Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shildon had excused his initial omissions on the grounds that he had concealed that he was engaged in work which was not for the business section . |
| 2 | Fur has seen its best days on the clothing front , although seriously rockin' on the footwear front right now is leopard skin . |
| 3 | Drives a red Escort , you 've got yourself ten pounds on the sticker drive . |
| 4 | Representing as they have done the interests of a high-seas trading nation ( Britain still exports more per head of population than does Japan ) , British post-war leaders of all political persuasions , from Nye Bevan to Margaret Thatcher , have largely based their economic policies on the need to expand trade . |
| 5 | In different degrees , both the earlier tsars had devoted their first years on the throne to improving the condition of the empire , but one of them had been distracted by Napoleon and the other by foreign war and a rebellion in Poland . |
| 6 | Organized interests not surprisingly have increasingly turned away from legislatures and have concentrated their political pressures on the bureaucracy and the executive . |
| 7 | The girl had struck her three times on the right thigh , just where the once-broken bone was , and had taken care to stay out of the field of her optic burner . |
| 8 | He knew they would be hurrying behind him , might even have heard his running steps on the path or noted , practised woodsmen as they were , the scatter of wood-pigeons that went up in a flurry ahead of him . |
| 9 | HAVING taken your first steps on the road to becoming a video movie maker , you can now begin to run a little . |