Example sentences of "[vb past] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Hall exhibited at MOMA an elegant piece which drew on the lost potentialities of the Nipkow disc , mechanical heart of the early Baird Televisor , ‘ superseded ’ and eradicated by a progress which has been synonymous with standardization . |
| 2 | Hailed as a modern masterpiece , it drew on the basic elements of nineteenth-century picturesque — towers , pavilions , arches , and vaults — but gave them a distinct Scandinavian feel and line , the spirit of the sagas , as embodied in the gigantic statues at the entrance . |
| 3 | The association was chaired by John Hume and drew on the self-help traditions of the credit unions . |
| 4 | He also reported on the possible links between a parish in the East End of Glasgow , where the Minister was the Rev. Ada Younger , and Orap , in Zimbabwe , following the very successful visit from Simbongile Jamaila . |
| 5 | Larry covers ‘ working-class sport for the working classes ’ , one of his classics being the time he reported on the local-government elections in Westminster . |
| 6 | The nimble pack horses , with a capacity to carry twenty stone , moved on the narrow trails in a train of twenty horses , connected one to another by plaited tail to following halter . |
| 7 | Significantly the dream of an Imperial organic entity perished on the very battlefields of Flanders where the self-governing Dominions did apparently fight ‘ for their common interests ’ : |
| 8 | Now he concentrated on the mysterious murders in the forest . |
| 9 | She concentrated on the interior doorhandles of the cab and changed their design several times , just for practice , then smoothed them out entirely . |
| 10 | Tory campaign managers complain that the BBC concentrated on the negative aspects of the campaign at the expense of the positive . |
| 11 | Carefully observing the model , George concentrated on the tiny creases in the ears , on arms and legs . |
| 12 | He was a most able officer , and I was able to hand over this part of the work to him with confidence , while I concentrated on the current activities of the department . |
| 13 | Reaching Blairgowrie , the small town nearest the slopes of Glenshee , Shannon stopped to collect the ski equipment she 'd hired in advance , feeling patently ridiculous as she tried on the heavy boots for size . |
| 14 | Both sides disagreed on the precise reasons for the breakdown , but in essence the talks between Georgios Vassiliou , President of Cyprus , and Rauf Denktash , President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC , recognized only by Turkey ) , foundered over Denktash 's demand that the Greek side recognize the Turkish community 's right to self-determination . |
| 15 | These tended to be white , middle-class academic English women who expounded on the latest dogmas of feminist political theory with a vigour reminiscent of evangelism . |
| 16 | For an instant its bright light glistened on a thousand shades of wet green leaves . |
| 17 | A loud imperious knocking came on the tongued boards of the ceiling in the middle of the rowdy relief . |
| 18 | Agriculture flourished on the fertile soils of Kosovo and Metohija . |
| 19 | It is as though one has a newspaper delivered only for the football results on Saturdays and assumes that nothing at all happened on the other days of the week . |
| 20 | The settlement turned on the Four Points of 1854 . |
| 21 | Summer in Strathspeld : the first really hot day that year , air warm and thick with the coconut smell of gorse — swathed richly yellow on the hills — and the sweet sharpness of pine resin , lying dropleted on the rough trunks in thick translucent bubbles . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , in Blandford , the inquest opened on the four sixth-formers from Southway School , Plymouth , who died in the tragedy as the 11-strong party paddled from Lyme Regis to Charmouth . |
| 23 | The sun shone on the beautiful lines of her face . |
| 24 | Copies of the relevant documents must be filed at court and served on the other parties to the proceedings ( FPCR , r17 ; FPR , r4.17 and see 7 below ) . ] |
| 25 | He was a trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust ( 1932–67 ) , and he served on the governing bodies of the King 's School , Canterbury ( 1933–62 ) , St Edward 's School , Oxford ( 1933–57 ) , and two other schools , while he was a member of Oxford University 's hebdomadal council from 1935 to 1947 . |
| 26 | In Somerset , examples include St Andrew 's near Ilchester , North Petherton , and Keynsham ( now in Avon ) , while close relationships between mother and daughter churches existed on the royal estates at South Petherton , Crewkerne , and Chewton Mendip . |
| 27 | Many women found it difficult to put an exact figure on the amount of time they spent on the various areas of farm work . |
| 28 | Smaller raids which followed on the south-German cities of Munich , Augsburg , and Nuremberg , had a disproportionate psychological effect in demonstrating the extent of allied air supremacy in the capacity to reach so far south , and in illustrating that few could now consider themselves immune from the dangers of bombing . |
| 29 | As they passed in its shadow Alison remarked on the low floodwalls before the cottages . |
| 30 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |