Example sentences of "[verb] on [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one side of the package is replaced by a glass window , so that light can fall on the memory cells , then it is found that the incident light accelerates the decay process in manner proportional both to the intensity and to the duration of the exposure . |
| 2 | She ought therefore to slip on the fur boots … put a little hay in the bottom of the coach … |
| 3 | I seem to remember they appear on the Glory Years tape ( as someone mentioned ) . |
| 4 | The problem that the Tories have with this is that they still appear on the unemployment figures . |
| 5 | Furthermore , these DC offsets across the capacitors appear on the transformer windings , causing shifts in the core operating flux . |
| 6 | He knelt on the sanctuary steps and began the Divine Office . |
| 7 | The Hurricane lost it and flew round for five minutes , going down to 400 feet above the water to avoid appearing on the radar screens on nearby Italian-occupied islands . |
| 8 | This controversial political lineage caused the Republican Party establishment to disown him , and in several states there were plans to attempt to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot papers . |
| 9 | It is against a background of near hysteria that we set out to propose an alternative account of what is happening on the football terraces — an account based not on the second-hand rhetoric of myth-creating media men but on our faith in people 's ability to render their own social action intelligible and meaningful . |
| 10 | The demonstrators came despite pelting snow and rumours that tanks and armoured vehicles were lurking on the city outskirts . |
| 11 | The demonstrators came despite pelting snow and rumours that tanks and armoured vehicles were lurking on the city outskirts . |
| 12 | I wo n't linger on the shingle flats , for I 'd come to climb , and the route of my choice was the first to be recorded in Wales . |
| 13 | The Club obviously preferred to have a public supply but this did not seem easy to arrange for the Minutes frequently talk about ‘ bringing pressure to bear on the Water Companies ’ . |
| 14 | During 1976 some 200 were sold in this way and pressure was being brought to bear on the company founders to manufacture the completed product . |
| 15 | Chapters 1 and 2 have defined the meaning of high-bay warehouses and the types in current use , and while the whole purpose of this booklet is to concentrate on the fire risks of these storage areas , it must be appreciated that these buildings do not operate in isolation and that , according to their specific function , there will be ancillary accommodation to support the process either directly attached or in close proximity . |
| 16 | With home shopping out of the way , Pitcher will be able to concentrate on the football pools and high street retailing . |
| 17 | Surridge retired from the first-class game in 1959 to concentrate on the family sports goods business . |
| 18 | The problem is blamed on the land users themselves , who are seen to have mismanaged the environment because of lack of environmental awareness , ignorance , apathy and just plain laziness . |
| 19 | The government is concerned that most of the disappearances are blamed on the security forces . |
| 20 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 21 | Hilary reported on the Medau Teachers ' Whitsun Course in Coburg to which she and June had been invited by Jochen Medau . |
| 22 | The Williams Committee , which reported on the Obscenity laws in 1979 , recommended that all restraints on the written word should be lifted — a position which they thought had already been achieved de facto . |
| 23 | Raindrops trembled on the office windows , coalesced , and ran down , leaving paths like silver snail tracks against the lightness of the sky . |
| 24 | They were good value , because they were in a style that he could wear anywhere and they were strong enough for all his walking and kept his feet from being bruised on the city pavements , for when you walk as much and as far as Boy did at that time you can hurt your feet badly . |
| 25 | There was plenty of life in and on the river : a life of crocodiles and fish , of porpoises that somersaulted in and out of the water , of herons and egrets wading in the shallows , and kingfishers perched on the marker posts . |
| 26 | Rows of large silent birds are perched on the mountain ledges — vultures . |
| 27 | The ‘ world society ’ perspective of John Burton built on the rationalist assumptions of idealism to develop a highly pluralistic model of the global political system . |
| 28 | Preparers of financial statements are encouraged to comment on the disclosure requirements proposed in the FRED and to indicate with which specific requirements it might be particularly costly or difficult to comply . |
| 29 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 30 | The prince , Raja Pala , lost on a hunting expedition , came across the pool and spied on the star nymphs . |