Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [noun] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 2 | The tentacle pores are large , the proximal ones are armed with 3 flat , elongated , tentacle scales , one on the lateral arm plate the other two arising on the ventral arm plate . |
| 3 | Breeze and Gay had printed their handbills with great care , and had painted their board most beautifully — with the result that on the following Sunday afternoon the entire population of Overclyst and Clyst St George filed past Sunset Cottage in slow procession , gazing open-mouthed at the birthplace of such a surprising scheme . |
| 4 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 5 | Ever since Bob Haboldt opened his Paris gallery on the faubourg Saint Honoré a few years back , things have been relatively quiet at his New York offices . |
| 6 | In 1872 he introduced at Victoria on the Metropolitan District Railway an automatic train-protection system whereby a red lens positioned in front of a white signal light was raised above it on actuation from an electrical contact only when the section ahead was clear . |
| 7 | Agreed that in the proceedings on the Criminal Justice Bill the Government should advise Parliament that the present was not an opportune time for abolishing capital punishment ; and took note that the Home Secretary would define the Government 's attitude towards this question when moving the Second Reading of the Bill in the House of Commons ; |
| 8 | On the general desert surface the wind removes the finer products in suspension and may shift the sand by saltation and surface creep , thus leaving a surface of gravel or bare rock . |
| 9 | But the scale of the increase might come as a surprise : on the 21-week agreement 10p a week extra pushing up the rate of charge from 26. 1 per cent to 72.5 per cent for example , or on the 15-week agreement 1 p a week extra almost doubling the rate . |
| 10 | Anyone who bought Harvard 's own shares got effectively locked in , as it would take three months to sell out , on the matched bargain basis a fact not usually explained to the client at the time of sale . |
| 11 | On the other side list the most common cultural situations , with appropriate vocabulary and common idioms . |
| 12 | On the foreign exchange market the pound was stronger in quiet trading against the dollar , it firmed 0.4 of a cent to $1.640 whilst against the Deutschmark it rose to DM2.7568 . |
| 13 | On the blank east wall the Eastons have opened up windows , following the outlines of earlier mullions . |
| 14 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 15 | But on the next interest date the buyer will receive the full half-year payment . |
| 16 | Informed sources say that Texas Instruments Inc had Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunOS Unix running on the superscalar Viking Sparc a long time ago , but when schedules for the long overdue part began to slip , it clammed up , leaving the grapevine to hum with negative vibes . |
| 17 | As requested on the previous Q.T. Day a River Trip and Disco had been costed . |
| 18 | It is also significant that the oddness of 9a can be reduced by modifying table semantically : The table with the electronic eye saw Arthur ( we know that it is the meaning of the modifying phrase which is important because the reduction in oddness depends on the open set items the phrase contains — compare The table with the melamine top saw Arthur ) ; no similar modification of bake in 11a , or table in 12a , can reduce the degree of deviance of these sentences . |
| 19 | And then on the left hand side the old houses continue and the female I interviewed er I reckoned there had been a house there that had been knocked down , and they built a wee bungalow . |
| 20 | On the proximal arm segment the arm spines meet midradially forming a single fan . |
| 21 | On the proximal arm segment the arm spines form a fan . |
| 22 | On the proximal arm segment the arm spines almost meet midventrally forming a fan . |
| 23 | On the left-hand side list the skills and qualifications required in the job description , or what you yourself know from experience the job will entail . |
| 24 | On a new housing estate the priority task is to establish Christian cells rather than launch into a brick-by-brick building scheme . |
| 25 | On a sparkling spring day the vista is quite superb , while the famed Channel Islands ' sunsets can be enjoyed in all their technicolored splendour . |
| 26 | He usually arrived on a powerful motor bicycle a B.M.W. , I am told . |
| 27 | The film faithfully follows Shakespeare 's plot , characters and text and recounts how the Duke of Milan , after twelve years of exile on a magical island plots a revenge and reconciliation on his enemies . |
| 28 | On a hot summer afternoon a few weeks later , Caroline trooped wearily home from work and opened her postbox to find a long white envelope bearing the logo of the Davis School of Design . |
| 29 | On a gleaming fibreglass deck a girl with waist-length chestnut hair and tiny navy shorts was reclining against the cockpit , calling something to a man on a neighbouring craft . |
| 30 | Is a heaving scrum of pushchairs , children , mums , grandads and dogs in the cloakroom at five to nine on a wet Monday morning the best way to start the week ? |