Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the allied left the course of battle had fluctuated throughout the day . |
| 2 | On the Spanish left the period between the November 1933 election and the end of 1935 became known as the bienio negro , the ‘ two black years ’ , during which the reforms of 1931–3 were reversed or flouted , socio-economic power reverted sharply to landlords and employers , the left itself experienced unprecedented repression and the seeds of civil war were decisively sown . |
| 3 | after two years on the market-after reducing the price by 25 per cent and waiting nearly two years . |
| 4 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 5 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 6 | It is a period almost entirely ignored by the chroniclers , whose emphasis on the dramatic has the effect of telescoping these weeks . |
| 7 | It is a period almost entirely ignored by the chroniclers , whose emphasis on the dramatic has the effect of telescoping these weeks . |