Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [art] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Next day write another card on the same topic from memory . |
2 | Because part of the problem is that there are too many people in agriculture and if you can reduce the population threshold allowed , right , wages will virtually rise , because labour productivity will rise because there is less labour on the same amount of land . |
3 | to pass ahead of the foremost part of a stationary vehicle on the same side of the crossing as the approaching vehicle , the stationary vehicle having stopped to accord precedence to a foot passenger |
4 | ‘ to pass ahead of the foremost part of a stationary vehicle on the same side of the crossing as the approaching vehicle , the stationary vehicle having stopped to accord precedence to a foot passenger ’ This phrase is the alternative offence to point number 6 and means that the offending vehicle or part of it must pass a stationary vehicle as opposed to a moving motor vehicle in point 6 . |
5 | For the first nine months , pre-tax profits were £703m , representing a 21 per cent fall on the same period in 1990 , while turnover fell 3.8 per cent to £9442m . |
6 | Next Saturday , she will hope to lower that time by a second on the same track in the TSB Invitation . |
7 | The family drew up plans for the four-bedroom house after their previous home on the same site in the village of Meopham , Kent , was destroyed by fire . |
8 | His comments followed the announcement on the same day by the leading US credit rating agency , Standard and Poor 's , that the country had been assigned a BBB investment grade rating , making it the first of Latin America 's problem debtors of the 1980s to meet international standards of credit-worthiness . |
9 | To say that the death of the pigs did not take place on the same occasion at all and has nothing to do with the miracle . |
10 | Visual difference on the same surface between a part that has been cleaned by a standard technique and the untouched area . |
11 | A staffer on the same rate of pay but on assignment in the Third World and with five children being educated in Geneva ‘ compliments of the honeypot ’ , receives more than the basic pay of any head of state . |
12 | Er that 's my first point on that , the second point on the same issue of the financial case justification . |
13 | This might not stop him reacting still more strongly in favour of theft , from the viewpoints of all who as an anarchist he believes to suffer from the institution of private property ; but otherwise he has to put the danger on the same side of the scales as the slight loss to the old relative , against the great gain to himself . |
14 | Profits before tax on the same basis of accounting as used previously came in at £248.25m against £252.3m . |
15 | Profits before tax on the same basis of accounting as used previously came in at £248.25 million , against £252.3 million . |
16 | We should not be having the same speech from the same group on the same issue at any point and also I would hope that where there is agreement between the groups that there is not time spent in |
17 | From there , some fibres continue to the superior olivary body on the same side of the brain stem as the stimulated ear but the majority cross over to the olivary body on the opposite side of the brain stem . |
18 | Umpires Barry Dudleston and John Holder — the man who reported England for tampering with the ball on the same ground against West Indies last year — changed the ball because it had been suspiciously scuffed . |
19 | In the Cristofori-Silbermann action , the escapement engages the hammer shank on the same side of the pivot as the hammer head : the escapement pushes up the hammer butt . |
20 | Willi had carefully seated Georg and Suzi on the same side of the table , but at opposite ends , so that they could not see one another and could relax . |
21 | Twenty exhibits from the Genoa show travel to Frankfurt for an exhibition on the same theme at the Schirn Kunsthalle ( 5 September-8 November ) . |
22 | On Monday three people were killed and several seriously hurt in a multiple collision on the same section of the motorway in freezing fog . |
23 | It is well known that responses to a stimulus presented off-centre will be faster when made by the limb on the same side of the body as the stimulus appears , that is , when stimulus and response are said to be compatible ( Fitts and Seeger , 1953 ) . |
24 | Only three years earlier , a similar symposium resulted in a 1986 volume on the same subject by one of the authors . |
25 | A subsequent debate on the same issue in March 1982 was also full of references to the experience of 1981 , the impact of street violence , crime , decaying urban conditions , the breakdown of consent between the police and many local communities , and the spectre of ‘ more violence to come ’ if changes in both policing tactics and social policy were not swiftly introduced ( Hansard , vol. 20 , 25 March 1982 : cols. 1107–81 ) . |
26 | ROBERTA Russell , 39 , and her daughter Lisa , 19 , each gave birth to a baby on the same day at Wolverhampton 's New Cross Hospital . |
27 | It 's the second incident of its kind on the same stretch of motorway , in two days . |
28 | Disappointed , we retraced our footprints and were obliged to camp on the same patch of ice as the night before . |
29 | If the court finds the time limit unreasonable but the limitation on damages reasonable , it can allow reliance on the latter part of the clause only . |
30 | Sensory loss sometimes occurs in large areas such as the lower limbs and lower trunk ; in all four limbs and the whole trunk ; in the arm and leg on the same side of the body . |