Example sentences of "[noun pl] on [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spoke as if she were admitting to a considerable lapse of manners on her part . |
| 2 | A prototype is located in a multi-dimensional space with dimensions corresponding to the characteristics on which examples of the concept can vary . |
| 3 | With sun-glasses on her head , she looked like any other early-season tourist . |
| 4 | We regret the delay and we hope that the promised publication on Waddilove will be earlier rather than later in the current session , and that the government will take an early opportunity to publish clearer guidelines on its assessment of ‘ national need ’ for opencast coal , and the weight to be given to environmental considerations . |
| 5 | A steamboat excursion in the early 1900s has smartly dressed white revellers , boaters on their heads , laughing and dancing on the promenade deck while in the bowels of the ship squat the exhausted , begrimed black deckhands . |
| 6 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 7 | And , regarding itself as a cultured nation , the eastern bastion of civilisation , the bringer of culture to the poor benighted Slavs of the east , Germany conducted a Kulturkampf that was intended to destroy and subdue the peoples on its margins . |
| 8 | They watched with detachment , and even with satisfaction , as the Masai began at the eleventh hour to organize themselves to resist what they feared would be the encroachment of agricultural peoples on their land , not as traditional appendages of the Masai way of life , but as conquerors armed with all the power of the modern state . |
| 9 | She 'd have things in trays on their table — cakes and bread and ginger biscuits and cough candy — but it was really queer because when you went in you could n't smell any of the lovely things laid out on the table . |
| 10 | As she moves , the ears on her legs keep her oriented in the direction of the call . |
| 11 | Crickets ' ears are on the " knees " of their front walking legs , while cicadas carry their ears on their bellies . |
| 12 | You have done the business , ’ while his weary , bloodstained warriors hoisted their caps on their bayonet points and shouted ‘ Billy ! |
| 13 | According to press reports , road-blocking now plays a regular part in police efforts to control the movement of fans on their way to football matches . |
| 14 | ‘ He makes seating redundant because he gets fans on their feet . ’ |
| 15 | deep cross coming in , brilliant header at the back post , Palace get a second goal and the scorer again is , uncovered at the back post , brilliant buildup down the left , superb finishing , the hero , Palace fans on their feet , Notts fans sit in silence , they trail two nil , with twenty minutes gone a push on , the referee looked across to the linesman on this nearside , Notts attacking the Lane end and the linesman said penalty , twenty one minutes gone here in this game , just a minute after scored . |
| 16 | I greeted fans on their arrival with a shake of the hand and an offer to autograph their match programmes at a reasonable £1.50 a time . |
| 17 | Johnny Byrne in 1960 , as Jim Mercer saw him , and receiving the appreciation of Palace fans on his return to Selhurst Park in December 1990 . |
| 18 | In any case , Pound has the centuries on his side when he equates a genius in statecraft — Jefferson if not Mussolini — with a genius in an art or in speculative thought . |
| 19 | The other could n't figure this out until one day he found his friend jiggling the settings on his camera , systematically sabotaging his work . |
| 20 | So , for thirty years Alfred Glynn had preserved this room as it had been when he still believed that the silk counterpane and the eiderdown would be the covers on his marriage bed . |
| 21 | Most portrait painters have a bunch of demons on their backs , and they 're so terrified that they 're not doing something innovative , terrified it 's not exactly like the model . |
| 22 | ‘ Most portrait painters have a bunch of demons on their backs ’ |
| 23 | 3.1 Signature of this Agreement will bind the Parties on whose behalf the signatures have been appended to form a Consortium within the meaning contained in the Framework . |
| 24 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 25 | Reliance by third parties on our association with documents |
| 26 | In 1889 he returned to England and enjoyed high society and sporting pursuits : there were shooting parties on his Norfolk estate , and he held his own private stand at Epsom . |
| 27 | I would imagine that the er parties on my left have had a chance to read and consider these erm statements already . |
| 28 | It 's hard for him to accept that everyone is different in every aspect of their biology — men have different sperm counts just as they have different numbers of hairs on their head or different eye colours . |
| 29 | Men and women have the same number of hairs on their face — 15,000 ! |
| 30 | Spiders have similar hairs on their legs . |