Example sentences of "[verb] on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It requires a depth of human understanding , an ability to communicate on a one-to-one basis with different characters , and I do not believe that Frank can do this very well . |
| 2 | Until recently , only the dedicated enthusiasts would identify the components as a B.R. Standard Class 5MT , but since the completion of volunteer Dave Clark 's expert temporary lining and numbering on the exposed cab side , 73156 is now brought to the attention of all train-board visitors . |
| 3 | SNOOP Cyril Reenan was branded a prying sneak yesterday for eavesdropping on the intimate phone conversation . |
| 4 | These products excel where text and graphics are to be mixed on a single page . |
| 5 | Sleep on a firm mattress — or , better still , a plank under the mattress . |
| 6 | Those having no money were forced to give up their clothes and sleep on the bare floor , often with fatal results . |
| 7 | MAX : I sleep on the right-hand side of my particular bed . |
| 8 | In both kinds of work take care not to draw the yarn tightly at the back or the stitches will pucker on the right side of the work . |
| 9 | A four-fold procedure could be used : first , the text should be read silently ; second , it should be re-told or described by the child to the teacher ; next the text should be read aloud , with the teacher marking miscues on a duplicate copy ; finally the text should be discussed in more detail with the teacher . |
| 10 | The Thinker , already a winner of the race , stands at 20-1 , but he is difficult to train and even more difficult to catch on the right day . |
| 11 | OSF on the other hand contends that the complex software is on schedule for the next phase , its Distributed Services Release due in September . |
| 12 | There are machines which will act on a spoken command . |
| 13 | The lie had a pronounced effect upon Lettice who immediately ventured on a small excursion into terror . |
| 14 | At a conference in Stockholm in late September 1986 , nonetheless , a last-minute agreement was reached that each side should give the other advance warning of troop movements , and that on-site verification should be permitted on a limited basis for the first time . |
| 15 | Cycling is not officially permitted on the narrow towpath , however walkers can join it in Linlithgow at the canal basin at the top ( south end ) of Station Road . |
| 16 | **Represents percentage of vote won on a proportional basis on individual party lists . |
| 17 | And the presidential election is not won on a first-past-the-post basis by simply tallying the votes for Bush , Clinton and Ross Perot across the country . |
| 18 | Just like the General Election , our awards are won on a first-past-the-post basis . |
| 19 | Any contracts won on an exclusive basis could affect the price at which it is offered for sale . |
| 20 | For Pindar , Cyrene was the place of many sheep ( Pyth. ix.6 ) , and the equestrian successes of Arkesilas and Timokrates were won on the famous bay horses of Cyrene . |
| 21 | St Valentine , incidentally , was a Roman priest martyred on the Flaminian Way during Claudius 's time . |
| 22 | The New Hall collection , though primarily painted works made for hanging , extends these preoccupations : Laura Godfrey-Isaacs 's ‘ Fleshy Face ’ meditates on the feminine-coded colour pink with mordant hyperbole ; Judith Cowan 's ‘ Skin and Blister ’ ( rhyming slang for ‘ sister ’ ) transforms a common saucepan into an authoritative sculptural form ; Maggi Hambling takes a shocking newspaper image of a Gulf woman in a chador wielding a bazooka and suffuses it again with blooming pink , the garish , violated hue of feminine cosiness . |
| 23 | Philip meditates on the narrative representation of action : ‘ Strange how the reality of the past comes to our mind most immediately as fiction . |
| 24 | Tension crackled on the cold air . |
| 25 | Over the weekend of May 11-12 , power lines from South Africa supplying Maputo 's electricity were sabotaged , while vehicles were attacked on the main road north ; the main rail link with South Africa was also cut . |
| 26 | We will let you know on a regular basis how the University 's investment portfolio for the future , the Campaign for Resource , is progressing . |
| 27 | ‘ I only fly on the Russian Front . |
| 28 | If the position in space of an object is varied , its image will fall on a predetermined part of the retina which transmits to right or left hemisphere . |
| 29 | If your eyes should wander from the action on the stage at The Theatre in Chipping Norton , they might fall on an unusual dedication on the walls . |
| 30 | No matter how well intentioned an author may be , no matter how good his work is considered , a lavish photographic book of this kind , and of this price , must stand or fall on the sheer quality of the pictures selected and the way in which they are presented . |