Example sentences of "[coord] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this they grow large amounts of fodder crops on fields in the main valleys or on the lower margins of the uplands . |
| 2 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 3 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 4 | My great aim is to give you a periodical which you will not throw aside as soon as read , but which you will value and look over years hence as an old familiar friend , when you may be battling with the realities of life under the suns of India , in the backwoods of Canada or the United States , or the grassy downs of Australia , over the wide Ocean among the isles of the Pacific , or on the distant shores of Columbia . |
| 5 | Depending on the nature of the local vegetation , they may subsist almost entirely on grasses , or on the leafy branches of Douglas fir . |
| 6 | There was so much happening either on the stage or on the huge banks of videos that it was difficult to take it all in . |
| 7 | The trouble came because it was also the place where Simon liked to pee — and on the newest plants from the market garden in Boston Spa . |
| 8 | ‘ To reduce the problems of air pollution , the company has adopted the practice of layering the coal bunkers on the locomotives so that the limited supplies of dry steam coal are burnt at Llanberis and on the lower reaches of the line , and the Warwickshire coals are only fired above Hebron Station . |
| 9 | The house was much too small ; people made a deep ring round the couple and Cameron , standing on the cobbles among piles of bar and rod iron , the children perched on tree-stumps and on the lower branches of the very old yew tree which made a dark thicket with its multiple trunks . |
| 10 | Whitty and Jones 's analysis stands or falls on the meaning of health , whether health services have an impact on health , and on the central functions of public health medicine . |
| 11 | The assumption that Gloucester would be a more satisfactory component of royal authority in Wales proved justified , and on the rare occasions for which evidence survives he does seem to have co-operated with the council . |
| 12 | The assumption that Gloucester would be a more satisfactory component of royal authority in Wales proved justified , and on the rare occasions for which evidence survives he does seem to have co-operated with the council . |
| 13 | More than a year after the publication of the Pastoral Instruction Aetatis Novae on the communications media , I once again invite all of you to reflect on the vision of the modern world which the instruction presented and on the practical implications of the situations it described . |
| 14 | Higham 's book contains an informative section upon the politics of dividing up a bookfund , and on the necessary procedures for monitoring and managing expenditure to ensure that all funds are committed , and that commitment follows an even pace throughout the year . |
| 15 | The trade unions are a problematic force both in and on the uneasy edges of the system of power ; a variety of factors have conspired to produce an upsurge of competing participants and conflicting demands ; elected governments have frequently shown themselves to be weak and vacillating in the face of pressures and problems ; and certain democratic aspects of the British polity have heaped problems on to the capitalist economy in a way that has " crowded out " opportunities for growth . |
| 16 | We need to reach a consensus on the legal rights and duties of citizens , and on the legal obligations of the state to its citizens . |
| 17 | Most of the towns were on or near the coast and they exploited their site advantages , capitalizing on their access to sea routes and on the fertile soils of their hinterlands . |
| 18 | While there was fear and death inside the school , the sun shone on the flowers outside , and on the flowing streams in the valleys . |
| 19 | He saved enough to buy a small hat-shop in Belfast , installed a manageress and on the slender profits of this enterprise read medicine at Queen 's University , Belfast , becoming later a consultant physician in Sydney , Australia . |
| 20 | One of the chief reasons why these issues have been so hotly contested is that they have enormous bearing both on the significance of the religious changes introduced under Charles I and on the possible causes of the English civil war . |
| 21 | Several working parties were set up to make recommendations on the content of each subject and on the appropriate levels of attainment at each stage . |
| 22 | Which factor predominates will depend largely on the relative negotiating strengths of the vendor and the purchaser and on the specific circumstances of the parties , their objectives and the business being sold . |
| 23 | The focus in this section will be on the present state of the modernized industrial structure as represented by developments on the Chirton and Tyne Tunnel industrial estates in North Shields and on the industrial estates in Cramlington . |
| 24 | While there are a few vines on the flat ground just south of the village , the vast majority are found on the slopes of the Butte de Saran , the northern extremity of the Côte des Blancs , and on the eastern slopes of Mont Bernon , edging the suburbs of Épernay . |
| 25 | Large chains , such as McDonald 's and Beefeater , spend thousands of pounds on research into frying technology and on the best ways of cooking their staple menu item , French fries . |
| 26 | Experiments with captive eels suggest that they can navigate by the stars , just as some migrating birds can , and on the first stages of their journey away from Europe , when they swim near the surface , this may be the way they guide themselves . |
| 27 | Its case was based both on the opportunities that this route offered for regional development in the northern Negev , and on the destructive effects on the environment that any of the other routes entailed . |
| 28 | It would be very instructive to linger in the islands and on the other shores of the western Mediterranean , and explore the similarities and differences , for example , in the history of the Catalan and Spanish towns and the Italian . |
| 29 | Some activities take place at the centre — initial canoe training is in the swimming pool and on the small lakes in the grounds . |
| 30 | The Report , to the surprise of some , was silent on the subject of secondary-school organization and on the strong differences of opinion then developing on whether secondary modern schools reserved by design for the less able could ever succeed . |