Example sentences of "[pron] on [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver spent all of his on the plastic ducks and collected ten prizes . |
| 2 | He weighed himself on the bathroom scales . |
| 3 | After ten years , the site would be closed , giving scientists the opportunity to study the effects of the dumping on sea life , which on the abyssal plains of the deep sea , consists mainly of worms and molluscs . |
| 4 | I know you play golf it might be a danger putting you on the golf courses . |
| 5 | In fact my honourable friend , the parliamentary under secretary of state for the department of trade and industry who 's responsible for deregulation is also the sponsoring minister for one of these orders , namely the one on the insurance companies , and secondly our intention is that the cost here should be negligible , or nil er in that they do n't go beyond er what is already required or or possible by way of a right to report , here we 're imposing a duty to report . |
| 6 | With the reverb on the amp as well as the one on the drum machines I 'll say God damn heavy ! |
| 7 | Although some Treasury ministers have hinted that economic recovery is in sight , no one on the Government benches has dared predict when unemployment will cease its remorseless rise . |
| 8 | Contemporary anxieties found expression in two main kinds of attack : the one on the dress violations of the emergent ( middle ) class , the other on the insubordinate ( female ) sex . |
| 9 | All the book needs to make it worthy of recommendation as an introduction to this enjoyable branch of mathematics is a health warning like the one on the tobacco advertisements : ‘ Reading this book can damage your understanding of physical reality ’ . |
| 10 | That view was expressed by everyone on the Opposition Benches and a few Conservative Members , but was ignored as the Government arrogantly used the power of an artificial majority to force the poll tax through . |
| 11 | Summarizing the argument , let me say that there are good reasons , based on sociobiological insights into hunting , which lead me to suppose that the cooperation , altruism and mutuality demanded by social-hunting techniques in 4-foot high hominids lacking all modern hunting technology meant that only the sons were likely at first to start to exploit the immense reserves of game which our gelada-like ancestors saw all around them on the savanna grasslands where they lived . |
| 12 | They insist that insecticide resistance , due in the main to their agricultural usage , is the principal cause of failures to reduce malaria transmission by an attack with them on the mosquito vectors . |
| 13 | With a stock exchange investigation under way into heavy trading in Dixons ' options ahead of the announcement , it emerged that as many as 300 people would have known of the bid shortly beforehand , many of them on the credit committees of lending banks . |
| 14 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 15 | One detects a certain apathy towards the whole business of synodical government , and parishes find it difficult to fill the vacancies allotted to them on the Deanery Synods . |
| 16 | These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens . |
| 17 | For my part , I would humbly suggest : ‘ We shall assess them on the beaches , we shall assess them on the landing grounds , in the fields and in the streets … ’ and so on . |
| 18 | Taking two , freshly caught Highland sea-trout , he placed them on the mud flats below the bridge , where they were found the next morning . |
| 19 | I 'm a I I I 'm an er avid golfer , you I did n't say a golfer because that meant I could play , erm but I would n't put me on the golf clubs . |
| 20 | He was quite determined that I was going to try and escape , and followed so close behind me on the railway stations that I could smell his breath . |
| 21 | Behind him on the back seats of the bus four teenagers argued loudly over the cost of the litre of cider and half bottle of vodka they passed between them . |
| 22 | The next morning found him on the practice fields as soon as the sun was up , battering his post as though it were a mortal enemy . |
| 23 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 24 | Such was Kylie 's hatred of what she called ‘ pirate ’ pictures of her that she instructed her lawyers to look into ways of suing those who published unofficial photographs of her on the myriad items of memorabilia that filled shops all over the world . |
| 25 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
| 26 | Then , every morning before the sun was up , Chola and Mina would take the mal in basketloads and spread it on the paddy fields as fertilizer . |
| 27 | Watch out for it on the ski slopes — if red is the choice , at least you 'll see it coming ! |
| 28 | I remember boiling the milk and pouring it on the tea leaves . |
| 29 | Well I erm I 'm basing it on the Tower Hamlets model . |
| 30 | A number of nurseries are offering it now , and you are likely to find it on the plant stalls of plantsmen 's gardens open to the public . |