Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ . |
| 3 | it 's just some noise I heard on the tape . |
| 4 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 5 | LAST Tuesday I mused on the problems the Queen was facing with her family . |
| 6 | This massacre of the innocents I blame on The Silk Plant Company whose trees , plants and flowers are so lifelike , one can be forgiven for doubting the real thing . |
| 7 | And it could turn out that the car I left on the Foulness road was stolen from a car park in Colchester or somewhere . |
| 8 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 9 | Giving evidence , Capt von Humbracht said that he picked up the uniform , hat and sword belonging to Napoleon which lay on the ground . |
| 10 | Now in that room at Fontainebleau so many years ago , I studied Francis but my eyes were drawn to that bloody ring which sparkled on the fourth finger of his left hand . |
| 11 | Chainarong Noonpakdi , head of the First army region and responsible for directing the army units which fired on the unarmed demonstrators , was made director of the Institute of Army Academics . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that the Home Office has commissioned research which focuses on the criminal justice process rather than wider child care concerns . |
| 13 | In order to wean the company away from a reliance on theatre plays , he set up a major script department which drew on the talents of writers like Frank Launder , Sidney Gilliatt , Val Guest and Michael Pertwee , as well as occasionally giving jobs to young writers like Christopher Isherwood . |
| 14 | ‘ No , it were n't an interositor , them has triangular screens and positronic wave cross-band modulators which operate on the principle of ionized beta photons bombarding the nucleus of an alpha particle . |
| 15 | The slot for the fielded panel at the bottom of the curved members , needed a template which rested on the wood at each end of the slot to which I glued and screwed a 50 x 50 batten , the slot being routered to the correct depth in the middle and slightly oversize at each end . |
| 16 | These feelings of dwindling authority and social discontinuity which focused on the young were informed by the wider political insecurities of this anything-but-carefree era which was plagued by engulfing fears of national decline and incohesion . |
| 17 | David Hall exhibited at MOMA an elegant piece which drew on the lost potentialities of the Nipkow disc , mechanical heart of the early Baird Televisor , ‘ superseded ’ and eradicated by a progress which has been synonymous with standardization . |
| 18 | The subjective estimate could be based on pure hunch and guesswork at the end of period t - 1 , but in order to introduce a degree of empirical testability into the model it is normally assumed that is arrived at by some policy rule which includes on the right-hand side only those variables whose magnitudes are known at the end of the period t - 1 . |
| 19 | All opportunities which appear on the ABN are screened against Buyers . |
| 20 | This light emulsion contains an ultra-fine powder ingredient which sits on the skin and alters the rate at which light bounces off it : the result is a complexion which refuses to look or act its age . |
| 21 | And her voice was a parody of a servant 's showing dissent , a politeness which verged on the impolite . |
| 22 | POSC began life in November 1990 as a three year effort backed by $15m funding plus membership fees of up to $100,000 which depend on the organisation 's size . |
| 23 | She kicked a tin which lay on the pavement . |
| 24 | Where a lease creates a term of years which is expressed to run from some date earlier than that of the execution of the lease , the term created will be a term which begins on the date the lease is executed , and not the earlier date . |
| 25 | The emphasis on the needs and best interests of the child in legislation , plus the traditional , case-based , local government structure of accountability generate a model of practice which focuses on the individual child and family . |
| 26 | Caffeine is found in varying amounts in coffee ( and tea ) , and is a stimulant which acts on the nervous system . |
| 27 | The result was periodic clashes between the government and organizations such as Protestant Action which insisted on the right to march where they wished . |
| 28 | He goes on to develop a theory of communicative action which focuses on the exchange of ideas and meanings in contrast to the exchange of goods . |
| 29 | There was n't one correct entry for 's crossword published in the last issue — so how about this new quiz which arrived on the editor 's desk via pensioner . |
| 30 | The cumulative effect is not unlike those children 's books which herd on the cover a mad whirl of characters — Red Indians , Cowboys , Kings and Queens , Soldiers , Pirates — all cluttered up together . |