Example sentences of "and the [noun] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One significant point was noticeable : very few of the European deaf have any knowledge of a manual alphabet and the spelling on the hands by the British and American representatives caused many to pause and gaze with an added interest . |
| 2 | It ripened the fruit on the trees and the grapes on the vines slowly and thoroughly , and yet left the abundant streams running with clear water . |
| 3 | So then Pete had told him , truthfully , word-for-word and without any embellishment ; about the shotgun , and the pigeons , and the misunderstanding on the stairs . |
| 4 | Both these experiments and the studies on the effects of hunger and thirst on dreaming demonstrate the unpredictability of dreaming , explicable only in terms of semantics . |
| 5 | Lazarsfeld 's own contribution lay in the study of voting choice and the studies on the effects of the mass media and , during the Second World War , collaborating on studies of Nazi propaganda and race relations , among others . |
| 6 | Gould and Darwin must have discussed not only the alliance between the species in the Galapagos and the species on the continents , but the reliance of the Galapagos species for their individual characteristics on their particular environment . |
| 7 | When the driver spotted the mother and the boy on the tracks , the mother had actually already reached the other side , but the little boy had fallen behind his mother and was still on the tracks . |
| 8 | There was a chest-high counter and the space on the customers ' side offered room for no more than two people . |
| 9 | Type was pretty plentiful on the floor and the stuff on the galleys , well " nuff said ! " |
| 10 | It is so easy to do , but if you leave a tin of polish and the duster on the stairs say , while you go up and then have to dash down to answer the front door bell , you can easily slip on them . |
| 11 | They talked together about the tests ( and Isobel thanked God she understood so little of it ; it all sounded so complicated and unfriendly ) , and she watched the baby on the monitor screen high on the wall and the patterns on the machines , the ones linked up to the cot with its attachments for measuring his heartbeats and his breathing and his body temperature . |
| 12 | In these documents , a new synthesis of the research findings and the reports on the deaths of unprotected children was accomplished , making a new sense of the apparently conflicting evidence . |
| 13 | Thus his Declaration of Reasons for Invading focused on the violations of the Test Act , the creation of the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , the suspension of the Bishop of London , the affair of Magdalen College , the dispensing and suspending powers , and the attack on the corporations in 1687 – 8 . |
| 14 | When you look at the erm the , all the engraving around the various controls and the nerving on the knobs here , all very nicely lit . |
| 15 | When they had got beyond Stamford and to their destination , the wolf suddenly disappeared and the flames on the lances were extinguished . |
| 16 | In the wet , wild June the grass was tall and lush , and the heather on the hills stood high and bristling like wire . |
| 17 | At first the belts slip round the flat pulleys — they 're meant to — but as soon as I squirt the gum they grab and the shafts pick up speed real fast , and the spokes on the pulleys blur and disappear . |
| 18 | The f-holes indicate the true semi-acoustic nature of the instrument , while the main decorative features include the multiple body binding with its incredible pearloid purfling , and the wood on the sides and the back . |
| 19 | In consequence the recounting of the rise of hereditary surnames is of basic worth , and the sections on the names of married women and bondsmen are seminal . |
| 20 | There were two major reports on the news , one showing mass rallies in Spain on the eve of the elections there , hundreds of thousands of ordinary people crammed into sports stadia to hear their party leaders , and the other on the miners ' ballot , with interviews among the miners who travelled in busloads from coalfields in Derbyshire and Lancashire for the Sheffield rally , interviews with Michael McGahey on the road about the vilification of Scargill , and the sight of Scargill himself appealing to the miners to vote for their union and against the National Coal Board . |
| 21 | The next day found her driving round the busy , bustling city of Sheffield , desperately trying to keep one eye on the traffic , and the other on the directions scrawled on a piece of paper . |
| 22 | One was found on decayed plant material in peatland at Llyn Eiddwen , in Dyfed , and the other on the droppings in burrows of small mammals such as moles and voles in Merioneth . |
| 23 | I 'll have one hand on the saddle and the other on the handlebars . ’ |
| 24 | Costs are , in fact , forced upwards both by the limitations on the supply of land and the restrictions on the densities of housing that may be constructed per hectare ( Hall et al . |
| 25 | I can hear the sound of the wood burning in the fire and the clock on the stairs . |
| 26 | The blues are normally found on the ‘ peaceful ’ deities and the reds on the head-dresses of the ‘ angry ’ deities . |
| 27 | Notwithstanding the importance of trying to reduce inflation , does the Minister agree that increasing unemployment — 8,000 more jobless people in the city of Liverpool alone since January this year — and the effect on the telecommunications industry of the recent GEC announcements mean that he should look especially at ECGD funding ? |
| 28 | During the First World War , of course , Flanders was transformed into one huge battlefield and the effect on the cattle population was devastating . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers . |
| 30 | Both barrels , I presumed , as there was only one crump , and the effect on the sports car was dramatic . |