Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 2 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 3 | Wigeon grazed on the far shore . |
| 4 | Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts . |
| 5 | So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon , and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony . |
| 6 | On an SE/30 — a 68030 machine with a maths coprocessor — myoglobin ( 2658 atoms ) approached the upper limit for interactive manipulation and a monochrome drawing on the screen required about 20 sec ( wireframe ) , 1–3/4 min ( ball and stick ) and three min ( shaded space-filling ) ; the times tripled on a smaller SE system . |
| 7 | Jezrael stopped on the top step , yawning and stretching , one hand flung up to shield her face against the cold hard radiance . |
| 8 | Patrick concentrated on the foul tea . |
| 9 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 10 | In the eighth minute Leicester drew level as Wright pounced on a loose ball after Gee 's shot had been blocked , to score his 15th goal of the season . |
| 11 | Alison Walker 's mouth quivered on a tearful smile . |
| 12 | A hand raised in the darkened doorway of a room ; light gleamed on the smooth metal barrel of a gun . |
| 13 | Research summary To investigate , through a case study centered on a major commercial company , the organisational transformations taking place in commercial software development . |
| 14 | The two examples that Picasso owned on the other hand could certainly be called primitive , both in conception and execution . |
| 15 | The first peacetime , and civil , air disaster in Ayrshire occurred on the 20th October , 1948 . |
| 16 | ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads . |
| 17 | ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads . |
| 18 | In 1986 , according to Friends of the Earth , a survey of the homes clustered on the surrounding hills found that three-quarters of 800 residents were opposed to the Rechem plant . |
| 19 | THREE members of the same family were injured when two cars crashed on a busy Northumberland road . |
| 20 | A team at the University of Dundee reported on a neural computer that checks cervical smears containing up to 200,000 cells and decides whether they are abnormal or not with 96 per cent accuracy . |
| 21 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 22 | This is because when the tetrads that Michell found on the one-inch map are investigated on a 6-inch sheet , they become distressingly ‘ crooked ’ . |
| 23 | When Therese came on the entire evening lifted into top gear . |
| 24 | The allegation came on the third day of an insurance fraud trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 25 | It is interesting to ask whether the qualities Spenser conferred on the Irish , making them the hostile outsiders who needed to be suppressed but who his texts acknowledge to be also a lurking part of the civilised English , are still part of current English imaginative experience . |
| 26 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
| 27 | Every nerve smouldered on a short fuse . |
| 28 | For a split second he looked oddly vulnerable , but then he pushed himself up in the bed , her wary eyes lingered on the naked gold of his shoulders , and she quickly changed her mind . |
| 29 | For an instant its bright light glistened on a thousand shades of wet green leaves . |
| 30 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |