Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grand Old Duke of York did lead his men ; Dick Whittington was a 15th century Lord Mayor of London ; Ring-A-Ring-O'-Roses is said to relate to an outbreak of plague in London in the 17th century ; and Bluebeard is based on a psychopathic French murderer of the 15th century . |
| 2 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |
| 3 | ‘ The iniquity of the Amorite ’ , wrote Austin Farrer , ‘ is at length full , and the progeny of Hoskyns is to return on the third decade to the Promised land . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed the Kyrie of Ludford 's Lady-Mass for Tuesday is based on the same square as the organ piece . |
| 5 | EMX is based on the 1988 versions of X.400 and X.500.and connects proprietary E-mail systems based on distribution protocols like the TCP/IP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol(SMTP) , IBM 's System Network Architectural Distribution Services(SNADS) and Message Handling Service(MHS) . |
| 6 | Llanddeiniolen is situated on the very edge of Snowdonia National Park and here the more energetic will find numerous walks taking in the mountainous scenery . |
| 7 | Improv is based on a multi-dimensional model . |
| 8 | BERGÈRES-LES-VERTUS : The accumulation of loess and colluvial weathered deposits of calcareous , clayey-silt and iron-bearing flinty soils radiating out from Vertus is found on the lower slopes of Bergères-les-Vertus , but the bulk of this village 's vineyards are to be found on Belemnite chalk , with sand on some of the higher slopes . |
| 9 | Taillebourg is situated on the right bank of the River Charente , perched on an outcrop of light-coloured rock . |
| 10 | Right : The La Fontaine mobile heater from Verine is based on a traditional French stove design |
| 11 | Hepworth Feast in south-west Yorkshire is held on the last Monday in June , but this does not comply with the general rule that the date of the village feast is dependent upon the date of its church 's dedication . |
| 12 | RBGE is represented on a relaunched Steering Group . |
| 13 | Now Chairman Jack Strowger is banking on a bumper Christmas to get profits back on the fast track . |
| 14 | A silver pendant by Henry Wilson is shown on the previous page . |
| 15 | Atkinson is relying on a revolutionary machine to help cure a stomach strain . |
| 16 | O'Connor points out that demands for the game in Budapest is based on the dangerous presumption that the Republic will beat Northern Ireland — a result they have yet to achieve after three meetings . |
| 17 | And a further indication of the influence Down Under is exerting on the Irish is the news that the IRFU 's professional director of rugby at Lansdowne Road , George Spotswood — to be accompanied by one of his technical officer , former international Willie Anderson — will be in New Zealand in July . |
| 18 | DECEMBER 1989 IN A SUITE ON THE 24TH FLOOR of the Mirage Hotel , Muhammad Ali is sitting on a small white sofa near full-length windows that overlook much of the east side of Las Vegas . |
| 19 | The DBQ is answered on a six point scale from 0=NEVER to 5=NEARLY ALL THE TIME . |
| 20 | We have heard recently that Trafford is working on the same lines , so we will have to get a move on . |
| 21 | At this point Giddens is touching on the deep-lying emotional instincts outlined in Chapters 1 and 2 . |
| 22 | San Arcangelo del Lago is situated on the southern shore of Lake Trasimeno — a lake which fires the imagination and delights the eye . |
| 23 | Tg is defined on the free volume concept as that temperature at which vf collapses sensibly to zero , or at any rate to a frozen-in value . |
| 24 | The greatest significance of the fact that the fabliaux are contes en vers is actually obscured by Bédier 's focusing on the regular use of the verse mode . |
| 25 | The Racial Equality Council in Cleveland is calling on the next government to strengthen the Race Relations Act . |
| 26 | The BES is based on the fresh production — rather than past stocks — of fine malt Scotch fillings from Ledaig Distillery , Tobermory . |
| 27 | But 27-year-old Clinton is banking on the traditional deafening din to help him wrest the WBO flyweight title from Mexican Isidro Perez and become only the sixth Scot to hold a world crown . |
| 28 | The Aurelia is set on a private sandy beach . |
| 29 | There is a war on , Britain is fighting on the right side . |
| 30 | Bear Hunt is based on a traditional rhyme . |