Example sentences of "[vb past] on [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With the help of others , he expounded on the hazards of frost , fire , ice , rain , snow , water and wind . |
| 4 | Irritated by the lost opportunity to speak to her aunt in private , she went to the typewriter and began on the letters of confirmation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The whole burden of these cuts fell on the colleges of education partly because , as we have seen , their numbers could be swiftly regulated and partly because they were still for the most part institutions predominantly concerned with teacher education . |
| 7 | As had occurred before , and was to occur again , pacifist agitators had more impact on the reorganization of the party system than they did on the issues of war and peace that they were trying to affect . |
| 8 | He spoke on the evils of race and colour prejudice and he rarely failed to mention the issue of slavery . |
| 9 | The de Vitto report on the social charter action programme called for the commission to carry out a survey into legislation and practices that discriminated on the grounds of age and to take measures to guarantee equal treatment for elderly people . |
| 10 | It was undone , immediately , by passions once more loosed on the streets of Derry . |
| 11 | The varnish held tiny , solid pieces of silver metal which stayed on the pieces of tissue Philippa was using and scratched the next nail she treated . |