Example sentences of "on the [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among them was G. H. Hitchings , who had worked at Harvard on the quantitative estimation of purines and on the purification of the anti-anaemia principle in liver , and at Western Reserve on studies which led later to the discovery of folic acid . |
| 2 | No one stepped forward , no one seemed to be on the lookout for a stranger and the other passengers quickly dispersed . |
| 3 | So , if you 're on the lookout for a nice little earner , dust off the cobwebs and take your painting along to the professionals . |
| 4 | His current bike was provided by local businessman CP Granleese , but he is still on the lookout for a major sponsor . |
| 5 | The specialists tend to live rather quiet , often secretive lives , while the opportunists scamper hither and thither , always on the lookout for a new kind of meal . |
| 6 | Louisa will hold the title for one year so keep on conditioning because we will be on the lookout for a new winner ! |
| 7 | A small number of naturalists , including the young Thomas Henry Huxley ( 1825–95 ) , were on the lookout for a new initiative in this area . |
| 8 | In the meantime , Romanian police are on the lookout for a new breed of Blueman roaming the streets of Bucharest . |
| 9 | He further let it be known — in the most careless way imaginable , like a good gun bringing down a bird without breaking a conversational flow — that he was a bachelor , a man of wealth , a friend of the Prime Minister and , in an amiable manner , on the lookout for a secure investment in matrimony . |
| 10 | Attackers are always on the lookout for a potential victim , someone who will succumb easily . |
| 11 | Her black hair seemed to gush from her scalp and her blue eyes were never still , constantly on the lookout for the next opportunity , the next adventure . |
| 12 | The Plain English Campaign is again on the lookout for the incomprehensible , and consumer contracts are the latest to come under fire . |
| 13 | Perhaps he would say it in some lonely place in the hills with someone on the lookout for the searching redcoats . |
| 14 | A gold medallist of yesteryear on the lookout for an Olympic champion of the future . |
| 15 | It would be interesting to know whether humans with hippocampal damage are impaired on the equivalent of a radial arm maze . |
| 16 | While studying the relationship between visual stimuli and the EEG , Adrian found that if a regular series of bright flashes was presented to the subject 's eyes there was an equally regular series of blips in the EEG recorded from electrodes on the scalp over the visual areas at the back of the skull . |
| 17 | This research constructs a small-scale multi-country model of the eight main OECD economies , which takes account of the above criticism and is related to ongoing research in the Centre for Labour Economics on the supply side and on the estimation of a small-scale model of the UK economy . |
| 18 | I argue for this in Chapter 12 concerning the possibility of participation in school worship at different levels , one level being a conscious but temporary withholding of the critical faculties in order to get on the wavelength of a particular belief . |
| 19 | Initiating pupils into theology is an essential part of RE , so that they may be on the wavelength of the major religions and be able — if they wish — to use their language and outlooks to make sense of their own personal experience . |
| 20 | In the right type of country projected profiles may illustrate the relief remarkably well : in Fig. 9.17 it is obvious that there is an area of high ground near the crest of the escarpment separated from a wide terrace on the dipslope by a noticeable break of slope . |
| 21 | Others crossed the low–and on the old Roman road which had been made on the ridge of the terminal moraine . |
| 22 | Mokosh changed herself into a raven and flew back with the turtle-dove to perch on the ridge of the wooden fort . |
| 23 | We stopped on the ridge by a battered and solitary old foxtail pine . |
| 24 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 25 | Unlike radicals , however , they do not see medical power resting solely on the dominance of an autonomous profession or the control of highly valued science . |
| 26 | In other words , by insisting on the dominance of the ruling class in the last instance , Poulantzas 's approach retained within it the central tenet of all reductionist instrumental accounts : namely , the state must be functioning to defend and protect the interests of the dominant class all of the time . |
| 27 | It is here of course that the precise order in which voters place candidates can have a decisive effect on the destination of the last seat(s) . |
| 28 | The Treaty on the Conditions of the Limited Stay and Procedures for the Planned Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from the Federal Republic of Germany was signed on Oct. 12 . |
| 29 | A few observations on the conditions of the deep-water sediments are also relevant to some perennial theories explaining ‘ monster ’ sightings . |
| 30 | While there was a cultural aspect to this battle ( the Telagu people faced discrimination as a linguistic minority ) it is stressed that the struggle was focused on the conditions of an agricultural economy organised around a system of landlords and tenants . |