Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 2 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 3 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 4 | And she had n't honestly thought he had — until just a few hours ago on the beach when he 'd said that this was goodbye . |
| 5 | He had been asked to speak some months ago on the subject , ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ . |
| 6 | Nothing remained as it had been , except for some pictures aslant on the wall . |
| 7 | She wrote a few words quickly on a piece of paper , and at the last moment added at the bottom : |
| 8 | I saw some of this ( in hanks ) only a few months ago on a stand at a street market . |
| 9 | With Dennis just a few feet away on the stairs , it was the sexual equivalent of Russian roulette . |
| 10 | It seems probable that supplies of wire also came from the long demolished Cambridge wire works a few miles away on the River Cam , close to the old road to Dursley . |
| 11 | Prince Charlie 's servants ushering him urgently on to a boat , looking anxiously over their shoulders to check that no traitor has deceived them and given away the location of the Prince 's departure , when suddenly the Prince spies a dark hole some miles away on the side of a hill . |
| 12 | The Labour party judges such matters only on the number of employees and trade union members on the books , which is not the test that we shall apply . |
| 13 | I think it 's wrong because they , they 're putting these houses now on the market , the building societies |
| 14 | Although we shall postpone further discussion to later chapters , we want to put these questions firmly on the agenda . |
| 15 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 16 | On the technical side , remedial work is in many cases already on the way . |
| 17 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 18 | The Minister 's wife related to my grandfather , in the presence of her mother-in-law , how the latter had accompanied her husband many years before on a mission to the Barbary Coast , where plague was raging . |
| 19 | Child bangs all toys repeatedly on the floor . |
| 20 | The Treasury hopes that the new rates of return will make those companies still on the privatisation back-burner , such as British Coal and British Rail , leaner and more efficient . |
| 21 | We provide the Party with its broad base , we keep it on its feet and when necessary we keep those feet firmly on the ground . |
| 22 | I do n't want you put those trousers away on the washing . |
| 23 | The players froze , too , realizing that all escape from the yard was blocked by yet more plague-sufferers still on the bridge . |
| 24 | This meant that management were able to push decision making well down the hierarchy , giving those actually operating the CNC machines much autonomy , and expecting a high level of integration of the various functions such as quality control , work planning , programming of the machine , and machine setting to take place via those operatives actually on the shop floor . |
| 25 | However , Silsoe College has developed a system which , when commercially available , will be cheaper than those devices currently on the market , it says . |
| 26 | it 's ab I think I said to you we 've got fifty , a good fifty-fifty split , if maybe not slightly more women actually on the course . |
| 27 | Their new appointments will reunite Mark Baker and Bruce Lack , who first met several years ago on a training ship . |
| 28 | There have been several monasteries here on the mountain slopes above the city of Athens ; they are now deserted and partly ruined . |
| 29 | All patients who expressed a desire to undergo a sphincter preserving operation were found to have satisfactory anal sphincter pressure and anal canal sensation , and therefore to date we have not rejected any patients simply on the grounds of age and inadequate sphincter function on testing . |
| 30 | Again , he does it by starting with both feet firmly on the ground . |