Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some art historians detect the hand of Leonardo himself on the canvas , and it 's now generally accepted to be the most perfect version of the Last Supper in existence . |
| 2 | MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell . |
| 3 | Every separatist movement in Europe that I can think of bases itself on ‘ ethnicity ’ , linguistic or not , that is to say on the assumption that ‘ we ’ — the Basques , Catalans , Scots , Croats , or Georgians are a different people from the Spaniards , the English , the Serbs or the Russians , and therefore we should not live in the same state with them . |
| 4 | But support for the Americans came from a wider section of the English people than the intellectuals : the presence of discharged and wounded soldiers created a loathing of war itself on humanitarian grounds . |
| 5 | ( Rom 8 ) Not only are there the promises of Jesus himself on which to base this expectation but there is the evidence of the resurrection . |
| 6 | Beyond that is the history of the impact of IT itself on service delivery . |
| 7 | However most practitioners of literary stylistics , including Halliday himself on a later occasion ( Halliday 1971 ) , would insist on supplementing the comparative approach just described with some kind of functional analysis — analysis , that is , that asks what the language of a text does , how it contributes to the meaning and effect of the whole . |
| 8 | the John Harle Band is Steve Lodder on synthesisers , Paul Morgan on bass , Simon Limbrick on percussion and Paul Clarvis on drums , with Harle himself on ( principally ) alto and soprano saxophones : ‘ Shadow of the Duke ’ also includes substantial additional strings ( based around Balenscu Quartet members ) , horns and woodwind . |
| 9 | A report by the National Council of Public Morals on The Cinema ( 1917 ) had also scrutinised the problem , entertaining a wide variety of evidence — on such matters as the educational potential of the cinema , censorship and licensing , the molestation of children in picture palaces , and a clouded discussion of what was somewhat eerily called ‘ the moral dangers of darkness ’ — as well as some monosyllabic evidence from children themselves on whether the moving pictures gave them bad dreams . |
| 10 | During his stay , he set to work himself on the principle divide et impera . |
| 11 | HOWARD CLARK used to gorge himself on golf titles . |
| 12 | Originally released by Commodore themselves on cartridge back in 1983 ! ( good year for music ) When re-released on tape and disk five years later by CRL , it was still good enough to earn 86% . |
| 13 | A similar clarification was made by Menem himself on Jan. 8 when he also suggested the possibility that he might make an official visit to the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | In particular , there is a need for clear guidance on the reporting by companies themselves on inherent uncertainties and statements of directors ' responsibilities . |
| 15 | It is a philosophical problem , a fact recognised by scientists themselves on both sides of the argument . |