Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until recently , only the dedicated enthusiasts would identify the components as a B.R. Standard Class 5MT , but since the completion of volunteer Dave Clark 's expert temporary lining and numbering on the exposed cab side , 73156 is now brought to the attention of all train-board visitors . |
| 2 | For a start Claridges Hotel , in London 's Mayfair , where the Russians would be staying , was fully bugged by MI5 on a permanent basis ( because so many ‘ interesting ’ foreign guests stayed there ) and it was certainly not going to miss the opportunity of eavesdropping on the two leaders . |
| 3 | SNOOP Cyril Reenan was branded a prying sneak yesterday for eavesdropping on the intimate phone conversation . |
| 4 | Another factor in Ethernet 's favour is that different types of cable can be mixed on the one Ethernet network , so you could lay cheap cable in most areas and higher-performance stuff in critical sections . |
| 5 | Even then opposing fans mixed on the same terraces without the ‘ taking of ends ’ . |
| 6 | Usually the line represents the flow of something but that something might be material , energy , information or time but again these should not be mixed on the same diagram unless differently coded lines are used . |
| 7 | Those having no money were forced to give up their clothes and sleep on the bare floor , often with fatal results . |
| 8 | MAX : I sleep on the right-hand side of my particular bed . |
| 9 | In both kinds of work take care not to draw the yarn tightly at the back or the stitches will pucker on the right side of the work . |
| 10 | The Thinker , already a winner of the race , stands at 20-1 , but he is difficult to train and even more difficult to catch on the right day . |
| 11 | OSF on the other hand contends that the complex software is on schedule for the next phase , its Distributed Services Release due in September . |
| 12 | Why do the Government not act on the huge injustices currently affecting business people , such as original lessee liability ? |
| 13 | Cycling is not officially permitted on the narrow towpath , however walkers can join it in Linlithgow at the canal basin at the top ( south end ) of Station Road . |
| 14 | A report is awaited on the entire electrical circuit and plans to improve sound amplification are in hand . |
| 15 | Is this another one leaping on the fashionable let's-destroy-the-party-from-within bandwagon ? ] that — for years — to assert these facts has been heresy . ’ |
| 16 | B " Hitler 's prestige rose to new heights in Germany , where relief that war had been avoided was combined with delight in the gains that had been won on the cheap … |
| 17 | For Pindar , Cyrene was the place of many sheep ( Pyth. ix.6 ) , and the equestrian successes of Arkesilas and Timokrates were won on the famous bay horses of Cyrene . |
| 18 | Wellington said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 19 | The Druids won on the last occasion and have retained the trophy at their Henley headquarters . |
| 20 | Amidst patriotic excitement , it was won on the last stage by a Frenchman , Jean Robic . |
| 21 | Five and a half thousand men were killed and twenty-six thousand wounded on the blackest day of the American Civil War . |
| 22 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
| 23 | St Valentine , incidentally , was a Roman priest martyred on the Flaminian Way during Claudius 's time . |
| 24 | The other one was that they would be th the direct debit re-present on the first of April would be running one day late erm which , as a consequence , means that the recall re-presents would come back one day late . |
| 25 | The New Hall collection , though primarily painted works made for hanging , extends these preoccupations : Laura Godfrey-Isaacs 's ‘ Fleshy Face ’ meditates on the feminine-coded colour pink with mordant hyperbole ; Judith Cowan 's ‘ Skin and Blister ’ ( rhyming slang for ‘ sister ’ ) transforms a common saucepan into an authoritative sculptural form ; Maggi Hambling takes a shocking newspaper image of a Gulf woman in a chador wielding a bazooka and suffuses it again with blooming pink , the garish , violated hue of feminine cosiness . |
| 26 | Philip meditates on the narrative representation of action : ‘ Strange how the reality of the past comes to our mind most immediately as fiction . |
| 27 | Tension crackled on the cold air . |
| 28 | Over the weekend of May 11-12 , power lines from South Africa supplying Maputo 's electricity were sabotaged , while vehicles were attacked on the main road north ; the main rail link with South Africa was also cut . |
| 29 | I wonder if he 's looked in the minutes of the council er for this time twelve months ago er when we proposed a very similar amendment to the one that 's on the board there , the figures are reduced er but certainly lots of the areas are actually there and in fact if he looked back even further in the minutes he 'll see that it bears a striking resemblance to what we actually proposed on the fourteenth of February nineteen ninety one . |
| 30 | case of a shop assistant and you do n't know their name , do n't , write do n't know on the first line of shop assistant under occupation , only include people who speak to you |