Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [noun] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The body is laid out on the back with hands at the side , the eyes are closed ( coins or cotton wool on the eyelids will help ) the jaw supported by a pillow , and all the natural outlets of the body plugged with cotton wool . |
2 | The Act enables the authorities to detain anyone ‘ 'reasonably ’ suspected of being involved in the commission , preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism' ( Hewitt , 1982:166 ) for up to 7 days , and to take out exclusion orders banning British and Irish citizens from leaving or entering Great Britain or Northern Ireland on the grounds that they have been , or intend to become , involved in acts of terrorism . |
3 | His own firm is planning commercial climbs of Broad Peak , Pik Lenin , Ama Dablam and Stok Kngri next year , with not only Everest but Cho Oyu , Aconacagua ( highest peak in the Andes ) and Pik Communism on the cards for 1993 . |
4 | One conclusion which can be drawn from the Stanovich and West experiments on the effects of context is that the mark of a good reader is rapid word recognition . |
5 | Here , borders of wave-crest and thorn pattern are featured , along with a pyramid of small triangles in the half tilted-squares , and swastika lozenges on the arms of the saltire . |
6 | Cairns and co focus on the oddities of human nature with a certain morbid curiosity . |
7 | The Anglian Water Authority has provided facilities for walking , picnicking and car parking on the margins of the lake , where views of the water and the very fine surroundings landscape can be enjoyed . |
8 | During the currency of your appointment you will be entitled to be reimbursed for travel and subsistence expenses on the terms which the Board would apply in relation to a . |
9 | ‘ There were palliasses on the floor and brown paint and pin-up girls on the walls . ’ |
10 | The 1977 Windscale Inquiry focused the minds of both the public and opposition groups on the dangers of reprocessing . |
11 | Shakespeare brings out the worst in him , and this book is fuller of phoney , slapdash theories , illegitimate leaps and rushes where angels fear to tread , and discredited references , Sufic influences , Shamanic initiations , dreams , Black Elk , and Idries Shah on the Rosicrucians , than anything since Robert Graves . |
12 | Someone 's hand had torn away three quarters of the days of the desktop calendar and filled a wastebasket with them , and someone had written girls ' names and telephone numbers on the blotters . |
13 | Each AFEC would be required ‘ to consider and issue guidance on the programmes and estimates submitted to it by authorities … to allocate funds for recurrent expenditure ’ . |
14 | The magistrate dismissed the case against Lord Harlech and Stephen Murphy on the grounds that they had acted in good faith and with due care and attention to the issues involved . |
15 | Fisons , which owns 40 per cent of the UK market in peat , is handing over 8,000 acres comprising parts of Thorne and Hatfield moors on the borders of South Yorkshire ( Britain 's largest and second largest bogs ) as well as bogs in the Somerset Levels and in Cumbria . |
16 | A seminar for shop managers and security staff on the lessons learnt from the MetroCentre IRA firebombing is to be held in Newcastle on Monday . |
17 | This was the first time they had dealt with a potential bombing , as in the past their fakings had centred on air crashes and accident situations on the jigs or the shop-floor . |
18 | The work will include preparing designs for planning of the archaeological exploration of the site ; conservation and restoration work on the monuments ; control of access to tourists and local inhabitants ; additional legal measures to protect the site ; and visitor and tourist facilities . |
19 | Aboyeur was on the inside with Craganour mounting an effective challenge on the stands side , and Nimbus , Great Sport , Louvois , Shogun and Day Comet on the heels of the leading pair . |
20 | Government officials committed themselves to ensuring that there would be no net loss of US wetlands and expressed the hope that the proposals would end the stalemate between environmentalist and business groups on the wetlands issue . |
21 | Guerrillas then launched bomb , grenade and bazooka attacks on the embassies of the United States , Canada , Israel , Colombia and Japan , and on banks , public buildings , petrol stations , buses and a zinc factory . |
22 | A combination of calf and morocco is not uncommon , through ‘ inlaying ’ one with the other or by the use of morocco title and author labels on the spines of calf-bound books . |
23 | Someone called Prue , who until today had remained hidden in the wardrobe-room on the first floor pedalling her sewing machine , had a chair allocated for her use in the prompt corner and a space reserved for cotton reels and safety pins on the props table in the wings . |
24 | It is no coincidence that hapless Oldham ran into a side containing both Ryan Giggs and Lee Sharpe on the wings , Bryan Robson behind them and McClair in his rightful slot up front . |
25 | Until the appearance in the late eighteenth century of catalogues and pattern books on the types of coffin , linings and coffin furniture provided for the lower-class funeral , the details relating to the upper and middle classes of society have to be gleaned from undertakers ' trade cards , eyewitness accounts of funerals and through specific instructions imparted via wills . |
26 | His chance came with an offer of work on Children in Crossfire , a documentary about the psychological impact of terrorism and army occupation on the children of Northern Ireland . |
27 | When the first edition rolled off the presses for the waiting newsboys , there were hansom cabs and gas lights on the streets of Belfast . |
28 | His house in a respectable street in Balham smelt damp and cold , an effect enhanced rather than discouraged by the adopted English cosiness of the decoration : patterned carpets , patterned wallpaper , smoked-glass lampshades and brass knick-knacks on the walls . |
29 | Peering anxiously through the narrow archway of the gatehouse , I was fully expecting to see a horse and carriage approach , when suddenly a bright , shiny bicycle came hurtling past , complete with hooter and Union Jack on the handlebars . |
30 | Indeed it is our intention that the necessary repair and improvement work on the halls and associated offices will largely be carried out by our own team with a view to reducing costs and encouraging the use of practical gifts of time and skills . |