Example sentences of "[noun] on [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a remarkable inversion of Soviet vocabulary , he accused radicals of pressing for power using the " neo-Bolshevik tactic " of taking the political struggle on to the streets . |
| 2 | The car gave a roar , then slowly moved out of the garage ; the dim side-lights showed a pale flicker on the back of the house , then swung around for an instant on to the gardens . |
| 3 | When anything like this happened , every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department . |
| 4 | I do n't forget how often you have threatened to throw Ben on to the streets ; knowing full well that if he went , I would go with him . |
| 5 | ‘ It looked stormy but I risked it , ’ he wrote of a 1931 Boxing Day expedition with his younger son , and we drove through Cleobury Mortimer on to the Clees . |
| 6 | It is passing the market-makers ' responsibility on to the companies ' own stockbrokers , who will match buyers to sellers . |
| 7 | At the same time pipe ropes on to the lifebelts and for the anchor . |
| 8 | But until the inquiry decides , it 's hats on for the ramblers . |
| 9 | Those who are outside the party machine , jettisoned in the interests of moderation , have taken the fight on to the streets to capture grassroots support . |
| 10 | But surgeons at Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , were able to graft his corneas on to the eyes of another youngster who had been going blind . |
| 11 | The servant who passed the story on to the firefighters had been standing nearby taking in all that was being said until a glance from Meredith Putt through the partly open door sent her scuttling upstairs to complete her work , filled with apprehension by what she had just heard . |
| 12 | We do not allow motor cyclists on to the roads without helmets , so why should we allow bowler-hatted men with batons to walk up the highways ? |
| 13 | Now when Simon saw that the spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them much money , saying , give this authority to me as well , so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 14 | Now when Simon saw was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them money saying , give this authority to me as well so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 15 | When Simon saw that the spirit was bestowed to the laying on of the apostles hands it was n't just something he conjured up in his imagination . |
| 16 | I 've normally got telly on in the evenings . |
| 17 | There was a true feeling of achievement attached to our little ‘ I skied down a mountain' certificate , and a bit of weight had definitely dropped from the thighs on to the slopes . |
| 18 | The success in 1991 of PRIME SUSPECT ( for Granada , and starring Helen Mirren ) again brought Lynda La Plante 's writing talent on to the screens of 17 million viewers . |
| 19 | It took a long , cold and drenching effort to clear the surfline before we were able to turn side on to the waves to make progress along the coast . |
| 20 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 21 | When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups . |
| 22 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 23 | The definitions are , at this early stage of our knowledge of Myrinian culture , valuable in themselves , not only because they reveal something of the inadequacy of our own language , but because they throw some light on to the mysteries of an alien culture . |
| 24 | She also underlined the importance of parents becoming ‘ better informed on what is available so that they can pass that enthusiasm and appreciation on to the children ’ . |
| 25 | The fifth operation consisted of lowering the underframe on to the bogies . |
| 26 | In social dialectology we need to abstract from speaker-interaction and the social contexts of speech events as we observe them , to project the data on to the configurations of language systems ( recall Principle 1 ) . |
| 27 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 28 | You can see that scene in Southall , London , or in any area outside New York , where the goods spill over from all the Indian shops on to the pavements . |
| 29 | Such entry could be extremely disruptive to the tenant and the following proviso may be advisable : Anyone entering the Premises under any of the provisions contained in this Lease shall only do so if the purpose of such entry can not reasonably be achieved otherwise than by effecting entry on to the Premises and any person or persons entering the Premises pursuant to the provisions of this Lease shall cause the minimum of disturbance to the business being carried on in the Premises and shall not in any event prevent such business from being carried on and shall forthwith make good all damage caused by such entry |
| 30 | It was not right , it said , to criminalise ‘ the unrest , worries and questions which drove thousands of Dresdeners on to the streets ’ . |