Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier Robson 's dramatic arrival — five months after his last competitive encounter — had an immediate effect on United 's performance . |
| 2 | This process , begun in 1946 with the acclaim for Great Expectations , reached its peak with the 1974 publication of Masterworks of the British Cinema , a book that included the script of Brief Encounter but zealously forbade its readers to praise the man who wrote it : ‘ Brief Encounter , indeed , constitutes almost a declaration of independence on Lean 's part from his fruitful but by 1945 no doubt increasingly constricting association with Coward 's writing . ’ |
| 3 | Aethelred 's parents had been married in 762 , so he will only have been about 11 when he became king on Alhred 's expulsion and those around him must have exercised real power . |
| 4 | Price on 007 's life |
| 5 | Price on 007 's life |
| 6 | One of the tabloids got a couple of columns out of it — Teen Lovers ' Nude Death Ride on Dizzy 's Yacht but mostly the papers left it alone . |
| 7 | Oxford are also playing at Tranmere in the league next saturday … you can see highlights of the Swindon Town game on Central 's midweek sports special … and no Hereford fan should be missing from Edgar Street on Wednesday with Vinny Jones and the Crazy Gang in town … finally Swindon have put last season 's top scorer Craig Maskell up for sale … he wants first team football |
| 8 | Casting scorn on Stringy 's suggestion that they ask the mate 's advice on what to do with their almost embarrassingly rich discovery , the other three youths make feverish plans . |
| 9 | If confirmed by official figures , this will be an 80 per cent reduction on 1987 's figure , when carbon emissions from burning rain forest were said to be the third largest contributor to the greenhouse effect . |
| 10 | Also , it has a joint promotion with Avid Technology Inc , offering its 6,000 registered NuVista+ videographics engine users a $1,500 discount on Avid 's Media Suite Pro desktop video production system . |
| 11 | She could not build her life on another 's pain , or on Havvie 's lies . |
| 12 | This may have been a conscious effort on Æthelred 's part to divide Olaf from Swegen , with the intention that he should then conquer Norway ( as he did ) and be a thorn in Swegen 's flesh ( as he was , until Swegen defeated and killed him ) . |
| 13 | However , analysts still expect it to manage a small improvement on 1991 's profits and dividend . |
| 14 | ‘ Coffee is it ? ’ asked the flying club barman as he observed the pensive expression on X 's face . |
| 15 | The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face . |
| 16 | This represented a 20 per cent decline on 1990 's destruction . |