Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rarity of artefacts found during excavations of such farms not only affects the archaeologist 's ability to date the buildings , but also makes it extremely difficult to understand the details of the activities carried out on the farm . |
| 2 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 3 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 4 | This distraction allowed the Wolverines to close in on the flanged skirts of the arena . |
| 5 | The board spins around on the tail with some assistance from the rig . |
| 6 | Anna Adams had no illusions about the decline of Scarp , ‘ When the artists move in on a way of life , that way of life is picturesquely anachronistic and in decay ’ , but it seems that a taste for tragedy only augments the awareness of beauty . |
| 7 | Anna Adams had no illusions about the decline of Scarp , ‘ When the artists move in on a way of life , that way of life is picturesquely anachronistic and in decay ’ , but it seems that a taste for tragedy only augments the awareness of beauty . |
| 8 | Gerry 's champing at the bit to get back on the box |
| 9 | The hours burned by on the green screen , and when they finally flopped in Lucy 's living room , sipping brandy , a key turned in the lock and in came the charmingly dishevelled one and only son . |
| 10 | The large part of the responsibility falls back on the parents — or , in some cases , on grandparents . |
| 11 | Then follows more hearsay evidence , and the trail peters out on a question mark . |
| 12 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 13 | The stories of what it was like there in the hours that followed , and of the lingering deaths of 31 of the most exposed people , make the hair stand up on the back of your neck . |
| 14 | People who 've seen it say it makes the hair stand up on the back of their necks . ’ |
| 15 | After some initial successes , the authorities cracked down on the protesters . |
| 16 | passenger , the driver 's brother , knew vehicle was uninsured. he consented to ride in the vehicle when , with another , he and the driver set out on a night 's drinking . |
| 17 | According to the official Tass news agency six servicemen , part of the contingent stationed in east Uzbekistan since the outbreak of violence between Uzbeks and Kirghiz in June [ see pp. 37540-41 ; 37618 ] , were returning from leave to rejoin their unit when the fight broke out on a bus . |
| 18 | It 's hard to resist the malevolent allure of the Third Reich , and when I telephoned Sibylle one evening a week or so later , the sound of her rich , Teutonic voice eloquently describing its owner 's activities in the Hitler Youth movement made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck . |
| 19 | The maintenance carried out on the aquarium was a regular 10% water change and a regular ( every two weeks ) larger water change of 20% using an aquarium gravel cleaner to rid the gravel of unwanted waste . |
| 20 | The industry grew up on the strength of local timber and water supplies . |
| 21 | But the greatest disappointment of his career was when Regent 's management agreement with The Dorchester fell through on the sale of the hotel . |
| 22 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 23 | But Hunt said that if the race were officially started and the cars lined up on the grid , he would have no choice but to race . |
| 24 | He put the card face down on the table and brushed off the torn fragments of paper with the side of his sore hand . |
| 25 | Hurrying through the kitchen , he found the President keeled over on the bathroom floor . |
| 26 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |
| 27 | When she came in she stood looking at the figure stretched out on the floor . |
| 28 | This permits the ring to move down on the line under greater tension , and up on the opposite side which would be on the outside of a turn . |
| 29 | Alright th the car blew up on a dual carriageway there 's |
| 30 | An airstart attempt was unsuccessful and the aircraft touched down on the extended landing gear at a point 900 feet short of the runway pavement . |