Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ; |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On the other side list the most common cultural situations , with appropriate vocabulary and common idioms . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the blank east wall the Eastons have opened up windows , following the outlines of earlier mullions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But on the next interest date the buyer will receive the full half-year payment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On the proximal arm segment the arm spines meet midradially forming a single fan . |
| 15 | On the proximal arm segment the arm spines form a fan . |
| 16 | On the proximal arm segment the arm spines almost meet midventrally forming a fan . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On a new housing estate the priority task is to establish Christian cells rather than launch into a brick-by-brick building scheme . |
| 19 | On a sparkling spring day the vista is quite superb , while the famed Channel Islands ' sunsets can be enjoyed in all their technicolored splendour . |
| 20 | He usually arrived on a powerful motor bicycle a B.M.W. , I am told . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams . |
| 25 | None emerged with the necessary overall majority , however , and in the absence of agreement on a national unity government a second round run-off between the two leading candidates on Jan. 6 would be necessary , with the new President due to take office on Jan. 14 , 1991 . |
| 26 | On a fine spring morning the three grandsons got up early and went out to look at the bee-hives which they kept in the forest . |
| 27 | Not so much that here on a fine June morning a man lay murdered , but that he , Wexford , had found him . |
| 28 | On an individual subject basis the University scored top ratings of 5 in Applied Social Sciences and Film and Media Studies with ratings of 4 in , signifying work of national importance overall and international standing in some or all areas of activity in these subjects . |
| 29 | On an early test flight the undercarriage retraction mechanism jammed because a glove got caught up and the gear collapsed in the subsequent landing , fortunately without damage to the airframe . |