Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] on [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Situated right on the pretty little harbour front , the Gardesana enjoys superb views of the lake from its elegant public rooms and first floor restaurant , where an extensive buffet breakfast and excellent 3 course dinner with salad bar are served . |
| 2 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 3 | Yawning , not hiding it , them an sat down on an ancient easy chair on one side of the dead fireplace . |
| 4 | It seemed utterly incongruous that there were cars parked outside on the wide circular drive — carriages would have looked more appropriate . |
| 5 | He appears to be something of a Lingfield specialist , having won twice on the all-weather flat track . |
| 6 | Active hegemony in effect operated only on the moderate right wing of Labour , that ‘ intellectual group most congenial to the majority of Trade Union leaders ’ ( ibid. p 181 ) . |
| 7 | The pig would be hung up on a big strong hook and there was much to-ing and fro-ing with kettles of boiling water to help scrape off the bristles and extract the entrails . |
| 8 | Van Gelder had n't made any mistakes about her , Talbot thought , except that he 'd missed out on the wide green eyes and a rather bewitching smile . |
| 9 | She was at the age when many women are at their physical best : tall , thin , but shapely ; smart , but not too dauntingly so ; fragrant ( a touch of Poison ) ; and fun : she had mastered early on the necessary female skill of charity towards her suitors ' jokes . |
| 10 | They were used initially on the new ten-minute Squires Gate and Fleetwood service which required ten cars , and the remainder used as Fleetwood specials . |
| 11 | It was modelled closely on the old Imperial chancery , using notaries , who were first employed to record the deeds of the early martyrs and the decrees of councils . |
| 12 | Scooters , tricycles , bicycles and pedal cars can all be used safely on a flat hard surface and there are many chances for one-to-one correspondence . |
| 13 | This suggests that physical matching was based entirely on a non-verbal mental representation of the stimuli . |
| 14 | Turning now to the income-related benefits , as the House knows , the uprating is , in this respect , based not on the full retail prices index , but on what is known as the Rossi index , which , in essence , is the RPI less housing costs but which we have this year brought more exactly into line with what the benefits are intended to cover by including in the calculation 20 per cent . |
| 15 | Yet , beguiling as these songs may have been , there was little doubt that the success of Culture Club was based largely on the curious popular appeal of Boy George himself . |
| 16 | The anger of the Unionists was based partly on the old political frustration of government by log-rolling , and partly on a new constitutional point . |
| 17 | It was based essentially on the old industrial areas of Scotland , Wales , and the North , on the public-sector unions , and on client electors on council housing estates and in the local-government services . |
| 18 | AIR wars have broken out on the vital transatlantic routes , with British Airways , Virgin Atlantic and two big American carriers all slashing their spring fares . |
| 19 | The Holiday Inn is set right on the white sandy beach of Batu Ferringhi , about 20 minutes drive from Georgetown . |
| 20 | These rooms are marked in on the visual advanced reservation chart automatically , as are confirmed package tours , groups , conferences and seminars . |
| 21 | It 's downland with a links feel , beautifully laid out on a 400-yard wide strip of land between the railway line and the cliff tops . |
| 22 | Last year the town missed out , but the borough council , residents and business people have worked together on a new ten-point plan which includes regenerating the town centre by making it fully pedestrianised , building a new shopping development and improving access for disabled people . |
| 23 | For instance , the classic tactic of demanding an adjournment should not be thrown away on a low level aim , such as ‘ let's have coffee ’ . |
| 24 | It was n't until she was put back on a different oral antibiotic — these work directly on the inflamed cells in the spots — that she started to notice a change . |
| 25 | However , fearing that the UN force would legitimize the loss of its territory to Serbia , Croatia also continued to insist that the force should be deployed only on the 560-km front lines and only for a period of six months . |
| 26 | The study by Arnoult ( 1953 ) , mentioned in the preceding section of this chapter , included a condition in which the subjects were tested not on a discriminative motor task but on a task which required them to make a judgement about whether two stimuli presented together were the same as or different from one another . |
| 27 | Immediately , the Coventry team manager had the news flashed up on the giant electronic message board at the end of the ground . |
| 28 | So , a tiny red dot placed specifically on a large white area becomes a work of art , but it 's also a criticism that art is viewed too reverently since people will spend time and money to trek to view , maybe worship , the little red dot on the large white area in an art gallery but will swiftly get the handbag removed from the seat cos they want to sit down ! |
| 29 | All the money raised will be clocked up on a giant mobile Time Machine . |