Example sentences of "[vb past] on [art] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to wean the company away from a reliance on theatre plays , he set up a major script department which drew on the talents of writers like Frank Launder , Sidney Gilliatt , Val Guest and Michael Pertwee , as well as occasionally giving jobs to young writers like Christopher Isherwood . |
| 2 | The community of the shire was based on a network of acquaintance and interests , and probably drew on the contacts of individuals in local government . |
| 3 | In the last issue of WWF News , we reported on the efforts of WWF and other environmental groups to get an energy efficiency clause included in the Bill to privatise the electricity industry . |
| 4 | I concentrated on the implications of Einstein 's General Theory , he said , and on the pathos of his later career . |
| 5 | Our magpie memories lingered on the oddities of war in North Devon and Cornwall — of chocolates , cigarettes and , yes , French letters being washed up on the beach . |
| 6 | The discomfort in his chest had settled to a hoarseness as the bruise blossomed , but his stomach churned on the lees of booze and bile . |
| 7 | With the help of others , he expounded on the hazards of frost , fire , ice , rain , snow , water and wind . |
| 8 | One was Paul McGahan , a senior North Harbour player and a former All Black halfback who played on the tours of France and Argentina . |
| 9 | The accident happened on the outskirts of Chester after a cross-county motorway chase from Warrington as police followed up a report of an attempted armed robbery . |
| 10 | The accident happened on the outskirts of Chester after a cross-county motorway chase from Warrington as police followed up a report of an attempted armed robbery . |
| 11 | They were under strong pressure , especially from parents , to enter children for the GCE , and frequently the reputation of a school turned on the numbers of candidates who were entered and passed in the O level examinations . |
| 12 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 13 | In a childish rant they speculated on the contents of Gedge 's underpants , advising him that a guitar was an extension of the penis and should be ‘ grasped firmly in both hands and thrashed and thrust and thrashed again ’ and not ‘ twiddled with ’ , as Gedge was allegedly prone . |
| 14 | Piercing white lights shook on the masts of ships in the docks . |
| 15 | Among his teachers were Peter the Chanter , Peter of Poitiers , who commented on the Sentences of Peter Lombard ( as well as producing his own Five Books of Sentences before 1170 ) , Melior of Pisa and Peter of Corbeil . |
| 16 | Irritated by the lost opportunity to speak to her aunt in private , she went to the typewriter and began on the letters of confirmation . |
| 17 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 18 | Throughout the Sixties many Australian writers made the pilgrimage to England , with Anthony Coburn and Bill Strutton being just two of them who landed on the steps of A.L.S. |
| 19 | Norwood is now a fairly grubby inner London area , but when Camille Pissarro lived there in 1870 it was the very edge of the city , combining townscape and country in a way that Pissarro found particularly attractive ( he lived and worked on the outskirts of Paris for most of his career ) . |
| 20 | We lived in a series of pleasant digs until eventually we settled on the outskirts of Forres , very near the local satellite airfield of the same name . |
| 21 | The parties also called on the governments of South Africa and Zaïre to desist from interfering in Angola 's internal affairs . |
| 22 | The resolution also called on the governments of Guatemala and El Salvador to support the process of national reconciliation in their countries , and appealed to the international community " to facilitate the process of peace and democratization " in Central America . |
| 23 | Paul Reed the National Organiser says the sport started on the rivers of wales and is now spreading throughout the country … |
| 24 | None of this meant that war was a rare or unimportant phenomenon in the eighteenth century or that the demands which it made on the peoples of Europe were negligible . |
| 25 | Finally , the company donated part of a site which it owned on the shores of Loughrea Lake , to the town of Loughrea … |
| 26 | Rose Clough , nee Machin , lived on the outskirts of Oswaldston on a spick and span , jerry-built private estate . |
| 27 | They would be segregated from members of the caste system and lived on the outskirts of villages or in their own communities . |
| 28 | She was the daughter of an old and scholarly man ( whom Alice thought to be about ninety-five ) and lived on the outskirts of Flaxthorpe . |
| 29 | Our father , Fa , was an agent for India 's Inland Navigation so that we ( our mother , Mam , my three sisters , Jon , Nancy and Rose , and I ) lived on the banks of Assam 's and Bengal 's great rivers , sometimes two miles wide , flowing through land so flat that it seemed to meet the sky all round like an inverted bowl . |
| 30 | FIVE people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |