge on to the wharfs of Sharpness Docks . |
| 12 | Already we 're busy with this baglady we 've got , welding sock and shoe plastic on to the soles of her evil feet … |
| 13 | It was only a pallid disc in the sky , shedding thin white light through the still air on to the faces of a few well-wrapped-up and elderly people , who sat on the benches along the Promenade , taking the air . |
| 14 | In Chapter 5 I propose to look at a different aspect of metalinguistic politics : the way in which grammarians and linguists have projected a male/ female dichotomy on to the languages of the world , and their attempts to use grammar as a tactical weapon in the battle of the sexes . |
| 15 | A partial parasite , mistletoe relies on birds such as thrushes eating its oily berries and dropping the seeds out at the other end on to the branches of trees where they perch . |
| 16 | The three headed along the catwalk , descended a rusty ladder on to the dunes of debris . |
| 17 | My husband , former sports commentator Neil Durden-Smith , usually has the radio on in the mornings at home , so if I 'm ever staying at a hotel in Britain , I enjoy breakfast TV . |
| 18 | ‘ You know , there is a story in Malta , ’ he said drily , ‘ that when St Paul the Apostle was shipwrecked on our shores , back in 60 AD , and he performed a miracle by removing the poison from a snakebite , he merely transferred that poison on to the tongues of Maltese women . ’ |
| 19 | In Perth souvenir shops , Gumpets are elbowing their way on to the shelves alongside the stock-in-trade plywood boomer angs , mallee-root ornamental clocks and kangaroo-skin sporrans . |
| 20 | In Alexandria he found that the railway meandered down to the beach and passengers had to find their way on to the trains without any benefit of station buildings . |
| 21 | Eight months previously ZTT 's Paul Morley had used the XL image factory and Katherine Hamnett to plaster fragments of his prose on to the chests of the nation 's youth . |
| 22 | Also place a small portion of mixed icing on to the tips of the paint brushes . |