Example sentences of "[vb -s] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blue of the main sail covers on the booms should now be added using an ultramarine blue and white mixture . |
| 2 | By asserting that " a text is interpretable to those who can , under the prevailing circumstances , build around it a text world — or scenario " ( p. 9 ) he focusses on the relationships between text and the reader 's response and the text and the world created by the text itself . |
| 3 | The latter version may be more logically correct , but it jars on the ears , and is more difficult to say . |
| 4 | According to the Soil Association — the largest body of organic farmers , of which Tustian is a member — although sales of organic produce have increased overall because there is more of it in the shops ( much of it imported ) , the recession also means that some of it lingers on the shelves for longer . |
| 5 | Instead he lets the sequence continue until long past its climax , after which the camera unduly lingers on the characters sitting around , being bored . |
| 6 | Heat is also lost through gaps around windows , so use adhesive foam strips , top and bottom , and nylon brush strips on the sides . |
| 7 | And that 's why you can expect to find the car in the morning with the windows all covered in saliva and the wing mirrors all bent and the chrome strips on the doors are often with tufts of cow hair . |
| 8 | Alan Rough has given more to Scottish football than he could ever take and for that reason alone he stands on the terraces of Hampden Babylon like a colossus . |
| 9 | In a telling moment from the film , Beatty stands on the cliffs of Galway and says , ‘ This is the last parish before New York . ’ |
| 10 | The one who stands on the stairs ? |
| 11 | Candidates must now set up personal machines manned by workers attracted to them by their individual qualities and stands on the issues with little or no reference to party loyalty . |
| 12 | Gallup in September 1980 asked voters to indicate which of various descriptions best suited the two candidates and Reagan was placed well ahead of Carter on several leadership questions : ‘ Has strong leadership qualities ’ , 65 per cent — 31 per cent ; ‘ Decisive sure of himself , 69 per cent — 37 per cent ; ‘ Has a well defined progam for moving the country ahead ’ , 53 per cent — 27 per cent ; ‘ You know where he stands on the issues ’ , 54 per cent — 33 per cent . |
| 13 | Since there are plans for Tyson to come to Britain in July , Bruno could have a busy spring in the ring after he finishes on the boards in February . |
| 14 | A collaboration from the depths of hell looks on the cards , we can report with our fingers stuffed prematurely in our ears , as VIC REEVES and BOB MORTIMER have been spotted in cahoots with THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH all over London recently . |
| 15 | The events narrated in Donoso 's The Obscene Bird of Night , for example , are largely a working-out of the fantasies and obsessions of the narrator/protagonist , Humberto Peñaloza , who , as secretary to Don Jerónimo Azcoitía , lives on the fringes of the privileged world of the oligarchy , and whose dreams of joining the ranks of the upper classes are counterbalanced by a humiliating sense of social inferiority . |
| 16 | Briercrest is slowly dying … just a few old widows there now … not one living soul lives on the farms any more … all the old men are dead … but the old girls still have their little teas and their Ladies ' Aid meetings … have gardens and are happy as larks … |
| 17 | The Americans ' belief that they could make it ‘ lives on the streets of America today ’ . |
| 18 | Their belief that they could make it , be proud of themselves , and of their nation , lives on the streets , schools and corporations of America today . |
| 19 | He still lives on the outskirts of his adopted city close on 30 years after he signed for them . |
| 20 | By contrast , the large zebra lives on the masses of low quality stem material . |
| 21 | It lives on the shores of European seas . |
| 22 | It lies on the slates , unmarked except by sparrows ; it swells and balloons over the edge of the launders . |
| 23 | The farm lies on the hills above Coniston Lake on the western side . |
| 24 | Thus for restrictive practices the burden of proof lies on the companies to show that they are acting in the public interest : in contrast , the legislation on monopolies is more open-minded , requiring the MMC to make the case that companies are acting against the public interest . |
| 25 | Moorside House lies on the banks of the River Dee in the burgh of Ballater . |
| 26 | Carrickfergus , famed for its Norman Castle , lies on the shores of Belfast Lough , 9 miles north of Belfast . |
| 27 | Avoid frosted cosmetics and highlights on the lids . |
| 28 | Identification of a second PLC- β complementary DNA ( PLC- β2 ) in an HL-60 cell cDNA library prompted us to investigate the effect of purified G protein βγ subunits on the activities of PLC- β1 and PLC- β2 transiently expressed in cultured mammalian cells . |
| 29 | The effect of purified G protein βγ subunits on the activities of PLC- β1 and PLC- β2 expressed in COS-1 cells was determined using hydrophilic , detergent-free βγ subunits of retinal transducin ( βγ t ) ( Table 1 ) . |
| 30 | He takes them to a café terrace in the sun , orders coffee and croissants , and starts on the papers . |