Example sentences of "a [noun sg] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the former there is a mini retrospective of the artist 's ‘ accumulations ’ ( earliest from 1962 , latest from last year ) while at the latter there is ‘ Cycles ’ not a meditation on the passing stages of an artist 's life but , more prosaically , about the leg-propelled two-wheeled conveyance . |
| 2 | During his visit Yeltsin confirmed that he was intending to hold a referendum on the main clauses of the new Constitution and on the issue of private ownership , which the Congress of People 's Deputies ( the supreme legislature ) was blocking [ see also pp. 38875-76 ] . |
| 3 | A yak on the lower slopes of the peak of Nuptse . |
| 4 | A second house was sealed against its current Arab occupiers , pending a decision on the entire settlers case by the Attorney General . |
| 5 | The crisis had been brewing for so long , however , that the tsar could not be bought off with a decision on the Holy Places . |
| 6 | My father was a driver on the electric trams . |
| 7 | He persuaded Indian princes to fund the East India Association ( 1866 ) which gave him a platform for his campaign to open the Indian Civil Service to Indians and for publicizing his ‘ drain theory ’ , which presented British rule as a drain on the financial resources of India . |
| 8 | As a writer on the early days of the Association subsequently noted , the movement tended to work by modes of informal " social lubrication . " |
| 9 | A writer on the Cornish miners in the early eighteenth century complained that because of their " numerous holidays , holiday eves , feasts , account days ( once a month ) , Yeuwhiddens or one way or another they invent to loiter away their time , they do not work one half of their month for the owners and employers " . |
| 10 | In so doing , he secured a foothold on the northern borders of the kingdom of France which brought him important benefits , as well as vexing problems . |
| 11 | I could even put a tag on a few customers . |
| 12 | Schantz 's solution to the problem of the check in his grand pianos was to fix a rail on the raised sides of the keyframe just in front of the hammers . |
| 13 | It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips . |
| 14 | AGRICULTURE Minister John Gummer had an abortive trip to America to be on hand for a vain attempt to resolve differences leading to a settlement on the GATT-trade talks . |
| 15 | They have written to Director General of Fair Trading Sir Bryan Carsberg asking him to advise the Government to lift a ban on the two companies discussing the integration of their Dover-Calais services . |
| 16 | In March 1967 Craig had announced a ban on the forthcoming commemorations of the 1867 Fenian Rising and had proscribed the Republican Clubs . |
| 17 | Throughout this there is a play on the Latin words vidimus ( ‘ we saw ’ ) , venimus ( ‘ we come or we came ’ ) , and veniemus ( ‘ we shall come , ) . |
| 18 | The Government have taken a stand on the right principles , and when my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister goes to Maastricht to uphold them , he will have the overwhelming support of the House and the country , whatever the outcome of the summit . |
| 19 | As a barometer of political opinion and a verdict on the political talks , the results can be read any number of ways . |
| 20 | Going northwards along the Via Flaminia , about five miles or so past Spoleto , a signpost on the right points to Poreta . |
| 21 | They do not quite meet midradically to form a fan on the proximal joints . |
| 22 | The arm spines do not form a fan on the proximal joints . |
| 23 | They do not form a fan on the proximal joints . |
| 24 | The arm spines do not form a fan on the proximal joints . |
| 25 | For security a lock on the front locks both the system and the keyboard . |
| 26 | A seat on the powerful Appropriations Committee was coming his way and an office in the just-built Longworth Building across from the Capitol awaited him . |
| 27 | Although nominally a Great Power in 1945 , with a seat on the United Nations Security Council and the second largest Empire in the world , France emerged from the Second World War as a much-weakened nation . |
| 28 | The basis of the debtor 's defence seems to be that the action is a fraud on the other parties to the contract to forbear from suing . |
| 29 | Should the judges take it into their heads to question this ‘ authority ’ ( as occasionally they have ) then much of it is not too difficult to discount , as being obiter dicta , or as relating only to a rather narrow , specific point , ( e.g. the effect of a fraud on the Private Bills Committee of the House of Commons ) and leaving untouched the broader general question . |
| 30 | However , a vote on the Slovene proposals to restructure the federal party was resoundingly defeated . |