Example sentences of "on [pron] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 An interesting thought , because he turns on its head our usual temptation to crowd prayer out when we are busy .
2 MAKING TRACKS This month 's Making Tracks goes behind the closed doors of the record industry for an intriguing glimpse inside the minds of the A&R men and women of the business , those people on whose whim your musical career could stand or fall …
3 His Congo campaign achieved its preliminary aim in 1908 when the Free State was handed over to Belgium , and thereafter had some success in pressing the latter to adopt specific reforms , despite the reluctance of the British and French governments to antagonize Belgium , on whose friendship their European policies depended .
4 Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works .
5 I think my first point is that the answer to your question depends to some extent on what population what demographic forecasts prove to be most likely .
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