Example sentences of "[noun pl] on [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust .
2 This extends to his judicious choice of tempi which thankfully avoids the ‘ brakes on for the big melodies ’ approach , which in some versions comes close to collapsing the entire edifice under its own emotional weight .
3 Should two adjacent needles try to tuck at the same time , there is nothing between these two needles to actually hold the loops on to the individual needles , so the loops become just one loop , which often falls off both needles .
4 Another great naval battle was fought at Leyte Gulf ( 23–24 October ) , in which the Japanese employed " kamikaze " ( suicide ) pilots to crash their explosive laden planes on to the American ships .
5 These new ones obviously , five years on from the other models , they offer a lot more technology .
6 Procedures for preparation of tax computations will have to be reviewed to ensure easy transfer of figures on to the new returns .
7 Fix the white discs on to the black discs to form wheels .
8 Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good
9 The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements .
10 Back in the drawing room , Alex Mair threw a couple of thin logs on to the glowing embers and went to get the drinks .
11 Cross these two over , placing the two stitches from the left on to the two empty needles at the right , finally place the remaining two stitches on to the two needles at the left .
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