Example sentences of "[noun pl] on [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But surgeons at Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , were able to graft his corneas on to the eyes of another youngster who had been going blind . |
| 2 | We do not allow motor cyclists on to the roads without helmets , so why should we allow bowler-hatted men with batons to walk up the highways ? |
| 3 | When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups . |
| 4 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 5 | ‘ Next , ’ said Amaranth , who had let drop the first two scarves on to the heads of the assembled press men , ‘ we have Gerald Kaufman , all vinegar and no chips . ’ |
| 6 | When he realised that the trousers hovered round his calves and that the shirt did n't do up it was too late ; I had put on my newer , better-fitting shirt , bloused my trousers on to the tops of my boots and was putting on his beret as he stood there looking like a circus tramp . |
| 7 | Attempting unsuccessfully to repeat his 1987 tactics , Ershad had declared a state of emergency on Nov. 27 , 1990 , ordering troops on to the streets of the capital , Dhaka , to restore order [ see p. 37856 ] . |
| 8 | Members should ‘ hitch hike ’ their ideas on to the ideas of others to generate new ideas . |
| 9 | Censorship is a recurring problem in libraries , and there is no issue in librarianship which is more likely to bring libraries on to the pages of the Press , frequently in a damaging and trivial representation of the library profession . |
| 10 | ‘ Primitive ’ people project these hostile feelings on to the spirits of the dead . |
| 11 | It seems ironic that where , in the eighteenth century , novelists and architects alike look out of their elegant windows on to the cottages of the poor as pleasing little features in the landscape , the Victorians , for whom the dwellings of the middle class tended increasingly to set the standard , should view the great house itself from that perspective — from the outside , as the focus for a landscape , much as the eighteenth-century painters had done ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 12 | Wolfe led his troops up the cliffs on to the Plains of Abraham which commanded Quebec from the west , and so there emerged the unusual sight of infantry lined up in the formal European manner on North American soil . |
| 13 | Pipe the words START and FINISH on to the top left and bottom right squares , and then pipe numbers on to the squares in consecutive order . |
| 14 | A city where the buses stopped at eleven thirty , the pubs ushered their surprised foreign tourists on to the streets at five to eleven , and a meal after that meant Indian or Chinese . |
| 15 | Storming Le Mort Homme ’ , depicted the Kaiser and the Crown Prince flogging German soldiers on into the arms of Death . |