Example sentences of "on [art] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This jacked into the recorder , ’ he said , ‘ and this on the earpiece of the phone . ’ |
| 2 | Up here , Antoinette 's profile was faintly illumined by the night-light which floated in a saucer of water on the wash-stand by the bed . |
| 3 | At Macbeth 's Hillock , the grue rises a little cold on the nape of the neck . |
| 4 | It hurls itself around the island and in seconds the sea is alive , ugly waves crashing over the boats , white horses flicking over the surface on the hooves of the wind . |
| 5 | McIlvanney went on to work on the Scotsman as a news reporter and feature writer , though with his passion for football and boxing , the attraction towards sports was inevitable . |
| 6 | Bruno is currently on the lookout for a sponsor and would love to put Tencel or Courtelle on the team shirts . |
| 7 | They were clearly on the lookout for a second opening to pillory their headmistress . |
| 8 | So an animal needs to distinguish between a dangerous predator on the lookout for a meal , and a harmless one just passing by . |
| 9 | Finally , Norman Boyd , the man behind the now defunct Preacher John , has formed a new band and is on the lookout for a singer . |
| 10 | THORP , the flagship of BNFL , is on the lookout for a logo . |
| 11 | We bet he 's on the lookout for a president of SMCC . |
| 12 | You should always be on the lookout for the markings which can be transformed to suit your own ends . |
| 13 | They must always be on the lookout for the stalking feline hunter , whose aim is to get as close as possible before beginning the chase . |
| 14 | I 'm always on the lookout for the guys who are around . |
| 15 | While the splendid John Devereux improved his chances of being named in today 's Great Britain touring squad to Australia , with a fine display from his old rugby union position of centre , they were without too many of their creative players to open a hard-tackling defence which absorbed the pressure and were always on the lookout for the counter-attack . |
| 16 | The uniform motion of the drum depends on the viscosity of the mercury . |
| 17 | In experimental work on the viscosity of the alkanes over a wide range of temperature Doolittle found however that the simple relation where A and B are constants gave a very much better fit to the experimental data , than the Andrade equation From the discussion we have given it is clear that fv is only a linear function of T if the expansion of the liquid is given by the linear equation and this is only true over small temperature ranges . |
| 18 | Then he 'd gone into Belfast with the samples and had cracked the car 's exhaust on the ramps outside a police station . |
| 19 | They felt that it was important that public officers concerned with citizens — judges , the police , the armed services , even teachers , doctors land nurses — should receive training on the obligations of the state and on the rights of citizens . |
| 20 | Troop Sergeant-Major Haines — landed from ML 6 — reported to Newman and early in the fight lay out in the open with a 2-inch ( 51mm ) mortar firing on the guns across the submarine basin . |
| 21 | And remember , the Junta that decided on the invasion of the Malvinas , at least tae of them , were of Italian extraction . |
| 22 | By believing the play explores a supposedly innate moral virtue such as nobility , the tragedy can be one focused on the interiority of the character and thus , so the assumption proceeds , it may be considered ‘ great ’ . |
| 23 | Now , what we 've decided to do on the formwork for the tanks is to construct er a square frame into formwork er into one hold everything in place while we pour the concrete Onto the programme oh there it is . |
| 24 | She would have hurried on after an exchange of greetings and comments on the splendour of the morning but he moved forward to take a snip at a dandelion growing on the grass verge and contrived to block her path . |
| 25 | Yet pupils can not get on the wavelength of the experience of others by bracketing out all aspects of their own . |
| 26 | And because the upper limit of a microscope 's resolving power depends on the wavelength of the waves illuminating the object under study , Sokolov suggested that an acoustic microscope should in theory be able to resolve images just as well as the standard optical system . |
| 27 | The resolving power of a microscope depends not only on the wavelength of the light but also inversely on the aperture of the instrument . |
| 28 | on the stern of a North Sea ferry , when |
| 29 | So he sat down again and listened to the story of the Damianis , of their life in Jaffa and of how they fled in 1948 , how David Damiani stood on the stern of the ship off Jaffa port and wished he could have turned round then and gone back to his home . |
| 30 | The hole on the stern of the boat , see you got your boat come round like that , |