Example sentences of "[verb] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these are arranged through a voluntary organisation called Crossroads ( address on page 143 ) which takes its name from the television series because of the attention it focussed on the needs of disabled people . |
| 2 | The sun shone equally on them both : their shadows , enormous and jagged , covered the ground between the table and the eating-house , and waves of heat beat on the tonsures of the Alban priests . |
| 3 | However they do desecrate the holiest places with their flash-bulbs and hand-held video cameras ; they invade peaceful monasteries and sleep on the outskirts of towns in their evil-smelling ‘ campers ’ . |
| 4 | In the ‘ twenties the list of protected birds was small and this gentleman , Mr. Thomas , did quite a trade in song-birds which he used to catch on the downs around the city . |
| 5 | The Greek and Turkish members of the Commission were not delegates of their respective States who could act on the instructions of the member States , but members of an administrative body . |
| 6 | The parliamentary reserve is lifted , and the Government can act on the proposals in the Council without further reference to the House . |
| 7 | I lay in the bath daydreaming of putters that never missed and that were made of priceless and perfect metals unknown to man , of millions of pounds won on the fairways of the world , and of even more millions made off the course . |
| 8 | Many major lessons were learnt and Lord Mountbatten has written ‘ the successful landing in Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe ’ . |
| 9 | For a party whose left wing has long complained that French price stability was won on the backs of the poor , this is a tricky moment . |
| 10 | We fly on the wings of mutual allure , but I 'm not sure whether we 've reached the heavy confidence stage yet . ’ |
| 11 | In the winter , snow or , more usually , hail can fall on the tops of the highest mountains and yet one hour 's drive down in Funchal people are swimming and sunbathing . |
| 12 | It seems that the case for elaboration , and thus for the Withington-Barton Farm-Woodchester order of development , must stand or fall on the implications of the stylistic inter-relationships of the pavements themselves . |
| 13 | The spotlight may also fall on the managements of quoted agencies . |
| 14 | Lloyd 's is insisting underwriters must join the market association for the class of business they undertake , but quality policing will fall on the shoulders of managing agents . |
| 15 | Lloyd 's is insisting underwriters must join the market association for the class of business they undertake , but quality policing will fall on the shoulders of managing agents . |
| 16 | The vapour might condense and fall on the slopes as a new sort of lubricant snow . |
| 17 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 18 | Since all foreign relief organizations dealt with Pomgol and with Eiduk as chief plenipotentiary , subsequent non-Russian scholars have tended to over-concentrate on the workings of Pomgol and its guberniia equivalents . |
| 19 | He levelled it , straight and calm , at the shape that was thrashing on the tiles of the reception floor . |
| 20 | Interest earned on the proceeds of last year 's £572m rights issue will account for a sizeable slice . |
| 21 | ‘ The Iceberg ’ rose on the steps to the conservatory hardly flowers but excels at ripping jumpers . ’ |
| 22 | In Islington strange creatures appear on the streets at midday . |
| 23 | These are latent growing points which appear on the rootstocks of mature plants , sometimes appearing as young shoots and buds , at other times as rounded nodules . |
| 24 | By asserting that " a text is interpretable to those who can , under the prevailing circumstances , build around it a text world — or scenario " ( p. 9 ) he focusses on the relationships between text and the reader 's response and the text and the world created by the text itself . |
| 25 | Consider those stately columns , regard the coils of plaster vine that trail from the windowsills , meditate on the dados in the shape of fasces that stud its pitted hide . ’ |
| 26 | Meditate on the words of Paul in Ephesians 4:17–29 , asking the Holy Spirit to impress upon your mind where he wants you to make changes to co-operate with him in this work of transformation . |
| 27 | ‘ Germany 's Polish car thieves are organised on the lines of the Mafia , ’ explained Peter Sehr , head of the national police car-theft division at Wiesbaden . |
| 28 | Achimota was organised on the lines of a British public school with the boarders grouped in ‘ houses ’ which were supposed to inculcate the team spirit : however , it was more than a boarding school . |
| 29 | Lucky Rob had all criminal charges dropped , but only on the condition that he put in two years ' community service , visiting schools to lecture on the dangers of drugs , talking to juvenile delinquents and visiting prisons in his home town of Drayton , Ohio . |
| 30 | Had read poisoned er located on the murderers in the area around . |