Example sentences of "[verb] on [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | He 's just won on the houses ai n't he ? |
2 | The article was not a news report , however , but one of those background features that appear on the women 's pages of quality newspapers after some well-publicized court case . |
3 | ‘ Our album opened doors for us all over the world , ’ he says , ‘ and another major factor in our success was that one of the songs on it , ‘ Wall Of Tears ’ , was included on the Women 's Heart C.D. which has already sold over 200,000 copies in Ireland alone . |
4 | Mr MacMullen , a lecturer in politics at Durham University , believes Labour will bring its biggest guns to bear on the Tories ' record and the Conservatives may no longer be able to rely on traditional Tory vote winners , like defence , management of the economy and crime . |
5 | It was this drive that led travellers to comment on the Catalans ' capacity to make ‘ soil out of rock ’ . |
6 | Company spokesman Denis Reading refused to comment on the passengers ' reports of a foul smell . |
7 | The youth team , all drawn from non-rugby playing schools , improved greatly after half-time and spent long periods pressing on the schools ' line . |
8 | Whatever effect this has on the children 's futures as clerks , it maims creative instinct . |
9 | That solicitor attended on the magistrates ' court at 4.20 that afternoon . |
10 | This depends on the judges ' views of the merits of the case before them or ( I would add ) the direction their political inclinations lead them — what I call below their ‘ view of the public interest ’ . |
11 | It rests on what is bound to be , to some extent , subjective assessment , as in playing a game when there are rules and communal experience to draw on , but ultimately it depends on the players ' awareness and skill . |
12 | First , what happens to a site or cell in our lattice depends on the neighbours ' scores , and thence on the state of the neighbours ' neighbours . |
13 | This depends on the manufacturers ' software . |
14 | Judge Brian Wall , heading the tribunal , said it had yet to rule on the authorities ' submission that the obstetrician and gynaecologist was not a fit and proper person to practise medicine . |
15 | Writing on the boys ' club movement in 1904 , W. J. Braithwaite thought that ‘ itis dangerous for the club and the boys that many of them should have tasted too much of freedom ’ . |
16 | Washington were left to sweat on the Packers ' result when Vince Evans ' three-yard touchdown pass to Tim Brown with 13 seconds left gave the Los Angeles Raiders a shock 21-20 victory . |
17 | The wall was built by the water authorities to secure the catchment area of the splendid Silent Valley and Ben Crom reservoirs , and for many years marked the route of the annual Mourne Wall Walk , which followed the wall for much of its 22 mile circuit and was the only occasion when walkers could be seen on the hills en masse . |
18 | Just as the statements of attainment reflect the experience and predilections of subject working groups , so the sequences in Profiles of Development depend on the authors ' underlying theory of teaching rather than any inexorable path of learning . |
19 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
20 | Their original term was to be twenty-one years , though extension was usual , and few restrictions were imposed on the trusts ' powers of raising capital on the security of the tolls , on their use of it , or on the appointment of toll gatherers , nor on the freedom to contract out the tolls at auction . |
21 | Strains are imposed on the self-builders ' families and main jobs , and as a result these schemes are not suitable for all persons and rarely for the elderly . |
22 | Unfortunately , the Palace had been forced to move to Herne Hill by the time the match against Bob 's old club , Croydon Common , was staged , and it is not known what arrangements were made on the players ' behalf . |
23 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
24 | An initial target of £4.7 million , later reduced to £2 million , was set for investments , which could be drawn on the unions ' general funds . |
25 | Oxford Pocket English Grammar is modelled on the authors ' best-selling classic , Practical English Grammar , and is designed for learners of English at lower intermediate and higher levels . |
26 | the adjustable types of fittings and er , and in , it all really led up to what people are going for now in , in their houses , they want spotlights , erm clipped on , screwed on the ceiling , screwed on the walls er |
27 | The erosion has created a fan of scree which is rapidly encroaching on the Lovers ' walk path . |
28 | Update on The Gardeners ' Memorial Garden |
29 | The gulf between High Ashdonian and English became obvious when Sue Lawley commented on the Liberals ' election campaign . |
30 | In reporting on the children 's work he noted this : If any society wanted to perpetuate notions of female fickleness and the importance of accepting the proprietorial bias of moral authority , then here is a tale for the purpose . |