Example sentences of "in the [noun] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This is what Dr Serafin is escaping from every time she pedals furiously to the station to catch the train to London ( one of those bicycles in the hall is hers ) with the portable typewriter lodged insecurely in the basket on the handlebars .
2 That was not the only service rendered by Clement to Edward : he exonerated the king from his oath to the barons concerning the Confirmation of the Charters in 1297 and annulled the clauses in the Articles on the Charters in 1300 which prescribed twice-yearly excommunication of all violators of Magna Carta and of the Forest Charter .
3 The boundaries of the concept are implicit in the frame structure and in the constraints on the values of the slot fillers .
4 From that cold , emotionless void she watched herself speak kindly to the young girl introduced as Ellen , thank the Queen for her great kindness , beg to be excused from dining in the hall on the grounds of wishing to find her priest as soon as possible , and resolutely put all thought of fitzAlan out of her mind .
5 The additional energy they enjoyed after following the diet for a few weeks helped them to take on a much more positive attitude towards life — I could sense a really happy attitude in the remarks on the questionnaires .
6 He lost no opportunity to use his status as an ideological lever for black causes , eventually refusing to serve in the army on the grounds that blacks had no interest in the Vietnam War .
7 Looking at herself in the looking-glass on the stairs she saw how small and pink her eyes looked , their lids still puffy and her skin was tired and lifeless .
8 Smyth ( 1978 ) in Alternatives to Animal Experiments , points out that several of its techniques , such as mass spectrometry , gas chromatography , and the use of isotopes in biomedical research , were developed much earlier in the century on the grounds of simple efficiency .
9 They had Nelson Mandela giving a rally at two in the afternoon on the steps of City Hall or wherever it was , and at three they had a colour photograph of him out on the streets .
10 Two of these had earlier been the subject of the intensive case studies ( see Chapter 4 ) ; two had been involved in piloting the questionnaire and the head of another declined to take part in the survey on the grounds that he was just then attempting to introduce a scheme of SSE of his own devising .
11 Neither abolition nor emancipation therefore produced a satisfactory capitalist solution of ‘ the agrarian problem ’ , and it is doubtful whether this could have been achieved unless the conditions for the development of a capitalist agriculture were already present , as in the areas on the margins of the slave/serf economy such as Texas or ( in Europe ) Bohemia and parts of Hungary .
12 Mr Major yesterday joined in the attack on the Germans .
13 Only one member of the feudal class , Sir Robert Knolles , is reported as playing a major part in the attack on the rebels in London , although the earl of Suffolk and Bishop Despenser of Norwich were prominent in the repression in East Anglia .
14 We would n't let them meet on the corners because the people in the houses on the corners always used to complain of the row that they made — used to chase them .
15 Another type of work which is disliked is emotionally demanding work , a category not recognized elsewhere in the literature on the police .
16 The guys do a lot of work in the villages on the borders of the park , talking to the headmen , explaining the dangers of poaching . ’
17 His dacha was in the woods on the banks of the Moscova river .
18 In addition , even if it does not have a UK office , a non-UK firm nonetheless needs to be authorised for investment business carried on from a non-UK office with customers or counterparties in the UK on a services basis unless the FSA 's overseas person exemption applies ; this indeed also applies to UK firms ( see page 43 below ) .
19 Although little detailed research has been carried out in the UK on the effects of financial innovation and structural change upon the appropriate conduct of monetary control , it appears that there is a consensus opinion that the effects of financial change necessitate that monetary policy be conducted in a discretionary manner .
20 Kyle et al. ( 1981 ) report a national study in the UK on the levels of performance of those using BSL .
21 Yet here they have found that the newcomers are also opposed to the construction of further council housing in the village on the grounds that it is ‘ detrimental to the character of the village ’ and detracts from the rural environment .
22 to the extent that such adjustments could be made if the data were to be used in an accountants ' short form report , the guidance in the CFM on the procedures to adopt for short form reporting should be followed .
23 John Mackintosh then argued strongly , right up to his death , for a ‘ Yes ’ vote in the referendum on the grounds that only a Scottish Assembly , however imperfect , could sort out the anomalies with Westminster .
24 We certainly do n't believe that that will will be the case erm , I suspect personally that er their own policies and proposals probably have more harm in in the issue on the issues of urban regeneration of perhaps North Yorkshire as well .
25 In part these various proposals reflected the circumstances of the areas concerned , whether they were densely or sparsely populated for instance ; but in part they represented the different emphasis in the proposals on the objectives being pursued .
26 The participation of judges in the debates on the Courts and Legal Services Bill 1989–90 is discussed below .
27 put in the bits on the dots .
28 There was nothing in the studies on the differences between individual catholic schools , either in terms of pupil experiences or the varieties of educational practice and personnel in each school .
29 MORE than 190 jobs were put at risk yesterday when a Blantyre-based civil engineering company , RJ Levack , called in the receivers on the instructions of Clydesdale Bank .
30 The national conference which since late 1991 had been planned as the next stage in the democratization process , was on May 8 postponed until later in the year on the grounds that its preparatory commission had not completed its work .
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