Example sentences of "[noun] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for a committee of aristocratic do-gooders , who are in the business of saving children from violence and abuse , to summarily dismiss a massive cash injection on the flimsy grounds of taste suggests they should n't be in a life-and-death business but rather running their local Girl Guides or church fete toffee-apple stalls . |
| 2 | Little can be made of this , although the biographer of Edward the Confessor speaks of Danes preparing to rebel against Cnut early in his reign , and Henry of Huntingdon thought that an English and Danish attack on the Wandali ( the Wends , the Slav peoples on the southern shores of the Baltic ) occurred in its third year . |
| 3 | At the other extremity of southern Siberia , a number of peoples on the lower reaches of the Amur river , such as the Nanais , Ulchas , Udeghes and Nivkhs , as well as the Itelmens and the Ainu of Kamchatkan lived in the forest , moving between winter and summer villages , making much use of dugout or plank-built boats , and feeding themselves largely by catching fish . |
| 4 | I listened to my feet making a steady rhythm on the paved stones , as regular as a pulse beat . |
| 5 | on the semi-detached house ( 1981 ) , and of a multitude of authors on the leading architects of the modernist styles , which emerged as the dominant from taken by council properties . |
| 6 | Briefly , these factors are : the total population of the area and the number of registered library members ; trends in book publishing — i.e. the number of new books published per annum , broken down by subjects ; the length of life of stock on the open shelves ( depreciation rate ) ; the risen costs of books and binding on the previous year 's fund ; and the range and condition of the existing stock . |
| 7 | The coastal villages were a little bigger , containing many landless peasants , represented by numerous 20s. assessments , who lived by grazing stock on the common saltmarshes . |
| 8 | In this case , however , it seemed that the nature of the disease was systematically to destroy those nerve cells essential to the control of sleep , and these unfortunate people probably represent the closest that we can expect to find in the way of a natural experiment on the long-term effects of the denial of sleep . |
| 9 | In medical books one can anticipate that a description of a disease will be decomposed into first a subsection on the etiology , then a subsection on the diagnostic signs , then a subsection on the treatment , and finally a subsection about prognosis . |
| 10 | Similarly , some species of Chironomyces , common on the aquatic beetle family Dytiscidae , often occur around the row of hairs on the outer margins of the insect 's hard anterior wings . |
| 11 | Here everything was bright with colour , the walkers on the tree-shaded boulevards relaxed , content to stroll against the frenetic background of racing hooting traffic . |
| 12 | I could describe crowded bank holidays with troops of walkers on the high tops of Scotland and the ugliness of the skilifts . |
| 13 | Walkers on the Three Peaks marathon usually start from Horton in Ribblesdale and do the journey anti-clockwise , visiting Penyghent , Whernside and Ingleborough in that order and returning to Horton from the last named by a route that approximates to a beeline . |
| 14 | These seminars , reported on page 4 , have been designed to allow centres to provide feedback on the new qualifications , as well as receiving up-to-date information on the awards . |
| 15 | He had no objection to telling him when Adam and Anne were returning : next Tuesday on the Iberian Airlines flight from Tenerife that got in at 1.30 p.m . |
| 16 | Signs include the presence of a pelvic mass , tenderness , and nodules on the uterosacral ligaments . |
| 17 | He recalls that when other boys of David 's age listened to Radio Luxemburg , David was tuned in to American football on the American Forces Network , and was fascinated not only by American music , but by the whole culture of America . |
| 18 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 19 | Despite official denials the FMLN blamed the shooting on the paramilitary police , and had responded by announcing on May 19 that it was on " a state of alert " and was withdrawing from Copaz , the body set up in March to oversee the implementation of the detailed peace treaty signed by the FMLN and the government in January [ see p. 38716 ] . |
| 20 | Gould had only a couple of weeks to spare here ( he had been delayed a week in Maitland on the lower reaches of the Hunter while he waited to meet up with Stephen Coxen ) , having promised Eliza to forsake his desire to continue collecting , and to return in time for the delivery of their child . |
| 21 | The document is actually being printed at the taxpayers ' expense on the two photocopiers next to my desk in the House of Commons . |
| 22 | California Kirkbride and Perry South both show a pattern of low investment on a few properties . |
| 23 | They all agreed it was better to make steps on the eroded paths scarring Beinn Eighe and keep everyone on the one track . |
| 24 | Stock Exchange insider dealing investigators have launched an inquiry into a suspicious surge in activity ahead of the bid on the traded options market : traded options allow dealers to bet on future share prices . |
| 25 | This too has taken its toll on the traditional freedoms of university life . |
| 26 | As for planning , drama is relished in television , no doubt an incentive for Clark to describe the precarious survival of Western civilisation in an episode on the Dark Ages as being saved by ‘ the skin of our teeth ’ . |
| 27 | It follows , after some algebra , that the following two theorems provide bounds on the overall moduli : |
| 28 | It is possible , of course , to use summation schemes other than the Voigt and Reuss ones to provide better bounds on the elastic constants of composite materials . |
| 29 | Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms . |
| 30 | Their withdrawal was followed in 1885 by Italy 's occupation of the hot humid seaport of Massawa , from which the Italians cast covetous eyes on the cool uplands . |