Example sentences of "on the [adv] [verb] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 2 | The language syllabus of Streamline is based on the carefully controlled introduction of new structures and vocabulary . |
| 3 | The Wembley square-go was more of a blot on Keegan 's copy book than on the already soiled jotters of William Bremner . |
| 4 | They recruited and trained some of West Africa 's best journalists , building on the already established foundations of newspaper readership and reporting . |
| 5 | Thus both the content and the form of the new eighteenth-century realist novel can be shown as dependent on the already known facts of the increasing social importance of the commercial bourgeoisie . |
| 6 | In this tradition , before this development , the sociology of culture had significantly been concentrated on the already institutionalized areas of religion and education . |
| 7 | Some evidence for a shared lhb population is provided by the relative numbers of craters of different sizes on the heavily cratered areas of the Moon , Mercury and Mars , making allowances for the influence of different planetary characteristics . |
| 8 | She sat down on the heavily bolstered arm of a brocade chair opposite her hostess . |
| 9 | Trainee dealers at some firms quickly developed a personal interest in stocks and shares , based on the new found possibilities of making quick money for themselves . |
| 10 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 11 | Authority — ‘ that egg of misery and oppression ’ as the doctor has it — is the norm in the long line of historical adventures drawing for material on the extensively recorded history of the navy in the Napoleonic Wars ; but the outstanding writers in the genre look round widely from this stance . |
| 12 | Upstairs , Donna heard the sound of forced entry , her eyes still fixed on the barely moving form of Stark . |
| 13 | Certainly , circulating in the world of the 1670s , the poem can be seen as important to groups of Protestant dissenters , offering them a visionary politics founded both on the scripturally based structure of history they favoured but also by appropriating and re-employing the scriptural Word which was a familiar practice of their own revolutionary writing . |
| 14 | Before them stretched a tunnel of darkness , broken only by the beam of light that flashed over tree trunks and gleamed on the gracefully curving fronds of ferns . |
| 15 | They would cry with the pain of numbed fingers as they worked on the never ending piles of ore . |
| 16 | The second project resulted from an invitation from the leaders of the new Greek government in 1823 to comment on the recently adopted Constitution of Epidaurus ( 1822 ) . |
| 17 | In Ostland the horde began to loot and destroy with customary Orc efficiency , crushing the spring crops underfoot and gorging themselves on the hard won stores of the local people . |
| 18 | This year 's conference was focused on the far reaching issue of international debt , and thus was directly relevant for my involvement in CA 's Debt Working Group and the wider Debt Crisis Network that links interested UK NGOs . |
| 19 | Standing on the beautifully tended grass of Jesus Green and watching a throng of tourists , language students and local people enjoying the tranquillity of the lock , it is hard to believe that it was built for commerce rather than leisure . |
| 20 | All agree on the highly derived nature of the teeth , and it is the postcranial adaptations that are of particular interest , for Oreopithecus shares with living hominoids a number of apparent postcranial synapomorphies . |