Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] on [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first stanza homes in on the particulars but then , in the second , there is a general perspective given , on the whole world , dealing with a big issue . |
| 2 | We had been led to expect all the guillemots , but there were no black guillemots either on the ledges or in the sea . |
| 3 | Some methods avoid native language explanations altogether on the grounds that such explanations can only be abstract and confusing to the learner , and that they make him spend his time not so much in learning the language but rather in learning about the language ( Mackey 1965 p 240 ) . |
| 4 | The Marshal knew that the guard would be putting hand-cuffs and chains back on the prisoners and lighting cigarettes for them which they would smoke with both hands . |
| 5 | It would be impossible administratively to place a higher tax on a given item for those with higher incomes although one could impose indirect taxes mainly on the goods and services consumed by higher-income groups , and perhaps at higher rates . |
| 6 | Hello there this week we 've come to the coast to go climbing with three local mountaineers … the sport is celebrating at the moment … it 's thirty years since the conquest of Everest and every weekend you 'll find climbers out on the cliffs and craggs of britain |
| 7 | While it is true that by the turn of the century both middle and working class women were profoundly affected by the gospel of maternalism preached by the medical profession , imperialists and politicians , it is also possible to find examples of straightforward resistance to physicians both on the grounds that they encouraged middle class women to lead idle lives and that they posed a threat to female modesty . |
| 8 | There were pro-shah demonstrators out on the streets as well , as may of whom had been produced by the Iranian embassy . |
| 9 | It was however hard to speak to the girls out on the streets and so in 1991 a Refuge Centre was opened at Holm Street . |
| 10 | Middle-class feminists , particularly members of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship , of which Eleanor Rathbone was the President , strongly supported family allowances largely on the grounds that it would undermine the concept of the family wage and thereby ( a rather optimistic thought ) pave the way for equal pay for equal work . |
| 11 | What I 'd like to do to start with is I 'd like to actually put the scores up , put your scores up on the charts and then we 'll look at what , what exactly they mean , what does A stand for but what does it all mean . |
| 12 | And the Turk 's Head stayed shut with padlocks on the doors and the windows boarded up , and Uncle Titch went away and no one seemed to know where he 'd gone to , not even William 's grandad , and no one seemed to know whether he 'd taken his fairground with him or whether it was still there behind the shutters and the padlocked doors in the dark rooms with the bloodstains still on the walls and floors . |
| 13 | They were putting the chairs up on the tables and wiping up the mess and the cracked glasses and limp crisp-bags , and I still was n't feeling too good . |
| 14 | In the summer we let the horses out on the fields and every morning we catch the horses we need for the day 's work . |
| 15 | Throughout colonial Africa there were often unwritten regulations about who could use which accommodation and facilities both on the trains and in the stations . |