Example sentences of "[adj] on [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the way , I found this on piper 's Drive yesterday evening , ’ slamming open the back doors of the pickup . |
| 2 | Multimedia extensions are also high on Univel 's list for UnixWare . |
| 3 | Alliances are high on Bull 's list of priorities : the group wants to talk to any consultancy firms , independent software vendors and systems integrators . |
| 4 | The Director of the Unit , Rev Eric Shegog , is Vice-Chairperson of WACC 's European Regional Association , and has played a considerable role in ensuring that the subject of media ethics remains high on WACC-Europe 's agenda . |
| 5 | Members of WACC 's European Regional Association ( ERA-WACC ) played a major role in helping to place communication high on CEC 's working agenda . |
| 6 | The south of France is pretty high on people 's agendas at this time of year . |
| 7 | It soon emerged that performance was high on Ashton 's list of priorities as indicated by his having taken a series of lessons in Formula Fords at Brand 's Hatch . |
| 8 | ‘ What I mean , Charles , is that sex was n't very high on Micky 's list of priorities . ’ |
| 9 | Some time ago I achieved a longstanding ambition — a lead of Slape Direct on Llanberis 's Clogwyn y Grochan . |
| 10 | Shedding more light on Sun 's desire to make the deal , Ybarra claims that ‘ when Adobe gave Display Postscript to the MIT X Consortium Sun saw a way out of NeWS . ’ |
| 11 | Elchibey was equivocal on Azerbaijan 's continued membership of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , which had never been ratified by the Supreme Soviet . |
| 12 | They argued that the continuation of reformist policies was largely dependent on Deng 's personal authority , and that his death might signal a conservative backlash against the predicted rise in prices and growth in unemployment . |
| 13 | My conception of postmodernist de-differentiation via an aesthetics of desire was also in large part dependent on Lyotard 's work . |
| 14 | He kept faltering badly , despite some initial optimism , and was soon more urgently dependent on Theo 's letters than ever . |
| 15 | That does not mean that the law should change with every passing fancy — crimes such as theft , fraud , murder , etc. will never become fashionable — but ‘ social ’ crimes such as publishing indecent or obscene material are dependent on society 's perception of what is or is not indecent or obscene at the time , and the legislation of one period may be inappropriate in another period of time , to the extent that resorting to the courts to deal with the matter may be quite inappropriate and ineffective . |
| 16 | As with the whole of Central Asia , it was made dependent on Moscow 's centralised economy . |
| 17 | Children or young people were responsible for instigating the complaint and consequently social workers and police officers were highly dependent on children 's testimonies . |
| 18 | Success on such tasks is dependent on children 's ability to accept the task as defined by the adult . |
| 19 | The 1031 annal on Cnut 's visits to Rome and Scotland could have been inserted at this time too . |
| 20 | There is a statue of I.K. Brunel in the new town centre at Swindon ( q.v. ) and another on London 's Victoria Embankment , but his real monuments are the great engineering works still in use which are scattered through this book . |
| 21 | SCULLEY BULLISH ON APPLE 's 1993 PERFORMANCE ON BACK OF NEW PRODUCTS |
| 22 | This is perhaps the most important reason why Marx and Engels concentrated so much on Morgan 's work , and by and large accepted the main lines of his account of the early history of mankind . |
| 23 | Hoomey felt indignant on Bones 's behalf . |
| 24 | Ladbrokes are to bet ante-post on Sunderland 's first Sunday meeting on October 11 . |
| 25 | A big slice of ham , or grilled bacon , or a few sausages , and they could put a few extra on Benny 's plate in case she felt the need of it . |
| 26 | Again Corals had to reduce their early odds of 6-1 on Carvill 's Hill for the Gold Cup to 5-1 . |
| 27 | The nearest she came to solitude was the interval that elapsed after she had forced herself to dial 999 on Maurice 's car telephone . |
| 28 | Maura saw the small swelling on Margaret 's grubby knee and felt ashamed of herself . |
| 29 | His fingers were tight on Farquhar 's shoulders . |
| 30 | Any study of Abwehr intelligence affairs during the Second World War constantly refers to the work of SOE , the Special Operations Executive set up by British Intelligence in 1940 on Churchill 's instructions to coordinate resistance and the underground movement in Europe . ’ |