Example sentences of "on [pron] [adj] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sucked on my hollow reed for a while , staring up at the sky . |
| 2 | The city itself , undaunted by the loss of £3m of public and private cash on its failed bid for the 1996 Games , will be spending a further hefty , though unspecified , sum . |
| 3 | Our task is to bring back the mass-production element into the house-building industry , which can be done only by enabling it largely to work on its own authority for a prospective demand — by ‘ letting the dog see the rabbit ’ . |
| 4 | The spokesman said the union had demanded that Mrs Falconer be retained on her present salary for a further two and half years with early retirement on an enhanced pension at 50 . |
| 5 | The Labour party 's plans to nationalize British civil aviation were based both on their general policy for the nationalization of industry , and on a desire to avoid the haphazard market of the years before 1939 . |
| 6 | Taxpayers who chose to assess themselves would compute the tax due on their total income for the year ending 5 April and , having taken into account any tax deducted or paid in instalments , would send this , or a repayment claim , to the Revenue , with their return by 1 January in the following year . |
| 7 | Amongst Labour identifiers , the effect of reading a right-wing paper on their relative preference for the Conservatives on unemployment was 13 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave , rising to 19 per cent by the second half of the campaign ( Table 8.10 ) . |
| 8 | He had a long criminal record at Scotland Yard and was currently on their wanted list for a variety of crimes , the most serious being the murder of an East End gangster . |
| 9 | They may not set up in practice on their own account for a further three years . |
| 10 | They found themselves no longer obliged to depend on the charity of their neighbours , nor on their own industry for a maintenance . |
| 11 | Sir James , who now devotes his energies to saving the environment , flew in on his private plane for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum . |
| 12 | MIDDLESBROUGH manager Lennie Lawrence will rely on his current squad for a final Second Division promotion push . |
| 13 | He set the canvas bag down and walked around it , changing his grip to put the weight on his other side for a while . |
| 14 | The great Italian architect , however , was too busy on his abortive façade for the Louvre . |
| 15 | But the 150th anniversary of Mozart 's death in 1941 brought only eulogies of the standard old-fashioned kind ( as well as some Nazi-inspired pan-Germanic accretions ) , and Mozart was still on his ornamental pedestal for the commemoration of his 200th birthday in 1956 . |
| 16 | In Cork Street , Waddington draws on his remarkable stock for an exhibition of modern and contemporary sculpture ( to 30 May ) . |
| 17 | In international law the individual normally lacks the right to initiate any proceedings on his own behalf for the vindication of any ‘ rights ’ apparently vested in him . |
| 18 | That way people could stare at him as much as they wanted to and as much as he wanted them to ; then at the crucial moment he would lift his face and turn those famous eyes on his chosen suitor for the evening . |
| 19 | An exclusion clause gives the party relying on it total exemption for the breach whereas a limitation clause limits liability to a specified amount . |
| 20 | ‘ Then it must have been two other people that have been kissing on our front porch for the last nine months . |
| 21 | All at once the range of plants we can grow has extended to include many of the magically evocative creatures that we encounter on our annual run for the sun . |
| 22 | somebody homed in on one and then you would be back on your scaled fee for the |
| 23 | Again , your own lists of goals will depend on your areas of strengths and weaknesses and on your own preference for the order in which to tackle things . |