Example sentences of "on [prep] the [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , the search is on for the person in the team who told me that Larry Adler 's birthday was today , and not February the tenth . |
| 2 | Provision similar to those in a share sale for the carrying on of the business in the period between signing and completion . |
| 3 | It 's a bit late to be coming on like the Angel in the House now . ’ |
| 4 | He did not speak in the room , allowing his clothes to fall on to the floor in the darkness , waiting for some stir or sign from Rose , but the only sound in the room was the brushing of his own clothes falling in the darkness . |
| 5 | The orchestra began to play , an air of excitement gripped Emily and she forgot the shoemaker 's daughter , she even forgot Craig in the excitement of the occasion as some of the ladies swung like flowers on to the floor in the arms of the men . |
| 6 | And so it 's passed on to the person in the school or college responsible for that . |
| 7 | you can give further encouragement by holding on to the leash in the early stages of teaching this command . |
| 8 | Now he saw his chance and desperation forced him to take the risk of climbing down on to the line in the darkness . |
| 9 | The destruction of the monopolistic purchasing cartels , which was the commons ' real object , ensured that the tax would no longer be passed on to the producer in the form of lower prices , and the establishment of the Company of the Staple as a selling cartel enabled the real burden of the tax to be imposed upon the purchasers , the cloth manufacturers of Flanders . |
| 10 | He then threw them on to the ground in the tinder-dry hay loft without putting them out properly , it is alleged . |
| 11 | Controlling the rig Once the rig is free the hands move on to the boom in the normal sailing position and the power is controlled by sheeting in and out . |
| 12 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 13 | The way in which that topic was to explode on to the stage in the twentieth century is anticipated in the frontal attack launched on Hegel 's system by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard . |
| 14 | If he had been born in Australia or Lithuania or even Manchester , Sheikh al Hassan could have ejected his minion on to the street in the sure knowledge that it would be put down to robust good humour . |
| 15 | Certainly , while some type of guarantee scheme or bonding would seem to be desirable , the cost will inevitably be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher charges . |
| 16 | Hence , if increased trade union bargaining power led to high wage settlements they could be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices . |
| 17 | And that is passed on to the consumer in the price tag . |
| 18 | Secure the red numbers on to the side panels with royal icing , and then fix the lifebelts on to the boat in the same way , three on each side and two on the deck . |
| 19 | Police went on to the site in the centre of Oxford at around 2.30 , 70 officers in all , in riot gear , backed up by helicopter , sniffer dogs and the marine section . |
| 20 | erm I find I 'm not sure that any of us can erm cope with what 's going on at the moment in the Gulf without having just ways of distracting ourselves , erm and I think that perhaps might be more of a problem for adults than it is for children , in the sense that erm most of us have access to more information than most children do erm and more information about what death means , and what suffering means , and what pain means , than erm most children who have been brought up in this country . |
| 21 | So during my three years at University College Swansea I carried on at the shop in the evenings doing the ordering , and on Saturdays running the general book department and the educational department . |
| 22 | Lately he had been troubled by rheumatism brought on by the damp in the house , and his doctor had set him up in sleeping quarters on the ground floor with independent heating arrangements . |
| 23 | Expansion was further spurred on by the reduction in the meat allowance in school canteens that the Ministry of Food was forced to introduce in 1941 , owing to problems of supply . |